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Before we get to the test itself, I want to go over briefly a few strategies that I hope you can put into use during this exercise.
The first thing I would like to say about's the listing test is that's to prepare properly.
You will needs to engage as many practice tests as you can.
The successful Isles candidates I've talked to in interviews at Isles cast dot com all say the same thing that practicing as many tests as they can is the key to getting a good score on the exam.
So practice practice practice now a couple of specific strategies to follow While you listen.
Um, the recording will give you some time to read the questions before you begin, so it's essential that you read the directions carefully and a CZ you know, sometimes you will be instructed to write only one word answers.
Sometimes you will be allowed to write three word answers.
Sometimes you are choosing answers from a list, so it's very important that you read and understand exactly what it is you're supposed to do.
Number to know what sort of information you are going to be listening to.
So again, as you know, Section one of the exam is an everyday English dialogue.
Section two is an everyday English monologue.
Section three is an academic dialogue or a training dialogue, and Section four is an academic monologue or a training model log.
So when you're looking at the questions as you prepare for the listening note, what type of data you're you're going to be listening to Is it a tour?
Is it students talking together?
Is it someone paying for a gym membership and try to prepare yourself mentally for the kind of vocabulary that you're going to encounter?
Number three Underlying key words in the text This is very important.
Number four predict What sort of information or were types could be the answer.
So sometimes if you're asked to fill in the blank and you see an article before that blank like the you know this is going to be now or sometimes you see if it's, for example of blank, and you can tell from the blank that it's gonna be a number you should mentally notes that at that section you will be listening for a number.
Okay, Number five, if possible, used the review time at the end of each listing section to preview the next sections questions, and this is a strategy that stronger students will use.
Okay, let's get started.
So now I'll explain what is gonna happen.
I'm going to use the pauses in the recording to explain what you should be doing.
As we progress through the exam.
I will not answer any of the questions until the next pause in the recording occurs, and that's at that time.
I will stop the recording and explain to you what the answers are so that you could You could check your progress as we move along.
Eilts listening block dot com Mark Eilts Listening Test one.
This recording is copyright English, Right?
Okay, so, as you know, the listing exam will have a little bit of preamble in the recording.
And we can use this time to start previewing our questions because as we've done so many practice exams before, we can only we only need to have listen toe what the recording is saying.
So in this first section were asked to complete the form or ask for no more than three words and or a number, and it looks as though we're we're listening to something about booking details for a trip.
Now pay attention to the answers that air filled already and pay attention to some of the key vocab we're going to need to know.
Turn to Section one Section one.
You will hear a conversation between a travel agent and a customer.
First, you have some time to look at questions.
123 Okay, so now we want to underline key information like the departure airport.
Uh, like the number of hotel nights were going to be there, the rival city.
And we want to listen to the example for who is who in this dialogue?
Maybe a woman or a man or two men.
Or you will see that there is an example that has been done for you on this occasion.
Only the conversation relating to this will be played first.
Hello, Palm Travel.
Hello.
I'm calling to inquire about one of your package deals.
Okay.
And which do you would that be?
Well, your pamphlet says you're offering an all inclusive trip to Jamaica for just shy of £1700 rights.
Could you clarify for me exactly what you mean by all inclusive?
The customer says he would like to visit Jamaica, So this has been written next to destination country.
Now we shall begin.
You should answer the questions as you listen, because you will not hear the recording a second time.
Listen carefully and answer questions.
123 e.
Hello, Palm travel.
Hello.
I'm calling to inquire about one of your package deals, okay.
And which deal with that?
Well, your comfort says you're offering an all inclusive trip to Jamaica for just shy of £1700 rights.
Could you clarify for me exactly what you mean by all inclusive, right?
Well, the package includes return airfare from London Heathrow Airport to Norman Manley International Airport, Norman Manley International Airport.
Is that in Montego Bay?
No, that's right in the capital, Kingston.
I see.
You'll arrive 11 a.m. local time and spend five nights of the ocean to tell in Kingston.
All of this is included in the package fee.
Of course, before you hear the rest of the conversation, you have some time to look at menopause.
Okay, so now let's just talk quickly about the answers you probably picked up.
They share all of this information in the recording, so the departure airport is very closely linked to the departure city.
