IELTS

Listening
 IELTS LISTENING
• Test Format – Listening (30 minutes)
• You will listen to four recorded texts, monologues and conversations by a range
of native speakers, and write your answers to a series of questions.
• These include questions that test your ability to understand main ideas and
detailed factual information.
• Ability to understand the opinions and attitudes of speakers.
• Ability to understand the purpose of an expression/speech
• Ability to follow the development of ideas. A variety of voices and native-
speaker accents are used (British, American, Australian, Canadian, New Zealand)
and each section is heard only once.
• At the end of the listening test you will have 10 minutes to transfer you
answers to your answer sheet. (Listening time 30 minutes + 10 mins
transfer time of answers = 40 minutes)

• There are 40 questions in total (10 questions in each section) and 40

marks in total for the test.

• The Listening test is the same for both Academic and General Training
tests.
Section 1: (Social situation) is a conversation between two people set in an
everyday context e.g. a phone conversation in an accommodation agency,
information about trains, a course confirmation.

Section 2: (Social situation) is a monologue (one speaker) set in an

everyday situation e.g. a tour guide explaining about a resort, a historic
building or information about a charity.

Section 3: (Academic situation) Two/three/four speakers. An academic

context e.g. A student asking his/her lecturer about an assignment.

Section 4: One speaker, an academic lecture

• Length = 40 minutes./30 minutes=Audio/ 10 minutes=Transfer answers to the
answer sheet
• Practice using the answer sheet, please write clearly.
• You will hear the recording only once. Pay attention, listen, read the question,
write.
• Use a pencil
• Scores are calculated by correct answers – only full marks. There are no
minus marks for wrong answers.
• You may write in capital letters or lower case letters.
e.g. Garden/GARDEN, Mr. Brown/MR.BROWN – Whatever you choose,
please stay with that choice.
• You may use American or British spelling, please stay with your choice.
• Pleas don’t try to understand everything. The aim is to find the

answers only;

• Look at the question

• Think which answer you are looking for

• Listen and focus on the answer you are looking for

• Use the time given before each section to look at the questions

and underline any keywords.

Practice with
maps
1. At 10 o’clock, all the new students
will gather in the Main Hall to meet the
Principal and the rest of the staff. In
fact, you spend most of the morning in
the Main Hall. Main Hall

2. And then the Director of Studies will talk

to you for half an hour about the courses
and the different requirements for each.
Director of Studies

3. After that, the Student Adviser will tell

you about the various services and activities
we offer to students. Student Adviser

4. That’s right. And then you’ll go next

door to Classroom 5 at 11 o’clock.
11.00/11 o’clock
5. It’s just a placement test to help us
find your level of English. Placement
6. Walk along past the Language Laboratory and then past the
Library, which is next to the Language Lab, on the same side,
Library

7. On the same side, and facing you is the Main Hall, at the end of the
corridor. You can’t miss it. So it’s next to the Library, in fact. Main Hall

8. You go down to the end of this corridor again but, this time, don’t
turn left; turn right, away from the Main Hall. The Computer Lab. is
immediately on your right. OK? Computer Lab

9. The staff room is near the main entrance, on the left

over there, just opposite the Reception desk. Staff Room

10. Oh, one last thing. Is there a student common room?

Oh yes, I forgot to mention that. It’s this area here, very close to
where we are now, to the right of the Reception desk as you come
in the main entrance. There’s tea and coffee facilities there.
Student Common Room.
11/12. to become
members of the Sports
Centre, for an annual
fee of £9.50.
11. 9.50
12. year OR annum

13. To register with us

and get your
membership card, you
need to come to
reception. Reception
14/15. Then once you
have got your sports
card, you will need to
bring it with you
whenever you come to
book or use any Sports
Centre facilities.
14. card 15. book

16. We are now open

from 9am to 10pm on
weekdays and from
10am to 6pm on
Saturdays. weekdays
17/18. Well, this room we are in at the moment is called the
Main Hall, and it’s used mainly for team sports such as football,
volleyball and basketball, but also for badminton and aerobics.
On the other side of the reception area there is the dance
studio;
17. Reception
18. Dance Studio

19/20. Then in a separate building, which you may have

noticed on your way here . . . it’s on the other side of the
car park . . . there are the squash
courts (six of them), and at the far end of the building a
fitness room.
19. Squash Courts
20. Fitness Room
21. Sorry. It’s ANNE and her surname is spelt R-E-A. ANNE REA
22. Good start! OK . .. REA. And age is easy. You’re both 16. 16
23. Too long. Just say blind puzzle, that’ll do. blind puzzle

24. I’ve got it noted down here .. . um, yes, length, sorry, width is
20 cm.
OK.
Length is 50 cm, and then the depth is ... well, it’s very little.
What would you say? I think you can be approximate.
JOHN BROWN: I’d say 2.5 cm. width = 20/ length = 50 depth = 2.5
25. Well, it’s safe for children. Safe for children
26. OK, and of course we think it’s educational. Educational
27. Well, I think the price is good. That’s probably the most
important factor.
OK ... cheap price. Good price or Cheap Price
28. And the electrics?
They were more expensive . .. say, $9.50. Electrics
29. Well, put something like, need help to make plastic pieces.
plastic pieces
30. Well, the last date is 1 July. Why not say that? OK, that’s
what I’ll put. 1 July
 31/32. The kangaroo is one animal that’s now
being farmed for its meat and eaten outside
Australia, where it comes from. It looks and
tastes rather like rabbit, but it is rather tough, so
that’s a problem for some people.
31. rabbit 32. tough

33. the nicest of the three, is ostrich, which most people say
has a similar taste and texture to beef. beef
34. At first they were produced for their feathers. In Africa
they were used for tribal ceremonial dress and they were
also exported to Europe and America where they were
made into ladies’ fans and used for decorating hats. Fans
35. Later, feather fans and big. decorated hats went out of
fashion but ostriches were still bred, this time for their hide.
This can be treated to produce about half a square metre of
leather - very delicate, fine stuff of very good quality. Leather

36. At the same time, some of the meat was used for biltong -
the air-dried strips of meat popular in South Africa as a sort of
fast food. Meat
37. Ostrich meat is slightly higher in protein than beef- A

38. Mature breeding birds are very expensive - even a fertilised

ostrich egg isn’t cheap so you need quite a bit of capital to
begin with. C

39. The young chicks are very dependent on human minders,

and need a lot of attention from the people looking after
them. C

40. A female ostrich can lay an egg every other day. And
because the farmers can use incubators and hatched chicks
are nourished well and protected from danger, the failure rate
on farms is very low indeed and almost all the fertilised eggs
will hatch out into chicks which will in turn reach maturity. B