Try this mock IELTS Listening Test (#1) – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary

1.hi welcome to another IELTS video in this video we are going to run through an entire El listening test if you find this lesson helpful please join us at The Forum iwork.com and for more videos like this one visit my blog at iistening blog.com before you watch this video you may be interested in downloading this test and trying it yourself under exam like conditions to do this click the link in the description of this video after you complete the test on your own Time come back to the video and compare your testing strategy with the one I am going to present here otherwise get yourself a piece of paper and a pen and answer the questions as we proceed through the video before we get to the test itself I want to go over briefly a few strategies that I hope you can put into use um during this exercise the first thing I would like to say about the listing test is that to prepare properly you will need to to engage as many practice tests as you can the successful is candidates I've talked to in interviews at east.com all say the same thing that practicing as many tests as they can is the key to um getting a good score on the exam so practice practice practice now a couple of specific strategies to follow while you listen um the recording will give you some time to read the questions before you begin so it's essential that you read the directions carefully and uh as you know sometimes you will be instructed to write only one-word answers sometimes you will be um allowed to write three-word answers sometimes you are choosing answers from a list so it's very important that you read and understand exactly what it is you're supposed to do number two know what sort of information you are going to be listening to so again as you know um section one of the exam is an everyday English dialogue section two is an everyday English monologue section three is an academic dialogue or a training dialogue and section four is an academic monologue or a a training monologue um so when you're looking at the questions as you prepare for the listening note what type of data you're you are going to be listening to is it a tour is it uh students talking together is it someone um paying for a gym membership and try to prepare yourself mentally for the kind of vocabulary that you're going to encounter number three underling keywords in the text this is very important number four predict what sort of information or word types could be the answer so sometimes if you're asked to fill in a blank and you see um an article before that blank like the' you know that this is going to be a noun or uh sometimes you see um if it's for example a blank and you can tell from the blank that it's going to be a number you should mentally note that at that section you will be listening for a number okay number five if possible use the re review time at the end of each uh listening section to preview the next uh section's questions and this is a strategy that stronger students will use okay let's get started so now I'll explain what is going to happen um I'm going to use the pauses in the recording to explain what you should be doing as we progress through the exam I will not answer any of the questions until the next next pause in the recording occurs and at that at that time I will stop the recording and explain to you what the answers are so that you can you can check your progress as we move along I outs listening blog.com Mark I outs listening test one this recording is copyright English R okay so as you know the uh listening exam will have a little bit of Preamble in the recording and we can use this time to start previewing our questions because as we've done so many practice exams before um we can only we only need to half listen to to what the recording is saying so in this first section uh we're asked to complete the form we're asked for no more than three words Andor a number and it looks as though we're we're uh we're listening to something about uh booking details for a trip now pay attention to the answers that are filled already and uh pay attention to some of the key vocab we're going to need to know now turn to section one section one you will hear a conversation between a travel agent and a customer first you have some time to look at questions 1 to three okay so now we want to underline key information like the departure airport uh like the number of hotel kns are going to be there the arrival City and we want to listen to the example for who is who in this dialogue maybe a woman or a man or two men or you will see that there is an example that has been done for you on this occasion only the conversation related to this will be played first hello Palm travel hello I'm calling to inquire about one of your package deals okay and which deal would that be well your pamphlet says you're offering an all-inclusive trip to Jamaica for just shy of ,700 right could you clarify from me exactly what you mean by allinclusive the customer says he would like to visit Jamaica so this has been written next to destination country now we shall begin you should answer the questions as you listen because you will not hear the recording a second time listen carefully and answer questions 1 to three hello Palm travel hello I'm calling to inquire about one of your package deals okay and which deal would that be well your pamphlet says you're offering an all-inclusive trip to Jamaica for just shy of ,700 right could you clarify for me exactly what you mean by allinclusive right well the package includes return airfare from London hro Airport to Norman Manley International Airport Norman Manley International Airport is that in Montego Bay no that's right in the capital Kingston I see you'll arrive 11:00 a.m

