LISTENING SECTION 1 Questions 1-10 Questions 1-4 ‘Complete the table below, Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer. Health Centres Name of centre Doctor's name Advantage The Harvey Clinic Example especially good with 4 Dr.....Green Health Practice The2 Dr Fuller | offers 3 .. appointments t The Shore Lane Ord... Health Centre Questions 5-6 ‘Choose TWO letters, A-E. ‘Which TWO of the following are offered free of charge at Shore Lane Health Centre? acupuncture employment medicals sports injury therapy travel advice vaccinations moom>Questions 7-10 Complete the table below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR.A NUMBER for each answer. ‘Talks for patients at Shore Lane Health Centre Subject of talk | Date/Time Location Notes ‘Giving up ash room 4 useful for people with ‘smoking February at asthma or 7 7pm problems Healthy eating 1*Marchat | thed...... anyone welcome 5pm (hore Lane) Avoiding injuries. | 9"Marchat | room for all 10... during exercise | 9SECTION 2 Questions 11-20 Questions 11-13 Label the diagram below. Choose THREE answers from the box and write the correct letter, A-E, next to questions 11-13. electricity indicator on/off switch reset button time control warning indicator Water Heater central heating radiators hot water " 13 2.Questions 14-18 Where can each of the following items be found? Che 10086 FIVE answers from the box and write the correct letter, A-G, next to questions 14-18. 14 15 16 17 18 Locations A. in box on washing machine B__ in cupboard on landing C _ inchest of drawers D next to window in living room E on shelf by back door F ontop of television G under kitchen sink pillows ase washing powder a key light bulbs map Questions 19 and 20 Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer. ‘The best place to park in town — next to the station Phone number far takeaway pizzas - 19... Railway museum closed on 20lieutenganh.net| up-to-date IELTS materi SECTION 3 Questions 21-30"! mmaterias Questions 21 and 22 Choose the correct letter, A. B or G. 21 In her home country, Kira had A completed a course. B done two years of a course found her course difficult 22 To succeed with assignments, Kira had to A. read faster. B write faster. © change her way of thinking Questions 23-25 Complete the sentences below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer. 23. Kira says thet lecturers are easier to............-.... than those in her home ‘country. 24 Paul suggests that Kira may be more . than when she was studying before. 25 Kira says that students want to discuss things that worry them or that : them very much.Test 4 ‘alieutienganh.net| up-to-date IELTS materials Questions 26-30 Answer the questions below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer. 26 How did the students do their practical sessions? 27 In the second semester how often did Kira work in a hospital? 28 How much fulltime work did Kira do during the year? 29° Having completed the year, how does Kira feel? 30. In addition to the language, what do overseas students need to become farniliar with?SECTION 4 Questions 31-40 ‘Questions 31-36 ‘Choose the correct letter, A, B or C. ED 32 33 35 36 Wildlife in city gardens What led the group to choose their topic? ‘A They were concerned about the decline of one species, B_ They were interested in the effects of city growth. C They wanted to investigate a recent phenomenon. The exact proportion of land devoted to private gardens was confirmed by A consulting some official documents. B taking large-scale photos. C discussions with town surveyors. ‘The group asked garden owners to ‘A take part in formal interviews. B keep a record of animals they saw. get in contact when they saw a rare species. ‘The group made their observations in gardens ‘A which had a large number of animal species. B which they considered to be representative, ‘© which had stable populations of rare animals. ‘The group did extensive reading on A _ wildlife problems in rural areas. B_ urban animal populations. © current gardening practices. The speaker focuses on three animal species because ‘A alotofdata has been obtained about ther. B the group were most interested in them, © they best indicated general trends.