Conversation Among A Woman And A Group Of People Who Are Looking Around The Sports And Leisure Centre - IELTS Listening Sample Answer

IELTS Listening section examines a candidate’s listening skills through four parts. The candidate needs to carefully listen to audio and answer the different questions in the IELTS listening section. This topic - A conversation among a woman and a group of people who are looking around the sports and leisure center is IELTS listening part 2 topic. This section contains the following question types:

• Multiple-choice questions
• Map completion

Audio Transcript

Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm very pleased to be able to welcome you to City Scope, our lovely modern Sports and Leisure facility. I brought you up to the rooftop cafe on top of the stadium so that you can enjoy the view, while I explain briefly what we have here and point out to you the major features of the site. Then we'll go round and have a look at ground level. We're extremely proud of this new facility. You see, when the project was first discussed, we expected that a multinational company would give us half our funding and the central government grant would make up most of the rest, with a smaller contribution from a local business. Well, we've got quite far into the planning stage, when the multinational pulled out and both central and local government decided they couldn't afford anything. So we ended up with a beautiful project, a small amount of sponsorship promised by local organizations and nothing else. We thought we'd never build it. But at the last moment we had an amazing donation of several million pounds from a national transport company and that got us going again, and we managed to get all the rest from local fundraising. There’s hardly a street in the city that hasn't made its contribution one way or another, so there's a true sense of local ownership here. So, this is what we got. We wanted a new stadium because the 1950s football stadium is on the other side of town and is shortly due to be pulled down and built over. This site was the old airport with some playing fields on one side of it and a few buildings from the 1930s when the airfield first opened. So we were able to plan a new stadium with plenty of room for all the things people wanted. The playing fields have been upgraded and refenced. So they're now a set of top quality outdoor pitches for amateur football, hockey and so on. We have both sports and other entertainments here. We want to encourage all kinds of people onto the site and hope some of them may come to use the cinema or the cafe and end up trying the fitness center. These are all grouped together. The cafe is in the original 1930s passenger hall and the architects have managed to retain some of the elegant style of the building. The other buildings like the control tower, which would have made a great feature and the aircraft hangers which we had hoped might, house fitness center were unfortunately not structurally sound enough to preserve. So everything else is newly built, opened in 2010.

Right. Now if you'd like to gather a little closer to the window, I'll point out the various buildings. We're at the highest point of the stadium, here in the rooftop cafe on the opposite side to the main entrance doors. On our left, you can see two buildings just beyond the end of the stadium. The closest one is the business center used for meetings and conferences and so on, which provides a good source of revenue for the upkeep of the sports facilities. And next to the business center, the bigger building is the hotel which is rented from us by an independent company. As you see they are served by the perimeter road, which runs round three quarters of the site. Now coming around to the front of the building, immediately in front of the entrance, that circular open space at the end of the road is the transport hub. From here, there are buses and a monorail link to the free car park about 10 minutes from here, but you can't see that. There's also a large secure cycle park. Oh and disabled parking, of course. People find it’is very convenient and it keeps the site virtually carfree.

Okay, now if you look as far as you can over to the right beyond the buildings, you can see our outdoor pitches, which I mentioned earlier. Between the pitches and the entrance is a little kind of pedestrian plaza. Are you with me? Okay, with the cinema in the building farthest away from us next to the pitches. Then there's the Ten Pin bowling between the cinema and the road. Near the far end of the perimeter road and between the mini roundabout and the pitches, there's our fitness center with all kinds of equipment and a small pool and changing rooms for teams using the pitches. Then joined onto the stadium next to the entrance is a range of small shops, which all specialize in sports equipment, clothes, shoes. They sell toys and so on as well, all that sort of thing. They seem to be doing well. As you see the service road goes right around but we keep the traffic and the pedestrians well apart. So it's all very relaxed around the plaza, popular with families. And just in front of the bowling is our lovely restaurant. You can see it from here. It's not building on the plaza between us and the bowling. It's open all day and in the evenings. There's quite a queue there on weekends, I'm pleased to say. So, now you've got the layout. We can go and have a closer look at everything.

Section 2

Questions 11-20

17. 11 and 12

Choose TWO letters A-E. Write your answers in the boxes next to 11-12 on your answer sheet.

Which TWO sources of funding helped build the facility?

1. the central government
2. local government
3. a multinational company
4. a national company
5. city residents

Questions 11 and 12:

Answer: D/E

Explanation: The sports and leisure center was built with the help of two fundings - a national company and city residents. At the last moment, the national company donated several millions of dollars for the leisure and sports center. The remaining was accumulated from local fundraising.

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Questions 13 and 14

Choose TWO letters A-E. Write your answers in the boxes next to 13-14 on your answer sheet.

Which TWO pre-existing features of the site are now part of the new facilities?

1. football stadium
2. playing fields
3. passenger hall
4. control tower
5. aircraft hangars

Questions 13 and 14:

Answer: C/B

Explanation: The new leisure and sports center comprised two features that were previously present on the site. The playing field is one of them, and the passenger hall is another.

Questions 15-20

Label the map below.

Write the correct letter A-H in the boxes next to 15-20 on your answer sheet.

Question 15: hotel

Answer: E

Explanation: From the rooftop restaurant, on the left, there are two buildings, one is the business center and the other bigger one is the hotel. The hotel is rented by an independent company from the leisure and sports center management.

Question 16: transport hub

Answer: B

Explanation: In the front of the building, right before the entrance, there is a circular open space at the end of the road which is the transport hub.

Question 17: cinema

Answer: A

Explanation: On the right side of the space, the farthest stands the cinema. The cinema is located right beside the pitches.

Question 18: fitness centre

Answer: D

Explanation: On the right, just when the perimeter road is ending, in the middle of the pitches and the mini roundabout is the fitness center.

Question 19: shops

Answer: F

Explanation: There is a range of small shops located right before the stadium joined to the entrance. All these shops are specialized sellers of sports equipment, clothes, and shoes.

Question 20: restaurant

Answer: C

Explanation: The restaurant is located right before the bowling. It stays open all day and evening and is very crowded during the weekends.