2.local time and spend five nights at the ocean hotel in Kingston all of this is included in the package fee of course before you hear the rest of the conversation you have some time to look at going to pause okay so now let's just talk very quickly about the answers you probably picked up uh they share all of this information in the recording um so the departure airport um is very closely linked to the departure City it is heo international the um thr International the arrival City they try to throw us in the recording a little bit by uh the man says um does does it is the arrival airports Norman Manley is that in Montego Bay and she says no that's in the capital Kingston and uh then they talk about travel times the total Hotel nights now we knew when we were we were reading the questions ahead of time this was going to be a number and the correct number is five okay now uh the recording is going to give us some time to preview the next next set of questions so let's go ahead and do that questions 4 to 10 okay so we're previewing the questions we're looking for facilities in the hotel there's a five-star restaurant access to the we know this is going to be a noun breakfast this could be a number this could be the kind of restaurant uh a separate booking let's see bus tours to other cities uh listen for what this is it could be a kind of bus or it could be a hotel uh Devon House Mansion years old this will likely be a number Kingston day trips Cayman Park we can see certain kinds of races so let's let's listen to what kind of race that is Jamaican Visa processing uh usually requires more than week can be obtained via uh so what can be obtained the now listen and answer questions 4 to 10 okay and date that's easy enough lunch and dinner will be provided Ocean's hotel has a beautiful pool with a swim up bar several five-star restaurants Beach Access Wi-Fi a gym with both a sauner and a steam room and optional day trips to several Jamaican landmarks and all of this is included in the package price no let me clarify when I said you will be provided lunch and dinner as part of your package deal that does not apply to all restaurants within the hotel only the hotel's Tropical Grill so that means if I go to the other restaurants would I have to pay yes anything except Tropical Grill also please note that you would need to fend for yourself at breakfast time what do most Travelers do for breakfast the ocean hotel is only a short walking distance from an International Food Court I suspect most Travelers do breakfast there I see our package provides Travelers with optional day trips to landmarks within Kingston H I was hoping to visit monteo Bay during my stay bus tours to neighboring cities are available but these wouldn't be included in the package fee and regarding Montego Bay I believe you would not be able to visit and return to Kingston within a single day really why is that well the bus ride itself is maybe 5 hours or so give or take I see so visiting Montego Bay would require an extra hotel booking which the holiday package deal would not cover okay scratch that so the day trips into Kingston what can I expect the day trips to locations like the Devon House Mansion which is a beautiful historical landmark dating back over a 100 years the botanical gardens K Manis horse racing Park and Port Antonio or other areas you will be able to visit Kingston is brimming with historically interesting locations sounds wonderful so should I book this package for you sure let's go for it okay and will you be traveling alone yes it would just be me and when would you like to leave next week if possible if I could depart say August 20th or 21st that would be ideal H the only issue is that you will need to obtain a Jamaican Visa prior to leaving I'm not sure you'd be able to do that within only a week's time is your travel time flexible unfortunately not I only have a week away from my responsibilities with work well we may be able to help if you can come in today and leave your passport with me I can get you to fill out the necessary forms and have my assistant run everything over to the Jamaican Embassy they do have a rush service for Visa issuing but it is a little more expensive than the normal process okay that sounds all right I'm going to go ahead and book you on an August 20th flight to ensure your spot is reserved great when can you come by my office I can be there within the hour okay and how will you be settling with us I'll put it on my credit card perhaps we can arrange all this when I see you that sounds fine see you shortly bye okay so we finished that listening now um one thing that I forgot to point out is that we should have noted that all of these answers are only one word or one number so um the listening was very straightforward we heard the facilities in the hotel she went one by one through all of them and you probably caught that