Category: IELTS Listening

With global warming and traffic increasing all over the world, people have started using cycles like never before. Not only cycles help us in living in a beautiful world, they also allow us to have a fitter bodies. This time we are listening to a BBC 6 minute English audio that talks about cycles and how they have helped shape so many mass movements.

Listen to the audio given below and answer the questions in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.

1. What is the synonym of air-filled?
2. Who invented the first air-filled cycle tyre in 1888?
3. What bicycles did people ride before 1885?
4. What was the first bike with pedals called?
5. Which word describes the piece of clothing worn under a dress or skirt?
6. What is the synonym of logical?
7. Which word has a similar meaning to gathered in ?
8. What word can be used instead of shock and anger?
9. Which word is synonymous with freedom?
10. What does shore up mean?
11. What is the collection of genes in a particular population called?
12. Which word describes something that starts off as an enthusiasm but does not lasts long?
13. Name a fad that the speaker talks about.

ANSWERS

1. pneumatic
2. John Boyd Dunlop
3. boneshakers, tricycles, high-wheelers
4. velocipede
5. petticoat
6. rational
7. cinched
8. outrage
9. emancipation
10. support
11. gene pool
12. fad
13. Iycra wearing

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Literally, the entire world has moved to the internet and with everyone being socially active, there are so many people who create different social identities. This time we are listening to a BBC 6 minutes English audio that talks about the different personalities that people take on social platforms.

ONLINE PERSONA

Listen to the audio below and answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.

1. Which word does the speaker uses to show that she does not understand whey people like certain things?
2. What is the synonym of mind?
3. How many social media accounts the average person has?
4. What is a person who is skilled at using words called?
5. What is the synonym of name?
6. Which word refers to the language that goes with street or urban culture?
7. What is an embarrassing mistake called?
8. Which word defines you when you look very silly although you are trying to be serious?
9. What is the synonym of social group?
10. How many hours does a average person spend online?

ANSWERS

1. get
2. psyche
3. 5
4. wordsmith
5. handle
6. street
7. blooper
8. laughing stock
9. tribe
10. 1 hour

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Family is where our roots are but in present times, there has been a fuss to know the family history . This is the topic for today’s BBC 6 minutes English.

The below audio has been taken from BBC 5 minutes English.

Listen to the audio and answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.

1. Which word describes the study of family history?
2. What is the synonym of roots?
3. What is the meaning of the phrase, skeletons in the closet?
4. Which word means the same as understand?
5. What’s the name for the study of ancient handwriting?.
6. What word describes the official count of people in a population?
7. Which phrase describes the knowledge passed on from one generation to the next?
8. Which word means that you are connected by a blood relationship with them?

ANSWERS

1. genealogy
2. origin
3. secrets
4. decipher
5. Palaeography
6. census
7. family lore
8. descended from

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Romance and love or romance vs love. Two different yet similar concepts. There are people who do differentiate between the two while there are many who believe romance is an integral part of love. Well, this time we are listening to BBC 6 minutes English, on how has romance ruined love.

Listen to the audio below and answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS.

1. Which movement has influenced literature, art, poetry, music and the way people behave?
2. What word defines the working of people together to support a idea?
3. When was the start of the romantic period?
4. Which word means the spirit of time?
5. What is the one word for the standard from which other things are judged?
6. What is the idealised version of a perfect relationship called?
7. Which phrase means the practical details of something like work, stress?
8. What is the synonym of imperfect?

ANSWERS

1. Romanticism
2. movement
3. end of 18th century
4. zeitgeist
5. benchmark
6. romantic ideal
7. nitty-gritty
8. flawed

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