IELTS Listening Practice Test 25

A complete 40-question IELTS Listening paper: a phone call to commission a painted portrait of a family's dog, a welcome talk for new volunteers restoring a canal lock, with a map to label, two students and their tutor planning a study of 'piano stairs' that get people to take the stairs, and a lecture on the ice trade, when ice was cut from frozen lakes and shipped around the world. Played in sequence under exam conditions and marked the moment you hand in.

Questions: 40
Time: About 32 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.