IELTS Listening Practice Test 17

A complete 40-question IELTS Listening paper: a phone call to hire a marquee for a retirement party in a garden, the manager's welcome talk at a restored 1930s open-air pool, two students and their tutor on a small firm's trial of a four-day week, and a lecture on the optical telegraph, the towers with moving arms that carried messages across France before electricity. Played in sequence under exam conditions and marked the moment you hand in.

Questions: 40
Time: About 31 min
Marked: Instantly

How should it play?

Exam conditionsPlays once, start to finish, on the real test's timeline: time to read before each part, half a minute to check after it, two minutes at the end. No pause, no rewind.PracticePause, rewind and play a part again as much as you like, read the script as it is spoken, and check your answers as you go. The clock counts up rather than down, and nothing is handed in for you.

The recording sets the pace from the moment you press the button. Nothing plays until you have had time to read.