Shadowing Practice: IELTS Listening Practice Test 2026 with Answers [Real Exam - 302 ] - Learn English Speaking with Video
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This is the IELTS Listening Test.
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You will hear a number of different recordings, and you will have to answer questions on what you hear.
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There will be time for you to read the instructions and questions, and you will have a chance to check your work.
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All the recordings will be played once only.
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The test is in four parts.
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At the end of the test, you will be given ten minutes to transfer your answers to the answer sheet.
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Now turn to part one.
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Part one.
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You'll hear an interview conversation between a banker and a customer.
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First, you have some time to look at questions 1 to 7.
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Listen carefully and answer the questions 1 to 7.
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Hi, can I open a bank account, please?
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Sure, come on in.
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Make yourself at home.
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I'll just get some details for you.
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It won't take long.
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OK, right.
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What kind of account do you want?
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A deposit account.
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OK, I've got the application form here then.
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Have a look at this leaflet.
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We have several types.
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I've decided on the one called classic.
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Good, that's fine.
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Can I have your full name, please?
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Yes, it's Jonathan Fox.
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That's J-O-N-A-T-H-A-N.
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Oh, right.
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Thank you.
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And what's your date of birth, please?
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The 21st of January, 1970.
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Right.
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Do you have another bank account in the UK?
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No, not yet.
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This is the first one.
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OK, fine.
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And what is your address in the UK, sir?
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Ten, Island House, South Quay.
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That's East London, isn't it?
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Yes.
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Near Canary Wharf, right?
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Yes, that's right.
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How long have you been at your current address?
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Er, just around one month actually.
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OK, that's fine.
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Can I ask for a previous address?
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Sure.
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It's Flat 3, Canada House, Queen Street.
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Is that all?
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Yes.
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That's Edinburgh, isn't it?
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Yes.
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Edinburgh.
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OK, thank you.
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Do you have a daytime telephone or mobile phone number?
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Yes, I think the number of my office is 0207 235 6735.
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Would you like my home phone number too?
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Yes, please.
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It's 0204 675 1222.
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Lovely.
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Before you hear the rest of the conversation, you have some time to look at the questions 8 to 10.
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Now listen and answer questions 8 to 10.
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Right.
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What do you do for a living in the UK, sir?
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I am working at an English language school in central London as a tutor.
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It's my main job.
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OK.
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Now we usually ask for a piece of information for checking your identity, for security reasons, if you phone us.
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Sure.
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What name is your mother's first name, because it's less likely to be known?
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OK.
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It's Monica.
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Thank you.
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Yes.
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M-O-N-I-C-A.
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It's Russian.
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OK, good.
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And how much would you like to open your account with?
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I've only brought £1,000.
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OK, fine.
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How often would you like to receive bank statements?
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I won't be needing bank statements.
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What about an online banking service?
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OK, just a moment, please.
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Can I check in the box on the screen?
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Sure.
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I was also wondering about a mortgage service.
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Sure.
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Can you just wait a moment?
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I'll introduce you to a mortgage marketing manager.
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Thank you.
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That is the end of part one.
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You now have one minute to check your answers to part one.
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Thank you.
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Part 2 You'll hear a tourism programme, The Elizabeth House.
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First, you have some time to look at questions 11 to 14.
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Thank you.
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hi everybody good to see you again this morning I'll tell
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you about the Elizabeth house in Canterbury once home of the
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famous carpenter Jonathan Owen he bought the house in 1965 although
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he had first seen it five years earlier actually he was
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interested in the house as a traditional flat in England
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and he paid five thousand pounds for it without a second thought
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because of it having standard
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and regulation building methods during the Middle Ages in the UK at
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that time he had worked at the University of Canterbury as
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a head carpenter who managed with a small building company his professional success was abundant
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but his family life wasn't so successful his parents had suffered from diabetes
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and mental disease
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and his brother Dan was ill with pneumonia moving to Elizabeth
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house he started his new life Jonathan considered the home a pure example of traditional East England country house
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and did some of his successful building structure work here the backyard
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and garden of the house became calm
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and peaceful the materials used to make the wall chimney and roof were collected from the local area.
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Most of all, oak trees were in the front of the main gate.
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Before you hear the rest of the programme, you have some time to look at the questions 15 to 20.
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Now listen and answer questions 15 to 20.
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as you go up the path there's the rose garden on your right
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and you will find to your left an area
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which has interesting types of sunflower as well as some lovely carnation it is known as the sun rainbow
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and was designed by his brother dan who had studied gardening
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arts in paris the next destination is the japanese footbridge with exotic asian mountain plants
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and fruit growing on it follow the path round to the second corner
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and on your left you will see the entrance to the
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pear tree with its 200 year old branches go through the
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path until you've reached the front of the house now I'll
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give you a couple of hours to wander around this lovely building your tour guide will introduce
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and explain about its history and viewpoints to you
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if you need to buy any of Jonathan's handbooks
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or other souvenirs you can enter the house where you'll find the shop
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which is located between the path
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and the water mill I expect by this time you may also be a need of a rest
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and some refreshments from the snack bar
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if you have a break there is a lovely walk down
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towards the River cotton this is the best view for visitors you can cross the field
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which spreads along the path close to the windmill.
