Free IELTS Listening Test 47
A customer calls a sports shop to hire skiing equipment for a family trip, A guide leads visitors through an arboretum, explaining the tree collection, A tutor and two students discuss giving and receiving peer feedback on written work, A lecture on how volcanic islands form and how ecosystems develop on them.
- ModuleListening
- Set#47
- Parts4
- AccentsBritish, AU, NA
- Part 1Sports Equipment Hire
- Part 2Arboretum Tour
- Part 3Peer Feedback
- Part 4Volcanic Islands
Four parts
Test 47 mixes quick-fire information capture (Part 1) with sustained-attention monologue (Parts 2 and 4). The cues come fast in some sections and slow in others — pacing your attention is the skill.
- Part 1 · Sports Equipment Hire
A customer calls a sports shop to hire skiing equipment for a family trip
IELTS-style audio part
- Part 2 · Arboretum Tour
A guide leads visitors through an arboretum, explaining the tree collection
IELTS-style audio part
- Part 3 · Peer Feedback
A tutor and two students discuss giving and receiving peer feedback on written work
IELTS-style audio part
- Part 4 · Volcanic Islands
A lecture on how volcanic islands form and how ecosystems develop on them
IELTS-style audio part
Question types you'll see
- Form Completion
- Multiple Choice
- Map Labelling
- Matching
- Sentence Completion
- Note Completion
How the practice works
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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.