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Welcome to my IELTS classroom.

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The podcast where two English experts

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talk all things. IELTS. I'm

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Shelley and I'm Nick Long. And

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today, we are completing a

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test from Cambridge six.

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Why are we doing a listening test from

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Cambridge six? How do

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you feel answering multiple choice questions

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in part four? And what other advice

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have Nick and I got for you for

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completing the listening test.

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Good morning, Nick. Good morning.

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My guess is you might be a little bit tired today.

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I am. Can you guess why? Did

0:46

you stay up and watch the Super Bowl

0:48

final? I did. And did

0:50

the tea I don't even know who was playing. Was it Oakland?

0:52

No. It was Philadelphia and Kansas City.

0:55

And

0:55

I did take care. Who

0:56

wins, to be honest?

0:57

He didn't. Do you think the best team won?

1:00

Hard to say it was good. It was very, very good

1:02

match, actually. It was very close. Yeah.

1:05

Like, the first half was one team was

1:07

really

1:07

good. The second half, the other team was really good, and

1:09

they won in the end. So it was it was

1:11

fine too. Such. Exciting

1:13

to me. Yes. Sadly, I didn't

1:15

stay up to watch the final. I was tucked

1:17

up in bed. Spare, isn't it? All

1:19

of my family at the moment, my dad and

1:21

my sister. Separately have all gone on

1:23

winter vacation holidays to Spain.

1:27

So I keep getting these photographs of them

1:29

in the pool or on a balcony or

1:31

eating really nicely

1:32

foods. And it's kind of

1:34

golden gray here.

1:35

Yeah. So I

1:36

had an early night with a hot water bottle.

1:38

Very good.

1:38

So Let's

1:41

start by just cleaning up some business.

1:43

First of all, thank you to everybody

1:45

who listened to last week's episode. We

1:48

had a few emails from people saying that

1:51

what we had reported from some of

1:53

our students was also true in their exam.

1:56

So we had some students who

1:58

had multiple choice in section

2:00

four of the listening -- Mhmm. -- who had

2:02

lots and lots of truthfully not given questions

2:05

or no truthfully not given questions in the

2:07

reading -- Mhmm. -- which was kind of interesting. So

2:09

thank you if you wrote to us. Also,

2:12

I've been very busy this

2:13

weekend, Nick. I did manage to

2:15

catch up with all of the

2:17

missing blog posts.

2:18

Well well done. Congratulations. Thank you very much.

2:21

So I'm not sure if that really helps us.

2:24

So if you were looking for some of

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the extra information in the blog post for the

2:28

first couple of episodes of the year.

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You can now go. You will find them at blog.

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My ielts classroom dot com. I'm

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also Nick starting the newsletter again from

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something will pop up and you can enter your email

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I send them every Sunday. This

2:48

week, Nick, is Facebook. I am determined

2:51

to start reposting on Facebook. So

2:53

again, if you don't follow us on Facebook, have

2:56

a look there. If you see

2:58

me post anything and want to be kind,

3:00

give me a round of applause, say thank you,

3:03

encourage me because it's a lot of effort.

3:06

But that's what I've been doing

3:08

this weekend. So today, Nick, we're

3:11

gonna follow on from

3:13

last week's episode -- Mhmm. --

3:15

where we were talking about, as

3:17

I just said, the small minor

3:20

changes that students have seen,

3:22

particularly in the reading and the listening exams

3:24

Mhmm. -- in recent weeks. So

3:27

if you remember how we ended

3:29

last week's episode, it was our

3:31

us giving advice, which is, you know, in the

3:33

past, we would have said Start

3:36

from Cambridge seventeen if you want to do

3:38

practice tests and work back. Mhmm.

3:40

So do seventeen, sixteen, fifteen, fourteen.

3:43

Obviously because you probably want

3:45

to start with the latest ones. Our new

3:47

advice though might be, do that.

3:50

But at the same time, occasionally do

3:52

a test probably not from one

3:54

to five, but from six -- Mhmm. --

3:56

four. Because the

3:58

type of changes that the students reported

4:01

and we discussed last week They

4:04

are basically telling us

4:06

that the exam format has kind of gone

4:08

back sometimes, not always. Mhmm.

4:10

To the way it used to be sort of a more mix different

4:13

mixture of questions in different sections.

4:15

Yeah. So to

4:17

encourage us to do that. I thought what we

4:19

would do today is something we've done before. We

4:21

will do a complete listening

4:24

exam from book

4:26

six. So it's book six, test three.

4:28

Nick, this morning, out of interest, I remember

4:31

this was the book six was the book I always

4:33

taught

4:33

from. Mhmm. When I was teaching at the university

4:36

in in Australia.

4:37

Mhmm.

4:37

And so I thought I wonder when this book was published.

4:41

Oh my days. Two thousand and seven.

4:43

Wow. It's like

4:45

was that sixteen years old? So

4:47

did did they release less than one

4:49

book a year? That's what I was trying

4:51

to think. Yeah. They must too. So what is yeah.

4:54

Two thousand seven. That was sixteen. We're now

4:56

on yes. There's been eleven

4:58

books. In sixteen years. In

5:01

sixteen years. I used that book

5:03

six for a long time. So I do

5:05

I should, to be honest, be able to remember

5:08

the answers but I can't, which makes me kind

5:10

of sad, maybe because I'm getting older. But

5:12

I've chosen this one because as I

5:14

said, it when I showed

5:17

one of our students who've been talking about the changes

5:19

of the listening exam, this particular test

5:21

-- Mhmm. -- she said, oh,

5:23

that's exactly what I got in

5:26

my exam. So multiple choice in part

5:28

four. No completion

5:30

or sentence completion, but with more

5:32

than one word, So, like, with

5:34

two or three words, which is a little bit different.

5:36

Mhmm. So what we'll do then is,

5:38

well, let's go through each section one at a time.

5:40

Mhmm. So we will play

5:44

the recording. Mhmm. If you

5:46

are listening at home, you just need to go

5:48

to our blog post page. As I just

5:50

told you, blog dot my ailt classroom dot

5:52

com. Click on today's blog post.

5:54

It's already prepared, Nick.

5:55

Mhmm. So we'll

5:55

definitely be there. Excellent. Even if you're

5:58

listening on Tuesday -- Mhmm. -- there you

6:00

will find a little link where you can click to

6:02

download the actual questions. Alright?

6:05

So do that now, see what the questions

6:07

in front of you, and we're gonna go through each section.

6:09

And then when each section ends, we'll

6:11

pause We'll give you the answers for

6:13

that section, and Nick and I will also just

6:16

talk about, you know, which questions we thought were

6:18

easy, which were difficult any

6:20

new techniques you might want to introduce based

6:22

on these older

6:23

questions. I don't know. Have you ever been

6:25

back to books it?

6:26

No. I've never done something this old, I'm afraid.

6:28

Yeah. Well well, there we go.

6:30

I wasn't even a teacher in two thousand and seven.

6:33

Why? Right. Oh,

6:35

okay. Right. Well, good for you. This

6:37

will be more difficult for Nick hopefully than it

6:39

is for me. Mhmm. So go

6:41

and download pause the video now. Go and pause

6:44

the video. That's from my teaching on

6:47

because pause the podcast now.

6:49

Go and have a look so you've got those questions and

6:51

then come back. And if you we're ready, Nick. If you got

6:53

anything to add before Let's go. I'm ready.

6:55

Yeah. I reckon we should just start. So

6:58

if we have a look at part one,

7:01

there is nothing here, Nick. That

7:03

I think should be any different to the later

7:06

books. We just have a classic note

7:08

completion. Mhmm.

7:10

So I would say, let's

7:12

just do this as a little revision of what

7:14

we should

7:15

already be able to do.

7:20

Section one. You will

7:22

hear a man talking to the customer services

7:25

manager of a bank. First,

7:28

you have some time to look at questions one

7:30

to five.

