Category: IELTS Listening

Day Trip

The audio given below has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. You can download it, from the given link –
http://goo.gl/UdbaVM

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS

1. What kind of trip is it when you go to a particular place and return on the same day?
2. Which places did Callum usually go during his day trip?
3. As a child, where did Neil lived?
4. Which planet is the closest to Earth?
5. Which word is used when you see something but only for a short period of time or not completely?
6. Which phrase is used to mean that something is kept as a secret?
7. How high above the Earth will the actual space ship travel?
8. Which hardware has been designed to take passengers to space?
9. What is the cost of day trip to space?
10. What is the duration of the sub-orbital trip?

ANSWER

1. day trip
2. forest, beach
3. Canada
4. Venus
5. glipmpse
6. under wraps
7. 62 miles
8. White Knight
9. $200,000
10. two and half hours

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The Transition

The audio given below has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. The audio talks about the transition that takes place in people, from academic to activist. You can download it, from the given link –
http://goo.gl/EDLD40

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS.

1. What is the person who brings about social or political changes called?
2. Where did Yvone met the HIV/AIDS activist?
3. Name the country which gave the world an example for battle against HIV and AIDS?
4. Which organization did Ralph became part of as a manager?
5. What was the main problem that the prisoners were facing?
6. What was the main disease that the prisoners were facing after HIV/AIDS?
7. The speaker talks about a drug that treats and prevents  infections in people with HIV/AIDS. What is it?
8. Whose attitude was Ralph and his team able to change?
9. HIV/AIDS still effects some people lives. What it is the percentage?

ANSWER

1. Activist
2. Cape Town
3. Uganda
4. Treatment Action Campaign
5. Over crowding
6. Tuberculosis
7. anti-retroviral drugs
8. South African Government
9. 6 percent

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