It is Heathrow International, the um through international, the arrival city.
They trying to throw us in the recording a little bit by the man says, Does it is the arrival airports.
Norman Manley is that in Montego Bay?
And she says, No, that's in the capital, Kingston, and then they talk about travel times, the total hotel nights.
Now we knew when we were we were reading the questions ahead of time.
This was going to be a number, and the correct number is five.
Okay, now three recording is going to give us some time to preview the Net next set of questions.
So let's go ahead and do that questions for 2 10 Okay, so we're proving the questions.
We're looking for facilities in the hotel.
There's a five star restaurant access to the We know this is going to be a noun breakfast.
This could be a number.
This could be a kind of restaurant, a separate booking that C bus tours to other cities.
Listen for what this is, it could be a kind of bus or could be a hotel.
Devon House mansion, years old.
This will likely be a number Kingston Day.
Trips came in Park.
We can see certain kinds of races, so let's listen what kind of race that is.
Jamaican visa processing usually has more than a week can be attained via so what could be obtained.
Now listen and answer questions about to 10.
Okay and date for lunch and dinner will be provided.
Oceans Hotel has a beautiful pool with a swim up bar.
Several five star restaurants beach access WiFi, a gym with both the sword, her in a steam room on optional day trips to several Jamaican lab box.
And all of this is included in the package price.
No, let me clarify when I said you will be provided.
Lunch and dinner is part of a package deal that does not apply to all restaurants within the hotel, only the hotel's tropical grill.
So that means if I go to the other restaurants, we don't have to pay.
Yes, anything except Tropical group.
Also, please know that you would need to fend for yourself a breakfast time.
What do most travelers do for breakfast?
The oceans attend is only a short walking distance from an international food court.
I suspect most travelers do breakfast there.
I see.
Our package provides travellers with optional day trips to landmarks within Kingston.
I was hoping to visit Montego Bay during my state bus.
Tours to neighboring cities are available, but these wouldn't be included in the package on dhe regarding Montego Bay.
I believe you would not be able to visit and return to Kingston within a single day, really want is that well, the bus ride itself is maybe five hours or so.
Give or take.
I see.
So visiting Montego Bay would require an extra hotel booking, which the holiday package deal would not cover.
Okay, scratch that.
So the day trips into Kingston.
What can I expect?
The day trips to locations like the Devon House Mansion, which is a beautiful historical landmark dating back over 100 years.
The Botanical gardens came on his horse racing park in Port Antonio or other areas you will be able to visit.
Kingston is brimming with historically interesting locations.
Sounds wonderful.
So should I book this package for you?
Sure.
Let's go for it.
Okay on.
Will you be traveling alone?
Yes, it would just be me.
And when would you like to be next week, if possible?
If I could depart, say, August 20th or 21st that would be ideal.
The only issue is that you will need to obtain the Jamaican visa pride to leaving.
I'm not sure you'd be able to do that with only a week's time.
Is your travel time flexible?
Unfortunately, not I only have a week away from my responsibilities with work.
Well, we may be able to help.
If you could come in today and leave your passport with me, I can get you to fill out the necessary forms and have my assistant run everything over to the Jamaican Embassy.
They do have a rush service for Visa issuing, but it is a little more expensive than the normal process.
Okay, that sounds all right.
And they go ahead and book you on an August 20th flight to ensure your spot is reserved.
Great.
When can you come by my office?
I can be there within the hour.
Okay.
And how will you be settling with us?
I'll put it on my credit card.
Perhaps we can arrange all this when I see you.
That sounds fine.
See you shortly.
Okay.
So we finished that listening.
Now, one thing that I forgot to point out is that we should have noted that all of these answers are only one word or one number.
So three listening was very straightforward.
We heard the facilities in the hotel.
She went one by one through all of them.
And you probably caught that.
She stated there is beach access.
So the answer to this would be access to the And of course, we predicted correctly.
It is a now, So this should be beach.
Okay.
And then she talks about day trips to Jamaica.
Uh, breakfast.
Now.
She mentioned something about a restaurant called the Tropical Grill.
And she said that the tropical grill will cover lunch and dinner so you don't have to pay if you go for lunch and dinner.
But breakfast.