7:56

You will see that there is an example that has been

7:58

done for you. On this

8:00

occasion only, the conversation

8:03

relating to this will be played first.

8:09

Good morning. I'd like to open a bank

8:11

account, please.

8:11

Suddenly, if you'd like to take a seat,

8:14

I'll just get some details from you.

8:16

It won't take long.

8:17

Thanks.

8:18

Is it a current account or a deposit

8:21

account you wanted? A current account.

8:26

The man wishes to apply for a current

8:29

account, so current

8:31

has been written in the space.

8:34

Now we shall begin. You

8:36

should answer the questions as you listen

8:38

because you will not hear the recording a

8:40

second

8:41

time. Listen carefully

8:43

and answer questions one to

8:46

five.

8:49

Good morning. I'd like to open a bank

8:51

account, please.

8:52

Certainly. If you'd like to take a seat,

8:54

I'll just get some details from you.

8:57

It won't take long.

8:58

Thanks. Is

8:59

it a current account or a deposit

9:01

account you wanted? A current account.

9:04

Right. I've got the application

9:06

from here then. We

9:09

have different types. I see you've

9:11

got our leaflet there. I decided

9:13

on the one called select.

9:15

Right. That's fine. So first of all,

9:17

can I have your full name, please?

9:19

Yes. It's Peter Hennes. That's

9:22

PIETER.

9:24

Is it h e double NES?

9:27

Only one n. Actually, it's a less

9:30

common spelling of the name. Right.

9:32

Okay. And what's your date

9:34

of birth, please? The twenty seventh

9:36

of the first nineteen seventy

9:38

three. Right. And

9:41

will this be a joint account?

9:43

No. Just myself. Okay.

9:45

Fine. And where are you living, mister Hennes?

9:48

Fifteen Riverside.

9:50

Is that all one word? Yes. Exeter?

9:53

Yes. How long have you

9:55

been at your present address? Is

9:57

it more than two years?

10:00

Just two weeks, actually, I only

10:02

arrived in the country a month ago. I'm

10:04

from Holland.

10:05

Oh, that's fine. But we normally

10:07

ask for a previous address in that case.

10:09

Oh, yes. Well, it's Reelsdorf two.

10:12

That's RIELSD0RF2.

10:19

Correct. Holland.

10:22

Okay. Thank you. Do

10:24

you have a daytime telephone number?

10:26

Yes. I think the number at my

10:28

office is 606295.

10:33

Just a minute, I'd better check. Oh,

10:36

no. Sorry. 616.

10:38

I'm not used to it yet. Would

10:40

you like my home number too? Yes,

10:42

please.

10:43

It's 796431.

10:47

Are they both local numbers? Yes.

10:54

Before you hear the rest of the conversation, you

10:56

have some time to look at questions six

10:59

to ten.

11:20

Now listen and answer questions

11:22

six to ten.

11:27

Right. And your

11:30

occupation? Well, I'm in

11:32

Britain as a project manager. But

11:34

that's not my main job. I'm an

11:36

engineer by

11:36

profession. I see. I think I'll

11:39

put that then. It's shorter. Now

11:41

we usually ask for a piece of information which

11:43

we can use to check your identity for

11:46

security

11:46

reasons. You know, if you

11:48

phone us, Like my

11:50

wife's

11:51

first name.

11:52

Mother's might be better. It's less

11:54

likely to be known.

11:55

Okay. Harris is Citi. Citi?

11:58

Yes. SITI.

12:01

It's Indonesian. Fine. And

12:03

how much would you like to open your account

12:05

with? We usually ask for a minimum sum

12:08

of fifty pounds. That's about seventy

12:10

five euros. Well, I'm going

12:12

to transfer two thousand euros from my

12:14

Dutch account just till I get

12:16

paid.

12:17

In fact, I wanted to ask you about that.

12:20

What's the best way to do it?

12:21

It depends which bank you're with.

12:24

Is the France bank in Utrecht? Okay.

12:26

Fine. I'll check that in a minute. If

12:28

we have links with them, we can do a direct transfer,

12:31

but it's not a big problem either

12:32

way. Let's

12:35

see. How often would you like to receive

12:37

statements?

12:38

I haven't really thought. And what's

12:40

the usual thing?

12:41

It's up to you. Some people like them weekly.

12:44

Oh, no. That's too often. Can

12:46

I have them sent once a month?

12:49

Yes. That's fine. Is there anything

12:51

else? I

12:52

was thinking of registering for your Internet

12:54

service at some stage.

12:56

Oh, yes. Would you like me to send you

12:58

information about that?

12:59

No. Please. Yes. And would you like to receive

13:01

information about the bank's other services,

13:04

insurance, loans, anything

13:06

like that? I

13:07

don't think so. Thanks.

13:09

That's okay then. And one

13:11

last thing, if you agree,

13:16

That is the end of section one.

13:22

Alright, Nick. So first impressions, what

13:25

do you think?

13:28

Kind of different from a

13:31

more modern one, I would say.

13:34

I don't know in what way just it seemed a little

13:36

bit more straightforward.

13:39

There

13:39

was sort of less ancillary chat

13:41

about other things. They

13:44

just agree with that. They just went through each

13:46

point one by one. I mean, we still had classic

13:48

things like more than one possible

13:50

answer, a mistake being made in

13:53

in one of the answers as well. Yeah.

13:56

Yeah. I mean, I agree with you. I think you can sort

13:58

of see how this was the beginning

14:01

of the evolution of the the current

14:03

-- Mhmm. -- test. I think you're absolutely

14:05

right. There's less sort of extra information. It's probably

14:07

if we looked at the words, less words, I would've

14:10

sense -- Mhmm. -- spoken between

14:12

the two people. But the general

14:14

concept of what we're doing is exactly the same.

14:16

So it's not bad practice. Yeah.

14:19

There was just one question which I think we need to

14:21

be a little bit careful of, and hadn't realized,

14:23

and I've well, I'd forgotten about. So we'll discuss

14:25

that when we get to it. But let's

14:27

quickly go through the

14:28

answer. So the type of current account he

14:30

wants

14:30

is a select account. A

14:33

select account. Exactly. So that's SELECT.

14:37

His date of birth was

14:40

twenty seventh of January nineteen

14:42

seventy three. Exactly. So

14:44

you could write that as twenty seven one

14:47

nineteen seventy three or just seventy

14:49

3. Mhmm. Anything like that is

14:52

good. And to this point, we've had

14:54

no distractors actually. Nope. He just

14:56

said select account. There was nothing confusing.

14:59

Mhmm. For his current address,

15:01

which I actually remembered, not the

15:03

number, but the name. Mhmm. So

15:05

what could have trick students

15:07

here?

15:07

Well, they could have written two words, I guess.

15:10

Yes. Because it was fifteen one

15:13

five, which is always tricky, not 5015

15:16

Riverside. Mhmm. And she

15:18

says, well, he says that's all one word. Mhmm.

15:21

But we can only write one word and

15:23

a

15:23

number. Yep. So --

15:25

Mhmm. -- yes, it's

15:27

one word. Okay. Good. He's

15:30

what have we got next time at his current

15:32

address? Two weeks.

15:34

Two weeks. They did say a month ago, didn't they?

15:36

That he'd arrived a month ago. Mhmm. But

15:38

that's not how long he'd been in his house. I

15:40

actually thought the things they spelled that

15:43

were already on the paper were more difficult.

15:46

Like Peter Hennys and Rysaldorf Utrecht.

15:49

Mhmm. But his telephone number,

15:51

this was the classic. So originally --

15:53

Mhmm. -- they said I think 606295.

15:57

Yeah. But then what did he say? He said

15:59

something like

16:00

And I need to check. I'm not sure. I can

16:02

never remember it. And then he rechecked, and it was

16:04

6162 ninety five.

16:07

So make sure you wrote 616 as you

16:09

said two ninety five. Don't forget the two ninety five.

