Aims

• To develop your academic note-taking skills for IELTS Listening Part 4
• To provide you with strategies for Summary, Diagram and Table Completion
question types
• To develop your awareness of correlation between Part 4 and real-life skills

Learning outcomes

• You will have developed their awareness of the skills being assessed in Part 4.
• You will have developed strategies for completion questions.
• You will have applied strategies in Part 4 practice.

Information about this section of IELTS

In the Listening test Part 4 test takers will hear a monologue set in an educational or
training context, for example, a lecture on a specific area of study. There are 10 questions
and they are in the same order as the audio recording. The recordings are heard only once
with no break between question sets. They include a range of accents, including British,
Australian, New Zealand, American and Canadian.
A variety of question types are used, chosen from the following: Multiple Choice, Matching,
Plan/Map/Diagram Labelling, Form/Note/Table/Flow chart/Summary Completion,
Sentence Completion, Short Answer questions.