Pratica di Shadowing: Cambridge IELTS 11 Listening Test 3 Full Test with Answers | Academic & GT - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

You will hear a number of different recordings and you will have to answer questions on what you hear.

There will be time for you to read the instructions and questions and you will have a chance to check your work.

All the recordings will be played once only.

The test is in four sections.

At the end of the test, you will be given ten minutes to transfer your answers to an answer sheet.

Now turn to section one.

Section one.

You will hear a woman telephoning a tourist office to ask about free activities.

First, you have some time to look at questions 1 to 6.

You will see that there is an example that has been done for you.

On this occasion only, the conversation relating to this will be played first.

Good morning, this is Burnham Tourist Office, Martin speaking.

Oh, hello.

I saw a poster about three things to do in the area, and it said people should phone you for information.

I'm coming to Burnham with my husband and two children for a few days on June the 27th,

or possibly the 28th, and I'd like some ideas for things to do on the 29th.

Yes, of course.

The date that the woman wants information about is the 29th of June.

so the letter C has been circled.

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 6.

Good morning, this is Burnham Tourist Office, Martin speaking.

Oh hello.

I saw a poster about free things to do in the area and it said people should phone you for information.

I'm coming to Burnham with my husband

and two children for a few days on June the 27th

or possibly the 28th and I'd like some ideas for things to do on the 29th.

Yes of course.

Okay.

Then let's start with a couple of events especially for children.

The Art Gallery is holding an event called Family Welcome that day, when there are activities and trails to use throughout the gallery.

That sounds interesting.

What time does it start?

The gallery opens at 10 and the Family Welcome event runs from 10.30 until 2 o'clock.

The gallery stays open until 5, and several times during the day they're going to show a short film that the gallery has produced.

It demonstrates how ceramics are made, and there'll be equipment and materials for children to have a go themselves.

Last time they ran the event there was a film about painting, which went down very well with the children, and they're now working on one about sculpture.

I like the sound of that.

And what other events happen in Burnham?

Well, do you all enjoy listening to music?

Oh, yes.

Well, there are several free concerts taking place at different times, one or two in the morning, the majority at lunchtime and a couple in the evening.

And they range from pop music to Latin American.

The Latin American could be fun.

What time is that?

It's being repeated several times in different places.

They're performing in the Central Library at one o'clock, then at four it's in the City Museum, and in the evening at seven-thirty there's a longer concert in the theatre.

Right.

I'll suggest that to the rest of the family.

Something else you might be interested in is the boat race along the river.

Oh yes.

Do tell me about that.

The race starts at Offord Marina to the north of Burnham and goes as far as Summer Pool.

The best place to watch it from is Charlesworth Bridge, though that does get rather crowded.

And who's taking part?

Well, local boat clubs, but the standard is very high.

One of them came first in the West of England Regional Championship in May this year.

It was the first time a team from Burnham has won.

It means that next year they'll be representing the region in the National Championship.

Before you hear the rest of the conversation, you have some time to look at questions 7 to 10.

Now listen and answer questions 7 to 10 Now,

I've heard something about Paxton Nature Reserve.

It's a good place for spotting unusual birds, isn't it?

That's right, throughout the year.

There is a lake there as well as a river, and they provide a very attractive habitat.

So it's a good idea to bring binoculars if you have them.

And just at the moment, you can see various flowers that are pretty unusual.

The soil at Paxton isn't very common.

They're looking good right now.

Right.

My husband will be particularly interested in that.

And there's going to be a talk and slideshow about mushrooms, and you'll be able to go out and pick some afterwards and study the different varieties.

Uh-huh.

And is it possible for children to swim in the river?

Yes.

Part of it has been fenced off to make it safe for children to swim in.

It's very shallow, and there's a lifeguard on duty whenever it's open.

The lake is too deep, so swimming isn't allowed there.

OK.

We must remember to bring their swimming things in case we go to Paxton.

How long does it take to get there by car from Burnham?

