Free IELTS Listening Test 40
A parent calls a tutoring agency to arrange maths and English tuition for a teenager, A farmer talks to visitors about the farm's history, animals and activities during an open day, A tutor and two students discuss how to analyse a marketing case study, A lecture on circadian rhythms and how disruptions to the body clock affect health.
- ModuleListening
- Set#40
- Parts4
- AccentsBritish, AU, NA
- Part 1Tutoring Enquiry
- Part 2Farm Open Day
- Part 3Case Study Analysis
- Part 4Circadian Rhythms
Four parts
Four parts in canonical order: Tutoring Enquiry, Farm Open Day, Case Study Analysis, and Circadian Rhythms. Same conversation → monologue → discussion → lecture shape as test day.
- Part 1 · Tutoring Enquiry
A parent calls a tutoring agency to arrange maths and English tuition for a teenager
IELTS-style audio part
- Part 2 · Farm Open Day
A farmer talks to visitors about the farm's history, animals and activities during an open day
IELTS-style audio part
- Part 3 · Case Study Analysis
A tutor and two students discuss how to analyse a marketing case study
IELTS-style audio part
- Part 4 · Circadian Rhythms
A lecture on circadian rhythms and how disruptions to the body clock affect health
IELTS-style audio part
Question types you'll see
- Form Completion
- Multiple Choice
- Map Labelling
- Matching
- Sentence Completion
- Note Completion
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About 30 minutes of audio plus 10 minutes for transferring answers, the same as test day. Strict mode runs straight through; Breath mode lets you pause and replay.
British, Australian, and North American voices distributed across the four parts. The mix mirrors the way the real IELTS Listening test rotates accents between conversation, monologue, discussion, and lecture.
No. The page above lists the topics and question types so you know what's coming, but the audio, questions, and answer key only appear once you start a saved practice session. The analysis is more useful when you've taken the test cold.