Lesson 1.

Map/Plan/Diagram labeling & Multiple choice (with

more than one answer)

LESSON PREPARATION
TYPE 1: MAP/PLAN/DIAGRAM LABELING

A. About the task

1. Classmate B
2. Classmate B
3. Classmate A
4. Classmate A
5. Classmate B

B. Sample questions (Student’s book)

1 E 4 H
2 I 5 C
3 F 6 A

Audio script:

Hello and welcome to this audio tour of the university campus. Our tour today begins at the Main
Gate. The gatehouse dates back to the year 1600 and has always been the main entrance to the
university site, even if in those days there were only a few hundred students in two or three
buildings.
The first building we come to on our left also dates from 1600. Today in this building you’ll find
the offices of the university registry, which handles enrolments and other administrative matters. It
was originally built as the university library, however, and fulfilled that role 1955, when the new
library was built on the other side of the river.
Now looking to our right, we pass the university theatre. This is the place where important
ceremonies like graduation day we held, as well as concerts and other public events. This building
was built in 1993 on the site of the old Dining Room, which was sadly destroyed by fire. Students
can now eat in the restaurant, which is situated opposite the Faculty of Law on this side of the river.
We are now entering the university’s main teaching blocks, all of which were built in the late 20 th
century. The Faculty of Life Sciences is on our right, and opposite that we see the Faculty of Arts,
 whilst ahead of us, just beyond the fountain, we can see the Faculty of Medicine.
At the fountain, we turn left, and we soon come to the main accommodation blocks on our right,
where the students now live, and we pass the university car park on our left. Which brings us
finally to the back gate, where you should turn right and walk down towards the river, where our
tour ends at the boathouse.

*Activity 3.

1. it’s at the corner of 8. it’s opposite

2. cross the street 9. go straight on
3. it’s not far from 10. take the first turning on your left
4. it’s far from 11. turn left
5. take the first turning on your right 12. turn right
6. go up the street 13. walk past
7. go down the street

*Activity 4.

1. C 5. A
2. B 6. D
3. C 7. B
4. D 8. D

TYPE 2: MULTIPLE CHOICE (WITH MORE THAN ONE ANSWER)

A. About the task

1. No. Sometimes there’s only one

2. No. Only two are correct.
3. No. They are in random order.
4. Yes, that’s right
5. Yes, that’s right.

B. Sample questions (Student’s book)

1. B/C 3. C/D 5. A/E

2. C/B 4. D/C 6. E/A
Audio script:

Hello, welcome to Broadfields Student Residence. Before we get on with the business of showing
you to your rooms, there are a few general points I’d like to go through.
Firstly, those of you who have visited us before will notice that there have been quite a few changes
over the long vacation, and more upgrading of the facilities is planned throughout the year.
The main entrance has been redesigned to provide better security. There’s now an electronic gate in
place, for which you will be given a security code, as well as an entry-phone located in the shared
kitchen in each block. These have been installed as part of the general refurbishment of the cooking
and eating areas, which now have a full oven as well as a microwave and new fridges.
Now, all of the study bedrooms are going to be redecorated over the winter break. This will mean
that you need to clear your rooms and pack up your stuff while the work’s going on – but we’ll try
to limit the inconvenience. The bathrooms on each floor will be redecorated at the same time.
In the longer term, we hope to upgrade the shared laundry facilities on each floor, but a date is yet
to be fixed for the installation of new washing machines, irons and ironing boards – so apologies in
the meantime if some of the equipment in those areas is unreliable.
Secondly, a few reminders about what’s included in your rental agreement and what you have to
pay extra for. Your room will be cleaned on a weekly basis, but if you want extra cleaning – like
more than once a week – this can be arranged on payment of a supplement.
If you feel cold, extra bedding is available. There is a small charge for this, however, to cover the
cost of laundry. Electricity is included in your rent, but we would ask you to use it sparingly please,
like turning lights off when you leave a room, to keep costs down. It also makes good
environmental sense to do that.
Then, if you’ve applied for a parking place for a car or a motorcycle, you should have received an
invoice. Once you pay that, you’ll receive a card to open the automatic barrier. There are no
assigned parking places, but the number of cards issued is limited, so you should always find a
place.
And lastly, do take care of your key. Lost or mislaid keys will be replaced, but we have to charge a
fee for that, I’m afraid – so do try not to get locked out.
And that brings me to my last point: what to do if you have problems. There is a student
representative on each floor who should be your first point of call for most problems. Serious
problems should be reported to the manager, however. For example, if ant of the appliances in the
kitchen isn’t working properly, tell your student representative and he or she will sort it out for you.
Similarly, if you fall out with your neighbors about noise levels or whose stuff is whose in the
fridge, then hopefully this can be resolved without the management getting involved. Any instances
of theft, or suspected theft if things go missing is more serious, however, and the police should be
 informed in writing. The same applies if you have any difficulties with people working for us,
whether cleaners, administrators or whoever, the sooner we know about the issues, the better from
everybody’s point of view. One thing we can’t help with is technical problems with the computer
network. Every room has an internet connection and there’s a number to ring if you have problems
– don’t call us, call the experts!
So if there are no further…
IELTS PRACTICE TASK 2 (Fighter 5 – page 11)

