Complete IELTS Bands 6.5-7.5 Workbook Without Answers
Complete IELTS Bands 6.5-7.5 Workbook Without Answers
Complete IELTS Bands 6.5-7.5 Workbook Without Answers
Complete
IELTS Bands 6.5–7.5
Workbook without Answers
Rawdon Wyatt
Contents
2 Colour my world 12
3 A healthy life 18
6 IT society 36
Recording scripts 54
Acknowledgements 62
Contents 3
Listening Section 1 2 Look at the Exam task below and decide what sort
of information you need to complete each gap.
1 Look at the advertisement on a college
notice board. From the information in the
Questions 1–12
advertisement, can you predict what you are
going to hear? Complete the form below.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND /
OR A NUMBER for each answer.
Name: 1
Sex: Female
Occupation: 2 student at
Brookfields University studying
on 3 Course (BA).
Contact details
Phone: 4
Email: 5 @chatbox.co.uk
Availability: Up to 6 per week.
Other information
Care for the Community
• Reason for applying: Would like
Part-time student volunteers wanted.
7
Can you spare a few hours each week to help • Area of interest: Children with
out in your local community? We urgently 8
need volunteers to help us run and support
a range of local care services. We especially • Experience: Has recently done similar
need people who can: work at a 9 . Found it
10 .
- offer care and assistance to the elderly
• Perceived strengths: Has excellent
- help those with mobility problems
11 . Also listens to people.
- provide support for young people from
disadvantaged backgrounds.
12 arranged for Wednesday 10th
For more information, visit September.
www.care4thecommunity.co.uk
6 Unit 1
1
4 Look carefully at your answers and check to
make sure: 2
Vocabulary 7
Dependent prepositions
1 Complete each sentence with one word from the
first box and one from the second box. Then
write your answers in the crossword. 8
Reading Section 1
1 You are going to read a passage about gap years.
Skim the passage. Which of these best describes
the writer’s purpose? Circle A, B or C.
8 Unit 1
Questions 11–13
Answer the questions below.
2 Now look at Questions 1–13 below and underline
Choose NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the
the key words and phrases. Then read the passage
passage for each answer.
and answer the questions.
11 According to Agnes Eldad, what do people
need in order to benefit from an ICYE exchange
Questions 1–5 programme?
Do the following statements agree with the 12 Who does Agnes Eldad plan to work with
information in the Reading passage? when she finishes her ICYE programme?
Write:
13 What does Agnes Eldad have now that she
TRUE if the statement agrees with the didn’t have before she came to the UK?
information
FALSE if the statement contradicts the
information
3 Review your answers. For Questions 6–13, make
NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this sure that you have not used more than the
1 The majority of young people who go travelling maximum allowed number of words.
during their gap year must work in order to
finance their trip.
2 Taking a gap year can give young people
time to consider whether or not they want to
continue with their studies.
Student’s Book, page 120 2 Underline the correct words or phrases in bold in
these sentences.
1 Complete the passage with expressions from the
1 My second more favourite / favourite subject
box. Use each expression once only.
was Art.
10 Unit 1
300
The graph below shows the percentage change in
places where students lived over five decades.
200
Summarise the information by selecting
and reporting the main features, and make
100 comparisons where relevant.
45
by just over by the same amount
continuous and steady differences less marked 40
Percentage of students
25
At the beginning of the five-year period, about half of
20
the school leavers surveyed looked for work. Of the
remaining 500, 300 went to university and 200 took a 15
had fallen 2 a hundred, while the Room in a shared house or flat with other students Students hall of residence
latter had risen 3 . Meanwhile, the Paying guest with a host family At home with own family
Reading Section 2 B But why purple? At that time, purple dye was an
expensive substance produced in a complicated,
1 Quickly read the passage below, which is about foul-smelling and time-consuming process. This
the colour purple. Match the names of the people involved boiling thousands of molluscs in water
(1–6) with the thing they do or did (a–e). There is in order to harvest their glandular juices. The
one person who does not match any of the letters. technique had originally been developed by the
1 William Perkin Phoenicians over a thousand years previously, and
2 August Wilhelm von Hofmann it hadn’t changed since. Cheaper but poorer quality
3 Simon Garfield purple dyes could be made from lichens using an
4 Queen Victoria equally messy and unpleasant procedure, but they
5 Dr Max Luscher were not as bright, and the colour quickly faded. It
6 Julia Kubler was no surprise, therefore, that good purple dye was
a rare and precious thing, and clothes dyed purple
a believed that colours could be used to treat
were beyond the financial means of most people.
illnesses
b wrote a biography about an historical figure C However, times have changed. In the great
c uses colours as a form of alternative medicine consumer democracy of the 21st century, even the
d invented an artificial dye most humble citizen can choose it as the colour of
e taught chemistry their latest outfit. For that privilege, we must thank
a young 19th century research chemist, William
Perkin. A talented 15-year-old when he entered
the Royal College of Chemistry in London in 1853,
An invention to dye for: Perkin was immediately appointed as laboratory
assistant to his tutor, August Wilhelm von Hofmann.
the colour purple He became determined to prove Hofmann’s claim
that quinine, a drug used to treat fevers such as
malaria, could be synthesised in a laboratory.
