A Monologue by a Tour Guide of a Newly Renovated Health Club - IELTS Listening Sample Answer

The IELTS Listening section comprises two conversations and two monologues. Candidates need to answer 40 IELTS listening questions. This topic - A tour guide giving a tour of a newly renovated health club is IELTS Listening section Two. Candidates need to answer the following question types:

• Matching information
• Complete the sentence
• Choose the correct answer

Audio Transcript

You will hear a tour of a newly renovated health club.

Thank you all for coming to see the new renovations to the Hartford Health Club. I know you’ll be as pleased as I am to see the wonderful results of our months of hard work to improve the club and bring you the best facilities ever. We’ll begin in here with the swimming pool. You’ll notice the new color of the adult pool, a lovely, cool green . Now walk over here and look at the children’s pool. It’s the same green but, as you see, with brightly colored sea creatures painted everywhere. Both of the pools needed painting, not only for maintenance , but I think the new color greatly improves the atmosphere of this part of the club. Next, let’s take a look at the locker rooms. Don’t worry, there’s no one using them just now. Doesn’t it feel roomy in here? We’ve expanded both the men’s and women’s locker rooms, so now they’ll be much more comfortableto use. There are bigger lockers, a good deal more room in the dressing area, and more places to store extra towels and equipment. Be careful as you walk through here. The floor has just been polished and may be a bit slippery .

Let’s go up to the exercise room next. Here you’ll notice the new floor. Walk on it. Doesn’t that feel comfortable? It’s a special material , softer than the old floor, an ideal surface for jogging and exercising. They had to move all the exercise equipment out while they were working on the floor, but don’t worry, it will be brought back in before the end of today. Let’s step outside now and look at the tennis courts . We haven’t done a great deal here except to the equipment . We replaced all the nets and the ball-throwing machine. Otherwise, everything is the same as it was before. Let’s walk down this hallway , and here we are at the club store in its new location. We thought here by the entrance was a better place for it than where it used to be by the swimming pool . But it still has all the same items for sale: sports equipment and clothes in the club colors.

Guide: We’re excited about the upcoming activities and events to take place in our newly renovated club. Now that the pools are ready for use again, swimming lessons will begin tomorrow, for both adults and children. If you haven’t signed up yet, you can stop by the office before you leave today and put your name on the list. If you’re a tennis player , you’ll be interested to hear about the tennis competition coming up on Wednesday. Players from different clubs all over the region will be participating . If you’d like to watch the event, tickets are available in the office.

Also, I want to be sure you all know you’re invited to our club party , coming up next weekend. We’re celebrating the completion of the renovation work, and we have a lot to celebrate. The entire renovation project was finished in just nine months . That’s three months less than the twelve months we had originally planned on. We’re proud of that and proud that we came in under budget , too. Because we’ve had such good results with this project, we re already planning the next one. We already have two indoor pools , and next year we plan to install an outdoor pool right next to the tennis courts. Details of these plans will be made available to all club members soon.

All right, I think we’ve covered just about everything. Are there any questions?

Questions 11-15.

Write the correct letter, A-F next to questions 11-15.
What change has been made to each part of the health club?

HARTFORD HEALTH CLUB

1. installed a new floor
2. repainted
3. moved to a new location
4. rebuilt
5. enlarged
6. replaced the equipment

Part of the health club

11. swimming pools_______
12. locker rooms_______
13. exercise room_______
14. tennis court_______
15. club store_______

Question 11.

Answer: B

Explanation: The guide stated ‘You’ll notice the new color of the adult pool, a lovely, cool green’. New color means repainted so the answer must be B.

Also, check:

Question 12.

Answer: E

Explanation: The guide states that ‘We’ve expanded both the men’s and women’s locker rooms, so now they’ll be much more comfortable to use’. Here expanded is similar to enlarged in so the answer is option E.

Question 13.

Answer: A

Explanation: The tour guide specifies that ‘Here you’ll notice the new floor’. Therefore, the answer must be A.

Question 14.

Answer: F

Explanation: It is stated in ‘We replaced all the nets and the ball-throwing machine’. Accordingly, the answer is F.

Question 15.

Answer: C

Explanation: As mentioned by the guide ‘the club store in its new location’. Therefore, the answer is C.

Questions 16-18.

Complete the sentences below.

Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.

16. Tomorrow, _______________for adults and children will start.
17. On Wednesday, there will be a_____________.
18.  A ______________is planned for next weekend.

Question 16.

Answer: swimming lessons

Explanation: The Guide states that ‘Now that the pools are ready for use again, swimming lessons will begin tomorrow’. Therefore, the answer is swimming lessons.

Question 17.

Answer: tennis competition

Explanation: The guide mentioned ‘you’ll be interested to hear about the tennis competition coming up on Wednesday’. So the answer is tennis competition.

Question 18.

Answer: party/club party

Explanation: As stated by the guide ‘I want to be sure you all know you’re invited to our club party’ thus the answer should be ‘club party’.

Questions 19 and 20.

Answer the questions below.
Choose the correct letter, A, B, or C. Write answers next to 19-20 on your answer sheet.

19. How many months did it take to complete the renovation work?

1. three
2. nine
3. twelve

Answer: B

Explanation: The tour guide mentioned ‘The entire renovation project was finished in just nine months’. So the correct answer is B.

20. What project is planned for next year?

1. An indoor pool
2. An outdoor tennis court
3. An outdoor pool

Answer: C

Explanation: As mentioned by the speaker ‘next year we plan to install an outdoor pool right next to the tennis courts’. Hence the answer should be C.