About 20 minutes, but parking is very limited so it's usually much easier to go by bus, and it takes about the same time.

Right.

Well, I'll discuss the options with the rest of the family.

Thanks very much for all your help.

You're welcome.

Goodbye.

Bye.

That is the end of section one.

You now have half a minute to check your answers.

Thank you.

Now turn to section two.

Section two.

You will hear a talk given by a woman called Shona Ferguson about changes in a town called Barford.

First, you have some time to look at questions 11 to 15.

Now listen carefully and answer questions 11 to 15.

First of all, let me thank you all for coming to this public meeting to discuss the future of our town.

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Our first speaker is Shona Ferguson from Barford Town Council.

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Shona.

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Thank you.

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First, I'll briefly give you some background information, then I'll be asking you for your comments on developments in the town.

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Well, as you don't need me to tell you, Barford has changed a great deal in the last 50 years.

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These are some of the main changes.

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Fifty years ago, buses linked virtually every part of the town and the neighbouring towns and villages.

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Most people used them frequently, but not now, because the bus companies concentrate on just the routes that attract most passengers.

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So parts of the town are no longer served by buses.

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Even replacing old, uncomfortable buses with smart new ones has had little impact on passenger numbers.

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It's sometimes said that bus fares are too high, but in relation to average incomes, fares are not much higher than they were 50 years ago.

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Changes in the road network are affecting the town.

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The centre was recently closed to traffic on a trial basis, making it much safer for pedestrians.

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The impact of this is being measured.

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The new cycle paths separating bikes from cars in most main roads are being used far more than was expected,

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reducing traffic and improving air quality.

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And although the Council's attempts to have a bypass constructed have failed, we haven't given up hope of persuading the government to change its mind.

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Shopping in the town centre has changed over the years.

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Many of us can remember when the town was crowded with people going shopping.

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Numbers have been falling for several years despite efforts to attract shoppers, for instance by opening new car parks.

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Some people combine shopping with visits to the town's restaurants and cafes.

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Most shops are small independent stores which is good

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but many people prefer to use supermarkets and department stores in nearby large towns, as there are so few well-known chain stores here.

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Turning now to medical facilities.

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The town is served by family doctors in several medical practices, fewer than 50 years ago, but each catering for far more patients.

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Our hospital closed 15 years ago, which means journeys to other towns are unavoidable.

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On the other hand, there are more dentists than there used to be.

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Employment patterns have changed along with almost everything else.

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The number of schools and colleges has increased, making that the main employment sector.

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Services such as website design and accountancy have grown in importance and,

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surprisingly perhaps, manufacturing hasn't seen the decline that has affected it in other parts of the country.

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Before you hear the rest of the talk, you have some time to look at questions 16 to 20.

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Now listen and answer questions 16 to 20.

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Now I'll very quickly outline current plans for some of the town's facilities, before asking for your comments.

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As you'll know, if you regularly use the car pack at the railway station, it's usually full.

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The railway company applied for permission to replace it with a multi-storey car park, but that was refused.

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Instead, the company has bought some adjoining land and this will be used to increase the number of parking spaces.

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The Grand, the old cinema in the high street, will close at the end of the year and reopen on a different site.

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You've probably seen the building under construction.

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The plan is to have three screens with fewer seats rather than just the one large auditorium in the old cinema.

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I expect many of you shop in the indoor market.

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It's become more and more shabby looking and because of fears about safety, it was threatened with demolition.

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The good news is that it will close for six weeks to be made safe

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and redecorated and the improved building will open in July.

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Lots of people use the library, including school and college students who go there to study.

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The Council has managed to secure funding to keep the library open later into the evening, twice a week.

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We would like to enlarge the building in the not-too-distant future, but this is by no means definite.

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There's no limit on access to the nature reserve on the edge of town, and this will continue to be the case.

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What will change, though, is that the council will no longer be in charge of the area.

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Instead, it will become the responsibility of a national body that administers most nature reserves in the country.

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OK, now let me ask you if you have...

