ASSIGNMENT

IGCSE English as a Second Language

Unit: 4. Education and work Topic: Listening – MCQs

Assignment Instructions
Read and answer the questions below.

Helpful Resources Lesson recording on the topic

Assignment Objectives

Understand conversations about different jobs and answer MCQ questions about them
Literacy Marking Key

Spelling – homophone or incorrect

Stretch and Challenge task:
Punctuation – missing or incorrect
Grammar – read back through for clarity

Section A
Listen to the information about the 'best job in the world' competition at this link
(https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/listening/b2-listening/the-best-
job-in-the-world) for both of the exercises below.

Exercise 1
For each question, choose the correct answer, A, B or C, and put a tick () in the
appropriate box.

1. What is the name of the organisation that is promoting Australia?

A Tourism Australia.
B Great Australia.
C Australia Tourists.

2. Why did the speaker warn the listeners at the beginning of the audio?
A These jobs have great salary and extra spending money.
B These jobs are perfect for the listeners.
C There will be high competition for these jobs.

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 3. Which person is suitable to be an outback adventurer?
A Someone who patrol the beaches of Lizard Island.
B Someone who likes to work on holidays outdoors.
C Someone who likes to take photos of the dolphins in the waterpark.

4. One of the duties of a park ranger is

A To promote native plants and animals.
B To fly over the landscape in a hot air balloon.
C To tweet about the coolest happenings in Sydney.

5. Where is the location of Kangaroo Island in Australia?

A South-east.
B South.
C North-west

6. Why is the job as wildlife caretaker for the brave people only?
A They would sunbathe with the seals.
B They need to cuddle koalas.
C They would encounter with the sharks.

7. Which job involves taking a photograph and write about the city?
A Taste master.
B Chief funster.
C Lifestyle photojournalist.

8. Where will the last job be based in?

A Melbourne.
B Western Australia.

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 C Sydney.

[Marks: 8]

Extension task (OPTIONAL)

Complete the details below. Write one or two words in each gap:

Outback adventurer
 Duties include: getting to know about aboriginal culture and eating
__________________ bushfoods

Park ranger
 Duties include: patrol the __________________ of Lizard Island and live a life
most people can only dream about

Wildlife caretaker
 Duties include: to talk to wallabies, play with dolphins, __________________
and sunbathe with seals on the unspoilt beach at Seal Bay

Lifestyle photojournalist
 Duties include: to __________________ and write about the city's coolest cafés
and musical events; cover tourist activities in the whole state of Victoria

Taste master
 Duties include: to __________________ the best restaurants, pubs, wineries
and breweries; learn all about making wine and beer

Chief funster
 Duties include: travelling around the state and __________________ about the
coolest things going on; making the Sydney Festival, Mardi Gras and Vivid Fest-
ival

[Marks: 6]

Section B

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Listen to the recording file ‘Week 24 assignment audio’ for both exercises below
using this link: https://nva4.nisai.org/Courses-2023-2024/IGCSE-English-2nd-
Language-0510-Nisai-Asia-2023-2024?Command=Core_Download&EntryId=336018

You will hear six people talking about working outdoors.

You will hear the recording twice every time you play it.

Exercise 1
For each question, choose the correct answer, A, B or C, and put a tick () in the
appropriate box.

1. Speaker one is a diary farmer who finds the job particularly ___________.
A tricky
B difficult
C fantastic

2. Despite the _____________, speaker one finds that taking care of the gentle gi-
ants are manageable.
A smell
B countryside
C tiredness

3. When working, speaker two is able to appreciate the _________________ of

London.
A underground
B architecture
C city

4. The reason speaker two will not use underground trains anymore is __________
A she feels too closed in there.

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 B she feels close at home.
C she can go anywhere in the city.

5. Speaker three keeps _____________ in mind when designing parks and other
green spaces in the cities.
A underground trains
B the people and wildlife
C nature and seasons

6. Speaker ____ finds growing a plant for people to be rewarding.

A one
B five
C four

7. Speaker five thinks that his work can be ___________ especially in winter when
it can be freezing.
A fascinating
B advantageous
C challenging

8. A ___________ branch might affect the tree’s overall health.

A disastrous
B hanging
C diseased

9. Speaker six takes _____________ to the fields to learn things like wildflowers
and building shelters.
A young toddlers

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 B elderlies
C young people

10.Speaker six thinks being outside is _________________.

A moving
B terrible
C enjoyable

[Marks: 10]

Exercise 2
For each of speakers 1 to 6, choose from the list, A to H, which idea each speaker
expresses. Write the letter on the answer line. Use each letter only once. There are
two extra letters which you do not need to use.

A. I feel a kind of freedom.

B. I enjoy the physical side of the work.
C. I love the chance to see things other people don’t.
D. It appeals to my different senses.
E. I like seeing the results of my hard work.
F. I appreciate all kinds of weather.
G. I treat patients at the hospital and give them medicine.
H. I’d like others to gain the same sense of peace as I do.

Speaker 1

Speaker 2

Speaker 3

Speaker 4

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 Speaker 5

Speaker 6

[Marks: 6]

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