1. The document provides information and exercises for a seminar on listening skills for an exam. It includes instructions for multiple choice questions and labeling a map based on spoken directions. 2. Vocabulary exercises focus on word formation, prefixes, suffixes, and identifying parts of speech. Students are asked to correct mistakes involving changes to word forms. 3. Exercises involve listening to speakers and choosing answers to questions, following spoken directions on a map, and working with vocabulary in word formation and identifying word components.

1. Seminar #8
Listening section-2

2. Exam information
!You hear one speaker talking about a social topic.

3. Exam advise
Multiple choice
1. Listen for the correct idea or information - don't just
match words.
2. Make sure you answer all the questions.

4. You are going to hear a supervisor talking to a group
of new nurses at a large hospital.
Look at Questions 1-5 below and underline the key
ideas in the questions.
Exercise 1

5. Listen to the first part
of the talk and choose
the correct answers for
Questions 1-5.
Exercise 3

6. Work in pairs. Look at the places A-H on the map below.
Pick a place and tell your partner how to get there from the
main building. Use the words and expressions in the box to
help you.
Exercise 4
next to, traffic lights, west/east
(of), turn (east/west/right/left),
behind, turning right/left (of), go
straight on, opposite, roundabout,
go past/beyond, beyond, corner
You go out of the front of
the main building, turn
left and it's directly
opposite you.
It’s G.

7. Exam advice: Labelling a map or plan
1. Look at the location of each option on the map.
2. The answers will come in the same order as the
questions.
3. Listen for each place name and follow the speaker's
directions.

8. Now listen and choose
the correct answer for
Questions 6-10.
Exercise 5

9. Word formation
Complete each of the sentences below with a word in the box.
1. The key to good health is eating a balanced diet.
2. Cooking at home can help people eat more…….
3. Hospitals can become ................. if they are not very clean.
4. People need exercise as well as a .... diet.
5. Being generally active is much .................. than doing lots of
exercise just occasionally.
6. Employees should be the .................. people in the hospital.
Vocabulary
Healthy unhealthy healthier healthiest healthily

10. Which of the words in the box in Exercise 1 ...
is a noun? health
is an adverb?
are adjectives?
Exercise 2

11. Work in pairs. Which of the suffixes or prefixes
underlined in the words below ...
 forms a noun? ness
 forms an adverb?
 form an adjective?
 give a word an opposite or negative meaning?
Exercise 3
fitness stressful reasonable inactive
irregular risky generally careless unusual

12. IELTS candidates often use the wrong form of words or misspell
words because of changes in form. Correct the mistake in each
sentence.
1. In general, people should eat more healthy and do some exercise.
2. Pesticides may be harmy to our health.
3. Some farmers feel that using natural fertiliser is too
unconvenient.
4. The media often give usefull advice about food.
5. There has been a slightly drop in the popularity of fast food in my
country.
6. I don't think that wealth people should get the best food.
7. Most people can easy do some exercise.
8. The number of people who live to 100 has increased dramaticaly.
Exercise 4

13. The end