1 F 4 A
2 B 5 G
3 H 6 I
Language for directions: head up the track, go up, take the first left, keep right all the way up the
east side of the map,

Language for positions/locations: at the bottom of the map, not far from here are, the top of your
map, on the left of the forest, on the north side of the track, near the bottom of the map, to the west of
the lake, to the west of you
Audio script

Track 6.
Hi. Thanks for coming along today. This is the tenth annual mountain bike race we’ve held here,
and this year we have a record number of competitors – just over 3,000. So, thank you for
volunteering to help. Without you, the race just wouldn’t be possible.
OK, there are different points around the race track where we need volunteers to go. Look at the
bottom of the map and you can see where the race starts. Not far from here are the medical facilities
for racers and spectators – and we certainly need help here. To get there from the starting point,
head up the track – you can see that the track then divides left and right – you want the track on the
right – go up there and then take the first left, and the medical facilities are the first building you
come to.
We’ll also need quite a few volunteers to hand out water. The water station is quite a distance from
the starting point. Look towards the top of your map – you can see the forest marked out there. On
the left of the forest – a little further down – is the water station. It’s the building on the north side
of the track.
Now, some of the competitors are not doing the full race. They’re taking part in what we call the
Easy Riders race ... though it’s still a challenge, for sure. We need volunteers at the Easy Riders
finish point to make sure these competitors get off the track safely and store their bikes in the right
place. See where the lake is near the bottom of the map? You’ve got two places marked out either
side of the lake. The location of the finish point is to the west of the lake, OK? Just make sure they
get off the track as quickly as possible.
We’ve got several big screens around the track so that spectators can view the action and one of the
screen operators has asked for assistance. So if you end up volunteering to help with the screen …
from the starting point, you keep right, all the way up the east side of the map, until you get to that
loop at the top, and that’s where the screen is – with the forest to the west of you. A bit of technical
know-how is what’s needed here so if that’s you, please let us know.
We need volunteers for the signal station as this is where the majority of accidents tend to happen.
You can see just below the centre of the map that there are three sharp bends in the road – in a row
– where the track goes up the steepest hill of the race. The signal station is located there, just above
the winding track. Finally, we need some volunteers for a spectator stand. Sometimes we get over-
enthusiastic supporters getting a bit too close to the track and so we need to encourage them to
remain on the stand. It’s pretty straight forward to get there. From the starting point, head up the
track until it divides, then take the track heading west and the spectator stand is there on the first
corner – it’s actually got a view of two tracks running either side of it. Well, if you have any further
questions, I’ll be happy to answer ...

IELTS PRACTICE TASK 1 (Fighter 5 – page 16)

1 C 3 E
2 D 4 B

Audio script

Track 10.
F: So are you finding the website called Mendeley useful? I always think it’s like the sort of sites
you get for photo sharing and social networking, only it’s for academics.
M: That’s right. As a scientist, I always dreamt of cataloguing my research library in the same way
as I organise my music in iTunes.
F: And basically, Mendeley provides software similar to iTunes, which allows you to manage and
annotate research documents and compile bibliographies.
 M: That’s right. It extracts data from members about the papers they’re reading and organises this
information for sale to other people. Subscribers can learn who’s reading what, when and why – far
more quickly than through conventional citation analysis.
F: And a huge bibliography of hundreds of articles can be achieved within minutes. I used to waste
hours doing that.
M: Yeah – it couldn’t be easier. You simply drop a PDF document into its library; it does the hard
work of gathering information about the contents, and flagging key attributes such as who wrote it,
what it’s about and so on.
F: Yes, that’s why Mendeley’s seen such tremendous growth since its launch in 2008. Today its
libraries contain more than 250 million documents, making it one of the world’s largest academic
databases.
M: Because it’s a key aspect of scholarship, isn’t it, reading all the literature, citing other people’s
papers in your own work to show that your study’s grounded. So it must fill a real gap in the
market.
M: Whose idea was it?
F: Three PhD students in Germany hit upon the idea in 2008 because they were struggling to
organise hundreds of research papers. They thought, you know, ‘Why are there all these cool, fun
and helpful applications in other fields but not in science?’
M: Yeah – and rather like recommendations on Amazon, Mendeley has a ‘suggest’ feature. It can
be unnervingly good at finding articles, often ones I’ve missed using my rather random methods.
F: Yeah. While people ‘network’ with other scientists by attending meetings or joining email
discussion groups, Mendeley achieves a social network based, instead, on the research papers
you’re interested in. It’s an ability that simply wasn’t previously available to us scientists.
M: That’s true. For me, the only downside is that it doesn’t directly promote the ‘open access’
model of scientific publishing, though – you know, where anyone can read research papers for free.
Instead, when users find a paper in the Mendeley database and want to download it, they are
directed to the publisher’s website and still need to pay for it.
F: That’s true – although the basic service is free of charge. For me, the only drawback was that I
did find it occasionally failed to extract information from the thousand or so papers that I imported,
but having said that –- it was largely successful.
M: Yes, I noticed that too. But it does help spot rising talent among young researchers and trends in
scientific research.
F: That’s very true

IELTS PRACTICE TASK 1 (Fighter 5 – page 17)

In either order.

