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Mini Lecture from the Sports Studies Department — IELTS Listening Answers
All 11 answers for Mini Lecture from the Sports Studies Department, Cambridge IELTS 1 Listening Test 4 Part 4, with the transcript evidence and an explanation for each.
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Questions 32–42. Tap an answer to see the evidence.
What this part tests
This part is tested with Note Completion (Q32–42). Each section below gives the strategy for that question type, the answers, and the sentence that proves them.
Questions 32–42: Note Completion
Strategy: Predict the word class from the note, find the paraphrase of the note's keyword in the transcript, then copy the answer exactly within the word limit.
“Now the purpose of this lecture is twofold: one — we want you to experience a university lecture, to give you a taste of what listening to a university lecture is like, and two — we want you to find out something about the Sports Studies program at this university”
One purpose is 'to give you a taste of what listening to a university lecture is like', so a university lecture.
“two — we want you to find out something about the Sports Studies program at this university”
The second purpose is to find out 'about the Sports Studies program at this university', so that programme.
“Firstly, we've got the Sports Psychology strand, secondly, we've got the Sports Management strand, and last, but not least, there's the Sports Physiology strand”
The strands named are psychology, 'Sports Management' and physiology, so management is the second.
“Now the people who study Sports Psych want to work with top athletes, and they're looking at what will take those athletes that one percent extra”
Sports Psych students 'want to work with top athletes', so top athletes is the group.
“Now the people who study Sports Psych want to work with top athletes, and they're looking at what will take those athletes that one percent extra. What makes them win”
They examine 'what will take those athletes that one percent extra. What makes them win', so win.
“But then on the other side, we've got Sports Marketing. And this is the side that interests me more because here we will look at the market forces behind sport”
Sports Marketing looks at 'the market forces behind sport', so market forces fills the gap.
“Sport used to just compete with sport. Nowadays it competes with other leisure activities”
'Nowadays it competes with other leisure activities', not just with other sports.
“The spectators go to sport to be entertained rather than out of loyalty to a team. They want to have an evening out and they don't want the cheap seats any more they want good seats they want entertainment”
Spectators 'go to sport to be entertained', so they want entertainment rather than loyalty.
“Now the third branch of Sports Studies sometimes comes under another name and is also known as Exercise Science”
The third branch 'is also known as Exercise Science', so that name is required.
“The first is working very much at the macro level. What I call the huffing and puffing people. So this looks at fitness testing, body measurements, all that sort of thing”
Macro-level work covers 'fitness testing, body measurements, all that sort of thing'.
“But the more interesting side of sports physiology, at least in my view, is the side that looks at the micro level, looking at cellular change. They're doing cellular research, looking at changes in body cells when the body is under stress”
Micro-level work means 'doing cellular research, looking at changes in body cells when the body is under stress'.
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