Category: IELTS Listening

IELTS Listening Sample Questions Changing English

The audio has been taken from BBC learning english. You can download the audio from the given link –

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Sample question Changing English

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN FOURWORDS

1. Which word is used to describe when something is hard to understand?
2. What is the term used by teenagers for “parents looking over shoulder”?
3. What kind of words are slow to change?
4. Which modal is slowly disappearing?
5. Which phrase is used to mean something that is disappearing?
6. Which word can be used in replacement of shall?
7. What is the synonym of interrogative?
8. Which word is used to describe “demanding that people obey you”?
9. Which word is used to express avoiding something?
10. Which tenses are formed from the verb be and the suffix ing?
11. What kind of verb is love?

ANSWERS

1. baffling
2. plos
3. pronouns
4. shall
5. on the way out
6. will
7. question
8. authoritarian
9. shying away from
10. Progressive
11. stative

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IELTS Listening Sample Questions

Writer’s Block. The following audio has been taken from BBC Learning 6 minutes English.

Sample question about Writer’s Block

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS.

1. Which word is used to describe a bundle of things?
2. Which phrase is used for flow of ideas?
3. Which phrase is used to refer to the writer’s inability to write because of psychological problem?
4. Which writer hung upside down from the ceiling in gravity boots to get away from the writer’s block?
5. When was the term writer’s block coined?
6. What is the synonym of writers’s block?
7. Which is the synonym for obstacle?
8. Which word is used to refer to someone who inspires an artist, writer or musician?
9. Which verb describes the situation when you allow your mind to wander and open yourself up to new influence and ideas?
10. Which muse controls consciouness, sleep and senses?
11. Which muse controls feel good chemical in the brain?

ANSWERS

1. sheaf
2. creative juices
3. writer’s block
4. Dan Brown
5. 1950
6. being frozen
7. impediment
8. muse
9. musing
10. thalamus
11. dopamine

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THE PERFECT CV

The below audio has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. The audio talks about making a perfect cv.

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Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS.

1. What is the full form of CV?
2. “Looking for work” is a phrase with meaning defined in the audio. Which word does that?
3. How long do you have to make an impression on the employer to hire you?
4. Something that becomes “popular easily” is defined in the audio. Which word does that?
5. “Becoming more visible than others” has a phrasal meaning in the audio? What is it?
6. Which phrase means to make something clear?
7. What word is used to refer to someone who is self-assured and believes in his or her capacities to do things?
8. What is the synonym of humble?
9. Anything that is brief has a synonym in the audio. What is the synonym?

ANSWERS

1.  Curriculum Vitae
2. job seekers
3. viral
4. less than five minutes
5. stand out
6. get your strengths across
7. confident
8. modest
9. concise

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