Category: IELTS Listening

Night Sleep

The audio given below has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. You can download it, from the given link –

http://goo.gl/eaNJ9D

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS

1. What is the longest time someone has managed to go without Night sleep?
2. Which phrase is used to refer not having enough sleep?
3. How does the sleep deprivation effects the work of students?
4. Which phrase is used to describe the situation when one can sleep on bed even after spending the usual time?
5. Which words are used to describe the temper of students by Friday?
6. What is the meaning of the expression ‘tempers are frayed’?
7. What describes the feeling when one did not had enough sleep?
8. Which two aspects get affected because of sleep deprivation?
9. The word that describes the person who easily gets irritated is __________
10. Under which condition do people weigh too much for their height?
11. What was the age of Andy Gardner when she broke the record for least sleep?

ANSWER

1. 11 days
2. Sleep deprivation
3. concentration is poor
4. sleeping in
5. stretched,tetchy and sleepy
6. easily angry
7. tetchy
8. intellectual, behavior
9. Irritable
10. Obesity
11. 17

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Obama Inauguration Party

The audio given below has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. You can download it, from the given link –
http://goo.gl/NRe9Id

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.

1. In 1881, Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, went to the White House to find something for President James Garfield. What was it?
2. Which phrasal verb is used to explain a sincere oath that a person takes?
3. Which word is used to refer to the swearing in ceremony?
4. Who organizes public events like films, concerts etc?
5. What is a drink made of two or more drinks and alcohol called?
6. Who are the people who have similar views or interest like you?

ANSWER

1. bullet
2. sworn in
3. inauguration
4. promoters
5. cocktail
6. like-minded people

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Gold Vending

The audio given below has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. You can download it, from the given link –
http://goo.gl/u3Hw9Z

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.

1. What is the synonym for something that is very precious?
2. Which term is used to explain that someone will buy part of the ownership of a company as an investment
3. Which currencies would you expect to hear in a report about gold, recorded in Germany by a reporter of a British broadcaster?
4. What will be the price of gold of 10 gram bar?
5. What are machines from which small items such as packaged food or drinks can be bought by inserting money called?
6. What is the synonym for slot machine used?

ANSWER

1. expensive
2. stocks and shares
3. dollar
4. 40 dollars
5. vending machine
6. dispensers

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IELTS Sample Listening Question # Shakespeare

The audio given below has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English.

 

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS.

1. What was the first language that Shakespeare’s plays were translated into?
2. Who is the author of Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare’s Globe’?
3. What is the language spoken by aliens in star trek?
4. Which word is used to describe something that has lot of forms?
5. People of which place want to translate Shakespeare language to plain English?
6. Greg Doran is the artistic director of which organization?

ANSWER

1. German
2. Andrew Dickinson
3. Klingon
4. multifarious
5. Oregon
6. Royal Shakespeare Academy

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