Difficulty level: Easy In the IELTS Listening Test you need to be ready for “tricks”. Sometimes more than one possible answer is mentioned, or the speaker gives an answer and then changes it quickly. Listen to the recording, and fill the gaps in the questions below. Answer and then Changes Your browser doesn’t support audio … more →
Difficulty level: Easy Today’s another listening exercise gives you some practice to numbers and letters. This type of IELTS listening exercises aims at improving your listening skills. Listen to the recording, and fill the gaps in the questions below. Numbers, Letters and Address Your browser doesn’t support audio element. Flight number: _____ Flight number: _____ … more →
Difficulty level: Easy This type of IELTS listening exercises aims at improving your listening skills. Here are some exercises from Cambridge IELTS book 7. Listen to the recording, and fill the gaps in the questions below. Numbers and Letters Your browser doesn’t support audio element. Surname: _____ Flight number: _____ Credit card number: _____ Surname: … more →
The table below shows the proportion of different categories of families living in poverty in Australia in 1999. (147 Words, 7 Sentences, 4 Paragraphs, Band 9) The table gives information about poverty rates among six types of household in Australia in the year 1999. It is noticeable that levels of poverty were higher for single … more →
The diagram below are existing and proposed floor plans for the redevelopment of an art gallery. (175 Words, 9 Sentences, 4 Paragraphs, Band 9) The first picture shows the layout of an art gallery, and the second shows some proposed changes to the gallery space. It is clear that significant changes will be made in … more →
Spoken corpus comes to life A The compiling of dictionaries has been historically the provenance of studious professorial types – usually bespectacled – who love to pore over weighty tomes and make pronouncements on the finer nuances of meaning. They were probably good at crosswords and definitely knew a lot of words, but the image … more →
The Nature and Aims of Archaeology Archaeology is partly the discovery of treasures of the past, partly the work of the scientific analyst, partly the exercise of the creative imagination. It is toiling in the sun on an excavation in the Middle East, it is working with living Inuit in the snows of Alaska, and … more →
Highs and lows Hormone levels – and hence our moods –may be affected by the weather. Gloomy weather can cause depression, but sunshine appears to raise the spirits. In Britain, for example, the dull weather of winter drastically cuts down the amount of sunlight that is experienced which strongly affects some people. They become so … more →
Votes for Women The suffragette movement, which campaigned for votes for women in the early twentieth century, is most commonly associated with the Pankhurst family and militant acts of varying degrees of violence. The Museum of London has drawn on its archive collection to convey a fresh picture with its exhibition. The Purple, White and Green: … more →
Migratory beekeeping Taking wing To eke out a full-time living from their honeybees, about half the nation’s 2,000 commercial beekeepers pull up stakes each spring, migrating north to find more flowers for their bees. Besides turning floral nectar into honey, these hardworking insects also pollinate crops for farmers -for a fee. As autumn approaches, the … more →