IELTS Listening · Practice test
Northgate: IELTS Listening practice test
Booking driving lessons, an adult education centre, a language corpus project and a lecture on printing.
- 4 parts
- 40 questions
- About 35 minutes
Part 1 · Questions 1–10
Booking driving lessons
You will hear a conversation between a man and someone at a driving school.
Questions 1–6
Complete the form below.
Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
New Pupil Enquiry
Questions 7–10
Complete the notes below.
Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
What else is involved
Part 2 · Questions 11–20
An adult education centre
You will hear a member of staff showing new students round an adult education centre.
Questions 11–15
Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.
- 11What does the speaker say about assessment?
- AMost courses do not involve any.
- BIt is compulsory on all courses.
- CIt is only for students under twenty-five.
- 12Students who decide to leave a course are asked to
- Atell the centre so the place can be reused.
- Bpay for the remaining weeks.
- Ccomplete a written form.
- 13The hardship fund is intended to help with the cost of
- Acourse fees.
- Bmaterials.
- Ctravel.
- 14The parking spaces nearest the door are kept for
- Atutors.
- Bblue badge holders.
- Cevening students.
- 15The building's alarm means that students must leave by
- A9.45.
- B10.00.
- C10.15.
Questions 16–20
Label the plan below. Write the correct letter, A–H, next to questions 16–20.
- 16Reception
- 17Canteen
- 18Art studios
- 19Workshops
- 20Library
Part 3 · Questions 21–30
A language corpus project
You will hear two linguistics students, Farrah and Nils, discussing a corpus project.
Questions 21–24
Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.
- 21What do the students decide about the size of the corpus?
- ASix hours will be enough.
- BThey should collect twenty hours.
- CThey should collect as much as possible.
- 22What is wrong with their speakers at present?
- AThere are too few of them.
- BThey are too similar to one another.
- CThey speak too quickly to transcribe.
- 23According to Nils, the poor recordings are mainly caused by
- Athe rooms they recorded in.
- Bthe microphones on their phones.
- Cthe speakers talking over each other.
- 24How do they propose to reduce the effect of being recorded?
- Aby hiding the recorder
- Bby analysing only the later part of each recording
- Cby recording people more than once
Questions 25–26
Choose TWO letters, A–E.
2526Which TWO decisions do they make about the transcription?
- Ato use software that links text to the audio
- Bto transcribe the sounds in phonetic detail
- Cto mark pauses but nothing else
- Dto pay someone else to do it
- Eto transcribe only the most interesting sections
Questions 27–30
What do the students decide about each of the following? Choose the correct letter, A–F, next to questions 27–30.
Decisions
- ADeal with it in person tomorrow.
- BUse it only for comparison.
- CGet free help from the university.
- DLeave it out of this study.
- EPay for it from the project budget.
- FAsk their supervisor to do it.
- 27the ethics approval
- 28the 1990s reference corpus
- 29the statistical analysis
- 30the social media data
Part 4 · Questions 31–40
Printing and literacy
You will hear part of a lecture about the printing press and its effects.
Questions 31–40
Complete the notes below.
Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
Printing and its effects
Before Gutenberg
Gutenberg's actual inventions (c. 1450)
Effects