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Contents

1. IELTS LISTENING ANSWER SHEET

2. IELTS LISTENING PART 1: a conversation between two people set

in an everyday social context

3. IELTS LISTENING PART 1 PRACTICE TEST

4. IELTS LISTENING PART 2: a monologue set in an everyday social

context, e.g. a speech about local facilities.

5. IELTS LISTENING PART 2 PRACTICE TEST

6. IELTS LISTENING PART 3: a conversation between up to four

people set in an educational or training context, e.g. a university tutor
and a student discussing an assignment.

7. IELTS LISTENING PART 3 PRACTICE TEST

8. IELTS ISTENING PART 4: a monologue on an academic subject,

e.g. a university lecture.

9. IELTS ISTENIG PART 4 PRACTICE TEST

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IELTS LISTENING

PART 1: Short dialogues and Form Completion

Aims: Predicting answers. Understanding synonyms and paraphrasing.

Subsidiary aims: Gap filling: dealing with letters, numbers and numeral relationships.
Matching. Answering multiple-choice questions: understanding variety of accents.

Unit 1 A Form Completion

Topic: Job and Professional Experience

Exercise 1: You are going to hear a conversation between a university student and a company
representative at university fair. Before you listen, discuss the questions below in pairs:
1 What do you think happens at a graduate fair? Why do you think they are useful?
2 Why do many jobs require you to have a university degree? When is vocational training more
useful than a university degree?
3 What might improve a graduate’s chances of getting the job they want?

Exercise 2: Match the words 1-7 with their definitions/synonyms a-g:

1. a form that you complete in order to

apply for a job, a place on a course a. to keep in shape

2. a person charged with the b. available

instruction and guidance of another

3. to work up to the highest status c. application form

in something

4. free, not busy to do something d. to get to the top

5. to achieve a better position within the e. spare time

organization and eventually became a manager

6. the time when one is not working f. to work one’s way

up the ladder

7. to stay in good physical condition g. tutor

Exercise 3: Before you start listening, discuss in pairs:

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TTL: ____/10

Unit 1 C Matching and Multiple Choice. Understanding the accent.

Topic: Travelling

Exercise 1: Listen to a conversation between a customer and travel agent. Match the hotels to
the facilities they offer. Before listening try to brainstorm in pairs what kind of facilities,
the recording may mention.

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Exercise 2: Listen to a conversation between two friends and pick up one of the options:

GOLDEN RULE VOCABULARY:

Splash out on sth - buy sth even though it costs a lot of money

PRACTICE EXAM PART 1: Using the strategies you have learnt do Part 1 and calculate your

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score out of 10: ___/ 10

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IELTS LISTENING

PART 2: Labelling maps or plans

Aims: Predicting content words and directions. Practicing the language expressing spatial
relationships and directions.

Subsidiary aims: Paying attention to any other clues in the map (compass icon).

Unit 2 A Prepositions of locations and directions.

Exercise 1: Look at the following map and work in pairs. Student B asks the questions
and student A answers them. Swap the roles and fill the lines given with appropriate answers

1 . What is located in the right bottom corner of the map? ____________________

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2 . Go Park Street along the School and go past the Fire station.
Then turn right into the Station Road. Which is the building on your
left?
____________________
3. You are facing the Nightclub. What is on its right? ____________________

4 . You are facing the Police Station? What is behind it? ____________________

5 . Leave the Cinema and follow the path to the roundabout.

Go through the roundabout. Where are you now? ____________________

6 . What is located between Fire Station and Hospital? _____________________

1. What is situated in the middle of the map? _______________________

2 . Leave the Station and follow the Station Road just until your turning right
to Park Street. Which is the first building on your left? _______________________

3 . You are entering the Cinema, What’s on its right? ________________________

4 . What is across the road from the Church on West Street? ________________________

5 . What is on the left of the school if you leave it? ________________________

6 . What is slightly West of the Church? ________________________

Exercise 2: Listen and match the pictures 1-5 with the sentences you hear a-e.
Write the letters a-e next to the question numbers 1-5.

