Cities Built By The Sea IELTS Listening Answers

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Question 1 - 5
Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

1 Carla and Rob were surprised to learn that coastal cities

A contain nearly half the world’s population.

B include most of the world’s largest cities.

C are growing twice as fast as other cities.

2 According to Rob, building coastal cities near to rivers

A may bring pollution to the cities.

B may reduce the land available for agriculture.

C may mean the countryside is spoiled by industry.

3 What mistake was made when building water drainage channels in Miami in the 1950s ?

A There were not enough for them.

B They were made of unsuitable materials.

C They did not allow for the effects of climate change.

4 What do Rob and Carla think that the authorities in Miami should do immediately?

A take measures to restore ecosystems

B pay for a new flood prevention system

C stop disposing of waste materials into the ocean

5 What do they agree should be the priority for international action?

A greater coordination of activities

B more sharing of information

 C agreement on shared policies

Question 6 - 10
What decision do the students make about each of the following parts of their presentation?

Choose FIVE answers from the box and write the correct letter, A-G, next to questions.

List of Findings

A use visuals

B keep it short

C involve other students

D check the information is accurate

E provide a handout

F focus on one example

G do online research

6 Historical background

7 Geographical factors

8 Past mistakes

9 Future risks

10 International implications
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TUTOR: OK, so what I’d like you to do now is to talk to your partner about your presentations on
urban planning. You should have done most of the reading now, so I’d like you to share your
ideas, and talk about the structure of your presentation and what you need to do next.

CARLA : OK Rob. I’m glad we chose quite a specific topic – cities built next to the sea. It made it much
easier to find relevant information.

ROB: Yeah. And cities are growing so quickly – I mean, we know that more than half the world’s
population lives in cities now.

CARLA : Yeah, though that’s all cities, not just ones on the coast. But most of the biggest cities are
actually built by the sea. I’d not realised that before.

ROB: Nor me. And what’s more, a lot of them are built at places where rivers come out into the
sea. But apparently this can be a problem.

CARLA : Why?

ROB: Well, as the city expands, agriculture and industry tend to spread further inland along the
rivers, and so agriculture moves even further inland up the river. That’s not necessarily a
problem, except it means more and more pollutants are discharged into the rivers.

CARLA : So these are brought downstream to the cities?

ROB: Right. Hmm. Did you read that article about Miami, on the east coast of the USA?

CARLA : No.

ROB: Well, apparently back in the 1950s they build channels to drain away the water in case of
flooding.

CARLA : Sounds sensible.

ROB: Yeah, they spent quite a lot of money on them. But what they didn’t take into account was
global warming. So they built the drainage channels too close to sea level, and now sea
levels are rising, they’re more or less useless. If there’s a lot of rain, the water can’t run away,
there’s nowhere for it to go. The whole design was faulty.

CARLA : So what are the authorities doing about it now?

ROB: I don’t know. I did read that they’re aiming to stop disposing of waste into the ocean over
the next ten years.

CARLA : But that won’t help with flood prevention now, will it?

ROB: No. Really they just need to find the money for something to replace the drainage channels,
in order to protect against flooding now. But in the long term they need to consider the
whole ecosystem.

CARLA : Right. Really, though, coastal cities can’t deal with their problems on their own, can they? I
mean, they’ve got to start acting together at an international level instead of just doing their
own thing.

ROB: Absolutely. The thing is, everyone knows what the problems are and environmentalists have
a pretty good idea of what we should be doing about them, so they should be able to work
together to some extent. But it’s going to be a long time before countries come to a decision
on what principles they’re prepared to abide by.

CARLA : Yes, if they ever do.

CARLA : So I think we’ve probably got enough for our presentation. It’s only fifteen minutes.

ROB: OK. So I suppose we’ll begin with some general historical background about why coastal
cities were established. But we don’t want to spend too long on that, the other students will
already know a bit about it. It’s all to do with communications and so on.

CARLA : Yes. We should mention some geographical factors, things like wetlands and river estuaries
and coastal erosion and so on. We could have some maps of different cities with these
features marked.

ROB: On a handout you mean? Or some slides everyone can see?

CARLA : Yeah, that’d be better.

ROB: It’d be good to go into past mistakes in a bit more detail. Did you read that case study of the
problems there were in New Orleans with flooding a few years ago?

CARLA : Yes, We could use that as the basis for that part of the talk. I don’t think the other students
will have read it, but they’ll remember hearing about the flooding at the time.

ROB: OK. So that’s probably enough background.

