Listening for ielts 7 Unit 1

Unit 5
: Listening Activity No. 1 
 
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Unit 5
: Listening Activity No. 2 
Alarm calls to wake you up in the morning, should be booked before 10:30 pm the previous evening. 
Transferred charge calls are those where the people you want to speak to agree to pay for your call to 
them. Transferred charge calls can also be made to many countries abroad. Personal calls are those 
where you tell the operator the name of the person you wish to speak to. You are not connected if that 
person cannot be found, though a message can be left for him or her to ring the operator later. This 
service is normally available for international calls as well.

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For emergency calls, if you want the police, fire or ambulance services in an emergency, dial 999. Tell 
the operator the service you want, give your exchange and number or all figure number as appropriate. 
Wait until the emergency authority answers. Then give them the full address where help is needed and 
other necessary information. 999 calls are free.
Unit 5
: Listening Activity No. 3 
Good morning. I'm James Austin, an animal researcher. Today I'd like to tall about the bats. Many 
people are terrified of the black creatures that hang upside down and fly in the dark. Lately bats have 
become more popular. The reason is that the last few summers have been unusually warm with more 
mosquitoes than usual. Bats eat mosquitoes, sometimes up to 600 in an hour. Bats are an 
environmentally friendly way to get rid of mosquitoes. So some people who didn't like bats now actually 
want them to come back.
In preparation for more hot summers, people are building bat houses in their basements or garages. 
The problem is that most people don't know what bats really like. I guess that about 40 percent of the 
bat houses will remain empty. Bats like hot places so bat houses should be of a dark color to hold the 
heat inside. They should be 12 to 15 feel off the ground, but not in a tree where they will cool off too 
quickly when the sun sets. People like the idea of getting rid of mosquitoes without using harmful 
chemicals.