She uses the term fend for yourself, which in English, just means you have to take care of yourself.
Nobody's gonna give you something or help you at this time.
So the correct answer here for breakfast would have been zero zero.
Restaurants are covered by the trip feet, lunch and dinner.
Okay.
One restaurant, which was the tropical grill bus tours to other cities.
They're not included in the package.
As she said, they may require a separate booking.
And we thought correctly that this probably would have been a noun.
It was a separate hotel booking.
This isn't lined up very well.
Anyway, you know it should be in there.
The man expresses interest in seeing things within the city of Kingston, the woman says.
Devon House Mansion, a landmark that is over years old.
And this is a number, as we correctly predicted it was over 100 years old.
Mentions Botanical Gardens K.
Manus Park.
She said that there are horse races that came in this park probably may have gotten that one in Port Antonio.
Now the Jamaican visa processing bits.
There's a bit of an issue because the man is, is he's got to goto work or he he has commitments with work, I believe, he said, and she says that that's fine, that they will be able to get his visa quick via rush service.
The only issue is that he would have to pay a little bit more.
And finally, I'm sure most of you caught that The departure date was August 20th.
There was a bit of confusion.
I think the man says he mentions 21st or 20th and then they finally decide on the 20th.
Okay, good, let's continue the listening.
That is the end of section one.
You now have half a minute to check your answers.
Okay, so we have half a minute to check her answers.
We feel confident about her answers.
So let's go to the next section now.
Here were given a map.
No more than three words.
We see there's a ground floor and there's a mezzanine.
Three questions 11 to 14 will come in order.
So the tour starts here.
We're facing the main reception desk.
To our right.
Is a restaurant sizzling?
Something that's probably a name is a pine tree.
Let's see.
There are two things here.
They both point to this blank with listen carefully.
A led screen led screen and escalators and into the rate.
Some being out.
Turn to section team that's here.
Section two.
You will hear a hotel manager giving a tour to new employees.
First, you have some time to look at questions.
11 to 20.
Okay, uh, there's a spot.
There's a gym, and then there's something behind the gym.
Now let's go up to the mezzanine.
As you know, a mezzanine is the floor that it's not for rooms.
It's the floor above the ground floor.
Uh, okay, so up the stairs we see a portrait.
We see three empty what are probably rooms, because these three are also rooms, bathroom, something here.
A portrait of Mr Walton will have to listen to see who Mr Walton is.
Now, listen carefully and answer questions 11 to 20.
So I'm sorry.
Actually, uh, I'm just gonna That's the power that I have here.
I forgot to show you that there are actually a couple of other questions here.
What two things are the people given at the end of the tour?
Okay, Jim passes.
Name takes staff.
Lift key cards.
Time, Kurds.
Right.
And if everyone's ready, let's get started.
At the moment, we're facing the main reception desk, where most of you will be working too, right?
You can see the sash, a restaurant, and for the down the hall, you see the sizzling grill that we try to encourage guests to eat in house whenever possible.
And after this to let you all try a small audition, both restaurants.
So you feel more confident referring guests there.
Let's turn lived and walk down the hall.
And the first thing you see is the alternate pine tree.
Now, this tree was planted by Mr Walton on the day he opened this hotel, which makes this tree more than 50 years old on the right, you see, the main guest lives between the lifts is an led scheme where we welcome special visitors to the hotel on display.
The day's weather.
There's some of you may have had that stinks.
Stayed with us last year during the final leg of his UK tour as a welcoming gesture of orders, Arrival week latest music in the main hall and displayed photos off his more memorable shows on the screen.
Okay, let's continue down the hole next to the guests.
Lives are escalators that won't take you to the mezzanine.
There, you'll find Mr Walton study on several meeting rooms.
But before we head up there, let's walk further along the home because here we see these large doors on our right leading to the main dining home.
Walton in Horse, a knave ridge of 35 weddings during the summer months.
So I imagine that many of you will be spending rather a lot of time behind these doors.
Next to the dining hall, you'll find a spot that the gym and pool area could be accessed by walking through the spot, But please note that we do not permit Children into the gym area that any circumstances, unless they're going to the pool with an adult.
Okay, let's backtrack to the escalators that will go up to the mezzanine.
