Students’ Experiences with Vacation Jobs - IELTS Listening with Practice test, Audio, Transcript, And Explanation

Luyện tập đề IELTS Listening Practice với bài Students’ Experiences with Vacation Jobs được lấy từ cuốn sách Real Test 2026 - Q2 - Test 2 - Section 2 với trải nghiệm thi IELTS trên máy và giải thích đáp án chi tiết bằng Linearthinking, kèm list từ vựng IELTS cần học trong bài đọc.

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Students’ Experiences with Vacation Jobs - IELTS Listening with Practice test, Audio, Transcript, And Explanation

👂️ Audio and questions

Vacation job
Main advantage
Main disadvantage
Recommendation
Stocktaking
1
tiring
2
Office work
air conditioning
3
choose a 4
Theme park attendant
5
rude customers
6

Vacation job	Main advantage	Main disadvantage	Recommendation
Stocktaking	1	tiring	2
Office work	air conditioning	3	choose a 4
Theme park attendant	5	rude customers	6

Peter learned about the job

from a college friend.

on the computer.

from a student job centre.

Peter mainly enjoyed the job because it was

easy.

challenging.

unusual.

The job’s most interesting aspect was

learning about the environment.

working with children.

caring for the animals.

Peter has decided that next vacation he

won’t take a job.

will work at the zoo.

will work elsewhere.

❓ Transcript

Students’ Experiences with Vacation Jobs

Welcome to Student Life.

It's spring, and many of you may be thinking about arranging work for the long vacation.

So on today's programme, Roger Anwell reports on a survey we conducted into the pleasures and problems of vacation jobs.

Roger.

Thank you, Sarah.

Well, the first thing to say is that by far the majority of students we surveyed did just three types of jobs.

All of these obviously had their advantages and disadvantages.

Starting with stocktaking in supermarkets, the thing that students said they enjoyed most about this job was the travelling.

They were often required to go to branches to do their stocktakes, and this was regarded as an interesting plus.

The main negative, however, was that they tended to find the job tiring, with long hours spent on their feet and climbing high shelves.

Now, one thing we did ask the students in our survey was whether they had any recommendations for other people taking on their job, and they said, perhaps not surprisingly, get good shoes.

That's the only way you can keep going.

Another job which lots of students did was office work, and the positive feature of this actually rather surprised me, until I remembered what a hot summer it was last year.

Lots of students named air conditioning as the best thing about office work.

The downside, which many talked about, was wearing formal clothes.

Obviously this didn't go down too well with students.

The advice most people gave was to select a large office.

That way you have more variety of social contacts.

Otherwise the work can get very boring.

The third job which had attracted large numbers of students was as a theme park attendant, and again I got a surprise here because the big plus people talked about was good pay.

It must have improved since my day, I must say.

Anyway, the downside I did recognise, having to deal with difficult customers, especially in the heat when tempers get frayed.

Not easy.

And people said that it was a good idea to live nearby because there's a lot of shift work and you don't have to worry about transport at difficult times of the day.

So, those were the findings from the survey on the most common student jobs.

But not all student jobs have to be mundane and boring.

One of the students who responded in our survey spoke at length about his amazing job as a zoo attendant.

Peter Marshall had read about work opportunities on the zoo website and just went along with a friend to talk to someone in personnel.

He was offered a job there and then, as easy as that.

In previous years he'd done singularly unexciting shop work, so he was very pleased to be doing such original work.

He ended up working for just under three months, which was actually slightly more than he'd anticipated and meant that he had to miss part of university term time.

But he said it was well worth it because he thinks he's found his future career path as a result of this experience.

He loved working on the educational side, in particular helping young kids understand about the animals in their natural environment.

He said it was the most intriguing thing he'd ever done.

He tells us though that with final exams coming up, he won't be able to do any paid work this coming vacation, so why don't you apply?

If you're interested in getting further information about the findings of the survey...

🔥 Answer key (đáp án và giải thích)

traveling

Giải thích chi tiết

❓ Câu hỏi: Stocktaking – Main advantage: ______

🎯 Xác định loại từ cần điền:

Chỗ trống nằm ở cột Main advantage, nên cần điền một danh từ hoặc cụm danh từ chỉ ưu điểm chính của công việc kiểm kê hàng hóa.

✅ Đáp án đúng: travelling

▶️ Bắt đầu nghe ở: câu giới thiệu về công việc stocktaking in supermarkets.

☺️ Giải thích đáp án:

Trước khi nghe, cần xác định hai từ khóa chính là stocktaking và main advantage.
Trong bài nghe có câu: “Starting with stocktaking in supermarkets, the thing that students said they enjoyed most about this job was the travelling.”
Cụm the thing that students enjoyed most trong bài tương đương với main advantage trong bảng.
Người nói cho biết điều sinh viên thích nhất là the travelling, vì họ thường phải đi đến các chi nhánh khác nhau để kiểm kê hàng hóa.
Khi điền vào bảng, mạo từ the không cần thiết, nên đáp án là travelling.

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