IELTS Listening Section 2 Practice – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary

1.hi and welcome to academic English helps IELTS test preparation videos for lots more help with the academic IELTS including six original practice exams over a hundred hours of video instructions please visit us and join at WWE help calm and succeed on your next exam now in this lesson you will see a IELTS practice listening section pay attention carefully listen and answer the questions now watch listen and learn now turn to section two take some time to look at questions 11 to 16 listening section - you will hear a recording of a radio news magazine discussing the importance of doing good in the community now listen carefully to the interview and answer questions 11 to 16 hello I'm Emma Robertson and I'd like to welcome our listeners to beyond the lens the program that aims to dig deeper on issues in culture and society today we have Professor Hudson McMahon from the University of Bristol's departments of Social Policy hello professor McMahon do you want to tell us a little about what you'll be presenting today of course Emma but first I'd like to thank you for having me and show my wife and I are both avid listeners of beyond lens and it's a bit of a thrill to be on the show but I digress today I want to talk about the importance of doing good in the community and in society there are many ways of doing this but the two most common ways of volunteering and giving to charity however these methods of improving community in society have an important difference while volunteering one's time is almost always a positive for society giving to charity is significantly more problematic problematic professor McMahon it would seem to me that giving to charity is always a positive for society we celebrate those among us who are the greatest donors to charity yes and in general it is warranted I do want to clarify in general given to charity is good but one must be very careful for two reasons first some charities do not do sufficient amounts of charitable good per pound and second some charities receive too much money that could be spent bitter on all the causes let me discuss each of these in turn this seems to me a rather radical thesis it seems that way but I hope to convince you otherwise by the end of the program now getting back to charities some cherries simply do not give a lot of their received money's totally actual performance of good acts for instance some charities utilize less than 10% of their donations on actual charitable activities the rest goes to salaries promotion and other overhead costs so for a donation of a hundred pounds it may be the case that less than ten pounds actually goes to helping someone that sounds terrible but it still helps people right well yes but as charitable givers we should try and reward those charities who do most good with the least amount of money by that I mean that those thinking of donating to charity should do research on a charity before giving to the course there are other charities where more than 50% of their Nations go to the end cause these charities are much more deserving of your patronage you now have some time to look at questions seventeen to twenty now listen to the rest of the interview and answer questions 17 to 20 another reason to be discerning when it comes to your choice of charities is what I call their relative utility of a charitable donation hmm let me take a guess here professor McMahon is the relative utility of a donation how much good it does relative to other donations that's just about it Emma the relative utility of a donation is how much good a donation does per amount spent for instance the disease md motor neuron disease was in the news in recent years and M&D charities received a windfall of the nation's this sounds all well and good but there is a problem unlike say heart disease MND does not affect very many people while it be wonderful to cure the disease there are better allocations of our limited charity funds wait so you're saying it was bad for people to give to MND charities not quite only that it was sub optimal because there is limited supply of money given to charity each year it is important that it is used at least somewhat optimally in allocating overwhelming amounts of money to a disease that affects very low percentage of people is extremely suboptimal that's very interesting professor McMahon so how can our listeners try and optimize the charitable gifts first of all don't be caught up in viral social media campaigns instead use such moments to remind yourself of the importance of giving to charity in general and not just a niche causes with good promotion and second do your research before you donate look up how much of a Cheerios donation go to the actual end goal additionally look up how many people are affected by the charity's and cause the more people there are affected and the worse they are are affected the more likely you should be to donate to that cause it is all about maximizing good in a world that certainly sounds like a noble goal but if everyone that is the end of section two now turn to section three take some time to look at questions 21 to 26 you to see section 3 and section 4 of this listening part of the IELTS exam as well as to get over a hundred hours of video instructions for all sections of the IELTS 6 original practice tests and a fully interactive world-class online course with skills and strategies to help you increase your band scores please visit us and join at WWE help calm you