WEEK 3 IELTS PRACTICE
For the 3rd week of Mentoring, the outcome is to prepare the mentee for the IELTS test. In this guide you will find a few questions that can be used for the
mentoring session.
You will need approximately 1 and a half hour to finish this topic ( 2-6 October 2023)
Listening Test
Question 1-4
Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.
Name: Barbara Hill
Location : 1. (Southwest)London
Postcode : SW105
Rooms : Two2. (double) bedrooms
The other room used as : An3. (office)
Downstairs : Kitchen-diner, conservatory and4. (lounge)
Pets : 2 dogs and 3 cats
Question 5-7
Choose the correct letter, A, B, or C.
5. Which of these extra services does the customer agree to?
A. Change the bed linen B. Do some gardening work C. Clean the glass 6. What does the customer want cleaned every three months?
A. Curtains B. Carpets C. Mats
7. What does the customer want done with clothes?
A. Wash and iron the clothes B. Iron the clothes C. Clean and dry the clothes Question 8-10
Complete the sentences below.
Write ONE WORD/ OR A NUMBER for each answer.
The agent’s addess is 12(8). (Amyes) Road.
Her house will get cleaned next(9). (thursday)
The maximum time of cleaning service is(10) (3)Hours
LISTENING TAPESCIPT
You will hear a conversation between an agent from City House services and a customer who wants to have her house cleaned.
First you have some time to look at questions one to four Now shall we begin.
You should answer the questions as you listen because you will not hear the recording a second time. Listen carefully and answer questions one to four.
A : Good morning, Health Services. How may I helf you?
C : Good morning. I’d like to arrange to have my house cleaned.
A : Certainly, I just need to ask a few questions. First, can I take your name?
C : Yes, its Barbara Hill
A : Thank you. Next, is your house in London?
C : Yes, it’s Kingston in Southwest London A : Okay, and uh what’s the postcode?
C : SW105
A : And what’s this square footage and what rooms we’ll be cleaning?
C : The whole house is 268 square feet and there is no need to clean all the rooms. I only want to have my bedrooms cleaned.
A : Okay. How many bedrooms does the house have?
C : Three bedrooms, oh no, sorry, we used to have three bedrooms but we only have two bedrooms now.
A : Two singel bedrooms or doubles?
C : Doubles
A : Fine, two doubles.
C : There’s one more rooms which needs cleaning. It was used as a bedroom before and now we have conferred it into an office
A : I understand, three bedrooms have got to be cleaned. And are all of those rooms upstairs?
C : Yes, then downstairs we have a kitchen, diner conservatory, and lounge. The kitchen diner is quite large and has the usual equipment, cooker with oven, cupboards, and worktops.
The conservatory has a lot of plants but there’s no need to take care of them. The lounge has leather three-piece suite and a large coffe table.
A : Thank you. And do you keep any pet?
C : Yeah, I really love keeping them. I’ve got two dogs and three cats.
A : Okay then, if our staff come over to offer the services please take your pets away. Have you looked at out service packages?
C : Yes, I have one in front of me.
A : Excellent
Before you hear the rest of the conversation, you have some time to look at questions fove to ten.
Now listen and answer questions five to ten.
A : Any extra services you need? Switching bed linen, working the garde, clean the glass in the conservatory. That kind of thing.
C : Uh, no. Ah, actually replacing the bed linen. Yeah, that would be good.
A : No problem, let’s make a note of that. How about curtains, mat, and carpets? What do you like us to do with those items?
C : The curtains. I’ll have to think about that. I thik we should have the carpets cleaned really well every quarter. Mats can just be done with the laundry.
A : Of course. How about clothes? We can have our staff wash and iron them or we can have them taken to a dry cleaner.
C : Washing and ironing. No, just ironing, that’ll be okay.
A : Okay, fine. I know quite a bit about what you want now. I should let you know that we’re located on 12 Amy’s road, that’s A-M-Y-S and we work on from monday to sunday except Tuesday and Wednesday. Could you let me know when is convenient for you?
C : Nest friday, uh, that’s no good my son invites his friends over in the afternoon that day.
Perhaps next thursday or next saturday? let me check. Okay, next thursday.
A : When is it convinient for us to come over and provide the service? Is it okay to come in the morning? or we may come in the afternoon, it depends on your schedule.
C : I’m okay with any time, just give me acall to let me know you’re coming before you arrive.
A : Sure, we will.
C : By the way, how long will it take for the service?
A : We usually work one to three hours for house cleaning and the work will take three hours at most and of course if it takes more than three hours you should pay extra for it.
C : Uh, fine.