she stated there is beach access so the answer to this would be access to the and of course we predicted correctly it is a noun so this should be Beach okay and then she talks about uh day trips to Jamaica uh breakfast now she mentioned something about a restaurant called The Tropical Grill and uh she said that the Tropical Grill will cover lunch and dinner so you don't have to pay if you go for lunch and dinner but breakfast uh she uses the term fend for yourself which in English just means you have to take care of yourself nobody's going to give you something uh or help you at this time so the correct answer here for breakfast would have been zero zero restaurants are covered by the trip fee lunch and dinner uh okay one restaurant which was the Tropical Grill bus tours to other cities they are not included in the package as she said uh they may require a separate booking and um we thought correctly that this probably would have been a noun it was a separate hotel booking sorry this isn't lined up for very well anyway you know what should be in there uh uh the man Express his interest in in seeing things uh within the city of Kingston uh the woman says Devon House Mansion a landmark that is over years old and uh this is a number as we correctly uh predicted it was over 100 years old she mentions botanical gardens K Manis Park uh she said that there are horse races at K Manis Park so you probably may have gotten that one and Port Antonio now the Jamaican Visa processing um bit there's a bit of an issue because the man is is he's got to go to work or he he uh he has commitments with work I believe he said and uh she says that that's fine that they will be able to get his Visa quick via uh Rush service the only issue is that he would have to um pay a little bit more and finally I'm sure most of you you caught that the departure date was August 20th there was a bit of confusion I think the man says uh he mentions 21st or 20th and then they finally decide on the 20th okay uh good let's continue the listening that is the end of section one you now have half a minute to check your answers okay so we have half a minute to check our answers we feel confident about our answers so let's go to the next section now here we're given a map uh no more than three words we see there's a ground floor and there's a mezzanine the questions 11 to 14 will come in order so the tour starts here we're facing the main reception desk to our right is a restaurant uh sizzling something that's probably a name there's a pine tree let's see there are two things here they both point to this blank we have to listen carefully a lead screen LED screen and escalators and then to the right some big now turn to section two let's hear section two you will hear a hotel manager giving a tour to new employees first you have some time to look at questions 11 to 20 okay uh there's a spa there's a gym and then there's something behind the gym now let's go up to the mezzanine as you know a mezanine is the floor that um it's not for rooms it's the floor above the ground floor uh okay so up the stairs we see a portrait we see three empty what are probably rooms cuz these three are also rooms bathroom something here A Portrait of Mr Walton we'll have to listen to see who Mr Walton is now listen carefully and answer questions 11 to 20 oh I'm sorry actually uh I'm just going to pause that the power that I have here uh I forgot to show you that there are actually a couple of other questions here what two things are the people given at the end of the tour okay Jim passes name tags staff lift key cards time cards right then if everyone's ready let's get started at the moment we're facing the main re reception desk where most of you will be working to your right you can see the Sasha restaurant and further down the hall you see the Sizzling Grill now we try to encourage guests to eat inhouse whenever possible and after this tour we'll let you all try a small dish at both restaurants so you'll feel more confident referring guests there let's turn left and walk down the hall and the first thing you'll see is the Walton in Pine Tree now this tree was planted by Mr Walton on the day he opened this hotel which makes this tree more than 50 years old on our right you'll see the main guest lifts between the lifts is an LED screen where we welcome special visitors to the hotel and display the day's weather there some of you may have heard that sting stayed with us last year during the final leg of his UK tour as a welcoming gesture upon his arrival we played his music in the main hall and displayed photos of his more memorable shows on the screen scen okay let's continue down the hall next to the guest lifts are escalators that will take you to the mezanine and up there you'll find Mr Walton study and several meeting rooms but before we head up there let's walk further along the hall because here we see these large doors on our right leading to the main dining hall walon in hosts an average of 35 weddings during the summer months so I imagine that many of you will be spending rather a lot of time Behind These doors next to the dining hall you'll find the spa now the gym and pool area can be accessed by walking through the spa but please note that we do not permit children into the gym area under any circumstances unless they're going to the pool with an adult