‘Questions 37-40 ‘Complete the table below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer. Animals Reason for population Comments increase in gardens 37 oususnsnunun | Suitable stretches of water massive increase in urban population Hedgehogs safer from 38 easy to 38 when in cities them accurately ‘Song thrushes —a variety of 40 large survey starting soon to cat —more nesting places availableSECTION 1 wow Can! help you? a Ys, Ive just moved to this area with my wife and chitéren and ke to know where we can all register with a doctor at 2 Health Centr. woman ‘Okay. Well there's Doctor Green at The Harvey Clinic, We always recommend her for babies, because she's very good with them and she runs a special cinic, wae Oh... actually my youngest child is five, so that wouldn't be any good for wore: Right. uw Is thare anywhere else | could try? wonwe ‘Yes, the Eshicol Health Practice is the next one on my list. swe How do you spell that? wont E-S-H-C-OL. And its Doctor Fuller, who has space on his lst. The elinic ‘only opened a year ago, so the facies are all very moder. sw ‘That sounds good. Wout: ‘And its paricularly good if you're busy during the day, because they also sdo-appointments in the evening. They're closed on Saturday, though. ‘The only other place onthe list isthe Health Centre on Shore Lane. You ‘can register wth Doctor Goma, that's G-O-R-N-L-E-Y. He's new ther, but the centre has a very good reputation. van Gh yes, I think | know the road. That would be the best one. Thanks, Could you tell me, wil al their services be free? Example ar 2 03 oswane wan wenn: wowa: SECTION ao Erm ... there are usually some small charges that doctors make. Let me see what it says about the Shore Lane Gentre. if you need ta be a5a6 2 ft for this ‘what else? The sports injury treatment service aperates on a paying basis, as does the nutritional therapy service. Some health centres do offer alternative therapies ike homeopathy as part of their pay-to-use service. Shore Lane are hoping to do this soon — I think they may start ‘with acupuncture, And finally, vou need to prove you're healthy or Q5a6 th ijur Soyer wil get afr bul you'd mast likely have to pay for insurance medicats though. (Okay, thanks. ‘You might also be interested to know the Centre is running pilot scheme of talks for patients. Ive got thelist here. Actually they look very interesting. What sort of things? ‘Well, the first one’s about giving up smoking. It's next week, the twenty- iat pm ad thats Room 4 soy fheinkelLaess | O7 Thot sounds very ineretng. ‘There's also a talk for famiies with children. It's on Healthy Eating, and takes place on the first of March at five o'clock. Will that be at the Health Centre? Erm, actually its at the orimary schoolon Shore Lane. | imagine theyre QS. inviting the parents of pupils there ~ it says here ‘all welcome ‘Mmm, I might go to that if| have time. “There's a couple of other talks — one giving advice about haw to avoid Injuries while doing exercise. I's on the ninth of March, Oh, i's a late afternoon talk, at four thirty, and ifilbe in Room 6. It also says the talkis QO ‘suitable for all ages. And finally, there's a talk called ‘Stress Management’ 10 hich is 2 Hello? Hi. I's Laura Cadton here. We've just arrived al the holiday flat, but | can't {gat the hot water and heating to work. (Qh right! That's easy. Don't worry. In the upstairs cupboard, you'll find the water heater. You'll see three main controls on the left at the bottom Of the heater, The first one = the round one on the farleft=isthe most QT? int one for ing and hot water, I i ‘Make sure its in the ‘on’ position. The switch itself doosn' light up, but the litue square below will be black if the switch is ‘of. That's probably what's happened ~ i's got switched off by mistake. The middle one of these three controts ~ youll see it's slightly larger than the first one — controls, the radiators, If you feel cold while you're there and need the radiators on, this needs to be turned to maximum. The last of the three controls — the one on the right —is usually cn about a number four setting which for the walter inthe taps is usually quite hot enough, 147woman’ wow: heatin inthe mi I round plasti ane there isn't enough water in the pipes, sometimes the heater goes out. If this happens youll need to press this bution tovresel the heater. Hold tin QZ for about five seconds and the heator should come on again, Then there's alitle square indicator under the third knob that's akind of alarm light itil Q13: flash if you need to reset the heater. It sounds complicated... I'm sure you won't have any problems with i, There should be some more instructions on the side of the heater. Call me back if you can't make it work. Okay. While you're on the phone, we haven't managed to find a few things we need, like extra pillows for the beds and some washing powder. Is there ery here? I you Hooke i large white. on ies- 1s tothe let the broom doot =the shouldbe four ove on the top shal Ad pau ar do sone wasting a’ er pa at K O15 infact 'msure there's some tere, na large blve box. You need about half @ cup fullfor each wash, ‘And that reminds me, the spare key to the back door is hanging on ahook Q16 ‘on the wall by the sitting room window: Please make sure to put it back when you've usad it. The pravious guests lost in the garden and | had to {got another one made! And if you have any trouble with the lamps, you'll find some spare bulbs in a large cardboard box. l's.on top of the washing Q17 ‘machine with all kinds of useful things ini ‘Oh, and another thing | forgot to mention when we last spoke Yes? {ya loftyou a local