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That is the end of Section 2.

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You now have half a minute to check your answers.

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Now turn to section three.

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Section three.

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You will hear two students called Helen

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and Jeremy who are studying creative writing discussing a project for their course which involves writing and illustrating stories for children.

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First, you have some time to look at questions 21 to 26.

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Now listen carefully and answer questions 21 to 26.

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Hello, Helen.

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Sorry I'm late.

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Hi, Jeremy.

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No problem.

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Well, we'd better work out where we are on our project, I suppose.

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Yeah, I've looked at the drawings you've done for my story, The Forest, and I think they're brilliant.

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They really create the atmosphere I had in mind when I was writing it.

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I'm glad you like them.

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There are just a few suggestions I'd like to make.

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Go ahead.

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Now, I'm not sure about the drawing of the cave.

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It's got trees all around it, which is great, but the drawing's a bit too static, isn't it?

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I think it needs some action.

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Yes, there's nothing happening.

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Perhaps I should add the boy.

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Malcolm, isn't it?

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He would be walking up to it.

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Yes, let's have Malcolm in the drawing.

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And what about putting in a tiger?

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The one that he makes friends with a bit later.

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Maybe it could be sitting under a tree, washing itself.

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And the tiger stops in the middle of what it's doing when it sees Malcolm walking past.

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That's a good idea.

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OK, I'll have a go at that.

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Then there's the drawing of the crowd of men and women dancing.

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They're just outside the forest and there's a lot going on.

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That's right.

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You wanted them to be watching a carnival procession, but I thought it would be too crowded.

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Do you think it works like this?

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Yes, I like what you've done.

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The only thing is, could you add Malcolm to it without changing what's already there?

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What about having him sitting on the tree trunk on the right of the picture?

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Yes, that would be fine.

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And do you want him watching the other people?

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No, he's been left out of all the fun, so I'd like him to be crying.

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That'll contrast nicely with the next picture, where he's laughing at the clowns in the carnival.

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Right, I'll do that.

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And then the drawing of the people ice skating in the forest.

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I wasn't too happy with that one.

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Because they're supposed to be skating on grass, aren't they?

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That's right, and it's frozen over.

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At the moment, it doesn't look quite right.

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Hmm, I see what you mean.

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I'll have another go at that.

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Hmm, and I like the wool hats they're wearing.

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Maybe you could give each of them a scarf as well?

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Yeah, that's easy enough.

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They can be streaming out behind the people to suggest they're skating really fast.

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Hmm, great.

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Well, that's all on the drawings.

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Right.

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So you've finished writing your story, and I just need to finish illustrating it, and my story and your drawings are done.

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Before you hear the rest of the discussion, you have some time to look at questions 27-30.

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Now listen and answer questions 27 to 30.

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So, the next thing is to decide what exactly we need to write about in the report that goes with the stories, and how we're going to divide the work.

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Right, Helen.

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What do you think about including a section on how we planned the project as a whole, Jeremy?

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That's probably quite important.

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Yeah, well, you've had most of the good ideas so far.

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do you feel about drafting something, then we can go through it together and discuss it.

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Okay, that seems reasonable.

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And I could include something on how we came up with the ideas for our two stories, couldn't I?

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Well, I've started writing something about that, so why don't you do the same and we can include the two things?

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Right.

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So what about our interpretation of the stories?

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Do we need to write about what we think they show, like the value of helping other people, all that sort of thing?

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That's going to come up later, isn't it?

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I think everyone in the class is going to read each other's stories and come up with their own interpretations, which we're going to discuss.

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Oh, I missed that.

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So it isn't going to be part of the report at all?

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No, but we need to write about the illustrations because they're an essential element of children's experience of reading the stories.

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It's probably easiest for you to write that section, as you know more about drawing than I do.

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Maybe, but I find it quite hard to write about.

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I'd be happier if you did it.

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Okay.

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So when do you think we can get this...

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That is the end of Section Three.

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You now have half a minute to check your answers.

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Thank you.