16:11

Yeah. Good. His

16:13

occupation wasn't

16:16

Actually, there was two, yeah, where you said project

16:18

manager at first. came here as a project

16:20

manager, but I'm

16:20

actually an engineer. Yeah. And,

16:23

obviously, you put it too long. There's two

16:25

words, isn't it? Yep. So can't be

16:27

the answer. Mhmm. Now question

16:29

number seven is what I think. You just need to be very,

16:31

very careful then if you're practicing with

16:34

these old books because in

16:36

the exam, you must write

16:38

a word as an answer exactly

16:41

as you hear the word.

16:42

Mhmm.

16:43

So you must never change words in aisles

16:45

listening. Right? So if you hear Sundays and

16:47

you write Sunday with no s, it's

16:49

not correct, in the same way. If

16:52

they say Sunday and

16:54

you write Sundays with an s -- Mhmm. --

16:56

is not correct. Now here.

16:58

What is the answer to number seven? The name of

17:00

his mother.

17:02

Mhmm. So that is the answer, but they didn't say

17:04

mother.

17:05

They said motherrs, didn't they?

17:07

He said my mother's name is

17:09

Citi. Mhmm.

17:10

Now that is something that they have changed

17:12

in later books because here it says name of

17:15

his So because it says

17:16

his, we can't say mothers. That

17:19

makes no sense because it's his mother's name.

17:22

So just be careful if you're practicing from book

17:24

sixes or seven. If you notice

17:26

that the words you needed to be

17:28

correct in the notes is different to the recording,

17:31

that's not what happened in the real exam

17:33

now. Mhmm. In the real exam, only

17:35

use words you hear

17:36

directly. I

17:37

did get a little bit confused by that, but then

17:39

III realized that mothers wouldn't

17:41

fit grammatically. Yeah.

17:43

So because it says right. Mhmm. So

17:45

that was something I'd forgotten that you used to have

17:47

to be careful of, but not now. Okay. That's

17:49

something they've removed because that that, I guess, was testing

17:52

Rammer and not listening. Mhmm. They've removed

17:54

that. Oh, that's why he got to be

17:56

careful. Right? So how much is he gonna transfer

17:58

and initially two thousand

18:00

euros. Nice hefty amount.

18:02

Yeah. Two thousand. And he wants a

18:04

statement

18:06

every month.

18:07

Every month -- Mhmm. -- and he wants to request

18:09

information about the Internet

18:11

-- The Internet service. --

18:12

I'm surprised in two thousand and seven that there

18:14

was an Internet. To be

18:16

honest,

18:17

No. I remember I remember in two thousand and

18:19

6 had an internet bank actually.

18:21

Did you? Yeah. Back then,

18:24

I remember using the You

18:26

had you had to write down passcodes

18:29

and stuff like

18:29

that, and you had write the

18:32

car. It's a long time ago now. But that's interesting,

18:34

Nick, because a couple of weeks ago, I got a

18:36

message. So at that time, I was living in Australia,

18:39

and they said, we're gonna close your Australian bank

18:41

account you haven't used it for five years Mhmm.

18:43

-- unless you log in. Mhmm. So I went to Internet

18:45

login and it was like watch your address.

18:47

I couldn't remember the address where I living -- Mhmm. --

18:49

couldn't remember my own mobile my old mobile

18:51

phone number. I mean, I literally was just

18:53

like, I am a person. I know my date of birth.

18:56

And then it gave me Mhmm. -- like, you know,

18:58

like, question you can have. Not your mother's

19:00

maiden name, but I think it was something like

19:02

watch your favorite band or watch yeah.

19:04

It was watch your favorite band. I was like, you

19:06

remember? I did. And then

19:08

I got in and I couldn't believe that I'd managed

19:11

to reenter my Internet bank

19:12

account. So you're right. Maybe in two thousand seven,

19:14

it wasn't completely unusual. Mhmm.

19:17

No mobile phone numbers. That was interesting. The

19:19

the two phone numbers are landlines, aren't

19:21

they? And they're really short and

19:23

short because of that. Yeah. So

19:26

so far so usual, I would say, apart

19:28

from the mothers, just in the shortness

19:30

of it. Is that's why think it's interesting asking you

19:33

what you think because think you're gonna be able

19:35

to notice the differences more clearly than I

19:37

am. Mhmm. Yeah. The only other thing I

19:39

think we can say then about part one is

19:41

obviously, until quite recently, there

19:43

was always an example -- Yeah. --

19:45

at the beginning. Kind

19:47

of, you

19:48

know, listening to it now. I'm not even

19:50

sure why it had that example really.

19:52

Yeah. It's been necessary, isn't it? So

19:54

slow and so simple. Mhmm. But, you know,

19:57

my advice back in two thousand and seven was

19:59

always to tell machines, forget that example. Use

20:02

that time to read through all of the

20:04

questions. You don't have that time now.

20:06

So when you're going back to these, old

20:09

books. Just skip forward to

20:11

that example. So you're not giving yourself a bit

20:13

any extra time at all to look at the questions

20:15

or feel comfortable. So let's move

20:18

on then to section two. Multiple

20:20

choice questions and a map. Nothing

20:23

unusual. Right. Exactly. Although

20:25

the map is quite basic, but they have

20:27

a maps as basic as this in the

20:29

past. Yeah. That map looks a bit scary, to be honest.

20:34

Just a lot of

20:34

squares. There's just a lot of squares with letters on them.

20:38

Right. Well, let's see what we get on. We've got

20:40

some sentence completions again, but they

20:42

are only one word. So there's nothing really

20:44

unusual. So let's play this. Good

20:46

luck, everybody, and then we'll come back and have a chat.

20:53

Section two. You

20:55

will hear a guide giving visitors to

20:57

a country house information about

21:00

the house and gardens. First,

21:03

you have some time to look at questions eleven

21:06

to thirteen.

21:31

Now listen carefully and answer

21:33

questions eleven to thirteen.

21:39

Welcome everybody to the

21:41

lovely house and gardens of Rosewood.

21:44

Once the home of the famous writer, Sebastian

21:46

George. He bought the house

21:49

in nineteen o two, although

21:51

he had first seen it two years earlier.

21:53

At that time, the onus let it out to

21:56

tenant because George was too slow

21:58

making up his mind to buy it. When

22:00

he came back on the market, there was no

22:02

hesitation. And he bought it immediately

22:05

for nine thousand three hundred

22:07

pounds. Even though the house had

22:09

no bathroom, no running water upstairs,

22:12

and no electricity. When

22:15

he came here, he'd been married for ten

22:17

years. During that time he'd

22:20

become one of the most famous writers

22:22

in the English speaking world. His

22:24

professional success was enormous, but

22:27

his personal life wasn't as successful.

22:30

He was no longer on speaking terms with

22:32

his brother and had been devastated

22:34

by the death at the age of seven

22:37

of his elder daughter, Josephine. Moving

22:40

to Rosewood allowed the family to start

22:43

a new life. George regarded

22:45

Rosewood as a pure example of a

22:47

traditional country house of this part of

22:49

England and did some of his most

22:51

successful writing here. The

22:55

house and its grounds became

22:57

the family haven, and their

22:59

escape to privacy and quiet. The

23:01

walls and the molyneux windows were

23:04

built of the local sandstone, the

23:06

tiles on the roofs and the bricks

23:08

of the chimney stack were baked from

23:10

local clay, and the wooden structures

23:13

inside came from oak

23:15

trees which grow around here.

23:20

Before you hear the rest of the talk, you

23:22

have some time to look at questions fourteen

23:25

to twenty.

23:56

Now listen and answer questions

23:59

fourteen to twenty.

24:03

Now please look at the map I've

24:05

given you of the House and Gardens.

