Monologue of a Radio Program based on a Survey in Their Area - IELTS Listening Sample Answer

Nov 1, 2021

IELTS Listening section examines a candidate’s ability to understand audios of conversations and monologues. This topic - A monologue of a radio program based on a survey in their area is IELTS Listening part two. Candidates need to answer the following IELTS listening question types:

Table completion
Multiple-choice questions

Audio Transcript:

You will hear a radio program. First, you have some time to look at questions 11 to 16.

Now listen carefully and answer questions 11 to 16.

Welcome and indeed welcome every Friday afternoon at 2:15 to PostBag. Your chance as listeners to let us know what you think about our program and current issues. This week our PostBag has been virtually overflowing not that we're complaining mind you. Many of you in facts are staggering 4373 of you to be precise have completed radio sales listener phone in survey. Some general points, 83% of you think that the radio station has improved over the past year and only 7% that it has got worse.

Most of you think that the radio station provides an excellent service, that's a big thumbs up for radio self. Some more statistics a rather disappointing 64% of you did not like the start of the new international radio soap that began on Wednesday evenings last month. Many of you said that it was too vulgar and purile with no plot no excitement and only 17% said that they liked it. We passed on your messages to the producer and he said that he had received a number of letters and countless phone calls saying how innovative and modern the plot was. In fact, the figures for those listening had more than doubled for the second program will have to wait and see how this one develops and for 87% of you, the new starting time of 5 a.m. for the wake-up show went down really well. Only a small disapproval rating for this one. In fact, under 3%. Many of you said the earlier time is a real hit unfortunately the wine show has not gone down well at all. It's had a 15 percent approval rating and 25% who did not like it and 60% who didn't know. Sadly, the main comment was that the program is downright boring - maybe wine is going out of fashion. The full survey will be published next month and it is free on request and now to our weekly letters slot…

Before you hear the rest of the program you have some time to look at questions 17 to 20.

Now listen carefully and answer questions 17 to 20.

Sharon from Tasmania has written in to say that she has tried to get through on the telephone to our new message line to leave a message on the voice box. But she finds it too complicated. She says, and I quote, ‘every time I press a number after the main menu the line won't accept my message. It is so frustrating. Maybe your voice box should come with a health warning.’ Well, I can't tell you that you're not the first person to have complained about this. In fact, we had sixty-seven letters this past week alone and complaints have been going up at the rate of 10% a week recently and we're now looking into the problem. On a more cheerful note, Mary from Sydney, Australia wrote in to say how refreshing and cheerful she found our station was. She says the music and the morning wake up show she finds really invigorating. We've had lots of similar letters from all around South-East Asia saying the same thing from Terry and Auckland, New Zealand you go in Japan and armored in Indonesia, Robin, in Australia says, it's really an excellent new contribution to the radio seen in the area and encourages us to keep going. Thank you, Robin, for your support. PandaPong from Thailand wants to know if there are any plans to repeat the English language program, ‘English worldwide’ on Sunday morning at 9 a.m. or whether we're going to expand the program. We've had so many letters over the past weeks. The number of people tuning in has grown tenfold, there are no plans at the moment to increase the to our slots on Friday morning, but if numbers keep increasing at the rate, we may have too many of you have asked when we are becoming a 24-hour service. The answer is as soon as we can. We now broadcast 19 hours a day and hope to be on air 24 hours a day within the next six months.

And now it's over to Marco who's going to look at the latest cinema and video releases.

Section 2

Questions 11-20
Questions 11-16

Complete the table below as you listen.

Write either A NUMBER or NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS to fill each space.

-	Radio South	Radio Soap	new Wake-up	15__________
approval rating	11_________ %	17%	87%	15%
disapproval rating	12_________ %	64%	13_________ %	25%
don’t knows	not mentioned	19%	not mentioned	60%
listeners’ comments	excellent	vulgar and puerile	14_________	16__________

Number of participants in the survey: 4373

Question 11:

Answer: 83

Explanation: 83% of people think that the radio has improved over the past.

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