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Entry 10 IELTS sample listening




 IELTS sample listening 
Date: March 2th of 2020.
Activity: Resolve the test IELTS
Skill:  listening and answering

Summary script
Part 1
Tutor Hello you two, have a seat … OK. So, you’re going to tell me about the presentation you’re preparing for next week’s marketing seminar, right?
Jack That’s right. We’ve drafted this plan for you to look at.
Tutor OK, thanks. Perhaps you could just talk me through it, could you? Sarah, do you want to begin?
Sarah Yes. Well, we’re going to compare the websites of two bicycle companies …
Tutor Right … And they’re called Hills Cycles and Wheels Unlimited?
Sarah Yes. And first of all, we’ve compared the content of each site, and the presentation. Then we’ve done an evaluation of each one.
Tutor OK … And did you find much difference between the two websites? Jack?
Jack Quite a bit, yes. Wheels Unlimited has a lot more pages, for a start … Both companies show their catalogue – I mean pictures of different models of bike, with specifications.
Tutor And prices?
Jack Yes, they’re there too, although they list them in different ways – Hills Cycles have got them next to the pictures and Wheels Unlimited show them on a separate page.
Sarah But Wheels Unlimited advertises lots of other products connected with bikes – like helmets, and clothing, and tools.
Jack Yes, all kinds of things.
Tutor And Hills Cycles?
Sarah No. They only show the bikes themselves.
Tutor OK. Well … is there anything on the Hills Cycles website that Wheels Unlimited doesn’t have?
Jack Not really.
Sarah Yes there is – it’s got a little photo of the original shop, and a paragraph about the history of the company – it’s family owned.
Jack Oh yes, I forgot about that.
Tutor Right … That’s the content then. And you compared the functions of the two websites, did you?
Jack Yes. Hills Cycles doesn’t have any facility for online ordering. You have to ring up to order something, that’s the only way you can do it.
Sarah Well no, you can send off for a paper catalogue with an order form.
Jack Oh yes, I suppose so. But with Wheels Unlimited, you can order online or in the conventional ways.
Sarah That’s right.
Tutor Fine. OK. And what about the presentation? Did you find any particular differences there? Or similarities? What about visuals?
Jack As I said, both the sites have got pictures, and they’re both quite attractive, but Wheels Unlimited hasn’t got any moving graphics.
Sarah Yes. Hills Cycles has got an animated cartoon at the top of the home page.
Tutor Right. Well, it looks as if you’ve got plenty to talk about.
Sarah There are other things too, but those are the main things we noticed.
Tutor OK, well you’d better stick to the most obvious differences, because you’ve only got ten minutes for the whole presentation, haven’t you? And you said you’re going to evaluate each site as well, didn’t you? How are you going to do that? I mean what criteria will you use?

Answers of the questions
Answer the questions below, choosing the correct answers from the list provided.

Which company website has the following features?
Hills Cycles website
Wheels Unlimited website
both websites


Part 2
Sarah We thought we’d use three criteria how attractive each website is, how user-friendly it is, and how closely it targets its potential customers. Do you think that’s OK?

Tutor Sounds fine. But I’d look at the criteria in a different order if I were you. Because really you’ve got to look at attractiveness and user-friendliness in relation to the people the website is aiming at. So, I’d deal with that criterion first if I were you.
Sarah Right.
Tutor What about the timing? Have you thought of that? Ten minutes is very short you know.
Jack Yes. We tried it out.
Sarah Several times!
Jack And we’ve decided to spend four minutes comparing the two sites, then three minutes evaluating them, and leave three minutes for questions. That’s not really enough, but …
Tutor Well, it sounds about right to me. You’ve got ten minutes altogether and you have got to stick to that limit. It’s good practice, and at least the audience won’t have time to get bored! What visuals are you going to use?
Jack We’re going to use PowerPoint and a flip chart as well.
Sarah So we can show two things at once. For example, we’re going to start by showing the home pages of each website, and we’re going to put up a list of key features on the flip chart at the same time.
Tutor OK. And it’s a joint presentation, so have you decided how you’re going to share the work?
Jack Yes. First we thought we’d keep taking it in turns to speak – Sarah would say a bit, then I’d take over, and so on. Then we thought we’d just divide it into two equal parts and do one part each. But it was all too complicated. So Sarah’s going to do all the talking, and I’m going to manage the visuals. And hope we can coordinate properly!
Sarah It’s the only way we can fit everything in.
Tutor Well, good. You’ve obviously worked hard and you’ve been very careful with the details. Only one thing I would say: make sure that you keep your visuals simple. I mean, if you’re showing a list of key features, for example, you should make it as brief as possible. Just use bullet points and simple phrases, even single words. Your audience won’t have much reading time. It’s a classic mistake with seminar presentations to present so much information that the audience can’t process it quickly enough, and they stop listening to what you’re saying. OK?
Jack Yes. Right. OK.
Tutor And now let’s talk about …

Answers of the questions

Correction of answer
25 Wheels Unlimited website
Hills Cycles doesn’t have any facility for online ordering ... But with Wheels Unlimited, you can order online or in the conventional ways.
29 C. So Sarah’s going to do all the talking, and I’m going to manage the visuals.

 Page of answers 

Highlights

  • Read always the answer after that you listen the english audio.
  • Stop the video and I focus the first question and later one by one for understanding the context of the questions.
  • I think that the audio was boring. Talk about the students wants to publish their page of bicycles and accessories and the tutor helps them for clear the ideas of websites.


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