The manager of a community allotment site giving an introductory talk
IELTS Listening — IELTS Practice Originals, Listening Practice Test 14, Section 2
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{# Shown in full, as the review screen does after a sitting: it is the text a searcher is looking for, and hiding it would leave this page with nothing on it but a heading. #}Section 2. You will hear the manager of a community allotment site giving an introductory talk to new plot-holders. First, you have some time to look at questions 11 to 14.
Now listen carefully and answer questions 11 to 14.
WOMAN: Welcome, all of you, to Hillside Allotments, and congratulations on finally reaching the top of the waiting list, some of you have waited three years for a plot, so this is a big day. Let me run through how the site works and where everything is.
WOMAN: First, the essentials. Each of you has been given a key, and that same key opens both the main gate and the two water taps, so don't lose it, a replacement costs five pounds. Water is turned on from April to October only, so over winter you'll need to bring your own or collect rainwater, which brings me to the water butts. We strongly encourage every plot to have one, and in fact the site provides them free to new members, just ask me.
Before you hear the rest of the talk, you have some time to look at questions 15 to 20.
WOMAN: Now, the layout. As you come in through the gate, the shed immediately on your left is the shared store, where the mowers and the wheelbarrows live, please return them. The larger building at the far end, past the taps, is the community hut, that's where we hold meetings and where you'll find the noticeboard and the kettle. Behind the hut is the compost area, three big bays, and I'll come back to the rules for those.
WOMAN: A word on those compost bays, because people get it wrong. The first bay, nearest the hut, is for green waste only, leaves, grass, vegetable peelings. The middle bay is where that material, once rotted, is turned. And the third bay holds the finished compost, which any member is welcome to take for their own plot, that's the whole point of it.
WOMAN: Finally, a few rules that really matter. Bonfires are only allowed after four in the afternoon, and never at weekends, out of consideration for neighbours. Dogs are welcome but must be kept on a lead. And please, if you can't keep your plot up, tell us early rather than letting it go to weeds, an overgrown plot spreads seeds onto everyone else's. Right, let me show you round.
That is the end of Section 2. You now have some time to check your answers.