IELTS 5.

0- Unit 2: Leisure and education

Full name:.................................

Lesson 7 Topic: Leisure and Education WID: IELTS5.0_07_L

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Listening: listen to and understand directions from one ...... pts/10
place to another
Reading: - Questions asking for facts and writer’s
Skills opinion- Skimming and scanning

Listening skills: map/table/note/form completion

IELTS Reading skills: multiple choice questions, pick ...... pts/10
from a list

Exercise 1. [IELTS Listening: Table completion] Listen and complete the tables below.

[1-4] Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.

Health Centers

Name of centre Doctor’s name Advantage

The Harvey Clinic Example Dr. __Green__ Especially good with 1_babies__

The 2_eshcol_ health practice Dr. Fuller Offers 3__evening_ appointments

The Shore Lane Health Centre Dr 4__gormley__

[7-10] 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 smoking 25th Februar at 7pm Room 4 Useful for people with asthma
or 7__heart_ problems

Healthy eating 1st March at 5 pm The 8_primary anyone welcome

school_ (shore
lane)

Avoiding injuries 9th March at 9__4:30_ Room 6 For all 10__ages__

during exercise
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Exercise 2. [IELTS Listening: Note completion] Listen and complete the note. Write NO MORE
THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

Event Details

Type of event: Example Dragon Boat Race

Race details

 Day & date: 1____2/7__________

 Place: Brighton 2_____marina______
 Registration time: 3____9:30___________

Sponsorship

 aim to raise over 4____1000_________ as a team and get a free t-shirt

 free Prize Draw for trip to 5______hong kong_________

Team details

 must have crew of 20 and elect a 6___captain____________

 participants under 18 need to have 7____parents_________ to enter
 need to hire 8______________
 advised to bring extra 9____ clothing ____
 must choose a 10___name_________ for the team

Exercise 3. [IELTS Listening: Note completion – Table completion]

A. Complete the note. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each
answer.

The National Arts Centre

Well know for: 11____music__________

Complex consists of: concert room

theatres
cinemas
art galleries
public library
restaurants
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12_____book shop_________

Historical background: 1940 – area destroyed by bombs

1960s – Centre was 13_____plane_________

In 14______1983________ - open to public

Managed by: 15______council________

Open: 16____363__________ days per year

B. Complete the table. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each
answer.

Day Time Event Venue Ticket price

Monday and ‘ The Magic Flute’

7.30 p.m 17 _graden hall____ From £8.00
Tuesday (opera by Mozart)

18__three live__
Wednesday 8.00 p.m Cinema 2 £19__4.50____
(Canadian film)

Saturday 11 a.m. to 10 20___china_________

Gallery 1 free
and Sunday p.m (art exhibition)

Exercise 4. [IELTS Listening: Form completion – Table completion] You are going to hear a
conversation between a hotel receptionist and a customer who has come to make a booking.

A. Complete the form below. Write NO MORE THREE WORDS AND OR/NUMBERS for each
answer.

Hotel information

E.g. Name of accommodation: (0) Carlton Hotel

Length of stay: 3 nights

Ages of children: (1)____12_,9_______

Rooms available: Two en-suites at £270

Price inclusive of: (2)____tax________

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Payment method: credit card

Name: Michael
(3)__fernsby__________

Date of birth: (4)___15th of octorber__ 1968

Address: 273, Stanton Court, London

Post code: (5)_wc2d5jb___________

Telephone: 08773 (6)___879456_____

B. Complete the table below. Write NO MORE THREE WORDS AND OR/ A NUMBER for each
answer.

Transport Options

Mode of Transport Cost Arrangements Travel time to town

Approximately (7)
Taxi Pick up from the hotel 10 minutes
£__15___________

Walk down Oak Tree

Bus £2 per person 15 minutes
(8)_____________

Walk through (10) __30 minutes__

Walking -------------
(9)____park_________

Exercise 5. [IELTS Listening: Note completion – Table completion]

A. Complete the notes below. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.
Notes on Sports Club
E.g. Name of club: Kingswell
Facilities available: Golf
1__ keep-fit__
2__swimming_
Class available: Kick-boxing
3___yoga__
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Additional facility: 4___salad ___ (restaurant opening soon)

