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IELTS Listening
Tutorial: Planning a Field Report
10 questions, about 9 minutes, marked the moment you submit with the right answer beside every question you missed. The recording plays once, the way the real test plays it.
What you will hear
A talk of a few minutes with specific facts: names, numbers, prices and times. The transcript unlocks after marking, so you can find the exact words that cost you.
The questions
- What was the aim of the students' field study? (To find out if the river gets wider and slower downstream / To measure pollution / To map the river's source / To count animals)
- How many measuring points did they use? (Three / Four / Six / Ten)
- How did they measure the speed of the river? (With a flow meter / By timing a floating orange / By using a stopwatch on a boat / By measuring the depth)
- How wide was the river at the last point? (Three metres / Six metres / Eleven metres / Thirty metres)
- Where was the river fastest? (At the first point / At point four / At point five / At the last point)
- What explanation do the students give for this? (A waterfall / A narrow section between rocks / Heavy rain / A bridge)
- What does the tutor say about results that surprise the students? (They should be left out / They should be explained / They should be measured again / They should go in the appendix)
- How many photographs does the tutor suggest using? (One or two / Four or five / About twenty / All forty)
- Where should the raw data go? (In the introduction / In the conclusion / In an appendix / On a map)
- What is the final deadline for the report? (The end of the month / The second of December / The twelfth of December / The first of January)
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