Category: IELTS Listening

The Transition

The audio given below has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. The audio talks about the transition that takes place in people, from academic to activist. You can download it, from the given link –
http://goo.gl/EDLD40

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS.

1. What is the person who brings about social or political changes called?
2. Where did Yvone met the HIV/AIDS activist?
3. Name the country which gave the world an example for battle against HIV and AIDS?
4. Which organization did Ralph became part of as a manager?
5. What was the main problem that the prisoners were facing?
6. What was the main disease that the prisoners were facing after HIV/AIDS?
7. The speaker talks about a drug that treats and prevents  infections in people with HIV/AIDS. What is it?
8. Whose attitude was Ralph and his team able to change?
9. HIV/AIDS still effects some people lives. What it is the percentage?

ANSWER

1. Activist
2. Cape Town
3. Uganda
4. Treatment Action Campaign
5. Over crowding
6. Tuberculosis
7. anti-retroviral drugs
8. South African Government
9. 6 percent

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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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