B. Complete the table below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO NUMBERS for each answer.

MEMBERSHIP SCHEMES

Use of Annual
Type Cost of classes Times Joining fee
facilities subscription fee

GOLD All Free Any time £250 5. £_500__

From 7.__10
SILVER All 6. £__1___ £225 £300
am____ to __

From 10.30 to 3.30

BRONZE Restricted £3 £50 8. £_180____
weekdays only
Exercise 6. [IELTS Reading: Multiple choice questions] Read the passage.
Fashion Victim
By 1830, wallpaper production had risen to over a million rolls in the UK and it continued to
increase to 30 million a year by 1870. Other synthetic alternatives had appeared by Scheele’s
green remained popular with designers, despite the many warning signs. At a formal meal held
by the military in London in the 1850s, the table decorations were leaves made from sugar
paste and coloured with Scheele’s green. Many of the guests took the attractive leaves home
for their children, and several deaths then followed. The event prompted The Times newspaper
to start an investigation in the 1860s. They ran a series of articles once they had gathered
anecdotal evidence that children sleeping in bedrooms painted with arsenic green had a
tendency to get suck and even die at rates far higher than the average child.
The famous designer, William Morris, used poisoned paint in his wallpaper. His patterns were
popular and are still influential today, which means that small pieces of his wallpaper have
survived and can be tested. One piece dating back to 1864 clearly contained the naturally
occurring poison, arsenic. Morris himself commented on the arguments against Scheele’s green
at the time, but Scheele’s green was made from natural minerals, and he disliked the new
‘synthetic dyes’ that were being produced. The arguments that his paints were poisonous were,
he said, not worth wasting time on. Natural paints, made with mineral products, were more
beautiful, and that was all that mattered, in Morris’ view.
Although the majority of deaths from wallpaper poisoning went unnoticed, there was one very
famous victim, famous enough to leave evidence of the cause of his death centuries later.
Napoleon Bonaparte had been imprisoned on the island of St Helena, after losing the Battle of
Waterloo in 1815. He lived there just a few short years more before his mysterious death in
1821. Although technically in a prison, he was kept in a comfortable room in luxury. He was said
to have died naturally of cancer, though few people believed that story. Many suggested that
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he had been murdered by the British government, keen on prevent him from coming to power
again.
The debate appeared to be resolved in 1955, when a diary was made public. The owner of the
diary, a servant who attended Napoleon for his six-year imprisonment, described the slow and
painful death the former leader went through. Modern scientists reading the description
immediately identified arsenic poisoning as the most likely cause, pointing to a strong case for
murder. The fact that Napoleon’s body was remarkably well preserved when it was eventually
moved in 1840 also confirmed their theory. But was it intentional? A third theory emerged,
with the sale of a piece of wallpaper from the emperor’s bedroom in the last few years. It had
survived because it had been used to wrap an important book, and was large enough to still
contain the evidence scientists needed to confirm where the poison was coming from. The tests
proved without doubt that the wallpaper, like many others of its day, contained arsenic in the
design. With the emperor having spent years locked up in a room with this wallpaper, it was a
sign of his strength that he survived so long. Fashion in home decoration has never had such a
famous victim.
Choose the appropriate letters A, B or C.
1. The Time newspaper warned of the dangers when
A. the green was added to children’s sweets.
B. the colour was linked to unexplained deaths.
C. the guests invited to a special dinner were all poisoned.
D. the demand for sale wallpaper grew too great.
2. The designer William Morris ignored the problem because he
A. had commercial reasons to hide the truth.
B. refused to use artificial colours in his work.
C. preferred the latest paints to old-fashioned ones.
D. felt confident that his paint met safety standards.
3. Why does Napoleon Bonaparte’s death stand out from other deaths at the time?
A. It was the first time that wallpaper was linked to cancer.
B. It was caused by the unfair conditions he was kept in.
C. It was politically important to prove that his death was natural.
D. It was possible afterwards to connect his death to arsenic poisoning.
4. What evidence for Napoleon Bonaparte’s poisoning appeared most recently?
A. a recording of his state of health in the last days of his life
B. the account of the condition of his body months after his death
C. an object that was taken from his room and preserved
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D. the description of the way he decorated the room 

