IELTS Sample Listening Questions # Couch Surfing

Couch Surfing

The audio given below has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. You can download it, from the given link –
http://goo.gl/64aLoU


Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS.

  1. What is a sofa which can accommodate more than one person called?
  2. Which term is used to describe the fact that you are visiting lots of websites?
  3. Which country is one of the most popular destination for couch surfing?
  4. Which word describes “the reason to do something”?
  5. What is the experience of people who have either traveled a lot or have lot of experience of different places called?
  6. What is the person whom house you go as a guest called?
  7. What are the people who like to have people in their house called?
  8. If there is something that is very exciting and seems lot of fun to you, what will you call it?
  9. If a person knows you bit more personally, what do they have about you?

Couch Surfing
ANSWER

  1. couch
  2. surfing the web
  3. Paris
  4. motive
  5. worldly views
  6. host
  7. instinctive hosts
  8. compelling
  9. Inside track

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IELTS Listening Sample Question # Disappearing Words

Disappearing Words

The audio given below has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. You can download it, from the given link –
http://goo.gl/DhcFF2

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS

  1. Some of the oldest sounding English words date back to how many years?
  2. What is the gradual process of change and development over a long period of time called?
  3. Which numerical words are told by the scientist as being very old?
  4. Which is the oldest pronoun in English?
  5. When a person tells what might happen in future as per the knowledge he/she has, what is he/she doing?
  6. Which phrasal verb has the same meaning as to die out?
  7. Which word does the scientist predicts to get lost in the near future?
  8. The word that describes how often something happens is ______________.
  9. Which phrase best explains the language that we use most frequently?
  10. Which word means that you will continue to use it or keep it?
  11. Towards the end, which two words are predicted to get extinct?

disappearing words
ANSWER

  1. 20000
  2. Evolution
  3. two, three, five
  4. I
  5. predicting
  6. to become extinct
  7. dirty
  8. frequency
  9. common everyday speech
  10. retain
  11. squeeze and guts

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IELTS Sample Listening Questions # School For Ex-Soldiers

School For Ex-Soldiers

The audio given below has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. You can download it, from the given link –
http://goo.gl/dB4JFZ


Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS.

  1. What age was the world’s oldest student when she got a college degreein the United States?
  2. When was the school for ex-child soldiers established in Sudan?
  3. What words are used by Santo Khamis to describe his students?
  4. What word describes a person who continues to do what they are doing even if they know it is wrong?
  5. What is the age of students in Santo school?
  6. After how much time is change observed in students of Santo school?
  7. What subjects are liked by students at Santo school?

School
ANSWER

  1. 95
  2. 2006
  3. aggressive and stubborn
  4. Stubborn
  5. 25 and 40 years old
  6. about a year
  7. history, geography, environmental studies

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IELTS Listening Sample Question # Private Fostering

The audio given below has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. You can download it, from the given link –
http://goo.gl/VTN0on

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.

  1. Where did the BAAF organized a private fostering awareness week?
  2. When was the first Child protection company created?
  3. Who was the inspiration for world’s first Child protection agency?
  4. What is the process of bringing a child home legally and become his/her parents called?
  5. Do the parents who foster the child become his/her legal parents?
  6. Who makes the fostering arrangement if it is not private?
  7. What is necessary for the organization to make fostering arrangement?
  8. Who can never be a foster parent in case of private fostering?

Private fostering
ANSWER

  1. UK
  2. 1894
  3. protecting animal rights
  4. adoption
  5. No
  6. local authority
  7. care order
  8. close family member

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