A kind tell is predominantly business travelers, unless we have no fewer than five bookable meeting rooms keeping with our nature theme were given these rooms Effie names from the left, the flora bark Peto moss on twig.
Oh, I'm sorry, I'm mistaken.
Mr.
Walton Study is the third door from the left, but yes, the meeting rooms around the study our flora bark petal Morse twig.
But as Mr Water is no longer with us, we know because study available to guess as a personal workplace, right opposite the six rooms, you'll find a staff lift, and at the end of the day's tour, you begin key card that will allow you access to this lift.
And to the left of this lift is a four trade off Mr Walked in himself.
Well, that about finishing the tour.
If there are no questions, let's go downstairs and had two sashes for a few samplers.
Okay, now let's go over some of the answers.
There were a few points in this listening where they try to misdirect you a little bit.
I hope you didn't fall victim to that.
So the tour starts.
We're listening for number 11.
They say we're facing this man says we're facing the main reception desk.
To our right is sashes Restaurant, and next to that is the sizzling.
And it is a name, as we predicted correctly, the sizzling grilled and that would be with a capital G.
Okay, and we turned left.
We were walking down the hole.
Hey, says between the that was the key.
The key to getting this answer between the the guest lifts, just lifts is an led screen.
And then he talks about sting and dusting, having a concert there.
Then they proceed to walk down the hole, and to the right are escalators.
And then he talks briefly about going up the escalators to see Mr Walton study.
But that's a misdirection.
They continue down the hole, he says, But first, let's continue down the hole.
Okay, so I hope you didn't start going up to the mezzanine and looking at where to put in answers continuing down the hole so they talk about the large double doors, and this was the main dining hole, the main dining hall.
And he says, this is where many of you will be working in the main dining hall.
They talk a bit about the number of weddings that they serve every year.
Then they talk about the spawn, the gym and how behind the gym is the pool.
Children are allowed to go to the pool.
They're not allowed to go to the gym.
But that information really doesn't concern us at all.
It's, uh, it was just share Thio misdirect us.
Okay, then he says, Let's backtrack will go up the escalators So they go up to the mezzanine on the mezzanine.
They talk about these three rooms, and he says that all of the rooms have an earthy name, so we have peddled mosque twig.
So he first lists the rooms.
But he makes a mistake, he says.
Mr.
Walton study is the third door from the left, so the third door from left is Mr Bolton's study.
He mentions Mr Walton study twice, once while they're walking along the ground floor and once while they're up here.
The first room is the Flora meeting room and second is the bark meeting.
Okay.
And then they talk a bit about the portrait of Mr Walton.
I do not believe they mentioned the portrait of an English landscape, nor did they mention the bathrooms.
Nor did they mention the hotel storage room.
So a bit too much information in this diagram.
Here we have the staff lift, and he says that everyone will get a key card for the staff lift.
And then he says, going down to try some sam samples at Sashes Restaurant.
So three correct answers here would be staffed lift key cards, letter C and F restaurant food samples.
This is where they're not getting menus.
They're getting samples.
Case of CNF.
Correct answers.
Okay, let's proceed to the next section.
That is the end of section two.
You now have half a minute to check your answers.
Okay, so we're gonna go ahead to section three instead of reviewing our answers were choosing three letters a T G.
Which three question types do the professors decide to include in the exam?
We know this is a dialogue academic in nature.
Okay, True false not given written essay.
Fill in the blanks.
Multiple choice questions.
Okay, Likely this is going to be matching vocabulary to what we hear.
To see Questions 24 to 26.
Choose three answers from the box and write the correct letter.
A T F.
Next two Questions 24 to 26 which grade now turn to Section three, Section three.
You will hear two history professors discussed the structure of an upcoming exam.
They will give their students first.
You have some time to look at questions 21 to 30.
Okay, which create waiting applies to each section of the examination.
This is definitely going to be numbers.
Let's just listen closely.
Those numbers here write one word.
Answer a number for for each answer, the professor's decided to include essay questions That's going to be a number of the professors decide to make each essay question so many words and link.
That's probably a number to the professor's assumed that students will spend.
How many minutes?
Likely a number Professor Kate is going to draw up section.
Okay, we know the answer is going to be 12 or three because we can see here.
