Below you will find the full transcript and audio recording for the dictation lesson about “Disaster Management”.
If you haven’t completed this lesson yet, please do so before looking at the answers below. Click here: Listen & Write Lesson
Audio Recording
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Transcript
Strengthening community capacity to prevent and cope with the impact of disasters is a valuable way to save lives and better protect livelihoods as well as prevent such shocks from crippling development within the poorest countries. Early warning and early action are more cost effective than traditional disaster responses and save more lives per pound spent. In other words, public money has four times as much humanitarian impact if spending on preparation and risk reduction rather than on relief items.
Review
It is important that you check what type of errors you are making having completed this lesson.
- Punctuation – did you overuse commas or did you miss them out? Did you notice when sentences ended and a new one began?
- Spelling – did you spell all words correctly?
- Grammar – below are three common grammar mistakes:
- articles (a/the = , the impact, the poorest countries
- plural nouns (livelihoods,
- verb agreement (is /are save/ saves)
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Hello! I don’t understand the meaning of this part of the sentence “save more lives per pound spent”.
It means that more lives are saved for each pound that is spent trying to save lives.
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It really depends on how quickly you can understand the test and start developing the techniques to approach question types in the right way. Each person is different in this respect. Certainly, you can learn a lot in two months. Some people have done it in less than one month. Just make sure you keep really focused. Good luck 🙂
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Hi Liz,
Could you please clarify my below doubts?
1. For academic Writing Task 1 question ” Writing a letter to the manager asking for leave?
Since the manager’s name is known, do I need to write a formal letter to not? What to use as salutation.
Dear Sir/Madam, or Dear Mr. FirstName or Dear Mr. FirstName LastName or Dear FirstName
2. Comma is required after the salutation?
There are no letters for Writing Task 1 Academic Test. Letters are for the GT test only. See this page: https://ieltsliz.com/ielts-gt-academic-writing-differences/
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Lanre from Nigeria
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