IELTS 5.

5- Unit 8: Festivals and traditions

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Lesson 16 Topic: Festivals and traditions WID: IELTS5.5_16_L

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IELTS Listening:
- identify key information in summaries and tables to
Skills
guide your listening ...... pts/10
- listen carefully to complete summaries and tables
- summary completion and table completion

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

Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

ONLINE MEALS SERVICE

Meal options Comments Cost

Meal for two Every week, two of the meals will contain (0) fish. £160.50 per week
Customers will receive the ingredients they ordered
on a (1)__________

Family meals They will always be some (2)__________ with each £(4)________ per week
meal. The (3)__________ for each meal is designed
especially for young adults to use.

Luxury meals There are dishes from different countries. Some £233.50 per week
meals may be too (5)__________ for the children.

Exercise 2. [IELTS Listening: Table completion] Listen and answer the questions.

Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.

Name Location Advantages

Price U Save supermarket 1____________ Road daily 2____________

Daisy’s Delicatessen Bridge street especially good for 3____________

4____________ corner shop Rose Lane can support 5____________

Bishops Street 6____________ Bottom of High street sells unusual 7____________

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Exercise 3. [IELTS Listening: Table completion] Listen and answer the questions.

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

Job Employer Work days Duties

kitchen assistant The 1________ café weekends 2 _________, wash dishes

3__________ Bellamy’s restaurant Thursday and Friday serve customers, wipe tables

barista 4__________ Saturday prepare drinks, 5__________

department store

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

Position Duties Pay Other benefits

6__________ check food quality 7 £_________ an hour recipe creation

food packer pack and 8_________ £8.45 an hour 9_________ at the

boxes end of summer

office assistant type reports, £12.50 an hour receive health and

10_________ safety training
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Exercise 4. [IELTS Listening: Table completion- Summary completion] Listen and answer the
questions.

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

College facility Information

Refectory inform them 22___________ about special dietary requirements

23___________ long waiting list, apply now

Careers advice drop-in centre for information

Fitness centre reduced 24___________ for students

Library Includes books, journals, equipment room containing audio-visual materials

Computers ask your 25___________ to arrange a password with the technical support
team

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

Business Centre

This Business Resource Centre contains materials such as books and manuals to be used for
training. It is possible to hire 26___________ and 27___________. There are materials for
working on study skills (e.g. 28___________) and other subjects include finance and
29___________.

30___________ membership costs £50 per year.

Exercise 5. [IELTS Listening: Summary completion] Listen and complete the summary.

Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.
Setting up and running an online meals company
Before Victoria Andrews set up the Fresh Ideas company, she did some research to find out
who her (1)__________ might be.
Then, she had to find a cheap way to advertise her online meals service and used
(2)__________ to do this.
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Although she thinks advertising was important at the start, in the long term, it is the
(3)__________ of the food that she feels is most important.
On her website, she has made it clear that her products come from (4)__________, which
customers may approve of.
None of the meals her company suggests require a lot of (5)__________, so people who don’t
cook for a living should appreciate that.

Exercise 6. [IELTS Listening: Summary completion] Listen and complete the summary.

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

Humans need the correct 1____________, clothing and shelter to cope with freezing
conditions. In Siberia, people live with average winter temperatures of 2____________ °C,
while still doing typical everyday activities. However, they only usually stay outside for up to
3____________ at a time.

Humans can cope with freezing temperatures without it harming them. We can survive a zero
temperature, even if 4____________. However, 5____________ can change the temperature
dramatically, making it seem much colder. This can put us in a very unsafe situation within
6____________.

Exercise 7. [IELTS Listening: Summary completion] Listen and complete the summary.

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

Wolves in Yellowstone Park

Wolves were exterminated in Rocky Mountains because they 1____________ people and ate
livestock. This led to some 2____________ consequences. For example, there was a
considerable rise in the number of a type of large 3____________ in Yellowstone National Park.
This led to the extinction of a particular species of 4____________. So wolves were re-
introduced to the Park in order to restore the balance of its 5____________. However, now a
6____________ has written a paper showing the situation is more complex than was previously
thought. Other factors such as 7____________ have an impact on the situation. Changes in the
8___________ of some species have had a negative effect on their numbers. The 9__________
in the number of beavers, for example, has been particularly harmful for the Park. In other
words, wolves were not, as once believed, the only cause of the problems in the area.