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Short story competition Ielts listening test with answers

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you will hear a telephone conversation between the organizer of a short story competition and someone who wishes to take part in the competition first you have some time to look at questions 1 to 6 you good morning Dave speaking oh hi I'm phoning about a short story competition um I saw an advert in a magazine and I was just calling to get some details yes certainly I'm the competition organiser so I should be able to help what kind of details are you looking for well does it cost anything to enter yes there's an entry fee of five pounds okay that should be fine it's a short story competition so how many words is that well we want to give people a reasonable amount of freedom but the guidelines are around 3,000 words oh well it's not as much as it used to be we did have a limit of 5,000 words but some people thought that was too many so this year we've reduced it no you can write about any topic you like but the main point of the competition is that it has to have a surprise ending oh I see that sounds interesting I don't think I've ever written a story like that before yes it's something we've introduced for this year's competition yes you need to be 16 or over so if you're 18 that's fine great so you have the competition is that right yes we start advertising in January and the competition takes up a lot of the year we give people a few months to write their story and then it takes quite a long time to judge all the entries and to announce the winners no you've still got plenty of time you need to submit your entry by the 1st of August after then it will be too late although you can always enter next year's competition ok good so how do I well we have a website and the best way to enter is to complete the entry form online we also have more details of the competition on the site shall I give you the web address yes please ok it's WWC om p4s s.com and that's the number 4 not the word 4 okay thanks I've got that so I can complete the entry form online but how do I send the story do I print it out and send it to you well you may want to print the story out so you can review it but don't post it to us when you've finished your story you will need to email it to us the email address is on the website I gave you okay that's fine before you hear the rest of the conversation you will have some time to look at the questions 7 to 10 you now listen and answer questions 7:00 to 10:00 um can you tell me a bit about how the competition is judged and what the prizes are yes of course well once we have all the entries I send them to all the judges our competition is quite popular so we are lucky to be able to use famous authors who are very interested in the competition that's fantastic it's great to know that someone famous will be reading my story yes that's right it takes them quite a while to read through the entries but eventually they decide on the top five stories well they will be published online so everyone can read them they will not be in any order at this point they will just be the five stories that the judges think are the best no it's just the top story and the runner-up so the top story decided well once the top five stories are available it will be the public who will vote for their favorite story yes that's a good idea what is the prize well the runner-up gets a prize of 300 pounds but the winner gets a trip to Spain to attend a workshop for writers straight away yes good luck Thanks that is the end of section one you now have half a minute to check your answers you now turn to section two Gide talking about a Sea Life Center first you have some time to look at questions 11 to 17 you okay so hi everybody and welcome to the Sea Life Center before you start on your tour I just like to give you some information about things to look out for as you go well first of all I guess some of you may have been here before and may be surprised to see the name has changed we're not called world of water anymore since the beginning of this summer we've been renamed and we've also made a few other changes however the main attractions like the aquarium the crocodiles the Penguins and so on are still here but we have a new restaurant and picnic area and the latest thing that we have and it was only finished last week is the splash ride this is an exciting new area of the center and is pretty scary and of course you do get a bit wet so make sure you're not wearing your best clothes as I said the main attractions are still here and the most popular thing that everyone wants to see is feeding time especially for the crocodiles and the seals we used to have the main feeding time in the afternoon at around 3 p.m. but we found that some of the animals got a bit hungry waiting until then and so we now have it at noon they seem much happier with the new time although it's a bit difficult to know what they're thinking now I'd like to mention something new that we've introduced this year that we're very excited about it's called a VIP ticket the VIP ticket costs an extra two pounds per person and you will be amazed at what it allows you to do with this you'll be allowed to feed the Sharks now I know that for some P people this might be quite a frightening thing to do but it is perfectly safe for those of you who are a bit unsure we do have a video you can watch to see what happens it's a great experience and your friends will be very impressed speaking of friends I just like to remind you that the Sea Life Center will be more than happy to organize a birthday party for you and your family and friends if you need more details you can speak to me afterwards and there are also