Spelling Practice for IELTS Listening: City Names

Spelling practice for city names and other place names, such as towns. Improve your listening and spelling by listening to the spelling of particular places and writing down the letters you hear. This is important practice for IELTS listening section 1.

Writing down the letters you hear. The place names will be given and then spelled. Each place name will be spelled only once. There are 15 place names to write down.

Listen & Write: 15 Town & City Names

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Alphabet Practice for Spelling

Alphabet practice for spelling is designed to review the pronunciation of letters for accurate spelling. It’s an easy lesson but worth reviewing to refresh your pronunciation and accuracy for IELTS listening section 1.

Alphabet Review

 A  B   C   D  E   F   G   H   I   J   K   L  M   N   O   P   Q  R   S   T   U  V   W   X   Y   Z  

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Similar Letters Practice

Listen to the pronunciation of the following similar letters.

  1.  B / P
  2. D / T
  3. S / X
  4. J / G
  5. M / N
  6. K / Q
  7. U / Y
  8. V / W
  9. Z (UK pronunciation & US pronunciation)
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Practice Listening for Letters

Write down the letter you hear. There will be 15 letters given. Each letter will be said only once.

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Brain Drain Listening Practice

This listening lesson has two different types of questions: list selection and sentence completion. This will also test your ability to know when to move from one question to the next. Make sure you use this lesson to also learn useful vocabulary because the brain drain is a common topic in writing task 2.

IELTS Listening Multiple Choice: Long List Selection Practice

As you can see, this multiple choice practice listening does not have the usual three answer options. Instead you are given a long list and must choose a number of options from the list. The first list is for three questions.

The recording covers all questions from 1 to 5, so be ready to move quickly to the next set of questions.

Questions 1-3

Which three reasons are given for the brain drain? Choose the correct letters A-G.

  • A) money
  • B) promotion opportunities
  • C) working with other professionals
  • D) quality of life
  • E) state-of-the-art equipment
  • F) political advancement
  • G) unemployment

Question 4

What problem does the brain drain cause developing countries? Choose one letter.

  • A) resentment
  • B) loss of facilities
  • C) conflict between remaining professionals
  • D) loss of reputation
  • E) loss of money
  • F) loss of materials

Question 5

Complete the sentence using no more than one word and/or a number.

In 2000, …….. million people, who were living outside their country of origin for more than one year, were employed.

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Listening Practice for Numbers

This lesson focuses on listening for numbers. There are three sections of listening and each section has 10 questions. Make sure you have a pencil and paper ready.

Write down the numbers you hear. Each listening has 10 or 9 numbers.

Numbers 1 to 100

Listen to the recording and write down the numbers you hear between 1 and 100.

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Numbers from 100 to 1,000

Listen to the recording and write down the numbers you hear between 100 and 1,000.

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Numbers from 1,000 to 1,000,000

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New Year in Vietnam: IELTS Listening Practice

This is an IELTS listening exercise which I have made for my Vietnamese students about their wonderful New Year’s celebration called Tết. It is a Sentence Completion listening practice so you will need to fill in the gaps as you listen. This is the most common type of question to get in IELTS Listening. Remember to read the questions before listening to the audio. Answers do come in order.

Tet IELTS listening

Tết Holiday (Vietnamese New Year)

Listening Practice

Complete the sentences using no more than three words.

  • Another name for Tết is (1)  ………………
  • One typical dish at this time is a soup which is made from (2)  ………………..
  • (3) …………… is given to older people and kids.
  • At Tết, houses are adorned with  (4) ………………… and kumquat trees.
  • (5)  ………..  the house is forbidden during Tết.
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IELTS Listening Summary Completion: Practice & Tips

IELTS listening summary completion essential tips and practice. These questions are quite common in the listening test and can appear in any section. You are required to listen and select the correct words or numbers to fill in the gaps. 

IELTS LISTENING SUMMARY COMPLETION TIPS

Essential tips and techniques to tackle summary questions in IELTS Listening:

  1. Task: You will be given a paragraph with missing words.
    1. Your task is to fill in the gaps with words or numbers from the recording to complete the paragraph.
  2. A Summary: The paragraph is a summary. This means you are not going to hear each sentence the same as in the recording. The information in the paragraph is summarised which means it focuses on key information rather than all details.
  3. Title: The summary completion questions will have a title. This will tell you what the paragraph focuses on.
  4. Answer Order: The answers will come in order in the recording. So, you will hear the answer to question 1 and after that the answer to question 2.
  5. Word Count: You will be told how many words or number you can have in your answer. Pay attention to this information.
  6. Similar: A summary completion contains the same questions as a Sentence Completion because you are completing sentence within the summary paragraph. You can use the same techniques for these questions. For example:
    • Predict the type of answer from the sentence given: noun, verb etc. 
    • Grammar is important. The sentence must be grammatically correct when you complete it.
    • Keywords in the question are critical to keeping your place and spotting the correct answer.
    • See all tips on this page: SENTENCE COMPLETION TIPS
  7. Paraphrasing: Some of the words in the summary paragraph will be paraphrased  and others will not. You can’t predict which words will be the same or not. but be ready for synonyms and re-phrasing.
  8. Precise Words: Your answer must be the precise word from the recording. You can’t alter the word.
  9. Spelling counts. Check your spelling because words incorrectly spelled are marked wrong.

