IELTS 5.

5- Unit 5: Business and work

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Unit 5 Topic: Business and work WID: IELTS5.5_03_L

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Listening: use language for comparison and contrast
Skills to predict ideas in a talk ...... pts/10

Listening skills: note completion and sentence

...... pts/10
completion

Exercise 1. [IELTS Listening: Note completion] Listen and complete the notes. Write ONE
WORD ONLY for each answer.

School Sports Day at the Athletics Centre

Between 8 a.m. – 9 a.m.

Parents are needed to help Mr. Robinson

 take some (1) _________ to the Athletics Centre

 put up a few (2) _________ in different places at the Athletics Centre

After 10 a.m.

Parents are needed to help make sure that students

 get their sports kit from the (3) _________ near the main hall

 take (4) _________ to the individual sports events

 go to Jane Wright if students get any kind of (5) _________

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Exercise 2. [IELTS Listening: Note completion] Listen and complete the notes.
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Exercise 3. [IELTS Listening: Note completion] Complete the notes below.

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

Artist’s Exhibition

General details:

Place: 11 __________ No. 1 12 __________

Dates: 6th October - 13 __________

Display details:

    jewelry

    furniture

    ceramics

    14 __________

    sculpture

Expect to see: crockery in the shape of 15 __________

silver jewelry, e.g., large rings containing 16 __________

a shoe sculpture made out of 17 __________

Go to demonstrations called: 18 __________

Artist’s Conservatory

Courses include: Chinese brush painting

19 __________

silk painting

Fees include: Studio use

Access to the shop

Supply of 20 __________
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Exercise 4. [IELTS Listening: Sentence & Note completion] Listen and answer the questions.

Questions 11-14

Complete the sentences below.

Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

11. ‘Canadian Clean Air Day' will be held on __________

12. Air pollution may be responsible for __________deaths every year in Canada.

13. The sector most responsible for smog-producing pollutants is __________

14. Scientists now know that even __________of pollutants can be harmful.

Questions 15-20

Complete the notes below.

Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

Reducing Air Pollution

Individual action

 respond to the 15. __________Challenge

 walk, cycle or car-pool to work
 use public transit
 16. __________
 17. __________your domestic equipment

Government action

 emission reduction in the 18. __________region of US and Canada

 move towards 19. __________ ( e.g. less sulphur in gasoline & diesel)
 reduction of pollutants from 20. __________and power plants.
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Exercise 5. [IELTS Listening: Sentence completion] Complete the sentences below.

Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.

1. Joe’s low __________ doesn’t allow him to buy many electronic goods.

2. He’s often influenced by his __________ when he buys electronic items.

3. Advertisements featuring somebody __________ sometimes help him decide which product
to buy.

4. Joe prefers to get new products from __________.

5. He doesn’t like waiting for a long time after __________ something.

6. He finds it hard to resist buying electronic products if they are new and __________.

Exercise 6. [IELTS Listening: Sentence completion] You will hear a postgraduate psychology
student talking to other students about a job-satisfaction study he has investigated.

Complete the sentences below. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.

Job satisfaction study

1. Workers involved in the study were employed at a ____________

2. Despite some apparent differences between groups of workers, the survey results were
statistically ____________.

3. The speaker analyzed the study's ____________ to identify any problems with it.

4. The various sub-groups were ____________ in size.

5. Workers in the part-time group were mainly ____________.

6. The ____________ of workers who agreed to take part in the study was disappointing.

7. Researchers were unable to ____________ the circumstances in which workers filled out the
questionnaire.

8. In future, the overall size of the ____________ should be increased.

9. In future studies, workers should be prevented from having discussions with ____________.

10. Workers should be reassured that their responses to questions are ____________.