There are three sections to the exam.
Now listen carefully and answer questions 21 to 30.
Franklin would not be a good time to talk about next one's final exam.
Hi, Katie.
Yeah, sure.
Please come in.
I thought we could brain stone exam structures a little bit.
I feel we should include at least one analytical writing assignment to challenge our students ability to think critically about what they studied.
Great.
Yes.
And I say, question would give them an opportunity to demonstrate what they know, too.
But could we make this the last section on the example?
Perhaps we could start with a question type that would test the student's knowledge of raw facts.
The first and second World walls of topics particularly heavy on dates, numbers, names and places.
Yes, good point.
But I want to avoid the truth.
False, not given question type thing.
This time around, it made up a significant portion of our mid term four months ago.
It might be worth trying something different this time.
Yes, that's true.
But it is such an effective way of pinpointing which students have been completing their take readings and which of not would multiple choice questions be equally effective?
Yes, I suppose they would And, like the Truthful is not given question types.
They would be fairly easy to grade.
Okay, So should we say that the multiple choice questions will make up 20 of the total 100 marks on the exam?
That sounds all right.
Could you be responsible for pulling those questions together?
Yeah, sure.
Now, when you and I last talked to you iterated desire to test students ability to organize large blocks of information.
What about making section two of the exam in question where the students must create a chronologically accurate paragraph out of disorganized sentences?
Terrific.
Hey, what about due to separate paragraphs explaining precursors to each war?
Those would be some pretty broad paragraphs, but I suppose it could be done.
We could have the students write numbers next to each sentence indicating its position in chronologically accurate paragraph.
That sounds all right.
Okay.
Leave those two paragraphs to me.
I'll draw them up this afternoon.
Should we award 10 marks to each?
How about 15?
Each finalist?
A question could make up the remainder of the examinations, Mark.
Okay.
Now, about that final section of the exam, I was thinking that perhaps we could have students complete too short essays instead of one lawn essay.
So one for World War One and one for World War Two.
What I say questions.
Were you thinking Well, the first dates?
A question could be something about wartime strategy.
Like, Why do you feel trench warfare dominated so much of the first World War?
Or how did trench warfare affect the duration of the war?
Okay.
And the second?
Well, I was thinking we could tie critical thinking into this question.
What about something like choose a strategic error made by the excess palace during World War Two and explain how this helped the Allies.
Oh, that will be challenging.
Yes, we'll have to tell the students the study hard.
How about a word?
Count 500 for the two essays That sounds about right.
Okay, so let me recap.
What have noted here?
Section one Multiple Choice Questions section to sentence ordering on Section 32 essays at 250 words each.
Altogether, the exam makes of 100 marks.
The students will have two hours for the exam, which should be ample time, I would imagine so.
I just hope that the two essay questions on too much.
It should be all right.
I don't think Section one and two will take well prepared students more than about 30 minutes.
All right, let's go with it.
So your handling section one all handle sections two and three.
Great.
Should we meet this time tomorrow to compile what we have?
Yes, that sounds fine.
Thanks, Kate.
Okay, frankly, until tomorrow, then.
Okay.
We'll stop there.
Uh, now very challenging.
Listening.
That one there.
A two different points in the listing.
Professor Kate goes over the she states exactly what they're going to include.
S o the three question types that will be included.
The very 1st 1 they mentioned is the essay.
So there's gonna be an essay question tight.
So be it.
And you heard later that there were actually going to separate us, ese?
Um, they were going to talk about true, false not given.
But Professor Kate says that she wants to avoid that because I believe that they had included that in a previous exams.
So they decide to go with multiple choice questions, which is d.
And then finally they talk about ordering sentences into a paragraph.
Now, the written paragraph kind of throws you off a little bit.
But towards the end of the listing, Kate says very clearly that this this question type is sentenced, ordering, and she describes it earlier, but not with those words.
Something correct.
Answer.
There is F now.
How are this different sections going to be waited?
Section one, which is the They just said that Section one was going to be the multiple choice questions.
They were going to be 20 questions, they say at one mark each subsection one would be 20% letter C.
Section two.
There were going to be two paragraphs.
Each of those paragraphs waited 15 each, so Section two in total would be 30% kind of threw you off there.