IELTS LISTENING SUMMARY COMPLETION PRACTICE

Listening Practice Lesson 1

Buckingham Palace 

Questions 1-7: Complete the summary using no more than one word or a number.

Buckingham Palace is where the Queen officially resides when she is in London and is well known for its famous  1 …………….., which was used for the first time by a royal during an official appearance in 2……………….. There were 3   …………  bomb hits to the palace in World War II which struck the palace with absolute precision. There are a range of services available to the royal residents in the palace, which has a total of  ………. rooms. There are 1,514 doors in the palace and  5 …………………. windows, which are cleaned once every six weeks. The Queen hosts more than  6 ……………… people each year for occasions such as  banquets, various meals, receptions and  7 ………………..parties.

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Listening Practice Lesson 2

The Terracotta Army

Questions 1-5: Complete the summary using no more than three words and /or a number.

The terracotta army was made in order to  1…………………… the emperor after this death in his afterlife. This funerary art has been estimated to be from the  2………………. and was discovered in 1974 by the  3…………………… The majority of the sculptures were  4.…………. and  5………….. sculptures of cavalry horses were also found.

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IELTS Listening Map Techniques & Practice

Maps frequently appear in the IELTS listening test. They can appear in any section, although it is more common to find them in Section 2. Below you will find useful tips and techniques to tackle a map completion question in IELTS listening with some map practice lessons as well to hone your skills.

IELTS Listening Maps: Essential Tips

Below are a few tips and techniques to help you tackle map questions in IELTS listening. Hopefully you will already have prepared language for maps because they do appear in IELTS Writing Task 1 Academic test.

  1. Maps can appear in any part of the listening test, although they appear more often in section 2. Section 2 is one speaker talking about something of general interest, such as a museum or, in the practice lesson below, a farm.
  2. Maps are visual so there is a lot to look at in a short amount of time before the recording begins. For this reason, you need to be ready to tackle this type of question.
  3. First notice the title which tells you what the map is showing.
  4. Notice next the number of buildings, facilities or rooms. Notice their names and their location.
    • Maps will nearly always have rooms and buildings labelled to help you. These words are likely to appear in the recording.
    • When you see the location of the places on the map, you’ll be able to recognise the type of language you might hear, such as:
      • beyond, next to, after that, further in, to the side, to the left, to the east, opposite, at the end of the road, by the gate etc.
  5. Then check the location of the questions. The questions will come in order in the recording, but they might be placed in different parts of the map. So, make sure you know where they are on the map and which order they are in so you can move to the next question easily.
  6. Locate north. This is often helpful if it is given on the map.
  7. See if there are any arrows or if the map shows a logical path that the speaker might take as they talk about the place. Don’t forget that the speaker will always give information in a logical order as they describe the place.
  8. Always note how many words you need for the answers. Many people forget to read the instructions properly.
  9. As you move from question to question, follow the order of information in the recording. You’ll notice which places on the map have been mentioned so that you can keep your place in the recording. Getting lost in the recording is a common reason why people miss answers.
  10. Most map recordings are similar to a guided tour which follows a logical order.
  11. Don’t be distracted by extra information. you will hear a lot of extra words. Don’t get lost in detail and focus on listening for those answers.

Now it’s time to practice listening for maps. Use this as learning curve to see where your strengths and weakness lie in tackling these questions.

Practice Lessons for IELTS Map Listening

IELTS Map Listening Practice 1

The Taj Mahal 

In this listening exercise, you will listen for questions 1 to 7 in the recording. But questions 1 and 2 are not map labelling, only questions 3-7 are map labelling. This means you need to listen carefully to know when to move from questions 1-2 to questions 3-7 about the map.

Questions 1-2: Complete the sentences below using no more than one word and/or a number.

  1. The Taj Mahal was completed in ……………..
  2. Around ………… labourers were used in its creation.

Questions 3-7

Label the map below using no more than two words and/or a number.

IELTS Map Listening Practice Lesson 1

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IELTS Map Listening Practice 2

The Farm

Questions 1 – 4: Complete the diagram using no more than two words.

IELTS Map Listening Practice Lesson 2

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Listening Practice: Big Numbers

Improve your listening skills with this listening practice with big numbers. It is common in all section of the IELTS listening test to be asked to listen and write down large numbers.

Listen to the recording below and write down the numbers you hear. There are 10 numbers to listening for.

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