Cambridge IELTS 6 · Listening Test 2

Cambridge IELTS 6 · Academic · Practice paper

Children’s art and craft workshops

Cambridge IELTS 6 · Listening Test 2

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Children’s art and craft workshops

Questions 1–10 · A phone enquiry about holiday workshops

Complete the notes below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

Children’s Art and Craft Workshops

  • Adults must accompany children under
  • Cost: £2.50
  • Workshops held in: Winter House, Street
  • Security device: must push the to open door
  • Should leave car behind the
  • Book workshops by phoning the (on 200765)

Complete the table below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS for each answer.

Date Workshop title Children advised to wear Please bring (if possible)
16/11 building
23/11 nothing special
2

Train information and tickets

Questions 11–20 · A talk at a railway station

Complete the sentences below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

Train information

  1. 11Local services depart from railway station.
  2. 12National services depart from the railway station.
  3. 13Trains for London depart every each day during the week.
  4. 14The price of a first class ticket includes .

Complete the form below.
Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

Type of ticketDetails
Standard open no restrictions
Supersave travel after 8.45
Special travel after and at weekends
buy at least six days ahead
limited numbers
essential

Which THREE attractions can you visit at present by train from Trebirch?
Choose THREE letters, A–G.

Choose three — a fourth choice replaces your earliest one.

3

Reviewing the first term’s work

Questions 21–30 · A student and supervisor discuss targets

Complete the form below.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

Target previously agreed Work completed Further action suggested
Investigate suitable data analysis software – read IT
– spoken to Jane Prince, Head of the 		sign up for some software practice sessions
Prepare a for survey – completed and sent for review add questions in section three on
Further reading about discipline – read Banerjee
– N.B. could not find Ericsson’s essays on managing the 		obtain from library through special loans service
New target Work completed Timing
Do further work on Chapter 1
(give the title: Context )		 – add statistics on the in various zones
– include more references to works dated after 		by the
Prepare list of main sections for Chapter 2 – use index cards to help in organisation before starting the
4

The early history of cinema

Questions 31–40 · A lecture

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

31Some photographs of a horse running showed

32The Scotsman employed by Edison

33One major problem with the first system was that

34Rival systems started to appear in Europe after people had

35In 1895, a famous new system was developed by

36Longer films were not made at the time because of problems involving

37The ‘Latham Loop’ invention relied on

Complete the sentences below.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.

  1. 38The first motion picture was called The .
  2. 39 were used for the first time on film in 1926.
  3. 40Subtitles were added to The Lights of New York because of its .
Answer key & marking notes

Accept reasonable variants: 8 or eight, 2,000 or 2000, half an hour for half hour, computer center for centre. Questions 18–20 count as one set of three. Spelling must be accurate in the real test. Band estimates use the published Academic Listening conversion and are indicative only.