A Tourism Program About The Elizabeth House - 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 tourism program about The Elizabeth house is IELTS Listening section Two.

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Candidates need to answer the following question types:

• Choose the correct answer
• Short answer questions
• Complete the sentence

Audio Transcript

Hi, everybody, good to see you again. This morning I’ll tell you about the Elizabeth House in Canterbury, once home of the famous carpenter, Jonathan Owen. He bought the house in 1965 although he had first seen it five /ears earlier. Actually, he was interested in the house as a traditional flat in England, and he paid £5,000 for It without a second thought because of it having standard and regulation building methods during the Middle Ages in the UK.

At that time, he had worked at the University of Canterbury as a head carpenter who managed with a small building company. His professional success was abundant, but his family life wasn’t so successful. His parents had suffered from diabetes and mental disease and his brother, Dan, was ill with pneumonia.

Moving to Elizabeth House, he started his new life. Jonathan considered the home a pure example of a traditional East England country house and did some of his successful building structure work here. The back yard and garden of the house became calm and peaceful. The materials used to make the wall, chimney and roof were collected from the local area. Most of all, oak trees were in the front of the main gate.

As you go up the path, there’s the rose garden on your right and you will find, to your left, an area which has interesting types of sunflower as well as some lovely carnation. It is known as the Sun-Rainbow and was designed by his brother, Dan, who had studied gardening art in Paris.

The next destination is the Japanese foot bridge with exotic Asian mountain plants and fruits growing on it. Follow the path round to the second corner and on your left you will see the entrance to the pear tree with its 200-year-old branches, go through the path until you reach the front of the house. Now, I’ll give you a couple of hours to wander around this lovely building. Your tour guide will introduce and explain about its history and viewpoints to you.

If you need to buy any of Jonathan’s handbooks or other souvenirs, you can enter the house, where you will find the shop, which is located between the path and the watermill. I expect by this time you may also be in need of a rest and some refreshments from the snack bar.

If you have a break, there is a lovely walk down towards the River Cotton. This is the best view for visitors. You can cross the field which spreads along the path close to the windmill. In autumn, this area will open a small event or festival which is definitely worth a visit. It is familiar a good place for growing strawberries. Every season most of the residents are ready to make local produce. Also, the local council helps to improve the grape festival by promoting and marketing it through online and offline methods. Last year around 100 tons of grapes were harvested and sold at the city mall.

We’ll now have a good chance to see an orchard behind the house.

Questions 11-14.

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C and write answers next to 11-14 on your answer sheet.

THE ELIZABETH HOUSE

11. Jonathan Owen bought the house in 1965 as it was built in the way of

1. the standard European building style.
2. the Asian style of Middle Ages in the U.K.
3. the traditional Middle Ages of Britain.

Answer: C

Explanation: The reason Jonathan bought the house was ‘because of it having standard and regulation building methods during the Middle Ages in the UK’ according to this option C is the correct answer.

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12. Jonathan Owen had been employed at the University of Canterbury as

1. a headmaster of ceramic.
2. a head carpenter.
3. a supervisor of accounting.

Answer: B

Explanation: Jonathan Owen had been employed at the University of Canterbury as

‘head carpenter who managed with a small building company’. Therefore B is the correct answer.

13. Jonathan Owen succeeded in his business so much, but he suffered from

1. private household affairs.
2. personal diseases.
3. public relations.

Answer: A

Explanation: It is mentioned that ‘his family life wasn’t so successful’. This means that he somewhere suffered from private household affairs. So the correct answer must be A.

14. Where did he gather his building material from?

1. the local area
2. the garden
3. the back yard

Answer: A

Explanation: Jonathan collected his building material from ‘the local area’. Therefore the answer is option A.

Questions 15-16.

Answer the questions below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.

15 What did Owen’s brother study in Paris?____________
16 What is the two-hundred-year-old tree?____________

Question 15.

Answer: gardening arts

Explanation: ‘The Sun-Rainbow was designed by Dan, Jonathan’s brother. Jonathan’s brother had studied ‘gardening arts in Paris’. Accordingly, the answer must be “gardening arts”.

Question 16.

Answer: (the) pear (tree)

Explanation: It is mentioned by the speaker that ‘the pear tree with its 200-year-old branches,’ so the answer should be ‘the pear tree’.

Questions 17-20.

Complete the sentences below.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

You can find the shop between the path and 17______________.
In the snack bar, you will be able to rest and get 18______________.
There is a beautiful walk leading to 19______________.
Both strawberries and 20______________ are local products that are promoted and marketed every year with a variety of events and festivals.

Question 17.

Answer: (the) watermill

Explanation: The shop ‘is located between the path and the watermill’ so the answer must be the watermill.

Question 18.

Answer: refreshments

Explanation: The speaker mentioned ‘I expect by this time you may also be in need of a rest and some refreshments from the snack bar’. So the answer must be refreshments.

Question 19.

Answer: (the) River Cotton

Explanation: The speaker talks about ‘a lovely walk down towards the River Cotton’. Therefore, the answer must be “(the) River Cotton”.

Question 20.

Answer: grapes

Explanation: As mentioned by the speaker ‘the local council helps to improve the grape festival’. Residents even hold festivals for grapes and strawberries. Therefore, the answer is “grapes”.