24:08

We're here at the Information

24:11

Center. Follow the path

24:13

marked with the arrow, and the

24:15

first area you come to is the

24:17

Orchard on your left. As

24:20

you go further down the path, there's

24:22

the kitchen garden on the right, and

24:25

as you go around the first sharp corner,

24:27

you will find to your left an

24:29

area where different types of pear tree

24:32

have been planted, as well as

24:34

some lovely flowers. And this

24:36

is known as pear alley. Designed

24:39

by George himself. Next

24:42

to this is the greenhouse, where

24:44

some exotic plants and fruits are grown.

24:47

Follow the path around the second Cornick,

24:50

and on your right, you will see the entrance

24:52

to the Mulberry Garden with its

24:54

five hundred year old tree. Past

24:58

the Mulberry Garden? Follow the

25:00

path until you reach the front of the

25:02

house. I suggest you

25:04

spend a good hour wandering around this

25:06

lovely building. A guide

25:08

takes visitor groups around every two

25:10

hours. If you would like

25:12

to purchase any of George's books or

25:14

other souvenirs, then leave the

25:17

house by the side entrance where

25:19

you will find our shop, which is situated

25:21

between the house and the garage. Which

25:24

contains the magnificent old Rolls

25:26

Royce car, which used to belong

25:28

to George. I expect

25:31

by this time, you may also be in need

25:33

of a rest and some refreshment. Most

25:36

visitors are. So why don't

25:38

you visit the tea room on the far side

25:40

the garage. If

25:43

you have time, there is a lovely

25:45

walk down towards the river Dudwell.

25:48

For me, this is the best part of the

25:50

estate. This isn't

25:52

on the map, but it is all clearly

25:54

signposted. You cross the

25:56

field, which spreads along the banks

25:59

of the river. In spring,

26:01

this area is well worth a visit.

26:03

Spend a minute or two watching the water

26:06

pass by underneath as you cross

26:08

the footbridge and then continue

26:10

along the riverwalk through the woodland. On

26:13

a hot summer's day, the trees along this

26:15

path provide welcome shade. Eventually,

26:18

you come to the water mill, which used

26:20

to provide the electricity for the house,

26:23

only about four hours every evening

26:25

in Georgia's time. And

26:28

finally, for those of you who would like

26:30

to see stunning views of the surrounding

26:32

countryside and who are a little bit more

26:34

energetic, When you return from

26:36

the mill, take the first turning on

26:38

your left and climb up to the

26:40

viewpoint. You won't regret it.

26:43

Enjoy your visit.

26:48

That is the end of section two.

26:54

Oh, tiny. Section two,

26:56

influence. Fairly,

26:58

again, fairly standard, fairly straightforward. We've

27:01

got a mix of questions which is a bit unusual

27:03

to have three different types

27:04

questions, I think, isn't it? Yeah. I think

27:06

it is. I think now, they probably have

27:09

two extra multiple

27:11

choice questions rather than Mhmm. Like

27:14

multiple choice, map, and then sentence.

27:16

That is kind of strange

27:17

now. think that's absolutely right. Yeah.

27:20

The actual type of questions though, I mean, is

27:23

I would say, like, you know, the actual multiple

27:25

choice of

27:25

math, which is what we'd expect to see in part to

27:27

Yeah. Sure. Mhmm. -- quite similar.

27:30

So let's have a look then

27:32

at question eleven. I thought this one was

27:34

not too

27:35

bad. Mhmm. When the writer

27:37

first saw Rosewood House, he

27:39

--

27:40

Mhmm. -- as the keyword first

27:42

saw the house? Yes. Mhmm.

27:45

So I think the answer is c. Is it

27:47

Yes. -- undrawn show as a boy.

27:49

Mhmm. Yeah. So he bought it, and then

27:51

I think he'd seen it two years earlier. Mhmm.

27:54

They did say they did talk about renting,

27:57

but It wasn't him who was It was the

27:59

land was over

27:59

rented out to somebody. Yeah. Because

28:01

he couldn't make up his mind, so he gave it to another

28:03

tenant. Good. Alright. So then before

28:06

buying the house, George had

28:08

experienced severe family problems,

28:10

age. Right.

28:12

Exactly. And they were his dad died,

28:14

wasn't it? Rather, he was his brother

28:16

wouldn't talk to him. Yeah. He didn't speak to his brother

28:18

and his his daughter died at seventeen

28:20

times. Daughter died. That's right.

28:22

Yeah. So, you know, for example,

28:24

b struggled to become a successful

28:26

author. No. He said he was

28:28

already very successful at

28:31

that time. And I guess it must have been his daughter

28:33

who had the illness -- Yeah. -- not George. Yes.

28:35

Okay. Then I thought question

28:38

thirteen was maybe The easiest

28:40

and most

28:41

difficult. I see. What have

28:43

you got for this one?

28:44

You're making me worried now. I've got sea. Yeah.

28:47

Right. It is -- That is the opposite. --

28:49

typical building of the region. And there was I

28:51

mean, if you're looking for an example of direct

28:54

IELTS paraphrasing

28:55

-- Mhmm. -- I think what

28:58

she said was that he saw Rosewood

29:00

House as a pure example

29:03

of a traditional country house in

29:05

England. So pure example

29:07

is typical. Traditional country

29:09

house in England is building of the region.

29:11

Yeah. It definitely was seen. But then it

29:13

did get a bit confusing because it talked about

29:16

how it became a family haven --

29:18

Mhmm. -- and a place to escape, but

29:20

for privacy. Yep.

29:22

So it wasn't escape from his work, but

29:24

a way for his family to escape together.

29:26

Mhmm. Good.

29:27

Alright. Then did you think the map

29:30

I thought this was maybe easier than 6

29:33

to be honest. And it was a bit unusual because usually

29:35

when you have a directions map, Yeah.

29:37

Every answer goes from the starting

29:39

point. Yes.

29:40

Whereas

29:40

this one, we just kept walking, didn't we?

29:42

We kept walking through Actually,

29:45

I mean, as long as you knew what the word corner

29:47

was. So

29:49

per alley, what was that letter? That

29:52

one was h it

29:54

was h. So we have to I think they said

29:56

follow the path. Mhmm. The first

29:59

area is an Orchard, so that was j.

30:01

Then there was a kitchen garden on

30:03

the right, which is high. Mhmm. But

30:05

then it did say around the first sharp

30:07

corner. Mhmm. And the arrow is

30:09

showing you there next to

30:11

h, isn't it? That's a sharp corner

30:12

Mhmm.

30:13

-- with the pear trees h. Okay. Then

30:16

we had where was the moldy go? That

30:18

one was f. That was

30:20

f. That was around the next

30:22

The next corner on the right hand side. Mhmm.

30:24

Yeah. So before that, I think they described if

30:26

I written down here, a kitchen garden, which

30:28

was g -- Mhmm. -- but definitely f.

30:34

So f? Yeah. It was f. Just the Malibu

30:36

Garden. Good. Then we have the

30:38

shop. So how did they describe the

30:40

shop? They they said that it was to

30:42

the right and it was between

30:44

the house and the garage. So we now know

30:46

that c is a

30:47

garage. The answer was busy. Yeah.

30:49

Exactly. And that was kind of important because

30:51

to find out where the hear him was. Mhmm.

30:54

You had to know that it was on the far side

30:57

of the garage. So it's d

30:59

though. So it's d. So if you knew that if you

31:01

could remember that the garage was c, you would

31:03

know that it must be d because a

31:05

is the far side of

31:08

the

31:08

house. So not too

31:10

bad. Mhmm.

31:11

Yeah. These sentence

31:14

completions, which we generally these are the

31:16

ones that we don't usually see Yep.

31:18

Exactly. Mhmm. I thought they were

31:20

a bit a bit cruel here. Do you know why

31:22

I might think that?

31:23

Because a couple

31:25

of them could conceivably be two

31:28

words rather than one.

31:29

Exactly right. I think that is the problem.

31:31

Right? Is that we've got Yeah.