map. 50 you'l be able to ind your way around easily. It Qi8 shows the whole area. I put it inthe top drawer of the chest under the TV in your bedroom. There's a whole file cf local infarmation in there too. ‘Thanks, What about visitng the town? Can you give us any advice? Yes. Youll naed to take the ear, I's too far to walk from the flat really. You have to pay to leave your car in all the oar parks now I'm afraid. ike the one that's by the station best and you can walk to the town centre from there in five minutes, That's where all the best restaurants are. But if you want a takeaway, the Hafan one does really good pasta and pizzas Call © 79 ‘La double 2, 8-1 for that one, of 7 double 6, dauble 1, 9 for the Chinese. They're both good and they'll bath deliver to the flat. {As for places to wisi, yes. do go and see the railway museum. The exhibition is small but really good. It gets very crowded on Sundays, 0 I suggest you visit it on a quieter day, later in the week, but not on geo “Thursdays which is market day — you won't find anywhere to park and its also the only day of the week when they're noLopen! Anything else? Not forthe moment. Thanks!talleutienganh.net | up-to-date IELTS materials Test 4 SECTION 3 ver pa: ve Hello, Kira, how are you? Fine thanks, Paul, how are you? Well, thanks. Its good to see you, I must be twelve months since you did our course’? That's right. Its nice to come back and say hello, What course did you enrol in? ‘Actually, I went straight into thd year Pharmacy. They exedited me with {wo years, which probably made it more: dificult for me. (On the other hand, you ware lucky to be granted credits. Is that why you chose the course? Yes. And, a8 [d aleady fnished a course init in my country. Ithoughtit 24 \ould be easier i! studied something | already knew. I'd realise you went into thi year. | thought you stated in fist year. No wonder it was go hard! And wihat do you think i:one ofthe big Giferences between studying at a university here and studying In your country? Well, ve found it very diffcult to write assignments, because | wasmt familar with that aspect ofthe system here. The main problem is that the lecturers expect you to be ortical. That made me fee really terble | thought "How can | possibly do it? How can I comment on someone cise’s research when they probably spent five years doing II think alot ‘of people who came from overseas countries have similar problems. But after a while it became easier for me, People expect you to have problems «with the pracess of reading and writing but, n fact, Lis more a question of Q22 alleing your viewpoin! towards academic study. How was the content of the lectures? Was it easy for you? | didnt really have many problems. understanding lectures. The content ‘was very similar to what I'd studied before ‘And what about the lecturers themselves? Are thay essentially the same as lecturers in your country? Well actually, no. Here, thay're much easier to anncoach, After every ara lecture you can go and ask them something you didn't understand. Or you can make an appointment and talk to them about anything in the course. ‘Maybe you found them different because youre a more mature student — 24 ‘now, whereas when you were studying in your country you were younger and not so asserive No, I Gon’ think that's the difference. Most of the students here do it. In iy faculty, they all sem to make appointments — usually to talk about something in the course that's worrying them, but sometimes ustabout = 25 ‘something thal might realy interest them, something they might want to specialise in, The lecturers must set aside certain times every week when they're available far students. That's good to hear. ‘And how was your timetable? Was it a very busy year? Very, very busy. They make you work very hard. Apart from lectures, we hhad practical sessions in a lot of subjects. We did these in small groups. @26 | had to go and work four hours every week in 2 community pharmacy. ‘Actually, | enjoyed this very much = meeting new people all the time. ThenTapescripts az And on top ofall hat we had our assignments which took me sot of time. Oh, I nearly forgot, between first and second semesters, we had io Q26 for tw a: That does sound a very heavy year. So are you pleased now that you did it? Do you feal some sense of achievernent? se Yeah, Ld feel much more confident, which | suppose is the most 28, lmportant thing, Pans ‘And have you got eny recommendations for people who are studying from ‘overseas? sas ‘Well, I suppose they need very good English. It would be much better it they spent more time learning English before they enter the university, ‘because you can be in big trouble if you don't understand what people are ‘saying and you haver't gat time to translate, Pau Anything else? oR: Well, as | said before, the biggest orablem for me was a lack of familiarity —@30 PAUL: It sounds as if it was a real