Exercise 7. [IELTS Reading: Multiple choice questions] Read the information. Then read the
text and answer the questions. Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.
The history of chocolate
Why people first started eating chocolate and how it spread across the world
No one is certain which Mesoamerican* culture first farmed cacao trees. However,
archaeologists think the Olmec people of southern Mexico were one of the earliest to create a
drink using cacao beans. While the Olmecs left behind no written records, researchers have dug
up pots from this ancient civilisation that date back to 1500 BC. After the pots were taken to a
laboratory and analysed, it was discovered that they contained theobromine, a chemical found
in cacao beans. A small team of archaeologists has also been looking at a site in the Mexican
state of Chiapas. Here, they claim, is proof of another society making cacao drinks even earlier.
Not everyone accepts their evidence, so it seems further investigation is necessary.
Each fruit of the cacao tree is full of white flesh, and inside this are about 60 brown seeds,
or beans. Some researchers theorise that early Mesoamerican cultures boiled the flesh for
stews, before discovering that the seeds could also be used. This seems highly likely, as the
flesh is sweet, but the seeds are incredibly bitter. It’s remarkable, in fact, that anyone would
have thought to dry out the seeds and then roast them in the first place. Perhaps what
happened is that someone was eating the fruit and spitting seeds into a fire. They might have
then noticed that the burnt seeds were producing a rich smell, and decided to experiment, but
we can never know for sure. More certain is the fact that the Olmecs turned the roasted beans
into a thick paste to make their drink, and into this was added chilli and vanilla.
Unlike the Olmecs, the Mayan people left behind paintings showing their use of cacao beans.
From these pictures, we know that cacao beans and chocolate drinks had a special status in
Mayan society, and were often used in marriage ceremonies and other rituals. Later, when the
Aztecs ruled much of Mesoamerica, they wanted cacao beans for themselves, and would trade
with the Mayans to get them. Although other crops were important at the time, they were
nowhere near as valuable as cacao beans. This was partly because cacao trees could not survive
in the dry highlands of central Mexico, the centre of Aztec civilisation. Unusually for plants,
cacao trees depended on tiny swarms of flies for pollination, and these insects lived only in a
humid climate.
In Mayan society, we know that cacao beans were very valuable, perhaps so valuable that it
may have been worth creating ‘fake beans’. Archaeologists have discovered beans made of clay
in many Mesoamerican sites, and suspect that they were used by Mayans when they had to pay
a form of tax to the Aztecs. But it wasn’t just their economic value that made them important in
society. Like today, the Mayan people liked to prepare traditional dishes to share with friends
and family. Extended families would have come together to collect cacao beans and slowly turn
them into a rich drink, using the occasion to strengthen their social ties.
In the 16th century, the Spanish arrived in Mexico and noticed the way in which cacao was
central to the local diet. We still have records of the letters they sent home to Spain. Expedition
leader Hernán Cortés wrote to King Carlos I of Spain about a strange drink called xocoatl, which
he mistakenly believed the Aztecs, including their ruler, Montezuma, used for medicinal
purposes. One of Cortés’s officers even claimed to have seen Montezuma drinking more than
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50 cups of a chocolate drink per day, and thought he was doing this to improve his health. That
number is no doubt inaccurate, but even if it were true, the officer missed the point. The Aztecs
simply saw cacao as part of their diet and did not attribute any special qualities to it.
Nevertheless, the Spanish were soon exporting cacao beans back to Spain and creating
chocolate drinks for themselves, adding sugar and honey to sweeten them. The demand for
cacao soon spread across the rest of Europe.
Until 1828, it was only the wealthy that could afford these new chocolate drinks. It was in this
year that Dutch chemist Coenraad Johannes van Houten invented the cocoa press, a machine
that could squeeze the natural oils from roasted cacao beans. The beans were then crushed
into powder, combined with alkaline salts, and sold as cheap blocks of cooking chocolate. Later,
in 1847 the first edible chocolate was created by Fry and Sons in England. Unfortunately, its
bitter taste was unpopular with consumers. In 1874, Swiss chocolate maker Daniel Peter finally
realised that milk was perfect for improving the taste and texture of chocolate, and it has been
a key ingredient ever since.
* Mesoamerica A region stretching from Mexico to Costa Rica in which several advanced
civilizations existed before the 1600s.
1. What are we told about research into the origins of cacao-based drinks?
A. Researchers have used written documents as evidence.
B. Researchers have failed to agree about the findings.
C. It was carried out in laboratories outside Mexico.
2. When the writer discusses the early use of cacao beans, he is surprised that
A. they were first eaten raw
B. people preferred the flesh to the seeds.
C. people regarded them as something to throw away.
D. anyone had the idea that they could be eaten.
3. What problem did the Aztecs face in getting cacao beans?
A. The beans were destroyed by insect pests.
B. The Mayans asked increasingly high prices for the beans.
C. The local conditions were unsuitable for growing the cacao tree.
D. The Mayans were unwilling to trade with them for religious reasons.
4. Which of the following best summarizes the writer’s argument in the fourth paragraph?
A. The Aztecs mainly appreciated cacao beans for their economic benefit.
B. The sharing of food is not as important now as it used to be in earlier societies.
C. Cacao beans had a value which went beyond how much they were worth.
D. The use of artificial cacao beans meant that real ones lost their value.
5. The writer refers to the drinking of chocolate by the Aztec ruler Montezuma to show how
A. the Spanish misunderstood why Aztecs drank chocolate.
B. the history of chocolate has not always been a peaceful one.
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C. the Aztecs pretended their chocolate drink had powerful qualities.

