IELTS Listening Practice

Part 1: Questions 1–10

Complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS OR A NUMBER for each answer.

Hilary Lodge Retirement House

Manager's Name – Cathy

Activities programme involving volunteers

Monday evenings: computer training

• Training needed in how to produce

Tuesday afternoons: singing

• The home has a and someone to play it

Thursday mornings: growing

• The home does not have many for gardening

Once a month: meeting for volunteers and staff

Interview

• Go in on any time

• Interview with assistant called

• Address of home: 73 road

Open house days

• Agreed to help on

• Will show visitors where to

• Possibility of talking to a reporter

Part 2: Questions 11–20

Listen and answer questions 11–20.

Questions 11–15

Label the plan below. Write the correct letters A–H next to questions 11–15.

Plan of Learning Resource Centre (Ground Floor)

11. Newspapers

12. Computers

13. Photocopier

14. Café

15. Sports books

Questions 16–20

Complete the table below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.

New staff responsibilities
Name	New responsibility
Jenny Reed	Buying for the centre
Phil Penshurst	Help with writing for courses
Tom Salisbury	Information on topics related to the
Saeed Aktar	Finding a
Shilpa Desai	Help with

Part 3: Questions 21–30

Listen and answer questions 21–30.

Questions 21–27

What helped Stewart with each of the following stages in making his training film for museum employees?

Choose SEVEN answers from options below.

What helped Stewart

A advice from friends

B information on a website

C being allowed extra time

D meeting a professional film maker

E good weather conditions

F getting a better computer

G support of a manager

H help from a family member

I work on a previous assignment

Stages in making the training film for museum employees

#	Stage	Answer
21	finding a location
22	Deciding on equipment
23	writing the script
24	Casting
25	filming
26	Editing
27	designing the DVD cover

Questions 28–30

Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.

Stewart's work placement: benefits to the Central Museum Association

• His understanding of the Association's

• The reduction in expense

• Increased co-operation between

• Continuous which led to a better product

• Ideas for distribution of the film

Part 4: Questions 31–40

Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.

New Caledonian crows and the use of tools

Examples of animals using tools

• Some chimpanzees use stones to break nuts

• Betty (new Caledonian crow) made a out of wire to move a bucket of food

New Zealand and Oxford experiment

• Three stages: crows needed to move a in order to reach a short stick

Oxford research

• Crows used sticks to investigate whether there was any from an object

• Research was inspired by seeing crows using tools on a piece of cloth to investigate a spider design

• Barney used a stick to investigate a snake made of

• Pierre used a stick to investigate a

• Corbeau used a stick to investigate a metal toad

• The crows only used sticks for the first contact

Conclusions of above research

• Ability to plan provides interesting evidence of the birds' cognition

• Unclear whether this is evidence of the birds'

Exeter and Oxford research in New Caledonia

• Scientists have attached very small cameras to birds'

• Food in the form of beetle larvae provides plenty of for the birds

• Larvae's specific composition can be identified in birds that feed on them

• Scientists will analyse what the birds include in their

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