forms at the entrance that you can fill in I'd also like to bring your attention to the good work that the Sea Life Center is doing in support of animal conservation I'm sure you're all aware of the worrying situation with a large number of species facing extinction here at the Sea Life Center we're taking action by asking as many people as possible to sign a petition once we have over 5,000 signatures we are planning to send it to the government in the hope that more people will begin to take it seriously right well there's obviously a lot going on at the centre and a lot of things to discover at all the attractions there is helpful information so please read as much as you can and if you want to see what you've remembered please do the quiz after your visit there are no prizes of course but I'm sure you'll be surprised by how much you've learnt before you hear the rest of the conversation you will have some time to look at the questions 18 to 20 you now listen and answer questions 18 to 20 so before I leave you all to start your tour I've just got a few tips there are a large number of attractions and you may not have time to see them all of course there are the old favorites like the aquarium and the crocodile cave but if you don't have time to see everything make sure you visit turtle town which is beyond the aquarium and the seal Center this is very special and has a large number of endangered species and as its at the far corner of the Sea Life Center it often gets overlooked I also have to apologize for the penguin Park this has needed some urgent work to be done and so will not be open for the next week we're very sorry about this but I'm sure you'll find the seal Center which is directly opposite it will keep you entertained just as much if not more we're also very busy today as you may have noticed on your way in everyone starts here at the aquarium but as it's so big there's no waiting to get in but today we're expecting a lot of people to want to see the crocodile cave as a couple of eggs have hatched out so expect delays there and if you like move on to the seal Center first and then go back when things are quieter towards the end of the day so I'll leave you now but if you have any questions I won't be far away and have a great time at the Sea Life Center that is the end of section 2 you now have half a minute to check your answers you now turn to section three we'll hear two students talking about their university studies first you have some time to look at questions 21 to 26 you oh hi George how's it going hi Marty you know it's going well how about you how is the university life well it's great apart from the studying of course yeah me too what are you studying I seem to remember that you were going to do art that was your best subject wasn't it no not really I just liked the teacher he was French and had an amazing accent my favorite subject was history but I couldn't see what career that would give me all right so what did you choose well I found it really difficult to decide I was really good at science but I must admit I never really enjoyed studying it so in the end I decided to opt for English which was my second favorite subject and I thought it would be more useful to me than studying anything else so that's what I'm doing and how are you finding University well it's a bit of a challenge I suppose are you finding it difficult hmm well some of it I'm doing mechanical engineering which is really interesting but it covers quite a lot of areas like materials science machine design physics and of course mechanics and they're all fine but it's maths that I'm struggling with it's a lot harder than it was at school I can believe it it all sounds very difficult to me but then I never was very good at mechanical things I suppose it must involve some practical work well not at the moment currently it's nearly all theory so it's a bit heavy going I guess you need to start with that so that you can get a grasp of the concepts and learn a few facts before you start putting it into practice it must be a lot different to the course that I'm taking yes but in a few weeks we'll be having a lot more practical experience in fact I've got a great assignment this term working on jet engines which means I'll be going on a few field trips to a nearby airport oh that is great it sounds like you're going to be very busy yes I'm not sure how I'm going to cope with the work we have a loss of lectures and that's fine the lecturers are very knowledgeable and I learn a lot from them but we also have a lot of seminars and I find with so many people expressing their views it can get quite frustrating it would be better if we didn't have so many of those yes it's the same for me you now listen and answer questions 27 to 30 and how are the students at your place well I haven't really met anyone yet they all seem a bit quiet perhaps they're working hard they don't appear to be very studious here but they are very friendly I must say I've been doing a lot of sitting around and chatting over the last week or so well that's good the only person I've spoken to really is my tutor he's very approachable and seems to understand how difficult it can be starting University it's good to have someone you can talk to and he may help you meet other students actually that doesn't bother me and bound to get to know some people sooner or later it's more a question of finding out what I need to do where to go and so on I hope he can help me with that oh I would have thought so well we certainly have a lot of work ahead of us it seems like a long time doesn't it studying for three years yes it does but I'm sure it'll go quickly you know I'm really dreading the first assessment yes for the course I'm doing we have to hand our first one in