Some people probably couldn't be, and Section three was going to make up the remainder.
They don't say explicitly 50% but if we had 20% 30% then the remainder would be 50% F, right one word or a number for each answer.
So the professors decide to include how many's essay questions on the exam.
The answer here is to the professor's decide to make each essay.
How many words in length a game they try to throw us because they say the total word count is 500.
So if there are two essays, then these essays would be 250 words each.
The professor's assume the students will spend how many minutes on section three.
So they mentioned that students that study hard will spend 30 minutes on sections one and on section two.
So they imagine the students will a lot an hour and 1/2 to section three.
So the number of minutes would be 90.
Professor Kate is going to draw up a section of the exam, and she's gonna do section one and the other professor is going to do sections two and three.
Okay, let's go back to our listening here and find a section four.
That is the end of section three.
You now have half a minute to check your answers.
Okay, so we're going to use this time to preview choose the correct letter A, B, C or D.
Now we want to underline, keep vocabulary according to lecture people awfully mistakenly think the boomerang mistakenly key underlying this.
Okay, we have a few answers here.
The lecturer compares the boomerang to airplane wings compares and both airplane wings and boomerang that's underlined those returning boomerangs, flan and access that is perpendicular to underline perpendicular.
This is a very specific piece of vocabulary.
We'll probably hear this in the in the listener turn to section full Section four.
You will hear a lecturer talk about the origins off the boomerang.
First, you have some time to look at questions.
31 to 35 so 2 35 34 non returning boomerangs are thought to have been.
Okay, let's underline these words returning and non returning because it looks like we have two different kinds of boomerangs.
And, uh, okay, now let's go to 35.
The lecturer makes it clear that returning boomerangs underlined returning boom rings operate the same.
Were less functional, indigenous, indigenous to be native from one area slightly smaller than non or tuning boomerangs.
Now listen carefully and answer questions 31 to 35 From the outset of civilization, humans have used their ingenuity to simplify their lives through the development of tools.
It's remarkable how many identical tolls were developed independently in completely different parts of the world.
The spear or the bow and arrow, for example.
The axe, the knife, the bucket rope.
All of these are tools that can be found on any continent where early human populations existed, despite the fact that these early populations never encountered each other.
But did you know that the boomerang is one such tall?
Perhaps you thought the boomerang Woz and always had bean from Australia.
Well, you may be surprised to know that the boomerang was developed independently in several parts of the world.
Before I explain, let's first define what a boomerang actually is.
In its most traditional form, a boomerang is a 1 to 2 foot long tool that's often made of wood.
It has a bend in the middle, which makes the boomerang look a little like a pair of airplane wings.
In fact, airplane wings or a good analogy to May when describing a boomerang.
If you were to look closely at the boomerang, you would see that the bottoms of the wings are flat while the tops of the wings around it.
This is a game very similar to the wings of an airplane.
This design is what gives the boom rain left and allows it to stay aloft longer than a simple throwing sticks such as a spear.
It's also the reason why the boomerang returns to the throw up.
When a boomerang is thrown, it flies on an access perpendicular to where it's being thrown from.
What this means is that if the boomerang has thrown correctly, it should return to its throat.
Boomerangs capable of doing this are known as returning boomerangs known.
Returning boom rings, as you can probably guess, do not come back to their throws because they lack around its side.
Both sides of this type of boomerang are flat, with its simpler design.
Anthropologists believe that this Borane had been developed well before the returning boomerang, although commonly believed that the returning boomerang was used for hunting.
This has been proven untrue.
It's more likely that the returning boomerang has always been used for fun or sport.
It's the non returning boomerang that was used for hunting purposes.
Oh, touch on hunting uses in a second.
First, let's talk about history before you hear the rest of the conversation.
Okay, we'll get to that in a second.
Okay, so the questions now there's a lot of text to kind of work through as you're listening, but, um, they're pretty straightforward.
31 According to the lecture people.
Often Lee often mistakenly think the boomerang returns to its thrower.
Didn't mention that is the earliest example of heavier than air.
Flight was developed exclusively in Australia, is a simple tool and was developed exclusively in Australia.
He says.
Something about I bet you thought that it is native to Australia s So this is the mistake he's talking about the answer.
There would be c That's great.
