IELTS LISTENING

MS. Kim Dung

These questions test your ability to
understand:

• Main ideas and detailed factual

information
• The opinions and attitudes of speakers
• The purpose of an utterance
• The ability to follow the development of
ideas.

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Listening details:

• Recording 1 A conversation between two people set in an everyday social

context.

• Recording 2 A monologue set in an everyday social context, e.g. a speech about

local facilities.

• Recording 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.

• Recording 4 A monologue on an academic subject, e.g. a university lecture.

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Question types
• Multiple choice
• Matching
• Plan, map, diagram labelling
• Form, note, table, flow-chart, summary completion
• Sentence completion
• Short-answer questions

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Matching

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Multiple choice

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Sentence completion

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Form completion

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Note completion

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Table completion

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Short Answer
Questions

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Plan / Map / Diagram Labelling

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 SPEAKING

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Questions
Where are you living right now?
Where is your hometown?

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Home/hometown
I live in _________________.
I’ve been living there for _____ years.
It’s __________ city/ village with ___________.

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Suggested answers
• I live in an apartment in a high-rise building
• I live in a detached/terraced house.
• It’s in the suburbs/ center of the city
• It’s not too big, not too small but it’s nice and cozy.

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Speaking
The IELTS Speaking test is designed to assess a wide range of skills.
The examiner will want to see how well you can:

• communicate opinions and information on everyday topics and

common experiences; to do this you will need to answer a range of
questions
• speak at length on a given topic using appropriate language
• organise your ideas coherently
• express and justify your opinions
• analyse, discuss and speculate about issues
• Make sure that you relax and talk fluently. You will need to speak
Marks
• You will be assessed on your performance throughout the test by
certificated IELTS examiners. You will be marked on the four
criteria: fluency and coherence, lexical resource, grammatical
range and accuracy, pronunciation. Scores are reported in whole
and half bands

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Part 1

1 How many questions did the examiner ask?

2 What kind of questions did the examiner ask? What
were the question words?
3 What two topics did the examiner cover?
4 Approximately how long did the student speak for each
question? How many
sentences did they use?
Thinking of more information

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Responding to yes/no questions
1 Do you live near the sea?
2 Is there anything you don't like about where
you live?
3 Is your house in the city or the countryside?
4 Do you live in a house or an apartment?
5 Is there anything special you can do in your
home town?
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a We live in the suburbs, just outside the city, about 20
minutes' drive by car.
b Yes, we live on the coast, and we can see the beach
from our window -
it's pretty nice.
c Not really, I think my home town is a little boring.
We mostly take a train to Shanghai
when we want to do something.
d Yes, the weather there is pretty terrible. We only get
about six weeks of summer,
and it's very cold most of the time.
e Yes, there are many monuments and museums to see -
we have a lot of culture
and history.
f We currently live in a small apartment on the 33rd
floor. My last house was
much bigger ...
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Hometown
Where do you come from?
What is the weather like in your hometown?
When is the best time of year of visit Your hometown?
Why do you like/not like your hometown ?

MOONSOON

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Your accommodation
1. Where are you living now?
2. Who else do you live with?
3. What is your favourite room in your home?
4. Why do you like/not like the place where you live?

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Would questions
1. Would you recommend your house/apartment to another
person?
2. Would you move house if you had a chance?
3. Would you like to buy a house in your home town one day?
4. Would you like to live by yourself or with family/friends?

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How to answer would questions!
If + past simple, would / could / might + infinitive verb.
Structure:
To be honest, I don’t think I’ve thought about that. But I guess I would..
I would perhaps …
I imagine I would

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 Presenter name
Thank you Email address

Website

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