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IELTS Practice Listening: Label Diagram
ID: #57452
Hard
Air
Instructions
Choose SIX answers from options.
Complete the chart.
Transcript:
You will hear a conversation between two students and their tutor about a geography fieldwork project in a city center. Now listen carefully and answer the questions. Now, Stefan and Lauren, you worked together on the assignment for your urban geography course, didn't you? I know you made a plan of what you were going to do before you went on the field trip. Did you stick to it? More or less. Okay, so where did you start? First of all, we selected one area of the city to work in. We decided on the centre. And we looked in detail at how it has been developed by doing a survey. Yeah, we did that by walking round and dividing the area into different categories, such as residential, commercial and industrial, so we could record land use. We're going to find some maps from 50 years ago and from 100 years ago, so we can look at what has changed. Good. So that gives you a foundation. Then what did you do? I was interested in looking at how polluted the city was. I thought that was too general a topic and would be difficult to check. But Stefan persuaded me and actually it was quite interesting because before we started, we assumed that a lot of the pollution problems would be caused by industry. In fact, most Most of the industrial development has been on the outskirts, and most pollution is caused by the traffic which passes through the city centre every day. There are five major rd junctions around the edge of the city, so we set up equipment to check the air quality on each of those three times on one day. In the morning and evening, which is when most journeys are made in and out of the city, and at 2.30 in the afternoon. On the same day, we went to the two busiest junctions in the morning and evening to calculate the traffic flow into the city. Right. We'll be able to produce some graphs from the figures we collected. Yeah. Presumably you then looked at where all these cars ended up. I thought we should look at why people were coming into the city, whether it was for employment or education or leisure activities. But Stefan thought that would be too difficult. Because most people were in cars, it would be hard to ask them. So we decided to spend an afternoon examining the parking facilities available instead. We established the capacity of each car park and we spent an afternoon counting cars in and out, so we have an idea of how long people spend in the city centre. So do you have evidence that most journeys are made by car within the city centre? We checked local government statistics to see if that was true, but they were inconclusive. Everything is quite close together in the city centre and there are wide pavements, so you would expect people to walk from one place to another. So we chose a number of locations and we noted how many pedestrians passed a particular spot. How did you choose where to do that? Oh, we stood at two places in the business district, one in the shopping area and the other was in an area where there are more tourists. Right. I thought it was really important to talk to people, so we carried out a survey on how people usually travelled into the city. We asked them about their usual means of transport. We found out that it varied according to why people were travelling. If they were employed in the city, they wanted to get there quickly, but if they were coming in for their leisure time, they didn't mind using the bus. That's all we had time for while we were there.
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