okay let's backtrack to the escalators and we'll go up to the mezzanine our clientele is predominantly business Travelers unless we have no few of than five bookable meeting rooms keeping with our nature theme we've given these rooms earthy names from the left they're Flora bark petal moss and Twig oh I'm sorry I'm mistaken Mr Walton study is the third door from the left but yes the meeting rooms around the study are Flora bark pet moss and Twig and as Mr Warton is no longer with us we now make a study available to guest as a personal workplace right opposite these six rooms you'll find a staff lift and at the end of today's tour you'll be given key cards that will allow you access to this lift and to the left of this lift is a portrait of Mr Walton himself well that about finishes the tour if there are no questions let's go downstairs and head to sashas for a few Samplers okay uh now let's go over some of the answers there were a few points in this listening where they tried to misdirect you a little bit I hope you didn't fall victim to that so the tour starts um we are listening for number 11 they say we're facing this man says we're facing the main reception desk to our right is Sasha's restaurant and next to that is the sizzling and it is a name as we predicted correctly the Sizzling Grill and that would be with a capital G okay and we turn left we walking down the hall uh he says between the that was the key um the key to getting this answer between uh the the guest lifts guest lifts is an LED screen and then he talks about sting and sting having a concert there then they proceed to walk down the hall and to the right are escalators and then he talks briefly about going up the escalators to see Mr Walton's study but that's a misdirection they continue down the hall he says but first let's continue down the hall okay so I hope you didn't start going up to the mezzanine and looking at where to put in answers uh continuing down the hall so they talk about the large double doors and this was the main dining hall the main dining hall and he says this is where uh many of you will be working in the main dining hall they talk a bit about the number of way weddings that they serve every year then they talk about the spa in the gym and um and how behind the gym is the pool children are allowed to go to the pool they are not allowed to go to the gym but that information uh really doesn't concern us at all it's uh it was just shared to misdirect us okay then he says let's backtrack we'll go up the escalators so they go up to the mezanine on the mezanine uh they talk about these three rooms and he says that all of the rooms have an earthy name so we have petal Moss twig so um he first lists the rooms but he makes a mistake he says Mr Walton's study is the third door from the left so the third door from the left is Mr Walton's study he mentions Mr Walton's study uh twice once while they're walking along the grand floor and once while they're up here the first room is the Flora meeting room and the second is the Bark meeting room okay and then uh they talk a bit about the portrait of Mr Walton I do not believe they mention the portrait of an English landscape nor do they mention the bathrooms uh nor do they mention the hotel storage room so a bit too much information in this diagram here we we have the uh staff lift and he says that everyone will get a key card for the staff lift and then he says uh going down to try some samp samples at Sasha's restaurant so uh the correct answers here would be staffed lift key cards letter C and uh F restaurant food samples this is where they're not getting menus they're getting uh samples okay so C and F were the correct answers okay let's proceed to the next section that is the end of section two you now have half a minute to check your answers okay so we're going to go ahead to section three instead of reviewing our answers uh we're choosing three letters a to G which three question types do the professors decide to include in the exam we know this is a dialogue academic in nature okay true false not given written essay fill in the blanks multiple choice questions okay uh likely this is going to be um matching vocabulary to what we hear let's see questions 24 to 26 choose three answers from the box and write the correct letter A to F next to questions 24 to 26 which grade would now turn to section three section three you will hear two history professors discuss the structure structure of an upcoming exam they will give their students first you have some time to look at questions 21 to 30 okay which grade waiting applies to each section of the examination this is definitely going to be numbers let's just listen closely to those numbers here write one word answer or number for for each answer uh the professors decide to include essay questions that's going to be a number the professors decide to make each essay question so many words in length that's probably a number too the professors assume that the students will spend how many minutes likely a number Professor Kate is going to draw up section okay we know the answer is going to be one two or three because we can see here there are three sections to the exam now listen carefully and answer questions 21 to 30 Franklin would now be a good time to talk about next month's final exam hi Katie yes sure please come in