IELTS Listening Exercises

Here you can find IELTS Listening exercises to improve your listening skills. You can choose a type of question from IELTS Listening test and your level of difficulty. On real test, questions get increasingly difficult. Practising different types of IELTS Listening questions separately will help you to develop specific techniques for that kind of question, and therefore get a higher score on IELTS.

IELTS Listening lessons:

Lesson 1 : training attention + avoiding distraction

Very often a speaker gives some wrong information, then corrects himself and gives right information. This trick is called distraction. Learn how to answer such questions and avoid mistakes.


Lesson 2 : reading the question carefully

In this lesson we’ll train to read IELTS Listening questions carefully and avoid simple mistakes caused by lack of attention.


Lesson 3 : multiple choice questions

Learn how to answer multiple choice questions in IELTS Listening test effectively.


IELTS Listening exercises:

Sentence completion:

Exercise 1
"Whales" Level: medium

Exercise 2
"Greece's plan" Level: medium

Exercise 3
"Technology" Level: medium

Exercise 4
"Homo naledi" Level: hard

Exercise 5
"Expressions" Level: easy

Exercise 6
"Self-driving cars" Level: medium


Short-answer questions:

Exercise 1
Level: medium

Exercise 2
Level: medium

Exercise 3
Level: medium


Multiple choice questions:

Exercise 1
Level: hard