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IELTS Practice Listening: Matching Features Diagram
ID: #56923
Medium
Wall
Instructions
Label the diagram below.
Choose the correct letter, A-H and tick them.
Transcript:
You will hear a discussion between two people about the design of a decorative lighting installation for a planted area. Now listen carefully and answer the questions. Well, I was really impressed by something I saw on a roof in Cornwall, and I'd like to design something similar. You have an area of planting, and I'm thinking of installing this lighting in an area filled with low-growing evergreen shrubs. You'd have to have lights and things well away from anywhere children might be. But I can see this could be very effective, if a bit complicated. How would it work? On this drawing, this is a section view. You have this low wall on the right. Yes, that's it. This is just one element, and these areas would be repeated all round the planted area. I think this will probably be a wooden wall using reclaimed timbers with an angled ceramic top surface. Perhaps even ridge tiles, like they use on roofs. Oh, yes. That'd be just the sort of thing. And that'd make it weatherproof. And then the heavy-duty electric wiring comes up through the floor just outside the planted area and into the wall. Then it's brought through to a projector low in the side of the wall, and that sends a beam of light along the fibre optic cable. So there's no electricity in the actual lights. The fibre optic goes across the surface of the soil in the planting area. Yes, that's the beauty of it. The shrubs will soon grow to cover it up, of course. And then the cable goes past a wooden post, which is between the shrubs and can be a support for them as they grow bigger. And then runs up into each element of the installation. So the light beam is carried up to the top of each element and illuminates a kind of conical glass cap. I see. Is that the bit which would glow in the dark? Yes. And what's the cap supported on? Is it a wall? No, it's a slender acrylic rod, like the stem of a flower or mushroom, which the cable runs up inside of. Well, I'll be interested to see the final drawings. Thank you. I'm looking forward to putting it all together.
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wall | ||||||||
| 2 | electric wire | ||||||||
| 3 | fibre optic cable | ||||||||
| 4 | wooden post | ||||||||
| 5 | glass cap | ||||||||
| 6 | acrylic rod |
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