I thought we could brainstorm exam structures a little bit I feel we should include at least one analytical writing assignment to challenge our students ability to think critically about what they studied great yes an essay question would give them an opportunity to demonstrate what they know too but could we make this the last section on the exam perhaps we could start with a question type that would test the students knowledge of raw facts the first and second world wars are topics particularly heavy on dates numbers names and places yes good point but I want to avoid the true false not given question type thing this time around it made up a significant portion of our midterm four months ago it might be worth trying something different this time yes that's true but it is such an effective way of pinpointing which students have been completing their take-home readings and which have not would multiple choice questions be equally effective H yes I suppose they would and like the true false not-given question types they would be fairly easy to grade okay so should we say that the multiple choice questions will make up 20 of the toal toal 100 marks on the exam that sounds all right could you be responsible for pulling those questions together yeah sure now when you and I last talked you iterated a desire to test the students ability to organize large blocks of information what about making section two of the exam a question where the students must create a chronologically accurate paragraph out of disorganized sentences oh terrific hey what about doing two separate paragraphs explaining precursors to each War those would be some pretty broad paragraphs but I suppose it could be done we could have the students write numbers next to each sentence indicating its position in a chronologically accurate paragraph that sounds all right okay leave those two paragraphs to me I'll draw them up this afternoon should we award 10 marks to each how about 15 each the final essay question could make up the remainder of the examination Mark okay now about that final section of the exam I was thinking that perhaps we could have students complete two short essays instead of one long essay so one for World War I and one for World War II what essay questions were you thinking well the first I say question could be something about wartime strategy like why do you feel trench warfare dominated so much of the first world war or how did trench warfare affect the duration of the war okay and the second well I was thinking we could tie critical thinking into this question what about something like choose a strategic error made by the axis poers during World War too and explain how this helped the Allies oh that will be challenging yes we'll have to tell the students to study hard how about a word count 500 for the two essays oh that sounds about right okay so let me recap what I've noted here section one multiple choice questions section two sentence ordering and section three two essays at 250 words each altogether the exam makes up 100 marks the students will have 2 hours for the exam which should be ample time oh I would imagine so I I just hope that the two essay questions aren't too much it should be all right I don't think section one and two will take well prepared students more than about 30 minutes all right let's go with it so you're handling section one I'll handle sections two and three great should we meet this time tomorrow to compile what we have yes that sounds fine thanks Kate okay Franklin until tomorrow then okay we'll start but there uh now very challenging listenting that one there uh at two different points in the listing Professor Kate goes over the uh she states exactly what they're going to include um so the three question types that will be included the very first one they mention is the essay so there's going to be an essay question type so B and you heard later that there there actually going to be two uh separate essays um they were going to to they talk about true false not given but Professor Kate uh says that she wants to avoid that because I believe that they had included that in a previous exam so they decide to go with multiple choice questions which is D and then finally they talk about ordering sentences into a paragraph now the uh the written paragraph kind of throws you off a little bit but towards the end of the listening Kate says very clearly that uh this SE this question type is sentence ordering and she described it earlier but not with those words so the correct answer there is f now how are this the different sections going to be weighted um section one which is the uh they decided that section one was going to be the multiple choice questions there were going to be 20 questions they say at one Mark each so section one would be 20% letter C uh section two there were going to be two paragraphs each of those par paragraphs weighted 15 each so section two in total would be 30% kind of threw you off there some people probably put in B and section three was going to make up the remainder they they don't say explicitly 50% but if we add 20% and 30% then the remainder would be 50% F WR one a word or a number for each answer so the professors decide to include how many essay question questions on the exam the answer here is two the professors decide to make each essay how many words