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Section 4

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You will hear part of a lecture to business students about the use of one particular type of research known as ethnography.

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First, you have some time to look at questions 31 to 40.

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Thank you.

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Now listen carefully and answer questions 31 to 40.

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So, what I'm going to talk about to you today is something called ethnography.

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This is a type of research aimed at exploring the way human cultures work.

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It was first developed for use in anthropology, and it's also been used in sociology and communication studies.

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So, what's it got to do with business, you may ask?

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Well, businesses are finding that ethnography can offer them deeper insight into the possible needs of customers,

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either present or future, as well as providing valuable information about their attitudes towards existing products.

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And ethnography can also help companies to design new products or services that customers really want.

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Let's look at some examples of how ethnographic research works in business.

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team of researchers did a project for a company manufacturing kitchen

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equipment they watched how cooks used measuring cups to measure out things like sugar

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and flour they saw that the cooks had to check

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and recheck the contents

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because although the measuring cups had numbers inside them the cooks couldn't see these easily

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so a new design of cup was developed to overcome this problem

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and it was a top seller another team of ethnographic researchers

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looked at how cell phones were used in uganda in africa they found

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that people who didn't have their own phones could pay to use the phones of local entrepreneurs

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because these customers paid in advance for their calls they were

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eager to know how much time they'd spent on the call so far

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so the phone company designed phones for use globally with this

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added feature ethnographic research has also been carried out in computer

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companies in one company i.t systems administrators were observed for several weeks

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it was found

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that a large amount of their work involved communicating with colleagues in order to solve problems

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but that they didn't have a standard way of exchanging information from spreadsheets and so on.

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So, the team came up with an idea for software that would help them to do this.

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In another piece of research, a team observed and talked to nurses working in hospitals.

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This led to the recognition that the nurses needed to access the computer records of their patients no matter where they were.

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This led to the development of portable computer tablet that allowed the nurses to check records in locations throughout the hospital.

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Occasionally research can be done even in environments where the researchers can't be present.

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For example, in one project done for an airline,

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respondents used their smartphones to record information during airline trips in

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a study aiming at tracking the emotions of passengers during a flight.

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So, what makes studies like these different from ordinary research?

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Let's look at some of the general principles behind ethnographic research in business.

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First of all, the researcher has to be completely open-minded.

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He or she hasn't thought up a hypothesis to be tested, as is the case in other types of research.

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Instead, they wait for the participants in the research to inform them.

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As far as choosing the participants themselves is concerned, that's not really all that different from ordinary research.

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The criteria according to which the participants are chosen may be something as simple as the age bracket they fall into,

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or the researchers may select them according to their income, or they might try to find a set of people who all use a particular product, for example.

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But it's absolutely crucial to recruit the right people as participants.

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As well as the criteria I've mentioned, they have to be comfortable talking about themselves and being watched as they go about their activities.

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Actually, most researchers say that people open up pretty easily, maybe because they're often in their own home or workplace.

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So what makes this type of research special is that it's not just a matter of sending a questionnaire to the participants.

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Instead, the research is usually based on first-hand observation of what they are doing at the time.

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But that doesn't mean that the researcher never talks to the participants.

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However, unlike in traditional research,

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in this case, it's the participant rather than the researchers who decides what direction the interview will follow.

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This means that there's less likelihood of the researcher imposing his or her own ideas on the participant.

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But after they've said goodbye to their participants and got back to their office, the researcher's work isn't finished.

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Most researchers estimate

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that 70 to 80 percent of their time is spent not on the collecting of data but on its analysis,

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looking at photos, listening to recordings and transcribing them and so on.

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The researchers may end up with hundreds of pages of notes, and to determine what's significant they don't focus on the sensational things or the unusual things.

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Instead, they try to identify a pattern of some sort in all this data and to discern the meaning behind it.

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This can result in some compelling insights that can in turn feed back to the whole design process.

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That is the end of section 4.

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You now have half a minute to check your answers.

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Thank you.

Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?

Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.

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