Category: IELTS Listening

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Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS.

1. What does it mean when something is on rage?
2. Which phrase is used to describe the fact that you are joining other people in doing something that has become popular?
3. What’s the name for someone who loves beards?
4. Which word describes the situation when you get a advantage because of certain condition or circumstance?
5. Lucinda Hawksley is the grand daughter of which famous writer?
6. What is the word that describes something that is eye-catching and different?
7. What is the women’s struggle to achieve the same right as men called?
8. What is the short for women liberation?
9. What is the male main harmone called?
10. Name the kind of skin cancer?
11. What is the phrase used when you want to join something or be part of something right away?
12. What are the campaigns that invite men to get hairy for good causes?

ANSWER

1. very fashionable
2. get on a bandwagon
3. pogonophile
4. competitive advantage
5. Charles Dickens
6. flamboyant
7. feminism
8. women lib
9. testosterone
10. Melanoma
11. get go
12. Movember, Decembeard

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FUTURE CITIES

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Answer the following question in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS

1. Name the computer game about city building?
2. What is the percentage of world’s population that will be living in cities in 2050?
3. Which term is used for an imaginary place where everything is perfect?
4. Which term is used to refer to the way a city spread into an underdeveloped land around it?
5. Which word is used to describe poor communities where houses are built of cheap materials?
6. What is used to refer to the basic facilities a town or city needs?
7. Which organization are John Rossant founder and chairman of?
8. Which term is used to refer to something that is present everywhere?
9. Which term is used to refer to something that can significantly affect the way things are?
10. What percent of world’s population lives in cities in the present?

ANSWERS

1. SimCity
2. 70%
3. Utopia
4. Urban Sprawl
5. Shanty towns
6. Infrastructure
7. New Cities Foundation
8. Ubiquitous
9. Game changer
10. 54%

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IELTS Listening Sample Questions Changing English

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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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