31:35

So in English, we've got really funny

31:37

rules for what we call compound nouns. So

31:40

if you think about, for example, the word ice

31:42

cream -- Mhmm. Ice cream is made

31:44

of actually two nouns, isn't it? It's like

31:46

ice is actually a noun but's being used

31:48

as an adjective to describe the cream.

31:50

Mhmm.

31:52

There's not really fixed spelling

31:54

for the words like this ice cream because some people

31:56

write ice cream as one word. Do they? Some

31:58

people write it too and some people use a hyphen.

32:01

So I think yeah. So question eighteen

32:04

was the only one that wasn't cruel. So you can

32:06

walk through the field. The

32:08

field may be tricky to spell, FIELD.

32:11

Mhmm. But then we had

32:13

our first one. You go over the Footbridge.

32:16

Footbridge. I wonder how many students might only

32:18

write bridge there. Mhmm. Because they're

32:21

afraid that the foot but footbridge is

32:23

one word and is the

32:24

answer. Mhmm. And then you can also go

32:26

up to the --

32:27

Viewpoint. which really does

32:29

sound like two words doesn't mean. I

32:33

haven't noticed Aisles doing

32:34

this. For

32:35

a long time. In recent exams, yes. So

32:38

I'm not sure that they do this cruel kind

32:40

of like compound one word

32:42

noun anymore. But yes, if if you were hesitating

32:44

there, that's why.

32:46

Mhmm.

32:48

But in general, apart

32:50

from those, sort of,

32:51

sensitive couple of questions. Yeah. I think.

32:54

Yeah. Which don't tend to appear now. We're

32:56

still on very, very familiar territory.

32:58

Yeah. A hundred percent. Yeah. So

33:00

we're now gonna move then to section three.

33:03

And if we were using Cambridge

33:05

seventeen or Cambridge

33:06

sixteen, this is the place where we'd expect

33:08

to find more multiple choice

33:10

questions. Latching maybe.

33:12

Definitely some matching. There's been no matching

33:15

so far has there. No. There's no

33:17

matching either in section three Right?

33:19

So I'd be expecting definitely some matching now,

33:21

probably some more multiple choice. But

33:23

what we've got instead? Well,

33:26

yeah, we've got completion questions. Just

33:28

completion. So yeah. So some

33:30

more sentence completion. But this

33:32

time, it's not one word. Yeah.

33:35

It's three words and or a number.

33:37

Wow. Now

33:38

that doesn't mean every answer is three words.

33:40

It just means one word is.

33:42

Mhmm. And

33:43

then what is this?

33:45

No more than two words. Yeah.

33:48

For this marketing survey. Yeah.

33:50

Now this almost looks like something which should

33:52

appear in part one.

33:53

Mhmm. Because there's almost no,

33:55

like, language there. Mhmm.

33:59

I don't think I can remember this. So

34:01

anyway, let's let's crack on

34:03

and have a go and then come back and see

34:05

how easy or difficult we thought we think this

34:07

third section is.

34:12

Section 3. You will

34:14

hear two students, Jack

34:16

and Lucy, discussing a

34:18

marketing assignment they are working on

34:20

together. First,

34:23

you have some time to look at questions twenty

34:25

one to twenty four.

34:42

Now listen carefully and answer

34:44

questions twenty one to twenty

34:46

four.

34:50

Lucy, we really need to get working

34:52

on this marketing assignment. We've only

34:54

got five weeks left at the end of term

34:56

to design it carry it out and then

34:59

write

34:59

up the results. Sure. Well, let's get started

35:01

right now. Let's go over the instructions. What

35:05

exactly do we have to

35:06

do? Well, it says here, we have

35:08

to look at one area of the entertainment industry.

35:11

There's a list of the different

35:12

types. What are they? Music,

35:14

cinema, theater, sport, and

35:16

eating out. Is that all? Looks

35:19

like it. So we choose one branch

35:21

of the industry. Then we look at how

35:23

two different groups of people use

35:24

it. Is that right? Yes.

35:27

And do we have to use any particular method

35:29

to get our data can we mail out

35:31

a questionnaire or do face to face interviews

35:33

or maybe even observations? Well,

35:36

actually, it looks like we don't have a

35:38

choice. We have to do telephone interviews.

35:41

Okay. So at least we

35:43

don't have to waste time deciding between the different

35:45

methods.

35:45

Yeah. That's right. Oh, and the

35:47

other requirement is the number of interviewees.

35:50

Not too many, I hope. Ten,

35:52

twenty? Well, we have to do

35:54

two groups remember, and it looks

35:57

like we have to interview fifteen for

35:59

each group. That's thirty

36:02

altogether then. Going to take

36:04

ages.

36:05

Yes. But remember, we're working on this

36:07

together, so we'll only have to do fifteen

36:09

each.

36:09

Okay. So those are all the requirements?

36:13

Yes. Looks like it. So

36:15

first, which area are

36:17

we going to choose? My preference would

36:19

be cinema since that's where I spend most of

36:21

my money.

36:22

I don't think that's such a good idea.

36:25

I don't think there are huge differences in

36:27

the market there. I mean, you

36:29

get young and old male and female,

36:31

rich and poor, all going to the same

36:33

movies.

36:34

Yeah. Maybe you're right. Let's

36:36

make it music then.

36:38

Right. So what two

36:40

groups will we compare and contrast? Male

36:43

and female?

36:44

No. Most of my female friends

36:46

like the same music as me. Different

36:49

age groups would be much more likely to show up

36:51

differences, I think.

36:55

Before you hear the rest of the discussion, you

36:58

have some time to look at questions twenty

37:00

five to thirty.

37:27

Now listen and answer questions

37:29

twenty five to thirty.

37:34

Yeah. I suppose you're right again. I'll take

37:36

some notes, shall I? So

37:39

age groups. Well,

37:42

Or do you think maybe twenty five or under

37:44

for one group and forty five

37:46

or over for the other group? That

37:49

should show up differences. Right.

37:51

Okay. Next.

37:54

How about the kind of music they like? Let's

37:56

give them some choices and then we can just tick

37:58

boxes. Okay. Let's have

38:00

pop, jazz, folk, easy

38:03

listening. What else?

38:06

Well, we should include classical. Some

38:08

people like it, you know.

38:09

Okay. Okay. And

38:11

then we should have how they listen

38:13

to music. Medium. Right. Let's

38:16

include radio, CD,

38:18

And then guess there's

38:19

TV. And what about concerts? You

38:22

know, in pubs and halls?

38:23

Oh, yeah. We should include live music, of course.

38:25

Okay.

38:25

We're on a roll now. Next point

38:28

could be about where they actually get their

38:30

music.

38:30

You mean, like, do they buy it in

38:32

music shops or departments tours?

38:34

Yes. Or download it from the internet. Right.

38:37

That could be for recorded music. Then

38:39

we need another section for live music.

38:41

Where do they go for that? Okay. Let's

38:43

say disco pub, club,

38:46

concert hall.

38:46

Or opera house. And I guess

38:48

we should include karaoke bars.

38:50

Not many of them in this city.

38:52

Okay. We'll leave that out then. So

38:55

what's left to do?

38:57

That's it. Well, now

38:59

we can make a time scale for doing it.

39:04

That is the end of section three.

39:10

Bizarre. Completely bizarre that one.

39:13

It is I mean, that is a great word for

39:16

is if you've been doing later

39:18

books, that is quite

39:19

strange. I mean, in particular, what is it that strikes

39:21

you? I mean, it was very short.

39:24

For a part 3. That was one of these things.

39:26

And I mean, apart from maybe two

39:29

of

39:29

them, the answers are very

39:31

easy to get

39:32

It was almost like I felt they were sort of testing

39:35

a different style of listening. It was almost just testing

39:37

if you could keep up and follow a

39:39

conversation --

39:40

Mhmm. --

39:40

then at actually interpret it

39:42

-- Mhmm. -- in any way. I mean, the biggest difference

39:44

for me is that, you know, in and

39:47

I'm I'm pretty sure that

39:49

even if you had note completion

39:51

in part 3. It wouldn't be like

39:53

this today because the thing I find

39:55

quite strange is that as we know in part

39:57

three now, a lot of the questions

39:59

focus on the feelings or the opinions

40:01

or the attitudes of the speakers don't they? Yeah.

