IELTS | Tips to do listening test | Lesson 10. Listening Section 1

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AUDIOSCRIPTS FORM COMPLETION Don Hello, come in and take a seat Jenny Oh, thanks. D Good and how can I help you'? J Well, I'd quite like to join this International Social Club and I was hoping you could help me D Yes, no problem Let me just get the form up on my screen and I’ll fill in your details. Let’s see yes, here we are. OK, the first thing we need is your name J Jenny Foo, that’s F-double O D OK, great, and can you tell me how old you are, Jenny? J I’m 21. D Great, and how long have you been here in Australia, by the way? J I arrived just last month, two weeks before the start of the academic year, just to sort things out and settle in a bit. D Good idea Where are you from originally? J I’m from Kuala Lumpur - that’s where I was born and brought up D So, you’re Malaysian, are you? J That’s right, though I lived in the United States for a couple of years when I was a teenager - we went there for my father's job. D Right And can you tell me your current address, please? J Sure Just at the moment I’m lodging with a family at 13 Anglesea Road in Bondi D OK, let me just type that in Er. how do you spell Anglesea, by the way? J It's spelled A-N-G-L-E-S-E-A. D Thanks That's quite a long way from the city centre, isn’t it? Is it a problem getting into the city centre? J Not really., because the buses are good, and it’s a nice, quiet area to live in D Mm, that’s true So I guess you must have a cell-phone number you can give me so we can keep you informed of events and so on J Yes Let me just have a look - it’s a new one, so I haven't learned the number yet. All, here it is It’s 040 422 9160 D … 9160 OK, good And you like the family you're living with? J Sure They’ve got a little boy, who is quite noisy, but he’s really no trouble. D Fine Now, let's see, what’s next? Er, yep Can you tell me what you do - I mean, are you working or studying? J Well, at the moment, Fm doing a temporary job with a company here in Sydney - I’m an economist, in fact D OK - and how long do you think you'll be here in Sydney? J At least a year I may look for work here afterwards D Great Now, you want to join the International Social Club, and it would be good to know a bit about your free-time interests as well What do you like doing? J Well, I'm quite musical and I really enjoy singing D Mm-hm J Back home. I sang with a band - just, you know, for fun. But for me, what I like best is dancing You know, the modern sort? I really love it. MULTIPLE CHOICE Don So how are you getting on here? I mean, your level of English is better than most people who come from overseas to work and you’ve got a really nice American accent, so I don’t suppose you have any communication problems in the office, though you might find some of our Australian slang more difficult to understand. Jenny Well, a bit, but I haven’t met that many Australians yet - outside of work, I mean. D Right J But could you tell me a bit about the International Club, now I've joined? D Sure We’ve got - er, let’s see - currently about 50 members, but people join all the time, so I should think that figure will go up Last year, we had 30 members and the year before just 18, so we’re growing and getting better known I reckon that at this rate, next year well have about 80 J And does the club hold regular meetings? D Yes, every second Thursday evening in fact, so a couple of times a month, though of course when you start making friends, you’ll be getting together with them more often than that, I guess. The next meeting will be next Thursday if I'm not mistaken Er, yes, that’s right J And what happens when the club meets - I mean, what sort of things are organised? D The usual thing is for one of the members to give a little presentation about where they're from, their customs and so on, but from time to time they do other things - outings to places around Sydney, or meeting up to eat together in a restaurant or go to a concert together or something like that. J OK, that sounds fun and the members aren’t just people from other countries, non-Australians, are they? D No, not at all. The main point of the club is to give people like you the the chance to mix in more with people from this country, people of all ages - you'll find us very friendly. I think the contact has a positive effect on visitors to this country - and in fact, it affects us locals positively as well You know, it’s a sort of intercultural experience for everybody. And of course you should get the chance to do all sorts of activities with other members of the club if you want to - it’s not just for talking. And hopefully you’ll make friends with people who have similar interests J It sounds great I’m really looking forward to the first meeting