Joan Gilbert and Riding for the Disabled - IELTS Listening with Practice test, Audio, Transcript, And Explanation

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Joan Gilbert and Riding for the Disabled - IELTS Listening with Practice test, Audio, Transcript, And Explanation

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Joan normally gets up at

5.30 a.m

6.30 a.m

7.30 a.m

Joan’s first task of the day is to

clean the horses.

organise her son.

do farm work.

Joan’s official title in Riding for the Disabled (RDA) is chairperson. In her local district there are at present twenty-two riders and 3.
            
﻿
 helpers on the volunteer list, out of whom 4.
            
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 come regularly.

List of Findings

She really likes it.

She doesn’t mind it.

She hates it.

correspondence

fund-raising

calling riders

organising accounts

Joan says the TWO ways the RDA needs to improve are by

giving special training.

making fund-raising more effective.

opening more RDA centres.

providing more helpers.

recognising difficulties of disabled riders.

❓ Transcript

Joan Gilbert and Riding for the Disabled

This week our slot is A Life in the Day of Joan Gilbert, local organiser for

Riding for the Disabled.

Joan, would you like to tell us about this?

Well, I always have the very best intentions of starting the day at 5.30 to

give the horses a really good muck out, but reality intervenes and I finally

wake at about 6.30. That probably still sounds very early to you, but for a

farm worker, which is what my son is at the moment, that's cutting things

pretty fine.

Once I've managed to get him safely on his way at about 7am, I can start

turning my attention to the other important tasks of the day.

For about 5 years, we've been taking overseas students from the International

Centre at our local college, and I have to give them a proper breakfast.

Most of our students used to be from the Middle East, but they're no longer

coming, so we tend to have Malaysian girls, and they like to have a cooked

breakfast, much more than any Europeans we've had, including me, and I don't

have anything these days.

After cooking, I finally get round to the poor horses.

It's only after this that I can start thinking about what I regard as my most

important task, work for Riding for the Disabled.

I've been involved with this organisation, on and off, for over 20 years, but

I've only recently taken on the job of chairperson.

Most of the work seems more secretarial, but that's how charities get organised.

In our immediate district, we have had as many as 30 riders, but currently

we've only got 22.

The number of helpers who have volunteered is actually 40, but we can rely on

25 to come regularly to help in the different groups.

We now have four separate groups which cater for disabled children and adults,

from 6 to 40 years old.

As I say, I feel that although I no longer have any proper full-time paid

employment, I do have a full and busy life.

I'm a housewife, which I don't mind because I don't really object to doing

things like washing and cooking.

Then there's my own horses, which I adore.

Even the revolting stuff like cleaning out the stables.

The official RDA stuff is a mixed bag, really.

I don't have major problems with all the letter writing and correspondence

which it entails, but like lots of shy people, I find the fundraising horrendous.

Other regular RDA duties, such as ringing round the riders to fix times, etc.,

is one of the pleasantest aspects of the work.

After all, that's why I'm involved with charity work, the contact with people.

My working day ends with the least enjoyable job of all, sorting the accounts.

I got involved with RDA because I've always loved horses, and I can see

disabled people gaining so much.

I know all the medical evidence that shows that it does wonders for muscle

building and so on, which is important, but from talking to the riders, they

say it is the confidence they gain, and also the opportunity to be part of a

new and exciting environment, which gives them the greatest benefit.

In terms of the RDA organisation itself, I feel it works very well, but we're

always striving to make it better.

I wish, for example, our helpers and the organisers in the various centres

could really rationalise the fundraising efforts, which sometimes are very

inefficient, and it also saddens me how unaware some of the stables can be

about the difficulties faced by people who are disabled.

Anyway, I feel very privileged to work with our riders and to see such tangible benefits.

It sends me to sleep with a feeling that though the day has been hard, it has been worthwhile.

🔥 Answer key (đáp án và giải thích)

Giải thích chi tiết

❓Câu hỏi: Joan normally gets up at

✅ Đáp án đúng: B. 6.30 a.m

▶️ Bắt đầu nghe ở: Đoạn Joan nói về thời gian cô ấy dự định thức dậy và thời gian cô ấy thực sự thức dậy: “I always have the very best intentions of starting the day at 5.30 … but reality intervenes and I finally wake at about 6.30.”

☺️ Giải thích đáp án:

Đọc câu hỏi, xác định từ khóa cần nghe: normally gets up (= thường thức dậy lúc mấy giờ).
Trong audio, Joan nói cô ấy muốn bắt đầu ngày lúc 5.30, nhưng đó chỉ là ý định: “I always have the very best intentions…”
Sau đó có từ nối quan trọng “but” báo hiệu thông tin thật sự phía sau.
Joan nói rõ: “I finally wake at about 6.30” → đây mới là giờ cô ấy thường thực sự thức dậy.
Vì vậy, đáp án đúng là B. 6.30 a.m.

🧐 Lưu ý: ❌ A. 5.30 a.m => Đây là giờ Joan dự định dậy để dọn chuồng ngựa, không phải giờ cô ấy thường dậy thực tế. ❌ C. 7.30 a.m => Audio có nhắc đến 7 a.m là lúc con trai cô ấy đi làm, nên nếu nghe không kỹ dễ nhầm với giờ Joan thức dậy; không có thông tin 7.30 a.m trong đoạn này.

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