40:04

Are they worried, surprise, if they agree,

40:06

nothing of that here? It's

40:08

just really understanding sort of the information

40:11

that was given. So,

40:14

yeah, very strange. If you've had a recent

40:16

test and you didn't have a

40:18

usual format. Was was this the kind

40:20

of thing they were testing in part

40:21

three? My guess it would be more like

40:23

a table where you've got to understand what they agreed

40:26

to do and what they didn't agree

40:27

to do. Mhmm. Maybe. But

40:29

anyway, let's go through the exam the the

40:31

examples, the question. So for twenty

40:33

one, for their assessment,

40:34

students

40:35

must investigate one part of the

40:37

Entertainment industry. Yeah.

40:39

So maybe spelling's a bit tricky there.

40:42

Question twenty two was, I

40:44

guess, a little bit like the more modern questions

40:46

because it says the methods the students must use

40:48

to collect data is

40:50

Telephone interviews. I mean,

40:52

that's so outdated now, isn't there? Mhmm.

40:54

But they did give lots of other examples,

40:57

didn't There were lots of

40:57

examples. Questionnaires. Mhmm. Yeah.

41:00

I mean,

41:00

there there was there was little bit here of the kind

41:02

of sort of one person suggesting something

41:05

and the other person. Accepting or

41:07

rejecting the suggestion in a way. And

41:09

again, I think you can see this as

41:11

like like I said, the start of the evolution of

41:13

the better questions than they asked

41:15

today. And I would say more difficult questions.

41:17

Definitely

41:17

more difficult.

41:18

So they asked today. Yeah. Because

41:20

the next question, how many people of the students

41:22

got to interview I thought we were gonna have

41:24

to do some math here, but we didn't say that.

41:28

So fifteen

41:29

each, but she did say thirty.

41:32

But that's thirty. That's

41:35

two minutes. Yeah. Take us off. I got this

41:37

jeans. Not

41:39

the same. Yeah. But no math,

41:41

just thirty. But that's I mean, that's too easy.

41:43

I mean, if you think of some of the difficult multiple

41:46

choice questions you get in in

41:48

the later test. Yeah.

41:50

Twenty four was a bit confusing, though. Mhmm.

41:52

Because you had to listen for their

41:54

music so they chatted a lot

41:57

about cinema

41:57

first. It

41:58

did. And I kept thinking cinema listeners,

42:00

that doesn't look right. But then he

42:02

decided that the preferences of what

42:05

type of listeners are

42:06

similar.

42:06

Male and female.

42:08

Well done. So that's our three word answer.

42:10

Mhmm. Yes. Because he's saying that his female

42:12

friends have got the same --

42:14

Mhmm. --

42:14

taste of music as him. So

42:17

there was a certain amount of active

42:19

listening needed.

42:19

Yeah. Sure. Mhmm. Like, understanding,

42:22

comprehending. Whereas this next one was

42:24

just hold on to the

42:26

seat of your pants and listen as quickly

42:28

as you can. Mhmm. So the music

42:31

preferences, we had this list. Pop

42:33

was and then the number twenty five, the

42:35

answer was -- Yes. Jazz.

42:38

Mhmm. And then they quickly said

42:40

folk, easier listening and

42:41

classical. Classical. And that was it. I

42:43

thought they would say no or

42:45

would have

42:45

no discussion That was it. Mhmm.

42:48

Same for the medium -- Mhmm. -- which

42:50

was hysterical.

42:51

Mhmm.

42:52

Oh, no. So the medium, radio, CD

42:54

TV. This one was tricky because

42:57

she said concerts, I think. Yeah.

43:00

He said he's nice. He said concerts,

43:02

and she said live music. And

43:05

I wrote down live music. Well,

43:08

I wondered if they have both answers. So the

43:10

answer in the book -- Mhmm. -- I've just

43:11

had a look. He's in concert. Wow, really?

43:14

A big

43:15

gap in it. Is that because that's a

43:17

medium? I mean, I don't really understand

43:19

the logic behind that.

43:20

Actually, no, you're right because live

43:22

music is not a medium for listening to

43:25

music.

43:25

It's a type of music, isn't it? But it's not

43:27

how you would listen to So concerts. Yeah.

43:29

Sure. So there you go. I've not got a nine on this

43:31

test. But still,

43:33

but but for a very sort of

43:36

not a listening reason. Right? Mhmm.

43:39

The source of music has made me

43:40

laugh, music shops,

43:42

department stores.

43:43

Department stores. I mean, we are really

43:45

Just going to Phoenix to get

43:48

some new music. Oh, good. Popping

43:50

down Debenhams to buy a new selfridge. Aha,

43:53

CD or Backstreet Boys.

43:55

Okay. And then places for listening

43:57

to music. DISCO pub.

44:00

Club. Club. And then And

44:02

it's thirty opera house or karaoke.

44:05

What do we think? It's

44:06

opera house.

44:07

It is opera house. Yeah. Because she's No one

44:09

does karaoke. Yeah.

44:10

No one does karaoke in this con in this

44:12

city, I think. Yeah. Sadly.

44:15

Sadly. So, I mean,

44:17

I don't think I can really remember many

44:19

other surveys like this where you just

44:21

had to listen for single

44:23

words. Mhmm. But on a scale of once

44:25

it's had difficulty. That is very

44:28

easy.

44:28

Come on too. You say that, but I got one

44:30

wrong. So

44:31

Well, yeah. But, Nick, come on. I think

44:33

it's wrong because it was just a silly question.

44:35

I didn't read the air question. The questions

44:38

properly, I didn't read the titles of each.

44:40

Right. Because

44:40

if I'd read that medium, then I probably wouldn't

44:42

have read live music. I think I'd

44:44

have read it and still not going as live music to

44:47

me, who I don't know. So

44:49

at this point, I think we're sailing through

44:51

thinking, yeah, yeah, And then you turn

44:53

to section four -- Mhmm. --

44:55

boom. There's a map. Yeah.

44:59

There's the word neolithic periods.

45:01

Mhmm. There

45:04

are four multiple choice

45:06

questions. And then loads

45:08

more. So maybe this is no completion. I don't

45:10

know if this is no completion or sentence completion.

45:13

Let's have a look. It looks to me like an

45:15

early set of note completions

45:18

--

45:18

Mhmm. -- about tools and

45:20

potry making.

45:21

I've got this very specific language here

45:23

then, Emily.

45:24

Very specific language. I

45:27

would say, so what we seem to have here is quite a

45:29

difficult topic Mhmm.

45:31

-- for the lecture. Obviously, we don't have

45:34

our notes to support our listening. So

45:36

we've got a multiple choice, four multiple

45:38

choice questions with hugely

45:41

long answers to read while you're

45:43

listening. So my advice would be if you have

45:45

multiple choice in part four, focus

45:48

on the question. So,

45:50

you know, the first one, according to the speaker, it's

45:52

not clear. You might not have time

45:54

to read all three of the answers, but you're

45:57

definitely gonna hear some words or synonyms

45:59

if not clear. So just try to understand

46:01

what is not clear and then see if you can go in

46:03

and quickly pick that one that

46:05

matches. Okay? Saying for thirty

46:07

two, what point does the speaker make about

46:10

breeding animals in theolithic island.

46:12

What does it tell us about breeding animals in theolithic

46:14

island? I'm already nervous now. But

46:17

yeah, in because we don't

46:20

have a break in the middle, you don't you don't have

46:22

much time to look at all of the

46:23

answers. So I would focus on the question --

46:25

Mhmm.

46:25

-- see

46:26

if you can hear that answer. And then

46:28

hope you can dip in --

46:29

Yeah. --

46:29

and get the answer. Alright. Well, good luck. This one looks

46:31

a little bit more interesting

46:33

to do as in much more difficult.

