IELTS Foundation Answer Key - Past 4

IELTS Foundation Student’s Book
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8 What’s the alternative?
Reading p90
2
Suggested answers
Conventional: 1, 3, 4
Alternative: 2, 5, 6

Classification
1 I (This therapy was invented in the early nineteenth …)
2 A (…originating in China more than 2,000 years ago.)
3 A (…patients treated with acupuncture … had less intense pain than patients who
received a placebo.)
4 C (A chiropractor manipulates joints…)
5 I (…the eye marking can reveal a complete history of past illnesses.)
6 R (…the therapeutic manipulation of the hands and feet…)

Multiple choice
1 D (But there is good evidence that it does not work for … weight loss.)
2 B (There is no scientific support for these assertions.)
3 D (It works…mainly in the short term.)
4 B (Patients and therapists should be discouraged from using this method.)
5 D

Vocabulary p92
1
1 pupil

2 neck
3 lungs
4 back
5 spine
6 hands
7 feet

2
1 e
2 b
3 a
4 d
5 c

Language focus 1 p93
Real conditionals
1 present tense (If you have a cold) or present perfect (If you have caught a cold)
2 present tense (recovery takes place) or will (or another modal) + inf (the infection will be
spread, It may also be spread)
3 Unless. This means if something doesn’t happen.
When. This is not really conditional because it implies this always happens.
Provided. This is used only if a particular thing happens.
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IELTS Foundation Student’s Book
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4 Yes, you can change the order. See It may also be spread by hand if someone has the
virus…. In this case there is no comma between the clauses.

Pronunciation p94
Intonation
1
The speaker’s voice should rise in the first clause (unfinished thought) and fall in the second (to
show completion). This indicates that the first clause is shared information, and the second is new
or additional.

4
The speaker’s voice rises on reflexology, acupuncture and herbal medicine, signalling an
unfinished list, and falls on massage, signaling completion. Remind students that incomplete
utterances usually have a rising intonation, whilst completed ones have a falling intonation.

5
The student’s intonation is very flat, and the lecturer sounds progressively more irritated, because
the student is perceived as sounding uninterested, possibly even rude.

6
In this conversation, this intonation is more normal, and the student gets a much more friendly
and positive response from the lecturer.

S: Hello, you wanted to see me?

L: Hi, yes, I just wanted to see how

you’re getting along with your

assignments this term.

S: I’m doing fine. I’ve finished the

first assignment and I’m working

on the second one now.

L: Good. Are you managing to find

enough material?

S: Yes, I’ve been using the college

library, the department library

and the Internet.

L: Fine. And you’re managing to work to the deadlines?

S: Yeah, and I’ve been told that if I

need an extension, I can ask for one.

L: OK. Good, you seem to be on the right track, then.
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Writing p95

Expressing your opinion
1 C – use of direct question is inappropriate in writing
2 A – appropriate use of impersonal style
3 B – personal opinion using ‘I’ but appropriate in an IELTS Task 2 essay
4 A – appropriate use of impersonal style
5 B – personal opinion using ‘I’ but appropriate in an IELTS Task 2 essay
6 C – use of rhetorical question and informal expression inappropriate in writing

Giving reasons to support your opinions
1 d
2 a
3 b
4 c

Using adverbs
4
1 apparently
2 unfortunately
3 fortunately
4 surprisingly
5 naturally, clearly, obviously

5
1 naturally, clearly, obviously
2 naturally, clearly, obviously, unfortunately, fortunately, apparently
3 apparently, unfortunately
4 unfortunately, naturally, clearly, obviously
5 apparently, surprisingly
6 surprisingly, apparently, clearly, obviously

Reading skills p97
1
Genetically modified animals:
A What are GM animals?
B What else could GM animals be used for?
C Is this safe for humans?
D What about the animals?

Human cloning
A What exactly is cloning?
B How is it done?
C IS it legal?
D Why might people want to clone humans?
E Why ban cloning?

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Listening p98
1
1 B
2 C
3 D
4 A
5 B

Language focus 2 p99

Avoiding repetition
1
this: something which should not be there
them: the lungs
this: dirt or dust getting into the lungs
them: the lungs
it: coughing
this: trying not to cough
it: trying not to cough or not coughing

2
1 They
2 They, they
3 This, it
4 one, this or that
5 it, then
6 These

Language focus 3 p100
Unreal conditionals
1
1 A past tense (in this case passive)
2 No. Although they are using a past tense form they are talking about a hypothetical
situation.
3 Would + inf (or another modal expressing possibility.)
4 Yes. Again the comma would be removed in this case.

2
1 If human cloning were legalized, people might live forever.
2 Infertile parents could have children if human cloning were legalized.

3 If a human were cloned, they wouldn’t be unique.
4 If GM animals escaped into the wild, they might spread their genes.
5 If we made food from GM animals, it might be poisonous.
6 GM animals could displace wild animals if they escaped into the wild.

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Study skills p101
Editing 1
1
See exercise 2.

2
I am an international student. 1 studying Business at (wrong word) 2 Plymouth University. I have
been here for 3
nearly eight months. I believe (spelling) I am 4 suited to business management
because I worked in my father’s company 5
last year and I learnt (wrong tense) practical business
knowledge from my father. I am 6 interested 7 in many things. I enjoy listening to (wrong form /
word missing)
music, both classic and pop. I very much like (word order) reading foreign novels
because 8
it provides an opportunity of learning the (word not needed) English.

3
If I

will (word not needed) get a good degree, I am going to (missing word) work in my father’s
company again. This is
a the (wrong word) best way for me to learning learn (wrong form) the
business. I will work very
hardly hard (wrong form), that which (wrong word) will please my father,
and I hope I will soon
be (missing word) promoted!
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