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IELTS scoring system and band scale
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IELTS has four parts – Listening (30 minutes), Reading (60 minutes), Writing (60 minutes) and Speaking (11–14 minutes). The total test time is 2 hours and 45 minutes. The Listening, Reading and Writing tests are done in one sitting.
Is IELTS valid for 3 years now?
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Is there any pass or fail in the IELTS exam?
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Listen to the following talk about unemployment rate, then answer the multiple choice questions below. Make sure you read all 3 questions carefully before you start.
A) fairly good B) not as high in California C) very high for the country as a whole
2. One problem is that
A) employees cannot work for more than 33 hours per week B) employers will extend working hours instead of hiring new staff C) there are too many part-time workers
3. If the economy begins to improve
A) more people will be discouraged from looking for work B) people will think that there are more job opportunities C) there will be an expansion of the workforce
Answers – Listening Exercises
C
B
B
Audio Transcript
What will the unemployment rate be a year from now? The economy seems to do a little better, and as I said, things are getting worse more slowly, and therefore, one might assume that the unemployment rate a year from now would be; Well fairly good or at least not nearly as bad, but I am going to disappoint you. My prediction is that the unemployment rate a year from now is going to be 9 or 10 per cent still going to be very, very high nationally. I’m not talking about California, which has been running even higher, I’m talking about nationally. Why would that be? Well, there are two major reasons even if we as a nation enjoy a fairly moderately robust recovery or even any kind of recovery between now and a year from now.
The thing you need to keep in mind is number one the workweek, the average workweek right now is only about 33 hours, which means that when employers get around to hiring people and it’s going to take a long time before employers have the courage and confidence to start hiring again. But let’s assume that employers start hiring and some industries and some businesses are already beginning; It’s going to take a long time before they decide they need to hire. Because they can use their own workers, and just expand the number of hours their own workers are putting in. Three 33 hour workweek means that you have a lot of room to just keep on paying your own workers for more time.
I should add that these are not classified necessarily as part-time workers. Many of these workers are classified as full-time workers. They’re just working a …. much shorter workweek. The second thing to keep in mind, and this is one of the paradoxes and ironies of the way we measure unemployment is that as the economy begins to improve, more and more people who have been out of the workforce too discouraged to look for work, Decide that they might have a better chance getting a job. And so they’re going to start looking.
And the Bureau of Labor Statistics measures unemployment in the household survey by knocking on people’s doors and saying are you looking for work. And if you’ve got more people looking for work and fewer people discouraged to such an extent that they don’t look then you have a higher unemployment rate than you do when you have a massive number of people as we do right now who are too discouraged even to look. So for those two reasons that are a shorter workweek that is going to permit a lot of expansion of your own workforce before you have to hire outside. And secondly because of the way in which we measure under the household survey unemployment we are likely to have a fairly high.
And I’d say again nine or 10 per cent unemployment rate a year from now.
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