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In autumn this area will open a small event or festival which is definitely worth a visit.
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It is familiar a good place for growing strawberries.
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Every season most of the residents are ready to make local produce.
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Also the local council helps to improve the grape festival by promoting and marketing it through online and offline methods.
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Last year around 100 tons of grapes were harvested and sold at the city mall.
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We'll now have a good chance to see an orchard behind the house.
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That is the end of part two.
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You now have 30 seconds to check your answers to part 2.
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Part 3 You'll hear a conversation between students, Anne and David, about gallery marketing.
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First, you have some time to look at questions 21 to 24.
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Thank you.
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Anne, we really need to get working on this gallery marketing assignment.
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We've only got two weeks left until the end of the month to set up.
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Right, so how about getting started now?
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We need to work through the instructions.
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Well, we must search for one area from tourism industries, like the museum or gallery.
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There are lots of sites online.
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What are they about?
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The National Science Museum, the History Museum, the War Museum, the Tate Modern Art Gallery and so on.
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You got more?
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We've got plenty.
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I've got an idea to find out the best comment.
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Coming this Friday, we'll get more information at the London Museum
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because it shows all the visitors' guidebooks of museums or galleries in the UK.
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It also runs a small workshop about non-profit tourism industries marketing.
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Great.
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So after visiting there, we have to use research methods, such as telephone interviews, questionnaires on the street or sending out emails.
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Actually, we don't have a choice.
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We have to send the email.
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Right.
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We don't have to waste time deciding among them.
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By the way, how do we get the responses?
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Um, let's contact the London Museum's Information Centre.
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Actually, it may be helpful to us to collect data through our head course leader.
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How many people do we have to interview?
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Well, we have to split into three groups.
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And it looks like we have to interview 30 people for each group.
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So, 90 altogether then.
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It depends on the ages too, right?
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That's right.
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So, are they all the requirements?
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Yes, looks like it.
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Hmm.
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Firstly, which part are we going to choose?
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My preference would be a modern art gallery, since that's where I spend most of the time.
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I think you've got something wrong.
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I don't think there are abundant differences in the exhibitions there.
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I mean, you get young and old, man and woman, amateur and professional, all going to the galleries.
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Right.
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So let's make it a ceramic exhibition then.
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So basically, what two groups will we compare and contrast for that?
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Male and female?
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Absolutely.
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Also, most of my respondents like the same ceramics as me.
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Also, I think different age groups could be changed to highlight differences.
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Before you hear the rest of the conversation, you have some time to look at the questions.
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25 to 30.
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Now listen and answer questions 25 to 30.
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I think you're right.
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I'll take some comment.
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The age groups are teenagers, 20s, 30s, 40s and over.
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What do you think about this?
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Great.
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That will give us more detail.
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So how about the kind of ceramic they like?
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Let's give them some options and then we can just tick boxes.
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OK, let's have Asian, European, African.
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What else?
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Something special?
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Well, we should include the Incas in Peru.
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Some people like this style, you know.
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OK, and then we should know about their understanding of ceramics.
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They can learn about that thanks to a gallery curator who can inform them about the patterns
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and markings through picture and local clay.
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I'm curious about how they were made.
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I'm in a process with painting and things embedded on the surface.
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At that time, the equipment and materials were not good, compared with the present day.
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I agree.
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We should also include an earthen vessel, of course.
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Right.
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The next step could be about where they were actually from.
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They were made from local clay, weren't they?
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Things such as mountain, lake, basement and so forth.
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I think so.
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One more thing is the colour on the bottle.
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How did the ancients get the tone?
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On the internet, it said they got it through dried plants.
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They were working again to make a tone, drying and sorting.
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OK, I see.
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To get more hard tone, they included other strong herbs or something.
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At that time, the colours were used by the rich with property.
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Great.
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You've got plenty of data, David.
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No, no. It's just beginning.
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We have to look for something special with more details and history for the presentation next week.
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That is the end of part three.
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You now have 30 seconds to check your answers to part three.
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Thank you.
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Part 4
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Thank you.
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Now listen carefully and answer the questions 31 to 40.
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Hi everyone.
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This morning I'm going to talk to you about flea markets in England.
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At first we were surprised to learn that only 15% of people here in England make an effort to collect waste.
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That is lower than other European countries.
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Also, it might be falling within a couple of years' time unless the government makes a severe regulation for industries
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and local residences.
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The UK Government's target means that by 2012 we must decrease our waste emissions by 45% compared with 2000.
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Local councils can offer support to meet
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that target by taking part in the National Green campaign and investing in local flea markets.
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Most of all, these markets reduce waste emissions from landfill sites.
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A flea market or swap meet is a type of bazaar where very cheap or second-hand goods are sold or bartered for.
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It may be indoors like in a warehouse or school gymnasium, or it may be outdoors, like in a field or under a tent.
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The flea market vendors display the goods used on the table for selling, such as a few unwanted household items to operate commerce,
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including a variety of used living products.
