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IELTS Sample Listening Questions # Credit Crunch

Credit Crunch

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

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS

  1. What is the situation when your property becomes cheaper than what you paid for?
  2. Whom did Ian Macwhirter warned while buying property?
  3. What is the process in which a person buys a house and then sells it to buy a better house called?
  4. What is the period when it seems difficult to get credit and interest rates are high called?
  5. When was the first time the use of credit crunch came around?

ANSWER

  1. negative equity
  2. first-time buyers
  3. property ladder
  4. credit crunch
  5. June 2007

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IELTS Sample Listening Questions # Home Swapping

Home Swapping

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

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS.

  1. What is the trend where people give their homes for some time called?
  2. According to survey, which is the most popular destination for UK home swaps?
  3. Which word is used to describe something that is accepted by most people?
  4. What is an apartment at the top of a building called?
  5. What is the other name for second home?
  6. What is the phrase used to describe the situation when one does not unpacks his or her stuff?
  7. Which word best describes a person/feeling when one is very pleased with oneself for being clever?
  8. What is the synonym of flat?
  9. What percent of people prefer to stay in Australia while home swapping?

Home Swapping
ANSWER

  1. Home swapping
  2. USA
  3. Mainstream
  4. Penthouse
  5. holiday home
  6. Live out of suitcase
  7. smug
  8. apartment
  9. 11%

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IELTS Listening Sample Questions # Problem Pronunciation

Problem Pronunciation

The audio given below has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. You can download it, from the given link –
http://goo.gl/mJGLM4

Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS

  1. Which word is used to explain that you have not pronounced a word correctly?
  2. What are the three most mispronounced words in English?
  3. : How many sounds do experts say we need to be able to pronounce – so that we can speak English clearly?
  4. Which is the most mispronounced word in English?
  5. What sounds make pronouncing phenomenon difficult?
  6. What sounds are present in the word anesthetist?
  7. What is the word or sentence that is difficult to say or repeat called?

Problem Pronunciation
ANSWER

  1. mispronounced
  2. regularly,ethnicity,anaesthetist
  3. 44
  4. phenomenon
  5. m,n
  6. t,th,s
  7. tongue twister

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IELTS Sample Listening Question # Adult Children

Adult Children

The audio given below has been taken from BBC 6 minutes English. You can download it, from the given link –
http://goo.gl/04rBgb
Answer the following questions in NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS

  1. A 12 year old boy in the United States was the first to divorce his parents – but when did that happen?
  2. Which phrase is used to talk about something that costs you money?
  3. What phrase is being used by the speaker to tell that you are following your dreams?
  4. Which country has the law the children have the right to ask for money from parents even after they have become adults?
  5. When a law is made for a particular case and from then it carries forward to all the other cases, which word describes such a situation?

adult children
ANSWER

  1. 1992
  2. incur expenses
  3. pursue an aspiration
  4. Italy
  5. set a precedenc

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