IELTS Listening Sample Questions # Family history

Family is where our roots are but in present times, there has been a fuss to know the family history . This is the topic for today’s BBC 6 minutes English.

The below audio has been taken from BBC 5 minutes English.

Listen to the audio and answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.

1. Which word describes the study of family history?
2. What is the synonym of roots?
3. What is the meaning of the phrase, skeletons in the closet?
4. Which word means the same as understand?
5. What’s the name for the study of ancient handwriting?.
6. What word describes the official count of people in a population?
7. Which phrase describes the knowledge passed on from one generation to the next?
8. Which word means that you are connected by a blood relationship with them?

ANSWERS

1. genealogy
2. origin
3. secrets
4. decipher
5. Palaeography
6. census
7. family lore
8. descended from

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