at the end of next month really so have you got the topic yet no but we'll get it soon I'm not sure how much we have to write yet not too much I hope I know what you mean and it's hard to study especially where I am now oh where are you living I'm living in a hall of residence I thought that would be a good idea as there'd be a lot of people around but I'm finding it a bit noisy I can see that I'm going to have problems when I really need to get down to some work so I guess you need to be somewhere on your own then yes well I do like to have some people around me so I'd prefer to live with a family somewhere in a house not too far from the university well good luck with that yes thanks and good luck to you as well I have to - now I've another lecture in ten minutes bye for now bye that is the end of section 3 you now have half a minute to check your answers you now turn to section four you will hear someone talking about creating a presentation first you have some time to look at questions 31 to 40 you now listen carefully and answer questions 31 to 40 hello everyone you've all been given an assignment for your sociology course which will involve giving a presentation to the rest of the group and so today I'm going to be giving you a few tips on how to prepare your presentations this should help you with your current assignment but a lot of the principles I'll be putting across will be general principles which will of course help you with all your future presentations so first of all the most important thing to consider is your audience and in this instance your audience are the other students in your group there are three points to bear in mind firstly you need to ask yourself what they need to know secondly it's useful to consider whether they'll be supportive or not and thirdly will it be a small group say three or four a moderate gathering of twenty or so people as for your current assignment or will there be hundreds of people having said all that what I'm about to tell you will apply equally to any audience so how do you structure your presentation right at the beginning you should tell them something that forces them to pay attention this could be something surprising or even shocking but it needs to be relevant after that you need a list of items or topics showing them what you'll be covering rather like an agenda and then the main part of the presentation will follow this main part will be the detailed information you'll be presenting and could include facts statistics personal experiences etc after this you should summarize what you've presented and close with what I call next steps for this assignment you could simply point the group to other sociology reference material in other cases you may want to suggest some actions that people can take now what about the design of the slides for your laptop well the important thing here is to be consistent you need to have the same type of font and use the same color and size for the same elements for example all headers need to look the same all bullet points need to be presented in the same way and don't just stick to words bring the presentation to life by adding graphics these could be in several forms such as pictures flow charts diagrams histograms and so on and so let's move on now to presenting you have your presentation prepared and you're ready to start well it's important to give a good impression from the start so take three deep breaths look at the audience no matter how frightening they may be and be enthusiastic and jeddak as you go through the presentation remember to provide some variety in the way you speak so for example you can talk fairly rapidly for information that may be familiar but then slow down for more unfamiliar sections and change your tone as you speak don't keep it at the same level all the way through as I mentioned look at your audience a good tip is to pick people out and look at them for around 5 seconds not looking at the audience gives the impression that you're either not interested in them or terrified of them looking too long at one particular person may make them feel rather uncomfortable there may be points in your presentation that you want your audience to really absorb and in order to make important points standout you may consider adding silence right after these it will give people time to reflect on what you've just said also you may be presenting complicated ideas or technical details but try to keep everything as simple as possible use simple words and as few as possible and be clear if you say something like this appears to be it implies uncertainty so using weak verbs such as appears seems could be etc needs to be avoided I'll just finish off with a few thoughts on questions and interruptions from the audience you may choose to invite questions from the audience as you go or ask them to wait until the end either way questions should be encouraged as it provides you with some feedback on how interested the audience is and how well they're understanding you when a question is asked you need to provide an answer that is as accurate as possible so initially my tip is to repeat it this will ensure you have heard it correctly and will give you a few seconds to gather your thoughts interruptions on the other hand can be unwelcome and you may get them for a variety of reasons it's likely however that there's something in your presentation that's unclear or confusing so my advice is to reduce problems by reading through your presentation beforehand and predicting potential points which could cause interruptions you may then want to change that part of your presentation or at least you will be prepared if someone does interrupt you now do you have any questions you

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