A Monologue on the Places You Can Visit in the Locality of the University - 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 presentation on the places you can visit in the locality of the university is IELTS Listening section Two. Candidates need to answer the IELTS listening question types:

• Complete the sentence
• Multiple choice
• Complete the notes

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Audio Transcript

Presenter: Good morning, everyone. I’m very happy to be here to give you a brief introduction to some of the places you can visit in the locality of your university. I hope that you can take some time out from your studies to pay a visit to at least a few of them. First, I’d like to tell you about Dinosaur Isle and Fossil Walk. It’s one of my favorite days out.

I remember my first visit there. We were walking along a beautiful sandy beach when our paleontologist guide stopped suddenly and points at a rock perhaps 60 centimeters across. “That,” he says, “is the cast of a dinosaur's .” At first I thought he wras joking, but he goes on to point out the three vast toes and to explain that this stone was molded in the footprint of an Iguanodon some 125 million years ago. From the size of the “foot”, he adds, this particular herbivorous biped would have been about eight meters long and perhaps ‘2.5 metres tall to the hip. This area is one of the most prolific and accessible sites in Europe for dinosaur fossils who . Bits of bone are regularly found on the beaches and the Dinosaur Isle museum has a collection of international importance-and is thoroughly family-friendly to boot.

At the museum, you can walk back in time, via the last Ice Age and the Eocene to the late cretaceous to the heyday of the dinosaurs, to which the main hall is dedicated . The information is accessibly presented and there is enough to satisfy even the most ardent “dinophile” of any age. The collection sensibly majors on the dinosaurs that once roamed this area, with full-size re-reconstructions as well as fossils ranging from huge vertebrae to toothed jaws and long leg bones. Many of the specimens were found by amateur fossil hunters, including two families on holiday here in the 1970s who found some bones on a beach in the southwest of the island; they turned out to belong to an iguanodon and another completely new dinosaur, subsequently called Neovenator. meaning “new hunter”.

On my first Fossil Walk a piece of dinosaur rib bone was found, and the day before, four dinosaur bones were discovered as well as a large prehistoric crocodile tooth. Even if you are not lucky enough to find bits of dinosaur, there are 110 -year-old shells and fossilized wood to be collected. Our guide was not only extremely knowledgeable but also endlessly patient as he identified a steady stream of sandstone and flint with a few fossils thrown in.

Back at the museum there is stacks for kids to do: three different activity sheets and lots of interactive exhibits . The touchy-feely game was a big hit. It revealed a sauropod claw, fossilised dinosaur poo. It’s great fun for the kids to make their parents feel this! And then there is the cast of a Tyrannosaurus’ brain which is, remarkable for its smallness Smells from the dinosaurs’ world were much enjoyed too-rotting corpse, pine forest , swamp and carnivore breath. The last was particularly yucky in my opinion.

An interactive map shows where the localities five main dinosaurs were found, along with a second map indicating their global spread. Upstairs, there is a reconstruction of the Sandown pterosaur, which was unearthed close to the museum and its fossils, along with information about the area’s own tyrannosaurus , discovered in 1995-about half the size of T Rex and called Eotyrannus Lengi-as well as loads of dinosaur related art activities.

Unfortunately, there are currently no refreshments available on site, but there is a mini-golf course next to the museum which has a cafe. The museum is fully wheelchair accessible. Let me just give you the admission details. Dinosaur Isle and Fossil Walk are both open daily 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., April to October, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., November-March. Adult tickets are 4 pounds 75 , children under 15 pay 2 pounds 75 . There’s also a family ticket, available for two adults and two children, which costs £13. Students and retirees pay £3.75. The two-hour guided dinosaur walk is included in the ticket price .

Finally, I’ll let you know how to get there. Despite the name, Dinosaur Isle isn’t actually an island. From the university, take bus number 30. which I believe stops right outside the main gate. Is that right? Yes? Thank you. The bus stops almost directly in front of the museum , and you can’t miss that because it has a big plastic T Rex outside! If you’re going as a group of more than eight, please telephone in advance. A group discount , is available if you do. but not if you arrive and announced . The phone number is 019 40434, and there’s a website too-www.sandowndinosaur.com

Questions 11-14.

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

11 On the beach, there was a cast of a ___________________
12 The area is one of the best in Europe for finding _____________________
13 The museum contains reconstructions that are ______________________
14 Neovenator means ________________________

Question 11.

Answer: dinosaur’s footprint

Explanation: The presenter mentions his first visit to Dinosaur Isle and Fossil Walk. He stated, ‘the paleontologist, the guide stops suddenly and points at a rock perhaps 60 centimeters across. “That,” he says, “is the cast of a dinosaur's…… this stone was molded in the footprint of an Iguanodon .” Hence the answer is the dinosaur’s footprint.

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Question 12.

Answer: dinosaur fossils

Explanation: As mentioned in the presentation, ‘This area is one of the most prolific and accessible sites in Europe for dinosaur fossils’ so the answer must be dinosaur fossils.

Question 13.

Answer: full-size / full size

Explanation: The museum contains ‘full-size re-reconstructions as well as fossils ranging from huge vertebrae to toothed jaws’ hence the answer must be full-size.

Question 14.

Answer: new hunter

Explanation: The meaning of Neovenator mentioned by the presenter is “new hunter”. The answer is new hunter.

Questions 15-17.

From the following list, choose the 3 things that you can experience at the museum.

Write your answers on your answer sheet in any order.

1. cutting fossils from rocks
2. activity sheets for children
3. sitting inside a T-Rex jaw
4. sitting on a dinosaur’s brain
5. the smell of dead dinosaurs
6. a map of where some dinosaurs lived
7. an exhibition of dinosaur artwork

Question 15.

Answer: B

Explanation: The first thing one can experience at the museum is ‘activity sheets and lots of interactive exhibits’. For that reason, B is correct.

Question 16.

Answer: E

Explanation: The second thing one can experience at the museum is ‘The smells of dead dinosaurs (smallness)’ is indicated in the speech. For that reason, E is correct.

Question 17.

Answer: F

Explanation: It is stated by the presenter that there was an interactive map showing where the localities’ five main dinosaurs were found, hence option F is correct.

Questions 18-20.

Complete the following notes about admission and getting to the museum.

Question 18.

Answer: under 15

Explanation: As mentioned by the presenter, ‘children under 15 pay 2 pounds 75’. Therefore the answer is under 15.

Question 19.

Answer: main gate

Explanation: The presenter informed ‘that the bus stopped right outside the main gate (of the university) this is why the answer is the main gate.

Question 20.

Answer: discount

Explanation: The speaker said, ‘A group discount is available if you do. but not if you arrive and announce’. The answer to this question is ‘Discount’.