in length again they try to throw us because they say the total word count is 500 so if there are two essays then these essays would be 250 words each the professors assume the students will spend how many minutes on section three so they mentioned that uh students that study hard will spend 30 minutes on sections 1 and on section two so they imagine the students will aot an hour and a half to section three so the number of minutes would be 90 Professor Kate is going to draw up section of the exam and she's going to do section one and uh the other Professor is going to do sections two and three okay let's go back to our listening here and move on to section four that is the end of section three you now have half a minute to check your answers okay so we're going to use this time to preview uh choose the correct letter A B C or D now we want to underline key vocabulary according to this lecture pant aully mistakenly think the boomerang mistakenly key underline this okay we have a few answers here the lecture compares the boomerang to airplane Wings Compares and both airplane wings and Boomerang let's underline those returning boomerangs fly on an axis that is perpendicular to underline perpendicular uh this is a very specific piece of vocabulary so we'll probably hear this in the in the list now turn to section four section four you will hear a lecturer talk about the origins of the boomerang first you have some time to look at questions 31 to 35 so to 35 34 non- returning boomerangs are thought to have been okay let's underline these words returning and non- returning because it looks like we have two different kinds of boomerangs and uh okay now let's go to 35 the lecturer makes it clear that returning boomerang underline returning boomerangs operate the same or less functional indigenous indigenous to be native from an area slightly smaller than non-ring boomerangs now listen carefully and answer questions 31 to 35 from the outset of civilization humans have used their Ingenuity to simplify their lives through the development of tools it's remarkable how many identical iCal tools were developed independently in completely different parts of the world the spear or the bow and arrow for example the axe the knife the bucket rope all of these are tools that can be found on any continent where early human populations existed despite the fact that these early populations never encountered each other but did you know that the boomerang is one such tool perhaps you thought the boomerang was and always had been from Australia well you may be surprised to know that the boomerang was developed independently in several parts of the world before I explain let's first Define what a boomerang actually is in its most traditional form a boomerang is a 1 to 2T long tool that's often made of wood it has a bend in the middle which makes the boomerang look a little like a pair of airplane wings in fact airplane wings are a good analogy to make when describing a boomerang if you were to look closely at a boomerang you would see that the bottoms of the Wings are flat while the tops of the Wings are rounded this is again very similar to the wings of an airplane this design is what gives the boomerang lift and allows it to stay a loft longer than a simple throwing stick such as a spear it's also the reason why the boomerang returns to the the thrower when a boomerang is thrown it flies on an axis perpendicular to where it's been thrown from what this means is that if the boomerang is thrown correctly it should return to its thrower boomerangs capable of doing this are known as returning boomerangs non- returning boomerangs as you can probably guess do not come back to their throws because they lack a rounded side both sides of this type of boomerang are flat with its simpler design anthropologists believe that this Boomerang had been developed well before the returning Boomerang although commonly believed that the returning Boomerang was used for hunting this has been proven untrue it's more likely that the returning Boomerang has always been used for fun or sport it's the non-returning boomerang that was used for hunting purposes I'll touch on Hunting uses in a second first let's talk about about history before you hear the rest of the conversation okay we'll get to that in a second uh okay so the questions now there's a lot of text to kind of work through as you're listening but um they're pretty straightforward 31 according to the lecture people oftenly often mistakenly think the boomerang returns to its thrower didn't mention that is the earliest example of heavier than air flight was developed exclusively in Australia is a simple tool and um was developed exclusively in Australia he says something about I bet you thought that it is native to Australia uh so this is the mistake he's talking about the answer there would be C guess I can write these as we go along okay uh the lecturer compares the boomerang to airplane Wings because they are both now he talks for for a good 20 seconds about the similarities between airplane wings and a boomerang uh made of wood and are bent in the middle the bent part is true he mentions that he doesn't say anything about being made of wood though heavier than air no he he doesn't mention that that could be true of similar proportions again not really mentioned rounded on top and