These as we go along.
Okay, Uh, the lecturer compares the boomerang to airplane wings because they're both.
Now he talks for a good 20 seconds about the similarities between airplane wings and a boomerang made of wood and are bent in the middle.
The bent part is true.
He mentions that he didn't say anything about being made of wood, though heavier than air.
No, it doesn't mention that that could be true of similar proportions.
Again, Not really mentioned, rounded on top and flat on bottom.
That's the answer.
That's what he states.
They're both around, have around a top and they're flat on ball.
Returning boomerangs fly on an axis that is perpendicular to the thrower, the direction of the wind.
It's flat edge, It's round edge, and the answer is the thrower.
And that's the reason why the returning boomerang comes back to the person that launches it.
Non returning boomer rings are thought to have been heavier than returning boomer rings used for sports.
Not that, because we know he mentions that returning boomer rings were used for sport in front, made to return to their throwers.
Know because it's a non returning Emory made before returning boomerangs.
Um, and he let her.
A is not mentioned, so the answer is D made before returning boomerangs in the recording.
Hey, says the anthropologists believe that they had a purpose which was hunting, and therefore they were likely made before the returning boomerang was made.
The lecture makes it clear that were turning boomerangs operates the same as non returning boomerangs.
That's not true.
He spends quite a few minutes talking about the directions that the two different purposes for the boomerangs or less functional than number returning boom rings.
Yep, could be our indigenous to Australia, note, he clarifies, that are slightly smaller than non returning boomerangs.
No he mentions nothing about that.
The answer is let her be.
Non returning boomerangs are more functional because they are used to hunt.
Returning boom rings were used for sport.
Okay, let's go to the final section here.
And, uh, I'll just give us a couple extra seconds to read because we didn't use that time before for the review in the Read Ahead.
To read this section of the boomerang is a fascinating tool that traces its origins back.
Many started Now you have some time to look at questions 36 to 40.
Okay, so this is likely.
Well, these air one word answers only.
So this could be centuries.
Could be something for a period of time.
Boomerangs were even found in the King Tutankhamen.
This is gonna be a noun, Has some relation to Tutankhamen.
Many historians feel the boomerang used continued in Australia several centuries longer than the rest of the world because of Australia's is something that's really caused the boom.
A ring to be used longer British.
Now listen carefully.
Boomerang Hughes itself goes way back and has its roots in some surprising places from 30,000 years ago in southern Poland to the boomerangs found lining King Tutankhamen's tomb to British documentation of boomerang used among Australia's Aborigines in the 18 hundreds.
The boomerang has a long history, so an obvious question is why the boomerang has become so uniquely associating with Australia when it has so much history in other places.
Well, most anthropology is today agree that Australia's geographic isolation is a major cause.
When British settlers started arriving in Australia, they found people using a tool that had not been used in other parts of the world for many centuries.
Thus the boomerang walls, in a way reborn and its new home was seen as Australia.
Now let's return to the subject of hunting.
Boomerangs are much more effective hunting tools in the open, arid landscapes than they are in foliage dense environments with large stretches of Dr Flat Desert.
It is no wonder an effective tool like the boomerang spread across Australia.
This widespread used to the tool is not matched anywhere else in the world, and it is told that this is because it best matches Australian terrain.
Okay, if there aren't any questions, I'd like to talk about how a boomerang is made, that is a as the end of the listening s 01 word answers traces its origins back many and I believe he gives the example of thousands of years ago s Oh, this would be many millennia.
A single word that would mean thousands of years bullrings were even found in the Okay, we probably could have guessed this answer accident even listening.
Tomb of King Tutankhamen.
Many historians feel boomerang used continued in Australia several centuries longer than the rest of the world because of Australia's on.
And I believe he even uses the word in the listing isolation.
So Australia is apart from the rest of the world.
And this is why the rest of world, perhaps, or other parts the world stopped using the boomerang and Australia continue to use it now.
This is the one question that I believe is stated a little bit earlier on.
So you had to kind of be listening.
British documented the use of boomerangs among the Aborigines and this is not journalists.
It's not explorers its settlers and he uses that word is role.
Australia's also encouraged the use of the tool to spread and Australia's latrine also encouraged use of the tool to spread.
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