Training on numbers in IELTS listening exam with audio tests

Training on numbers in IELTS listening exam

Numbers in IELTS listening exam

Numbers in IELTS exam is so important, particularly in the IELTS listening section.

IELTS listening is one of the four sections of the IELTS exam along with Reading, Speaking, and Writing sections.

Here are a video containing a practice on numbers in IELTS exam, listen carefully and try to guess.

Numbers in the IELTS exam

You need to master "the numbers in English" to be able to score a band 7+ in the IELTS exam.

Mostly, you will use the numbers in the IELTS listening section as well as the IELTS speaking section.

You will hear different pure complex numbers as passport number, age, birth date as 826312, 1929, 138534, 123976, 2013, 3 and a half, 15.5, 1845, 1993 or mixed with letters as street numbers or telephone number as 15A, 53d, 26n3u42v.

Listen to the above video and test your self to guess the numbers and save our site for more videos and IELTS material.

Structure of the IELTS listening section

First of all, the structure of the listening section is the same for the academic and general modules.

It takes 40 minutes and consists of four parts:

1. The first part comes in the form of a conversation between two people, usually, someone tries to book a date or buy some items.
   
   In this part, you will hear one or two numbers and try to guess them, maybe a phone number, street number, or a year "1992, 2001, etc.".
2. In the second part, there is a monologue from one person to a group of people trying to explain a map or speaking about something.
3. The third part of the IELTS exam is a dialogue, usually between two students or between a student and tutor, and here also you can hear some numbers.
4. The fourth part is a monologue in academic vocabulary, usually a professor speaking to his colleges about an academic topic as agriculture, fishing, or ancient civilization.

Improve your listening skills

It is important to listen to many English conversations for long times through youtube videos, podcasts, and audible books.
The more you listen to native English conversations, the more accuracy in your listening and accent.

Also, improve your listening by speaking with native English people. You can do this for free on italki.

Download all Cambridge IELTS books 1 - 13. 

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