46:35

Well, let's have a go.

46:41

Section four. You

46:43

will hear a lecturer talking about

46:45

farming in ancient Ireland.

46:48

First, you have some time to look at

46:50

questions thirty one to forty.

47:32

Now listen carefully and answer

47:35

questions thirty one to forty.

47:40

Good

47:40

Cornick, everyone. Last week, we

47:42

were looking at the hunter gatherers in Ireland

47:45

across the Irish Sea from England. Today,

47:48

we're going to move on to the period between

47:50

four and six thousand years ago,

47:53

known as the Neolithic period,

47:55

which is when a total farming economy

47:57

was introduced in Ireland. Now,

48:01

there are several hypotheses about the

48:03

origins of the first Neolithic settlers

48:05

in Ireland, but most of these contain

48:07

problems. For instance, there

48:10

are considerable archaeological difficulties

48:12

about the theory that they came from England.

48:15

The evidence doesn't really add up.

48:18

But there are even greater practical

48:20

problems about theory that they came directly

48:22

from continental Europe. For

48:25

one thing, it's not clear just

48:27

how sufficient numbers of men and

48:29

women could have been transported to

48:31

Ireland to establish a viable

48:33

population. As

48:35

you know, the hunter gatherer economy

48:38

which existed beforehand was based

48:40

on small scattered groups.

48:42

The farming economy would almost certainly

48:45

have required much larger communities to

48:47

do all the work needed to plant and

48:49

ten sufficient crops to sustain them

48:51

through the year. The

48:54

early farmers kept various animals including

48:57

cattle and sheep. There's

48:59

also evidence of pigs, but

49:01

it is possible that these could have been descended

49:03

from the native wild species. Now

49:06

we know from modern farming that if

49:08

the level of breeding stock falls

49:10

below about three hundred females,

49:13

The future of the species locally is

49:15

at risk. So we must assume

49:18

that from the beginnings of neolithic farming,

49:20

The number of breeding sheep would have considerably

49:23

exceeded three hundred, and the

49:25

national cattle herd must have been

49:27

of a similar size. The

49:29

question is, how these were brought to

49:31

the area and where they came from?

49:35

It's usually suggested that the Neolithic

49:37

settlers used skin covered boats

49:39

to transport livestock. But

49:41

this method would have severely restricted the

49:43

range of the colonizing fleets. A

49:46

sheer volume of animal transport necessary

49:49

means it's unlikely that this livestock

49:51

could have been brought from anywhere further than

49:53

England. What

49:55

about crops? Well, two

49:58

main cereal crops were introduced to

50:00

Ireland during this time. Wheat

50:02

and barley both in several

50:04

varieties. The main

50:07

evidence for their presence consists

50:09

of impressions on pottery. Where

50:11

a serial grain accidentally became

50:13

embedded in the surface of a pot before

50:16

it was fired. The grain itself

50:18

was destroyed by the firing but it

50:20

left an impression on the pot, which could

50:22

be studied and identified by botanists.

50:30

Let's turn our attention now to the farming

50:33

technology available at that time.

50:35

Before the cereal crops could be planted,

50:38

it would have been necessary to clear the forest

50:40

and to break the ground by plowing. The

50:43

stone blade of a plough has been discovered

50:46

during excavation in county mayor

50:48

in Western Ireland. The

50:50

body of the plow would have been over wood

50:52

and could have been drawn by people but

50:55

it's also likely that cattle were used.

50:58

Now, the cultivation of crops and

51:00

the husbandry of livestock brought

51:02

about changes in people's lifestyle, such

51:05

as the type of shelters they made.

51:08

For one thing, instead of moving

51:10

from place to place, they needed

51:12

permanent dwellings. The

51:14

stone axes used to chop down trees

51:16

to make these dwellings were far

51:18

superior to any that the stone age

51:21

hunter gatherers used. To

51:24

make the axes, sources of suitable

51:26

stone had to be found and systematically

51:28

exploited. These

51:30

so called ax factories were

51:33

really quarries rather than factories

51:35

as the manufacturer of the axes wasn't

51:37

regularly performed on the quarry site.

51:40

However, after the acts had been

51:42

chipped into shape, they needed water

51:44

and sand for grinding and polishing

51:47

So a high mountain side wouldn't

51:49

have been an appropriate place for this.

51:51

So this final stage of the manufacturer must

51:54

have been carried out close to water.

51:56

And sure enough, there's ample evidence

51:58

of this at coastal sites. Now,

52:02

it's clear that these neolithic axes

52:04

were transported all over Ireland

52:06

as well as to Scotland and the south of

52:08

England. It's not really surprising

52:11

that AXIS from AXIS factories in England

52:13

have also been found in Ireland.

52:16

At the very least, this indicates that

52:18

there was a link between the two islands during

52:21

that period. One

52:23

of the most useful innovations of the colonizers

52:25

was pottery making, which was quite

52:27

unknown to Irish hunter gatherers. The

52:30

pottery was probably made by shaping

52:32

clay into a ball with the hand, and

52:34

then hollowing it until the walls were the right

52:36

thickness. After firing,

52:39

the outside was often polished. This

52:41

would have helped the pots to retain water

52:43

as they weren't glazed, Now

52:46

we know that the clay used usually came

52:48

from local sources, which suggests

52:50

that manufacture was on a fairly small

52:53

scale even though thousands of

52:55

fragments are usually found in theolithic

52:57

sites. In the

52:59

course of time, decoration began to

53:01

appear. At

53:02

first, this

53:03

looked like a series of stitches and was

53:05

just around the tops of the pots. This

53:07

could have been an imitation of earlier vessels

53:10

which were made of leather soon onto

53:12

wood. Then eventually, pots

53:14

with decoration all over became

53:16

much more.

53:20

That is the end of section four.

53:26

Well then, Nick, what do you think? Unusual again.

53:29

Mhmm. Yeah. Definitely.

53:32

So, I mean, I do think questions

53:34

thirty five to forty --

53:35

Mhmm.

53:36

-- it is a kind of early

53:38

stage again of note taking, isn't

53:40

it? Mhmm. Yep. Like, fairly standard. Does

53:43

it it's pretty simple. It says complete the sentences,

53:45

but there are sentences that are there. Mhmm.

53:48

That don't have any gaps

53:50

in them. So what we are missing

53:52

though compared to the sort of, you know, Cambridge

53:54

6, fifteen, all of the later books We

53:57

don't have those headings. We don't have the

53:59

extra notes that help us follow because there was

54:01

quite a lot of blah blah blah -- Mhmm. --

54:03

between answers, which I think made actually

54:05

you know, finding the answers quite tricky.

54:08

What did you think now about the multiple choice

54:10

question? Quite difficult. I

54:12

it is I mean, I think there's a lot of processing

54:14

that needs to happen

54:15

-- Mhmm.

54:15

-- to to sort of match what you

54:17

listen to what the

54:20

answer is you think?

54:21

Yeah. I'm not a hundred percent confident

54:23

in my answers, which is not big. Alright.

54:25

Well, maybe I can remember some of them. Mhmm. So

54:27

according to the speaker, it is not clear.

54:30

Mhmm. So at the beginning so they're obviously

54:32

talking about islands. Mhmm. And I think

54:35

there was a lot of conversation at

54:37

the beginning. What have you got for this one?

54:39

Well, they were fairly

54:42

confident when farming. So it's

54:44

not a when farming

54:45

started. And I think c is the answer.

54:48

It is where the early My pharmas

54:50

came from. Mhmm. Yeah. So I think they

54:52

were sort of like kind of signaling

54:54

words. So they're still using signaling words. I think they

54:56

said that there's considerable difficulties Mhmm.

54:59

-- about whether they came from England. And there's

55:01

more problems that said about if they came

55:03

from Europe. Consciousness. So he was really talking

55:06

are they from England? Are they from Europe? It's where

55:09

they were from.