A : So, let me just do some calculations.
That is the end of sections one. You now have half a minute to check your answer.
READING TEST
READING PASSAGE 1
Spider silk cuts weight of bridges
A strong, light bio-material made by genes from spiders could transform construction and industry
A. Scientist have succeeded in copying the silk-producing games of the Golden Orb Weaver spider and are kusng them to create a synthetic material which they believe is the model for a new generation of advanced bio-materials. The new material, biosilk, which has been spun for the first time by researchers at DuPont, has an enormous range of potential uses in construction and manufacturing.
B. The attraction of the silk spun by the spier is a combination of great strength and enormous elasticity, which man-made fibres have been unable to replicate. On a equal-weight basis, spider silk is far strong than steel and is estimated that if a single strand could be made about 10nm in diameter, it would be strong enough to stop a jumbe jet in flight. A third important factor is that it is extremely light. Army scientist are already looking at the possibilities of using it for lightweight, bulletproof vests and parachutes.
C. For some time, biochemist have been trying to synthesise the drag-line silk fo the Golden Orb Weaver. The drag-line silk, which forms the radial arms of the web, is stronger than the other parts of the web and some biochemist believe a synthetic version could prove to be as important a material as nylon, which has been around for 50 years, since the discoveries of Wallace Carothers and his team ushered in the age of polymers.
D. To recreate the material, scientist, including Randloph Lewis at the University of
Wyoming, first examined the silk-producing gland o the spider. ‘We took out the glands
that produce the silk and looked at the cding for the protein material they make, which is spun into a web. We then went looking for clones with the right DNA,’ he says.
E. At DuPont, researchers have used both yeast and bacteria as host to grow the raw material, which they spun into fibres. Robert Dorsch, DuPont’s director of biochemical development, says the globules of protein, comparable with marbles in an egg, are harvested and
processed. ‘We break open the bacteria, separate out the globolules of protein and use them as the raw starting materia. With yeast, the gene system can be designed so that the material excerates the protein outside the yeast for better access,’ he says.
F. ‘The bacteria and the yeast produce the same protein, equivalent to that which the spider uses in the drag lines of the web. The spider mixes the protein into a water-based solution and then spin it into a solid fibre in one go. Since we are not as cleaver as the spider and we are not using such sophisticated organisms, we substituted manmade approaches and dissolved the protein in chemical solvents, which are then spun t push the material through small holes to form the solid fibre.
Questions 1-2
Reading Passage 1 has 6 paragraphs,A-F.
Which paragraph contains the following information?
Write the correct letter,A-F, in boxes 1-5 on your answer sheet.
1. a comparison of the ways two materials are used to replace silk-producing glands(E) 2. The research into the part of the spider that manufactures silk (D)
Questions 3-7
Complete the flow-chart below.
ChoseNO MORE THAN TWO WORDSfrom the passage for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 3-5 on your anwer sheet.
Questions 8-10
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passange 1?
In boxes 7-10 on your answer sheet, write
TRUE if the statement agrees with the information FALSE if the statement contradicts the information NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this
7 Biosilk has already replaced nylon in parachute manufacture.(FALSE) 8 The spider produces silk of varying strength(TRUE)
9 Lewis and Dorch co-operated in the synthetic production of silk(NOT GIVEN)
WRITING TEST
You should spend about 20 minutes on this task
The charts below show the number of Japanese tourists abroad between 1985 and 1995 and Australia’s share of the Japanese tourist market.
Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
Write at least 150 words.
The mentee should note thet they will lose marks in Writing if their responses are:
- Under the minimum word length - Partly or wholly plagiarised
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Not written as full, connected text (e.g. if the responses is in note form, of bullet points are used etc.)SPEAKING TEST
For the speaking test, you may explain the 3 parts of the speaking test. Then use the questions example below to demonstrate how the test works.
Part 1
Let’s talk about where you grew up.
- Describe the town or city where you grew up - Do you stull live there now?
- Does your family stull live there?
- Do you think the place has changed much since you were young?
Part 2
Candidate test card:
Part 3
Let’s consider first of all watching sport …
- How expensive is it to go to sports event in your country?
- Do you think it’s different watching a sport event on TV and going to watch it in person?
In what ways?
- Do you think there’s too much sport on TV? Why?
Finally, let’s talk about famous sports people …
- Who do you think sports people often become media stars today?
Describe a sport event you enjoy watching.
You should say:
What event you watched Where you were
Who you watched it with
And explain why you enjoyed watching it.
You will have to talk about the topic for 1 to 2 minutes You have 1 minute to think about what you are going to say.
You can make some notes to help if you wish.