CARLA : So then we’ll go on to talk about what action’s being taken to deal with the problems of
coastal cities.

ROB: OK. What else do we need to talk about? Maybe something on future risks, looking more at
the long term, if populations continue to grow.
CARLA : Yeah. We’ll need to do a bit of work there, I haven’t got much information, have you?

ROB: No. We’ll need to look at some websites. Shouldn’t take too long.

CARLA : OK. And I think we should end by talking about international implications. Maybe we could
ask people in the audience. We’ve got people from quite a lot of different places.

ROB: That’d be interesting, if we have time, yes. So now shall we …

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Question 1 - 6
Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

1 What led the group to choose their topic?

A Wildlife in city gardens

B They were interested in the effects of city growth

C They wanted to investigate a recent phenomenon

2 The exact proportion of land devoted to private gardens was confirmed by

A consulting some official documents.

B taking large-scale photos.

C discussions with town surveyors.

3 The group asked garden owners to

A take part in formal interviews

B keep a record of animals they saw

C get in contact when they saw a rare species

4 The group made their observations in gardens

A which had a large number of animal species

B which they considered to be representative

C which had stable populations of rare animals

5 The group did extensive reading on

A wildlife problems in rural areas

B urban animal populations

 C current gardening practices

6 The speaker focuses on three animal species because

A a lot of data has been obtained about them.

B the group were most interested in them.

C they best indicated general trends.

Question 7 - 10
Complete the table below. Write ONE WORD ONLY.

Animals Reason for population increase Comments

in gardens

7 Suitable stretches of water Massive increase in urban population

Hedgehogs Safe from 8 when in cities Easy to 9 them accurately

Song thrushes - a variety of 10 to eat Large survey starting soon

- more nesting places available
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Good morning. Today I'd like to present the findings of our Year 2 project on wildlife found in gardens
throughout our city. I'll start by saying something about the background to the project, then talk a little bit
about our research techniques, and then indicate some of our interim findings.

First of all, how did we choose our topic? Well, there are four of us in the group and one day while we were
discussing a possible focus, two of the group mentioned that they had seen yet more sparrow-hawks-one
of Britain's most interesting birds of prey - in their own city centre gardens and wondered why they were
turning up in these gardens in great numbers.

We were all very engaged by the idea of why wild animals would choose to inhabit a city garden. Why is it
so popular with wildlife when the countryside itself is becoming less so?

The first thing we did was to establish what proportion of the urban land is taken up by private gardens.
We estimated that it was about one fifth, and this was endorsed by looking at large-scale usage maps in
the town land survey office - 24% to be precise.

Our own informal discussions with neighbours and friends led us to believe that many garden owners had
interesting experiences to relate regarding wild animal sightings so we decided to survey garden owners
from different areas of the city. Just over 100 of them completed a survey once every two weeks for
twelve months - ticking off species they had seen from a pro forma list - and adding the names of any
rarer ones.

Meanwhile, we were doing our own observations in selected gardens throughout the city. We deliberately
chose smaller ones because they were by far the most typical in the city. The whole point of the project
was to look at the norm not the exception. Alongside this primary research on urban gardens, we were
studying a lot of books about the decline of wild animals in the countryside and thinking of possible
causes for this.

So what did we find? Well, so much that I just won't have time to tell you about here.If you're interested in
reading our more comprehensive findings, we've produced detailed graphic representations on the
college web-site and of course any of the group would be happy to talk to you about them. Just email us.

What we've decided to present today is information about just three species - because we felt these gave
a good indication of the processes at work in rural and urban settings as a whole.

The first species to generate a lot of interesting information was frogs. And there was a clear pattern here
- they proliferate where there is suitable water. Garden ponds are on the increase, rural ponds are
disappearing, leading to massive migration to the towns.
Hedgehogs are also finding it easier to live in urban areas - this time because their predators are not
finding it quite so attractive to leave their rural environment, so hedgehogs have a better survival rate in
cities. We had lots of sightings, so all in all we had no difficulties with our efforts to count their numbers
precisely.

Our final species is the finest of bird singers, the song thrush.On the decline in the countryside, they are
experiencing a resurgence in urban gardens because these days gardeners are buying lots of different
plants which means there's an extensive range of seeds around, which is what they feed on.

Another factor is the provision of nesting places - which is actually better in gardens than the countryside.
Hard to believe it, but it's true. Incidentally, we discovered that a massive new survey on song thrushes is
about to be launched, so you should keep an eye open for that.

Now, I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have...

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