IELTS Foundation Answer Key - Past 1

IELTS Foundation Student’s Book
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1 Studying Abroad
Listening 1 p6
Why study IELTS?
1
18
2 2b
3 29th October
4 0825 701 6924 (note, the other number is in Hong Kong)
5 (about) 3 (years)

Language focus 1 p6
Forming Questions
1 How old is he?
2 What are your hobbies?
3 Why are you taking IELTS?
4 What are you going to study?
5 What would you like to do in the future?
2
1 Can you speak Chinese?
2 How often do you speak English?
3 How old are you?
4 Why did you go there?
5 Who is teaching you / Who teaches you?
6 What are you doing?
7 How do I / you complete this form, please?
8 Where does he live now?

9 When will you go home? / When are you going home?
10 What time does it start?

Speaking skills p7
Expanding answers
1 b
2 a
3 e
4 g
5 f or d

Speaking 1 p7
Possible questions
1 Where do you live?
2 Have you got any brothers and sisters?
3 Do you have any hobbies?
4 What would you like to study?
5 What would you like to do in the future?

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Listening 2 p8
1 looking different / being tall
2 (the) (extreme) heat
3 Finland
4 read (anything / Japanese)

5 eat with / use chopsticks

Vocabulary p8
Dependent prepositions
Sentence a: good at, interested in
Sentence c: nervous about
Sentence d: frightened of
Sentence f: fascinated by

3
1 by
2 from
3 on
4 at
5 about
6 about

5
1 in
2 by
3 from
4 on
5 about
6 about

Reading 1 p9
2
• shock of a new environment, meeting lots of new people and learning the ways of a
different country
• being separated from the important people in you life: people you would normally talk to

at times of uncertainty…
• missing familiar sights, sounds and tastes
• being tired and jet-lagged
5
A 4
B 1
C 5
D 2
E 3

Multiple choice
1 B (paragraph B:
… you are still protected by the close memory of your home
culture
.)
2 A (paragraph E:
Next you may reject the differences you encounter.
)
3 D (encourage students to look at key words:
returning home, promote, warn)

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Listening 3 p11
Note completion

1 in touch with / in contact with
2 photo(graph)s
3 your country
4 (other) international students
5 (some) support

Writing 1 p12
Understanding key features of data
a key
b vertical axis
c bar chart
d horizontal axis
e axes
f line graph

3
1 Years from 96/97 to 00/01
2 Thousands of students
3 Subjects studied
4 b) Changes over time
5 Engineering and Technology, and Computer Sciences
6 Probably b) subjects, as students will probably pick out the fact that some subjects
increased in popularity, while others declined.

Writing an introductory statement
1 A: what the graph or chart shows but it is not written using exactly the same wording as
the question.
2 C: namely subjects which became more popular and those which became less popular –
this also summarizes how the writer has chosen to group the information
3 F: (see above)

4 T: after the main ideas have been introduced, more specific details can be added.

Describing data which shows changes over time
1 Biological Sciences
2 Computer Sciences
3 Engineering and Technology, Computer Sciences
4 Physical Sciences
5 Engineering and Technology
6 Medicine and Dentistry

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Language focus 2 p14
Understanding how sentences work
1.1
1 an adjective: sharp, popular
2 a linking word: although, and
3 a noun: Engineering, Technology, drop, popularity, subjects
4 an article: a, the
5 a preposition: to, of, in, with, from, over
6 an adverb: nearly, still, just
1.2
Engineering and Technology

2

Subject Verb Object/Complement/
Adverbial
1 Others dropped in popularity
2 This remained the least popular subject
of the five
3 Biological
Sciences
showed a steady increase…
4 There was a sharp increase in…
5 There was a slight fall…

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(1) More and more college students from the United States are going abroad to study. (2) In 1997
to 1998, 100,000 American students earned college credits abroad. (3) However, recent figures
show that while American students are leaving the country to study abroad, thousands of foreign
students are coming to study in the US. (4) In 1987 to 1998, there were 500,000 foreign students
studying at American colleges and universities, over 10% more than in the previous year.

Writing 2 p15
1
See model answer on page 160 of the Student’s Book.

Language focus 3 p16
Quantifiers
1
1 The students spend
a lot of time watching football. (we prefer not to use much / many in
positive statements)
2
The majority of the students prefer watching football to playing it. (majority usually takes

the definite article)
3
Some / Some of the students like playing basketball.
4 The students don’t spend
much / a lot of time playing basketball. (time is uncountable)
5
The number of students who play hockey is larger then the number who play football.
6
A large number of students enjoy watching football.
7 Several of the student
s don’t play any sport. (a plural group)
8 The students spend
a large amount of time watching sport.
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2
1 plural
2 questions / negative sentences, uncountable
3 countable
4 countable
5 uncountable
6 second

Study skills p17
Ways of recording vocabulary
2

1 3

2 4

3
1 a
2 e
3 d
4 f
5 g
6 c
7 b

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