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Exercise 3: Look at the map below and with your partner complete the directions a-e
with the numbers 1-5 on the map.

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Exercise 4: Look at the map again. You are going to hear two young people
discussing what there is for university students to do in their town. Listen and
write the names and places 1-5 from the map in Exercise 3.

Unit 2 B Practice Exercises on maps and plans

Exercise 1: Look at the map below and listen to the directions. As you listen,
follow the directions

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Exercise 2: Look at the map of Maple Town. You will hear five separate sets of
directions to particular places on the map. As you listen, follow the directions
carefully and write the letter beside the name of the place. Find the Train station
at the bottom first and then write the appropriate number beside the name of each
place.

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PRACTICE EXAM PART 2: Using the strategies you have learnt do Part 2 and
calculate your score out of 10: _

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IELTS LISTENING
PART 3: More than two speakers

Aims: Recognizing speakers’ voices. Spelling technical words correctly. Understanding

the sequences of events. Following conversations.

Subsidiary aims labelling a diagram. Classifying.

Unit 3 A Spelling technical words correctly

Topic: Climate and Weather

Exercise 1: Match the pictures 1-6 with the words a-f:

Exercise 2: Listen and write the words 1-9. First, you will hear the word and then
you will hear the word in a sentence.

Unit 3 B Recognizing speakers’ voices and labeling the diagrams

Exercise 1: You are going to hear a conversation with four speakers: John,
Steven, Linda and Joanne. Listen and write how many times you hear each
speaker. Two have been done for you:

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Exercise 2: You are going to hear a group of students talking about their Natural
Earth presentation. Listen and match the tasks 1-5 with the person who will do
them (a-c):

Exercise 3: Look at the diagram which shows how acid rain is formed. Use the
clues and put the event a-d in the order they occur:

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PRACTICE EXAM PART 3: Using the strategies you have learnt do

Part 1 and calculate your score out of 10: ___/ 10

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IELTS LISTENING PRACTICE PART 4.

PART 4: Lecture

Aims: Short-answer questions. High-level words: depending prepositions

Unit 4 A Spelling technical words correctly

Topic: Family Structures

Exercise 1:

Exercise 2:

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Exercise 3:

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Exercise 4:

PRACTICE EXAM PART 4: Using the strategies you have learnt do

Part 1 and calculate your score out of 10: ___/ 10

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FINAL TEST 1. Using the strategies learnt during the course do the test given below and
calculate your score _____/40

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FINAL TEST 2. Using the strategies learnt during the course do the test given below and
calculate your score _____/40

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LISTENING:

Units 1. A, B: Short dialogues and Form Completion p. 4-7

1. Complete IELTS Bands 6.5-7.5 Workbook with Answers Cambridge English

2. IELTS Listening Strategies: The Ultimate Guide with Tips, Tricks and Practice on
How to Get a Target Band Score of 8.0+ in 10 Minutes a Day by Rachel Mitchell

Unit 1. C: Matching and Multiple Choice. Understanding the accent. p. 8-10

1. Listening for IELTS (Collins English for Exams) Paperback, 2011 by Fiona Aish and
Jo Tomlinson

Unit 2. A: Labelling maps or plans. Prepositions of location p. 11-17

1. Listening for IELTS (Collins English for Exams) Paperback, 2011 by Fiona Aish and
Jo Tomlinson

2. IELTS Listening Strategies: The Ultimate Guide with Tips, Tricks and Practice on
How to Get a Target Band Score of 8.0+ in 10 Minutes a Day by Rachel Mitchell

3. Official IELTS Practice Materials 2 by Cambridge ESOL examiners, 1st Edition

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Units 3 A, B, C Conversations with more than two speakers, campus-related topics p. 18 -

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1. Listening for IELTS (Collins English for Exams) Paperback, 2011 by Fiona Aish and
Jo Tomlinson

Units 4 A Lecture. Spelling technical words correctly

2. Listening for IELTS (Collins English for Exams) Paperback, 2011 by Fiona Aish and
Jo Tomlinson

FINAL TEST:

1. Cambridge IELTS 8 Academic (Cambridge IELTS Past Papers) by University of

Cambridge

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