Unit 1

Listening
Contents
• This unit covers two IELTS tasks, short- answer
questions and multiple-choice questions.

• Multiple-choice questions require students to

listen carefully to have an understanding of either
specific or general points.

• Whereas short-answer questions, require

students to listen for facts such as names of
places or people.
• For multiple-choice questions eliminating distractors is a key skill

which students need to be aware of.

• Distractors: the incorrect options in a multiple choice question.

Designed to distract students from choosing the correct answer

• Eliminating distractors therefore, is the skill of discarding the

incorrect options in a multiple choice question.
For short-answer questions, the skills of prediction and listening

for specific information are key.

 1. Listen to an estate agent describing the three properties in the pictures and
write the correct number in each box.

Who is usually responsible for

selling houses?

flat, two levels, 3 bedrooms,

a bathroom, kitchen & living room

an estate agent
Which helped you find the answers?
 ADVICE

• This type of multiple-choice task is common in the exam and students must have
practice in being able to interpret pictures/diagrams quickly.
• You need to identify the key features in these visuals and then listen for the same
key information in the recording.
 Churchill Road
Three/3
Two/2
garden
(a) cooker
(a) dishwasher
1/ one o’clock
Eliot
07863905073
53.72
472
01897 625730
110 55

B1074
350,000

4.3 x 3.28

30 x 10
4.91 x 3.95
4.2 x 3.55
name, address and home phone number
mortgage from bank and deposit in bank accoun
two months (three at the most)

C (she wants to move in before her children start

school)
Exam skills