However, rather than the cure desperately needed
A 19th century research chemist was trying to
for people dying from malaria in tropical countries,
make medicine when, instead, he came up with
he produced little more than a black, sticky mess
a coloured dye that has ensured the world is a
that turned purple when dissolved in industrial
brighter place.
alcohol. Perkin’s experiments could have been a
A Of all the colours, purple has perhaps the most complete waste of time, but to his surprise and,
powerful connotations. From the earliest cultures ultimately, financial benefit, his purple liquid turned
to the present day, people have sought to harness out to be a long-lasting dye that was to transform
its visual power to mark themselves out as better fashion.
than those around them. From bishops to kings, D Perkin repeated his experiments in an improvised
pop stars to fashion models, its wearing has laboratory in his garden shed, perfecting the process
been a calculated act of showing off. In ancient for making the substance he had called mauveine
Rome, for example, purple was such a revered after the French mallow plant. It was, says Simon
colour that only the emperor was allowed to Garfield, the author of Mauve which details Perkin’s
wear it. Indeed, an emperor who was referred life and work, an astonishing breakthrough. ‘Once
to as porphyrogenitus, (‘born to the purple’) was you could do that you could make colour in a factory
especially important, since this meant that he had from chemicals rather than insects or plants. It
inherited his position through family connections opened up the prospect of mass-produced artificial
rather than seizing power through military force. dyes and made Perkin one of the first scientists to
12 Unit 2
bridge the gap between pure chemistry and its F In the alternative medical practice of colour
industrial applications.’ It didn’t take long for the therapy, which practitioners say can trace its
chemist, still only 18, to capitalise on his creation, origins back to ancient India, the ‘purple range’
patenting the product, convincing his father and colours of indigo and violet are vital. They refer
brother to back it with savings, and finding a to spiritual energy centres known as chakras and
manufacturer who could help him bring it rapidly to are situated in the head. The colours and their
the market. The buying public loved it, and clothes ‘medical’ qualities were first officially listed by the
coloured with purple started appearing in shops up Swiss scientist Dr Max Luscher, who said that
and down the country. appropriately coloured lights, applied to specific
Appropriately, considering the origins of Perkins’ chakras, could treat ailments from depression to
colour, he was to receive a helping hand from grief. Julia Kubler is one of Britain’s leading colour
the two most important women of the day. Queen therapists and has been using colours to treat
Victoria caused a sensation when she stepped patients at her clinic at Manningtree, Essex, for 15
out at the Royal Exhibition in 1862 wearing a silk years. Purple, she says, ‘is consistent with intuition
gown dyed with mauveine. In Paris, Napoleon III’s and higher understanding, with spirituality and
wife, Empress Eugenie, amazed the court when meditation. It combines the coolness of blue with a
she was seen wearing it. To propel the scientist bit of red that makes it not just passive but active.’
further on the way to a great fortune, the fashion of It is hardly the most outlandish of claims for this
the time was for broad skirts that, happily for him, most enigmatic of colours. Variously touted as
needed a lot of his revolutionary new dye. the colour of everything from insanity to equality,
E Perkins, ever the serious scientist, would have it is enjoying a new role as the symbol of political
been among the first to point out that his mauve compromise. Purple may have had its origins in the
is just one of a range of colours described in ancient world, but thanks to a young chemist, it still
everyday language as purple. Not itself a true has a brilliant future.
colour of the spectrum – that position is given
to indigo and violet – purple normally refers to 2 Look at Questions 1–14 below, and underline
those colours which inhabit the limits of human the key words and phrases. Then look for the
perception in the area between red and violet. answers in the passage.
Newton excluded the colour from his colour wheel.
Scientists today talk about the ‘line of purples’ Questions 1–6
which include violet, mauve, magenta, indigo
The reading passage has six sections, A–F.
and lilac.
Choose the correct heading for each section from
the list of headings below.
List of headings
i From the laboratory to the High Street
ii Seeking royal support
iii An unexpected but fortunate side result
iv The healing power of purple
v An old problem
vi Standing out from the crowd
vii Finding an alternative cure for a common
illness
viii Part of a larger family
ix An ancient manufacturing practice
1 Section A 4 Section D
2 Section B 5 Section E
3 Section C 6 Section F
Colour my world 13
14 Unit 2
Colour my world 15