flat on bottom that's the answer that's what he States they are both round have a rounded top and they're flat on bottom returning boomerangs fly on an AIS that is perpendicular to the thrower the direction of the wind its flat Edge its round Edge and the answer is the thrower and that's the reason why the returning Boomerang comes back to the person that launches it non-returning boomerangs are thought to have been heavier than returning boomerangs used for sport not that because we know he he mentions that returning boomerangs were used for sport and fun made to return to their throwers no because it's a non- returning Boomerang made before returning boomerangs um and he letter a is not mentioned so the answer is D made before returning boomerangs in the recording uh he says that anthropologists believe that they had a purpose which was hunting and therefore they were likely made before the returning Boomerang was made the lecture makes it clear that returning boomerangs operate the same as non-returning boomerangs that's not true he spends quite a few minutes talking about the directions that the two different purposes for the boomerangs were less functional than non returning boomerangs yep could be are indigenous to Australia no he clarifies that are slightly smaller than non-returning boomerangs no he mentions nothing about that the answer is letter B non-returning boomerangs are more functional because they are used to hunt returning boomerangs were used for sport okay let's go to the final section here and uh I'll just give us a couple extra seconds to read because um we didn't use the the time before for the review and the read ahead to read this section uh the boomerang is a fascinating tool that traces its Origins back many start it now you have some time to look at questions 36 to 40 okay so this is likely um well these are one-word answers only so this could be centuries could be something for a period of time boomerangs were even found in the king totin common this is going to be a noun it has some relation to toon common many historians feel the boomerang used continued in Australia several centuries longer than the rest of the world because of Australia's case something in Australia caused the boomerang to be used longer British now listen carefully and answer question 36 listen for an agent Boomerang use itself goes way back and has its roots in some surprising places from 30,000 years ago in southern Poland to the boomerangs found lining King Tuton carman's tomb to British documentation of boomerang use among Australia's Aborigines in the 1800s the boomerang Ang has a long history so an obvious question is why the boomerang has become so uniquely associated with Australia when it has so much history in other places well most anthropologists today agree that Australia's geographic isolation is a major cause when British settlers started arriving in Australia they found people using a tool that had not been used in other parts of the world for many centuries thus the boomerang was in a way reborn and its new home was seen as Australia now let's return to the subject of hunting boomerangs are much more effective hunting tools in the open arid Landscapes than they are in foliage dense environments with large stretches of dry flat desert it is no wonder an effective tool like the boomerang spread across Australia this widespread use of the tool is not matched anywhere else in the world and it is thought that this is because it best matches Australian terrain okay if there aren't any questions I'd like to talk about how a boomerang is made that is okay that's the end of the listening uh so onew answers traces its Origins back many and I believe he gives the example of thousands of years ago uh so this would be many millennia the single word that would mean thousands of years boomerangs were even found in the okay we probably could have guessed this answer actually without even listening tomb of King Tuten common many historians feel Boomerang use continued in Australia several centuries longer than the rest of the world because of Australia's uh and I believe he even uses the word in the listening isolation so Australia is apart from the rest of the world and this is why the rest of the World perhaps or other parts of the world stopped using the boomerang and Australia continued to use it now this is the one uh question that I believe is stated a little bit earlier on so you had to kind of be listening British documented the use of boomerangs among the Aborigines and this is not journalists it's not explorers it's settlers and he uses that word as well uh Australia's also encouraged the use of the tool to spread and uh Australia's uh terrain also encouraged the use of the tool to spread okay so add your marks up out of 40 uh here is the band score calculator so you can uh check to see how many marks at of 40 you got and what that would match how that would match with your rough band score so I hope that video helps train your ear a little as I mentioned at the beginning of the video you should run through as many mock listenings as you can before you actually engage the exam uh you can find more mock listening videos like this one that's my blog I also listening blog find all the mock listings right here or by clicking on practice tests thank you for watching and have a nice evening