202 Useful Exercises for IELTS Side2-04-AudioTrack06

Narrator: D. Use abbreviations to quickly note down the rail distances and directions from London of the following places: i. Manchester (184 miles north-west) vi. Liverpool (193 miles north-west) ii. Cardiff (155 miles east) vii. Penzance (280 miles

202 Useful Exercises for IELTS Side2-04-AudioTrack04

Narrator: B. Spell correctly the names of the following places in and around London: i. TOTTENHAM iv. TWICKENHAM vii. WEMBLEY x. WANDSWORTH ii. PUTNEY v. LEWISHAM viii. ROTHERHITHE iii. HARROW vi. ISLINGTON ix. GREENWICH

202 Useful Exercises for IELTS Side2-04-AudioTrack05

Narrator: C. Spell correctly the names of the following persons associated with London: i. Queen Boudicca - (attacked and destroyed the city in 6IAD) ii. William the Conqueror - (assumed the seat of power in London in the eleventh century) iii. Sir C

202 Useful Exercises for IELTS Side2-03-AudioTrack03

Narrator: Exercise 4.2. A. Write down the numbers you hear in the following sentences: i. During the reign of Elisabeth I, the population of London doubled from 100,000 to 200,000. ii. The population of London today is anything from 7 to 12 million,

202 Useful Exercises for IELTS Side2-01-AudioTrack01

Narrator: Exercise 3.9. Lecture 3: Electric cars? Solar-powered buses? When most people imagine solutions to the problems of city air pollution they probably think of electricity and solar power. But the problem with an electric car is that the elect

202 Useful Exercises for IELTS Side1-24-Ex3.8Dictation1

Narrator: Exercise 3.8. Dictation 1: Air pollution / is probably the modern world's greatest threat. / Water can be filtered, / land can be cleared, / but filthy air can only be filtered / by the nose and lungs. / It is estimated / that living in a b

202 Useful Exercises for IELTS Side1-23-Ex3.3RadioItem6

Narrator: Radio Item 6: Welcome to 'Inventors' Corner'. This week we take a look at an invention that may well change the way in which you listen to your television set. Four years and twenty thousand pounds later, Susan Schofield of Cardiff, Wales,b

202 Useful Exercises for IELTS Side1-22-Ex3.3RadioItem5

Narrator: Exercise 3.3. Radio Item 5: Welcome to 'Software World' - bringing you the very latest information on what is currently available on CD-ROM. Are you a director or producer looking for an unusual actor to play a part in a new movie project,

202 Useful Exercises for IELTS Side1-20-Ex3.2C

Narrator: C. Spell correctly the names of the following persons associated with Manchester and Liverpool: i. King John - (gave Liverpool a Royal Charter in 1207; chief port for trade with Ireland) ii. John Kay - (inventor of the flying shuttle in 173

202 Useful Exercises for IELTS Side1-19-Ex3.2B

Narrator: B. Spell correctly the names of these towns and cities in the Northwest of England: i. BLACKPOOL iv. LANCASTER vii. BOLTON x. PRESTON ii. WARRINGTON v. KNUTSFORD viii. NORTHWICH iii. CREWE vi. HEYSHAM ix. CLITHEROE

202 Useful Exercises for IELTS Side1-18-Ex3.2A

Narrator: Exercise 3.2. A. Write down the numbers you hear in the following sentences: A i. Manchester is 185 miles distance from London and 35 miles from Liverpool, ii. Over 10 million passengers passed through Manchester Airport in 1997. iii. The n

202 Useful Exercises for IELTS Side1-17-Ex3.1

Narrator: Part Three. Listening Exercise 3.1. Listen to the following sentences, pausing your machine after each sentence to write down the essential details of what you have heard: a. Manchester, one of the most important cities in England, is consi

202 Useful Exercises for IELTS Side1-16-Ex2.8Lecture2

To be living at the start of the new millenium is to exist in the most advanced technological era in history. It is easy2 to forget that we are still surrounded by countless opportunities to get close to the earth, the sea and all the otherwonders of

202 Useful Exercises for IELTS Side2-08-AudioTrack08

Narrator: Exercise 1.8. Lecture 1: Can a new language be learnt in six weeks as some courses promise? Learning a language is not an easy task,though the reason why it is so difficult cannot be explained without an understanding of how human language

202 Useful Exercises for IELTS Side2-07-AudioTrack07

Narrator: Exercise 4.3. Radio Item 7: With me today from the Home Office, is Mr. David Thorpe, who has agreed to answer recent criticism of the government's handling of the so-called 'immigration problem'. The face of Britain changed radically during

202 Useful Exercises for IELTS Side2-05-AudioTrack05

Narrator: Exercise 4.3. Radio Item 7: With me today from the Home Office, is Mr. David Thorpe, who has agreed to answer recent criticism of the government's handling of the so-called 'immigration problem'. The face of Britain changed radically during

202 Useful Exercises for IELTS Side2-06-AudioTrack06

Narrator: Radio Item 8: They said it would be a horror budget, and they were right: cigarettes, wine and spirits, petrol, and luxury cars8 - all up on July 1 - and a reversal of pre-budget policy in which we were promised that there would be no incre

202 Useful Exercises for IELTS Side1-07-Ex1.3RadioItem2

Newsman: The latest publishing craze which has taken off all over the world, is the publication of what have come to be known as 'zines, short, of course, for 'magazines'. However, unlike magazines, whose fortunes ebband flow, these thinner and less

202 Useful Exercises for IELTS Side1-08-Ex1.8Lecture1

Can a new language be learnt in six weeks as some courses promise? Learning a language is not an easy task,1 though the reason why it is so difficult cannot be explained without an understanding of how human language isacquired, and unfortunately, no

202 Useful Exercises for IELTS Side1-09-Ex2.1

Narrator: Part Two. Listening Exercise 2.1 . Listen to the following sentences, pausing your machine aftereach sentence to write down the essential details of what you have heard: a. Cardiff has been the official capital of Wales since only 1955. b.