1/2 A/D 5/6 A/C

3/4 C/D 7/8 B/D

Audio script:

Track 11.
Morning everyone, and welcome to the transport museum. I’m sure you’re going to really enjoy
seeing all our exhibits. Well, first, some information about the museum itself. Back in 1975 we had
the idea to create a museum of this kind but it took another ten years before we’d constructed this
building and were ready to welcome visitors. And the museum was immediately a huge hit with
people of all ages. It was soon obvious that we needed more space, so we bought more land and put
up two additional buildings in 1995 – almost doubling our size, which makes us one of the largest
museums of this kind in the country. The museum
 was closed for a time in 2005 to install new fire prevention and safety equipment but otherwise
we’ve operated continuously until the present day. Last year we had the highest number of visitors
ever – just over 100,000 – and this year we’re expecting even more. But it seldom feels
crowded here, even with so many people, because we have such a large number of separate
exhibitions – seventeen in total – covering the development of transportation over a period of more
than 500 years.
So, we obviously have something for everyone and whatever your particular interests in terms of
transportation, I’m sure you’ll find something fascinating here. But based on past experience, there
are a couple of exhibitions I’d particularly recommend. We’re a museum of transport
technology, so we obviously don’t cover things like horses or in fact any animal-drawn transport.
But I do advise you to go along and see our earliest exhibit of two-wheeled
transportation – I think you’ll be astonished by how clever the very first bicycles were. It’s a lot of
fun. One thing we haven’t managed to get hold of yet is an early omnibus – that’s what they used to
call buses – but what we do have is a very early train. It’s steam-powered and although
it’s not in working order any longer, it really gives a great impression of what travel must have
been like in those days. I should just mention that, unfortunately, the exhibition of the first
airplanes is closed at the moment for maintenance.
Now, um, in terms of the museum rules, we do have a few dos and don’ts. It just makes life easier
for everyone. So we’re not like some art galleries or other museums – you’re absolutely welcome
to use your phones and cameras here, no problem. But you should understand, we are a working
transport museum – there are cars, bikes and all sorts of other transport moving around here, so
walking only please, no rushing about, especially you children! We’ve got a café here on site and
lots of drinking fountains if you’re hungry or thirsty, but please, no cigarettes or tobacco at all – the
whole museum is smoke-free. But the great thing is, with these sorts of exhibits, you can climb
onto most of them and really explore them, which makes it a different kind of museum experience.
So, what plans does the museum have for the future? Well, we’ve got lots of exciting ideas! We are
limited in that there’s no room for further construction of additional exhibition halls on this site.
But we are very aware that at present there’s not enough focus on transportation at sea, so that’s
something we intended to develop very soon.
And our recent creation of the ‘mission-to-Mars’ exhibit just goes to show how popular these new
initiatives are. We also hope to invite some experts in one particular field of transportation to come
in and give talks to visitors, to really bring some of our exhibits to life. We also hope
to reduce the cost of an entry ticket so that just about everyone will be able to buy one.
Well then, that’s just about all I’ve got to say but if anyone has any questions before you begin to
look around ...
Vocabulary

DEPENDENT PREPOSITIONS

Exercise 2.

1 Divided into 5 Look at/look into/look out for

2 Focus on 6 Make out of/from/into
3 Deal with 7 Rest on
4 Conduct research into 8 Sit on/sit with

Exercise 3.

1 Divided into 5 Research into

2 Focusing on 6 Deals with
RECOGNISING AND ORGANISING SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS

Exercise 4.

Synonyms: Soft/hard,
Wide/narrow
New/old
Antonyms: Ordinary/normal

Exercise 5.

a. high b. light c. smooth

INFORMAL AND ACADEMIC LANGUAGE

Exercise 6.

1 f 5 d
2 c 6 b
3 g 7 e
4 a 8 h
Column A – informal; Column B – formal

Exercise 7.

1. a small charge/a fee

2. fell out with/had an argument with
3. quite a few/several
4. stuff/belongings

VIEW AND OPINIONS

Exercise 9.

1 It’s important 5 It puts people off

2 I don’t recognize it 6 I feel sure
3 Locate 7 I don’t like it
4 I don’t agree
Exercise 10. Answers will vary