IELTS Listening Practice Test 47

A complete 40-question IELTS Listening paper: a phone call to book places on a hot-air balloon flight as a birthday present, the manager's talk at a water treatment works' open day, with its site plan to label, two history students and their tutor on a project about an old department store, and a lecture on chestnut blight and how it changed the forests of eastern North America. 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.