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Many flea markets in European countries have food vendors who sell snacks and drinks to the visitors
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and may be part of a small event such as carnivals or concerts.
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As part of our research, our team carried out a questionnaire with people in the local area.
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The results said, we need to open more second-hand shops.
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However, one problem is that there is a lack of information and marketing.
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To solve the problems, local councils should invest in support in flea markets.
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by doing things like creating parking space, organising security, public promotions using the internet and other resources.
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We were also surprised to discover how waste such as furniture, computers, kitchen tools and other such things are reused.
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and wooden furniture or electronic products are easy to recycle because they can be reused over and over again without becoming weaker.
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Around 3 million electronic goods are thrown away per year.
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Also, around 500,000 pieces of furniture are also disposed of.
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Only one-fifth is collected and fortunately recycled through many local flea markets.
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In 2009, there were around 3,000 flea markets in England.
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The number is increasing steadily so far.
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Surprisingly, by collecting under 15% of old books, lots of paper is imported so more paper can be recycled in the UK.
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Europe recycles 50% of its paper and Germany recycles 80% of its paper.
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When recycling launched, there were quality problems, so it was so hard to reuse paper in office sheets.
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However, these problems have now been solved, and Union of the Flea Markets based in East London produces high-quality recycled paper.
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Another union, Loving Paper, currently sells the paper that has been through a sorting process to farmers or gardeners as fertiliser.
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So, to sum up, there seems to be a number of activities that enable people to reuse waste,
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but the substantial problem is encouraging people to think twice about taking their waste
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to a flea market instead of throwing it away.
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I think the recycling programme will make us save materials and protect the environment in future.
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And next, I'll show the plan for promoting it.
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That is the end of part four.
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You now have one minute to check your answers to part four.
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Thank you.
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That is the end of the listening test.
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In the IELTS test, you would now have 10 minutes to transfer your answers to the answer sheet. so
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “IELTS Listening Practice Test 2026 with Answers”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: answer, questions, flea. This video has 280 sentences and 2446 words to shadow. The speech runs for 27:07. The speaker talks slowly, about 90 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. 86% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| recycle verb | /ɹəˈsaɪkəl/ | To break down and reuse component materials. |
| reuse noun | /ɹiːˈjuːs/ | The act of salvaging or in some manner restoring a discarded item to yield something usable. |
| ceramic noun | /səˈɹæmɪk/ | A hard, brittle, inorganic, nonmetallic material, made by firing a material such as clay at a high temperature. |
| visitor noun | /ˈvɪzɪtɚ/ | Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest. |
| questionnaire noun | /ˌk(w)ɛstʃəˈnɛə/ | A form containing a list of questions; a means of gathering information for a survey. |
| grape noun | /ɡɹeɪp/ | A small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on female vines of most species of genus Vitis and the… |
| emission noun | /ɪˈmɪʃ.ən/ | Something which is emitted or sent out; issue. |
| abundant adjective | /əˈbʌn.dənt/ | Fully sufficient; found in copious supply; in great quantity; overflowing. |
| vendor noun | /ˈvɛn.dɚ/ | A person or a company that vends or sells. |
| carpenter noun | /ˈkɑɹpəntɚ/ | A person skilled at carpentry, the trade of cutting and joining timber in order to construct buildings or other structures. |
| snack noun | /snæk/ | A light meal. |
| instruction noun | /ɪnˈstɹʌkʃən/ | The act of instructing, teaching, or providing with information or knowledge. |
| barter noun | /ˈbɑɹ.tɚ/ | An exchange of goods or services without the use of money. |
| bazaar noun | /bəˈzɑɹ/ | A marketplace, particularly in the Middle East and South Asia, and often covered with shops and stalls. |
| carnation noun | /kɑɹˈneɪ.ʃən/ | originally, Dianthus caryophyllus |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| carry out verb | /ˈkæ.ɹi aʊt/ | To hold while moving it out. |
| come on in verb | Synonym of come in (“to enter”). | |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. | |
| go up verb | To move upwards. | |
| send out verb | To issue, dispatch or transmit. | |
| set up verb | /ˌsɛt ˈʌp/ | To make ready for use. |
| sum up verb | To produce a total by adding. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- Hi, can I open a bank account, please?
- What kind of account do you want?
- Can I have your full name, please?
- How long have you been at your current address?
- Can I ask for a previous address?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | will be played · will be given · be known |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've decided · have you been · I've only brought |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 34 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'll, I've, you'll. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “th” sounds: earthen /ˈɝθən/, altogether /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: emission /ɪˈmɪʃ.ən/, instruction /ɪnˈstɹʌkʃən/, carnation /kɑɹˈneɪ.ʃən/, refreshment /ɹɪˈfɹɛʃ.mənt/, workshop /ˈwɝk.ʃɑp/
- Long words — get the stress right: gymnasium /d͡ʒɪmˈneɪ.zi.əm/, fortunately /ˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nɪt.li/, altogether /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/, surprisingly /səˈpɹaɪzɪŋli/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like recycle, reuse, ceramic.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.