Click on the link below to download the question paper. You will find the recordings at the sidebar of my page under Podcast.
Download IGCSE-LISTENING-JUNE08
And here are the answers to the questions.
Questions 1-6
1. She has left it late. / The birthday is tomorrow.
2. Parents' wedding anniversary.
3. (i) prepare for your IGCSE
(ii) 3645679
4. (1)Another youth hostel
(2) Other side of the town
5. Tickets are half-price / can get tickets for £15 or less / queue for half -price tickets. (any ONE out of three)
6.
- phone to the ferry terminal
- ask boat to wait
Question 7
Company Philosophy : attitude / creative / cleanerCompany Aims : mineral water / help
Clean water projects : pumps
How some profits are used : water / one / month
Conventional bottles: plastic / centuries(long time)
"Water for all" bottles : corn / 12 weeks
Each "rubbish muncher": forty-five(45) tonnes
Question 8
Location of tea planter: 390 km /2,000 metres above Great Rift Valley
Tea harvesting machines:
- pick tea faster than manual workers
- could bring about loss of 63,000 jobs
- will deprive tea-pickers of the ability to feed and educate their families.
Tea Farming history in Kericho:
- tea farming began : 1920s
- tea became Kenya's leading export
Daily tea yield :
- by hand: 50kg, by machine: 1,300kg
Disadvantages of mechanical harvest : machine unable to select leaves and tea will be of poorer quality
How consumer can help: buy hand-picked tea only
Question 9 :
(a) Higher than 3,800 metres above sea level
(b)
- 1984
- 2,3 billion pounds
( c ) (i) ultra violet filter / double-paned
(ii) oxygen rich air / oxygen regulators
(d) Could wreck culture and traditional way of life / animals may be harmed / damage to the environment
(e)
- highest station
- cross river on hundreds of km (of bridge)
Question 10
(a) To guide motorists to destination
(b)
- saves time and petrol
- helps traffic flow / reduces stress
- no need to follow map / good for environment
( c ) Satellites send out signals
(d) The speed
(e) Current systems are cheaper / smaller/ easier to fit/ already built-in/ no wires to connect (any two)
(f)
- use your common sense / don't just rely on system
- remove the system from parked car
