Questions 23-29
Answer each of the following questions with NOT MORE THAN TWO words.
23. What was the Vietnamese student bringing in?
24. What must every passenger coming into Australia sign?
25. Did the student admit that he was carrying food in his luggage?
26. What made it difficult for him to understand the officer's questions?
27. Did he get his visa at the time he needed it?
28 Who might have done his packing for him?
29 What did his mother probably want to do?
SECTION 4
Questions 30-38
Complete the advice below by writing NO MORE THAN THREE words in the
spaces
provided.
30. When you go out, remember -----------------------------------------------------
31. Don't keep ------------------------------------------- at home.
32. Don't let other people see you with---------------------------------------------.
33. Carry your ____________________________ with you at all times
when away from home.
34. Never leave your car or bicycle _________________________________
35. When you go out at night keep to ----------------------------------------------
36. Only go out with people ---------------------------------------------------------
37. While you are settling in, it is better to go out______________________
38. Never get into _____________________________________________ .
Reflections on the Listening Test
After you have finished each Listening test, check your answers in the Answer
Key on page 177, then work through these reflection tasks. Thinking about each
test and recalling how you felt before, during and after it, might help you when
you eventually take the IELTS test.
1 . Were you pleased with your performance?
yes no
2.
How did you feel about the listening test? Was it
easy not too bad
difficult?
3.
How much of what each speaker was saying could you follow?
all of it most of it
very little
4.
How well could you understand the vocabulary in each test
easily reasonably well with difficulty?
5.
If you got less than a perfect score, identify the sections of the test where
you had problems. Locate each section in the transcript and think about why
you had problems. Was it to do with:
a
rate of speech?
b unknown
vocabulary?
c unfamiliar
accent?
d
not understanding the question?
e nervousness?
f other?
rate of speech: If one, or more than one of the speakers spoke too fast for
you, listen to that part of the recording again. First, concentrate only on that
section and see if you can follow the speaker. Listen once, without reading
from the transcript. Then, check the transcript.
unknown vocabulary: If there were words you didn't know, find any
unknown vocabulary in the transcript and then look up these words in a
dictionary, or ask someone.
nervousness: Many people suffer from 'test nerves' but those who do well in
tests are people who control their nerves rather than letting their nerves
control them. We all know about and probably even have our own methods
for coping with anxiety. If you became nervous during the practice tests, try
to understand why. When you feel you can identify some reasons, make a list
of some of the ways you might reduce the stress of taking a test. Think about
how you can control your anxiety, when you eventually sit for the IELTS test.
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