A Monologue About Learning Chinese in Schools IELTS Listening Answers

Aug 10, 2022

A Monologue About Learning Chinese in Schools IELTS Listening Answers is an audio that highlights a conversation regarding a lesson. Candidates are required to listen to the audio carefully and answer the questions. The candidate needs to answer the following question types:

Short answer questions
No more than three words

Candidates are required to answer the questions in this exercise within three words while answering no more than three words. In short answer questions, candidates are required to answer based on a given cue.
The IELTS Listening section tests a candidate’s listening ability. The candidates are required to listen to an audio and then answer the given IELTS listening questions.

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Topic: A Monologue About Learning Chinese in Schools

Audio:

Questions 31-34:

Answer the following questions using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR NUMBERS for each answer.

Which three foreign languages are traditionally taught in the USA? __________
How old are the youngest schoolchildren learning Chinese? __________
How many students are learning the 15 leading languages? __________
What percentage of Europeans speak a second language? __________

Question 31.

Answer: French, Spanish, German (NB in any order)
Explanation: The lecturer mentioned three foreign languages that are traditionally taught in the USA are Spanish. French and German.

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Question 32.

Answer: 6/six
Explanation: the lecturer stated, “Even children as young as 6 are honing their Chinese at school,” so the answer is 6.

Question 33.

Answer: 1.4 million/1400000
Explanation: There are 1.4 million students learning 15 leading languages, therefore the answer must be 1.4 million.

Question 34.

Answer: 52.7
Explanation: 52.7 percent of Europeans are able to speak a second tongue. Therefore, the answer is “52.7”.

Questions 35-38.

Complete the following sentences using NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap.

__________ are secondary to cultural exchange at Potomac Elementary.
The young boy finds writing the strokes of Chinese characters in the __________ to be difficult.
The lecturer says that children take more interest in learning if _________ do.
Apart from Chinese, the NEP focuses on __________

Question 35.

Answer: weighty national priorities
Explanation: As stated by the lecturer, “At first glance, weighty national priorities take a back seat to the fun of cultural exchange at Potomac Elementary”. So the answer here should be ‘weighty national priorities’.

Question 36.

Answer: right order
Explanation: The young boy said that “he finds the writing particularly hard because you have to do the strokes in the right order”. The answer to this question must be “right order”.

Question 37.

Answer: (their) parents
Explanation: The lecture said “ If children see their parents learning something, they will usually take an interest in learning it too” Hence, the correct answer is “(their) parents”.

Question 38.

Answer: Arabic, Korean, Russian (NB in any order)
Explanation: Apart from Chinese, the NEP focuses on ‘Arabic, Korean, Russian’.

Questions 39-40.

Decide which university student or students (A, B, and/or C) is being referred to.

Student A
Student B
Student C

Who started learning Chinese as an interest?

Answer: A
Explanation: According to the lecturer, student A started learning Chinese because "he thought it would be pretty fun". So the answer is option A.

Who is learning Chinese to help with their future career?

Answer: A,B,C
Explanation: As mentioned in the lecture, “Student A said he had started learning Chinese eight years ago because he thought it would be pretty fun. Student B said that she wants to follow her father and start her own business and have an office in China. Student C said that he thought his studies would bring national gain as well as a personal achievement”. We can conclude by this information that the correct answers for this question are options A, B, and C.

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