D. people tend to make untrue claims about food and drink.
6. What is the writer doing in the final paragraph?
A. Highlighting why modern chocolate is less healthy than its original form.
B. Questioning whether modern chocolate is superior to older types.
C. Outlining the steps that led to the kind of chocolate we have today.
D. Explaining why rich people were prepared to pay more for chocolate.
7. According to the writer, what led to chocolate becoming a successful mass product?
A. The price of manufacturing chocolate became cheaper.
B. New machines were invented which made it easier to create chocolate.
C. A lot of the fatty oils were taken out of cacao beans.
D. The recipe was altered to reflect what consumers wanted.

Exercise 8. [IELTS Reading: Pick from a list] Read the passage and answer the questions.
A Hearing impairment or other auditory function deficit in young children can have a major
impact on their development of speech and communication, resulting in a detrimental effect on
their ability to learn at school. This is likely to have major consequences for the individual and
the population as a whole. The New Zealand Ministry of Health has found from research carried
out over two decades that 6-10% of children in that country are affected by hearing loss.
B A preliminary study in New Zealand has shown that classroom noise presents a major concern
for teachers and pupils. Modern teaching practices, the organisation of desks in the classroom,
poor classroom acoustics, and mechanical means of ventilation such as air-conditioning units all
contribute to the number of children unable to comprehend the teacher's voice. Education
researchers Nelson and Soli have also suggested that recent trends in learning often involve
collaborative interaction of multiple minds and tools as much as individual possession of
information. This all amounts to heightened activity and noise levels, which have the potential
to be particularly serious for children experiencing auditory function deficit. Noise in classrooms
can only exacerbate their difficulty in comprehending and processing verbal communication
with other children and instructions from the teacher.
C Children with auditory function deficit are potentially failing to learn to their
maximum potential because of noise levels generated in classrooms. The effects of noise on the
ability of children to learn effectively in typical classroom environments are now the subject
of increasing concern. The International Institute of Noise Control Engineering (I-INCE), on the
advice of the World Health Organization, has established an international working party, which
includes New Zealand, to evaluate noise and reverberation control for school rooms.
Choose TWO letters, A-F. Which TWO are mentioned by the writer of the passage?
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A     current teaching methods

B     echoing corridors 
C     cooling systems 
D     large class sizes
E     loud-voiced teachers
F     playground games

Exercise 9. [IELTS Reading: Pick from a list] Read the passage and answer the questions.
Antarctic penguins
Antarctic penguins spend about 75 percent of their lives in the water. A number of survival
adaptations allow them to swim through water as cold as -2 degrees Celsius. In order to stay
warm in these temperatures, penguins have to keep moving. Though penguins don't fly in the
air, they are often said to fly through water. Instead of stopping each time they come up for air,
they use a technique called "porpoising," in which they leap up for a quick breath while swiftly
moving forward: Unlike most birds that have hollow bones for flight, penguins have evolved
hard solid bones that keep them low in the water. Antarctic penguins also have unique feathers
that work similarly to a waterproof diving suit. Tufts of down trap a layer of air within the
feathers, preventing the water from penetrating the penguin's skin. The pressure of a deep dive
releases this air, and a penguin has to rearrange the feathers through a process called
"preening." Penguins also have an amazing circulatory system, which in extremely cold waters
diverts blood from the flippers and legs to the heart.
While the harsh climate of the Antarctic doesn't threaten the survival of Antarctic penguins,
overheating can be a concern, and therefore, global warming is a threat to them. Temperate
species have certain physical features such as fewer feathers and less blubber to keep them
cool on a hot day. African penguins have bald patches on their legs and face where excess heat
can be released. The blood vessels in the penguin's skin dilate when the body begins to
overheat, and the heat rises to the surface of the body. Penguins who are built for cold winters
of the Antarctic have other survival techniques for a warm day, such as moving to shaded areas
or holding their fins out away from their bodies.
Which four of the following features are things that enable them to survive in very cold
water?
A. They move through the water very quickly.
B. They hold their flippers away from their bodies. 
C. They choose shady areas.
D. When necessary, their blood moves away from the flippers and toward the heart.
E. They breathe while still moving.
F. The blood vessels in their skin dilate.
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G. They waddle and slide.

H. Their feathers hold in a layer of air near the skin.