challenge. Congratulations, Kira. vara Thanks, Paul. SECTION 4 Good moming. Today Id like to present the findings of our Year 2 project on wildlife found in gardens throughout our ety. Il start by saying something about the background to the project, then talka litle bit about aur research techniques, and then indicate some of our interim findings. First of al, how did we choose our topic? Well, there are four of us in tha group and ane day whe we wore diecuasing a possible focus fuo othe group mentioned shatihey best Qa cect numbers, We were all very engaged oy the ea of why wid animate would choose {o inhabit a city garden. Why is itso popular with wildlife when the countryside itself is becoming less 507 ‘The first thing we did was to establish what proportion of the urban land is taken up by private gardens. We estimated that itwas about one fith, and this was endorsed by. 32 looking al large-scale usage maps in the town land survey office ~ 24% to be precise. Our own informal discussions with neighbours and friends led us to believe that many Garden owners rad iresing experiences 0 relate rogarig wld anima eghings 80 wo 933 on uten gerdons, ‘ountrysige and thinking of possible causas for is ‘So what did we find? Well, so much that | just won't have time to fell yau about here. If you're interested in reading our more comprehensive findings, we've produced detailedin second semester, we had o get expec in hogs apaneaios, 20 And on top ofall hat we had out assignmonts, which look me a int of time. Oh, | nearly forgot, between first and second semesters, we had 12 time for twe That does sound a very heavy year, So are you pleased now that you did it? Do you feel soma sense of achievement? Ra Yeah, Lo feel much more confident, which | suppose is the most Important thing, Pan: And have you got any recommendations for people who are studying fram overseas? a: Well, | suppose they need very good English. It would be much better if they spent more time learning English before they enter the university, ‘because you can be in big trouble if you don't understand what people are saying and you haven't got time to translate, pan: Anything else? RA \Wolt, as | said before, the biggest problem for me was a lack of familiarity with the education system here. It sounds as ifitwas a real challenge. Congratulations, Kira, Thanks, Paul SECTION 4 ‘Good moming. Today I'd like to present the findings of our Year 2 project on wildlife found in gardens throughout our city. 'l start by saying something about the background to the project, then talk a ite bit about our research techniques, and then indicale some of our Interim findings. First of al, how did we choose our topic? Well, there are four of us in the group and one: Gay wie we were discussing 2 posse focus, two ie graye mention hal hay had ‘teat numbers. We were al very engaped by the laa of why wid animals would choose to inhabit a city garden. Why is it so popular with wildlife when the countryside itself is becoming less so? ‘The first thing we did was to establish what proportion ofthe urban land is taken up by private gardens. We estimated that itwas about one fit, end this was endorsed by i nl = 24%6 to be procise.. ‘Our own informal discussions with neighbours and friends led us to believe that many arden owners had interesting experiences to relate regarding wild animal sightings 80 we decid to ste pt tate ermal eacan Aes ‘on urban gardens, a ‘uniysideand thinking of possible causes fortis ‘So what did we find? Well, so much that | just won't have time to tell you about here. If you're interested in reading our more comprehensive findings, we've produced detailed 27 228 223 ast 32 233Test 4 ‘graphic representations on the college web-site and of course any of the group would bo happy to talk to you about them, Just email us. ‘The fist species io generate alot of interesting information was frogs. And there was @ 37 lear pattem here ~ hey proliferate where there is suitable water. Garden ponds are on the increase, ural ponds are disappearing, eading to massive migration to the towns. Hedgehags are also finding it easir to live in urban areas — this time because theit 98 2 ‘We had lots of sg no dificulies with our efforts to count their numbers precisely Cur final species is the finost of bird singers, the song thrush. On the decline in the countryside, they ate experiencing a resurgence in urban gardens because these days gardeners are buying lots of diferent plants which means there's an extensive rangeof 40 ‘seeds around, which is what they feed on. Another factors the prevision of nesting places = wihich Is actually better in gardens than the countryside, Hard to believe it, butit’s tru. Incidentally, we discovered that a massive new survey on song thrushes is about fo be launched, so you should keep an eye open for thal ‘Now. I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have ‘ings, soallinallwehad 099