55:10

Mhmm. Isn't it? So that is c. Now

55:12

in terms of Thirty two.

55:14

I do think if you actually sat back and listened

55:16

to what they were

55:17

saying. Mhmm. This answer is not

55:19

too difficult. If you're just trying to match keywords

55:21

or

55:22

No chance.

55:23

You're gonna -- Yeah. -- struggle. So

55:25

what point does the speaker make about breeding

55:27

animals?

55:27

This one is a.

55:29

Is it's about the numbers. Mhmm. So do you remember

55:31

what they sort of he said?

55:33

Yeah. 3 hundred females are required to

55:35

sustain the species or something like

55:37

that. Exactly. Which they must have

55:39

been in Ireland. Yeah. Mhmm. And he said,

55:41

we must assume that they would have exceeded

55:43

three hundred because otherwise, they would have just failed.

55:45

Yes. So it was all chat

55:48

about the numbers that they needed. They'd

55:50

mentioned wild animals, maybe some

55:52

of the pigs were wild. Mhmm. But that was

55:54

not the main point that he was making.

55:57

What about what does thirty three?

55:59

What does the speaker say about the transportation

56:02

of animals?

56:03

While I was humming and narrowing about AOB,

56:07

he didn't really say anything about

56:09

the Bolt's being too primitive. Yeah.

56:12

So I chose to say at the end because

56:15

he he specifically said that you

56:17

could you couldn't really travel a long distance

56:20

with the bolts that we had during that time.

56:23

Exactly. Mhmm. Yeah. It would have you

56:25

think you said they use skin covered boats, which had

56:27

would have restricted their range. Mhmm.

56:30

Yeah. But I know what you're saying because

56:32

skin covered could sound primitive, but I don't

56:34

think that is as accurate a

56:37

summary of what he said. But I do think that one

56:39

is confusing, definitely. Thirty four

56:41

is also kind of confusing because even if you understood

56:44

it, what is the main evidence

56:46

for cereal crops? The evidence

56:49

is the marks left. On the pots

56:51

by grains. Yes. So

56:54

the remains of the burnt grains in the pots

56:56

looks very

56:57

attractive, doesn't it? Mhmm. But

57:00

basically, the grains disappear. Disappeared.

57:02

Yep. That's what he said. And it's the impressions

57:04

on so he said it was the impressions on the

57:06

pottery, which is marked And it

57:08

did say the grain was destroyed, but

57:10

it left an impression on the pot. Yeah.

57:13

So again, it's b the marks, not

57:15

the actual grain --

57:16

Mhmm. -- itself. Yeah. Tricky.

57:20

I think very tricky, but if we balance

57:22

out section three -- Mhmm.

57:25

Maybe. Overall, the test

57:27

is not as difficult. Let's move then

57:30

to the last questions which were kind of our

57:32

rudimentary notes. So my first one

57:34

plows could have been pulled by people.

57:37

People. Right. I was expecting some

57:39

other type of animal like horses or something.

57:41

Right? But no, drawn by people.

57:44

I thought the way thirty six was

57:48

written is a little bit confusing

57:50

because it looks like we have got a list

57:52

that starts with ax making. Mhmm.

57:54

In the final searches of ax making,

57:57

ing ing, I thought we'd get another couple

57:59

of gerunds, but that's not that

58:02

answer. It says in the final stages of

58:04

axe making water

58:07

and sand were necessary necessary.

58:10

Mhmm. Yeah. So there the answer isn't actually

58:13

that that answer is the reason why it says

58:15

no more than two words. Yeah. Because

58:17

they're the only ones that were that was the only one that was

58:19

too weird. Wasn't it? Yes. Right. Exactly.

58:22

So but there was a lot of blah blah blah blah

58:24

between question thirty five and question thirty

58:26

say. There

58:27

was. And he I mean, this one, I think, was quite

58:29

easy because he he actually said

58:32

water and sand were needed for

58:34

grinding and

58:35

polishing. So it was basically he

58:37

just he was just saying what's written here, basically

58:39

what's saying.

58:40

If you held on for long enough If

58:42

you held on for dates. Yeah. Yeah.

58:44

And then I thought thirty seven was alright as well

58:46

because it says they were exported from Ireland

58:49

too.

58:49

Scotland and England or Scotland. Scotland.

58:51

Mhmm. And Scotland was already written

58:54

on that map. So you had the spelling

58:56

of Scotland there. That

58:58

one confused me little bit as well. I was like, is

59:00

it is it really that simple? Is it really Scotland?

59:02

Yeah. But it

59:03

wasn't. Yeah. Mhmm.

59:04

Yeah. What was

59:06

polished to make the pots watertight? The

59:09

outside. The outside? Mhmm.

59:11

I thought that was quite easy. Clay

59:14

from

59:15

local areas.

59:17

Yeah. It said local sources. So again

59:19

-- Mhmm.

59:19

-- not too cool. And decoration was

59:21

only put around the tops.

59:24

The tops are the earliest

59:26

pots. Plural. Yes. Well done, Nick.

59:28

He's got to be plural there. So

59:32

I don't know. I do think the multiple choice

59:34

questions -- Mhmm. -- are quite tricky

59:36

to be able to synthesize all of that

59:38

information. If that's

59:40

the first time you've ever done multiple choice in

59:42

part three, have another four foot

59:44

six. Thank you very much. Have

59:48

another look. At Bluc six. I think

59:50

test two has also got some

59:53

multiple choice questions. In fact, there might

59:55

be two other sets. One is about handedness

59:58

in sports, if you're right handed or left handed.

1:00:00

One is about the beginnings of motion,

1:00:02

pictures about cinemas. Mhmm. So book

1:00:04

six, is really good book to practice these

1:00:06

multiple choice questions. Yeah.

1:00:09

So I don't know a lot. I mean, I still think it's

1:00:11

good. Mhmm. To do this practice.

1:00:13

Definitely. Yeah. There

1:00:16

are I mean, I do think that there are definitely

1:00:18

some differences between the type

1:00:20

of questions. So I do think that if

1:00:23

they're starting to just change the type of questions

1:00:25

that appear, my guess is that the

1:00:27

level of the conversations or the thing that you're gonna

1:00:30

be asked to look for, particularly

1:00:32

in part three, will be more

1:00:34

similar to the current books. And

1:00:37

and I can actually think I can't remember if it's

1:00:39

booked fifteen or sixteen, but they do have

1:00:42

a couple of part threes, which does have a table

1:00:44

completion or mode completion. So

1:00:46

have a look for those. But

1:00:48

yeah, final thoughts, Nick. What do you think?

1:00:51

Definitely a good thing to practice. Something

1:00:53

a bit different. Yeah. Just,

1:00:56

you know, the more experience of different

1:00:58

types of questions you can get in the better.

1:01:01

I agree. Because at the end of the day,

1:01:03

I think the more you can push and test your listening.

1:01:05

Yep. And the more you can sort

1:01:07

of, you know, a bit like going to the gym isn't it

1:01:09

--

1:01:09

Mhmm. -- overload yourself with heavy,

1:01:11

heavy weights, and then it becomes easier when you lift

1:01:13

something light. Right? So the more

1:01:16

different sources you can

1:01:17

use, high quality sources. High

1:01:19

quality. Very important. Yeah. Mhmm. That's So

1:01:22

that was our little trip

1:01:24

back to two thousand and seven. So

1:01:27

when that was brown living in Australia

1:01:29

and young, Next week,

1:01:32

we're back to twenty twenty three. We

1:01:34

will be having I don't know. I think I'm getting

1:01:36

my decent week next week, Nick, on paragraph writing.

1:01:38

I've got little idea -- Okay. -- which I'm

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and our art work is produced by

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David

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Brown. Have a great week,

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study hard, and remember. This

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is my IELTS classroom. Thanks

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for listening. We'll see you next week.