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IELTS General Training Practice Test 19

AI-generated practice paper in the style of IELTS General Training — original material, not a reproduction of any real exam paper, following the official four-module structure (Listening, Reading, Writing, Speaking). Listening audio is read aloud by your browser's voice, Writing tasks can be scored by AI, and for Speaking you can record yourself and compare with a model answer.

Listening

Part 1

Listen and answer questions 1–10.

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

1. Surname: ______

2. Time of train: ______ from Manchester

3. Item lost: black leather ______ bag

4. Laptop make: ______

5. Address: 15 ______ Grove, Salford

6. Postcode: ______

7. Seat number: ______

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

8. The caller's name and address on the luggage tag show his

9. The bag can be collected

10. Posting the bag will

Part 2

Listen and answer questions 11–20.

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

11. Adult ticket price: ______ dollars

12. Family pass price: ______ dollars

13. Temperature in the Reptile House: ______ degrees

What does the guide say about each of the following areas? Choose the correct letter, A-F, for questions 4 to 7.

14. The Koala Walk

15. The Kangaroo Field

16. The Reptile House

17. The Nursery

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

18. Koala feeding times are at

19. The Bird Show runs at

20. Wheelchairs and prams can be borrowed from

Part 3

Listen and answer questions 21–30.

21. What do Isla and Jack decide about testing nutrients?

22. How many samples should be taken per field?

23. From what depth should soil be sampled?

24. What should be done with samples before testing?

25. What should be recorded on sampling day?

26. What type of labels should be used?

27. What must happen to the pH meter before use?

What does Dr. Adams decide about each of these? Choose your answers from the list, A-E: A Check it before Friday's meeting; B Barley, for its narrow tolerance; C Calibrate it that morning, skip strips; D Let samples air dry first; E Record it every time.

28. Weather conditions

29. The pH meter

30. The results table deadline

Part 4

Listen and answer questions 31–40.

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

31. Dark, hard surfaces such as asphalt absorb more solar ______ during the day.

32. Stored heat is released slowly back into the air well into the ______.

33. Tall buildings block ______ that would otherwise disperse trapped heat.

34. Temperature differences can reach several degrees ______ on a still summer night.

35. The effect is particularly dangerous for the ______ during heatwaves.

36. Planting more urban ______ is one of the most effective countermeasures.

37. Evaporation from leaves actively ______ the surrounding air.

38. Some cities use reflective white or light-coloured roof ______.

39. Green roofs provide natural insulation and improved local ______.

40. Urban planning can preserve corridors of ______ space to reduce the effect.

Reading

Section 1: Notices

You should spend about 20 minutes on Section 1.

NOTICE A — StreamPlay: Subscription Price Increase From the first of next month, StreamPlay subscription prices will rise across all plans: the Basic plan will increase from £6.99 to £7.99, the Standard plan from £10.99 to £12.99, and the Premium plan, which includes 4K streaming and offline downloads, from £14.99 to £16.99. Subscribers on an annual plan will not see any price change until their current annual term ends. Anyone wishing to cancel before the new prices take effect can do so through account settings with no cancellation fee, and will retain access until the end of their current billing period. Customers who downgrade to a cheaper plan before the change will lock in that plan's current price for a further three months. Full details of what each plan includes are available on the pricing page of the website. NOTICE B — Elmwood Apartments: Laundry Room Rules Update Following complaints about machines being left full of wet washing for hours, laundry room machines must now be emptied within 30 minutes of the cycle finishing, or another resident may remove the items and place them on the shelving provided, without liability for any damage or loss. The laundry room will now be accessible only between 7am and 10pm, using residents' existing fob access, to reduce noise disturbance to nearby units overnight. A new card payment system will replace the coin-operated machines from next month; residents will need to top up a laundry card at the machine in the lobby. Residents are asked to remove lint from the dryer filter after each use to reduce fire risk and improve drying efficiency for the next user.

Questions 1–3. Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.

1. What will the new price of the Standard plan be?

2. What may happen if washing is not removed within 30 minutes of the cycle finishing?

3. Between what hours will the laundry room now be accessible?

Questions 4–6. Do the following statements agree with the information in Notice A? Write TRUE if the statement agrees, FALSE if it contradicts, or NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this.

4. Annual plan subscribers will see the new prices immediately.

5. There is a cancellation fee for cancelling before the price change.

6. Customers who cancel before the price change lose access immediately.

Question 7. Complete the sentence below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Notice A for each answer.

7. Customers who downgrade before the change will lock in that plan's price for a further __________.

Questions 8–9. Answer the question below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Notice A.

8. Which plan includes 4K streaming and offline downloads?

9. What will the new price of the Basic plan be?

Questions 10–11. Do the following statements agree with the information in Notice B? Write TRUE if the statement agrees, FALSE if it contradicts, or NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this.

10. The laundry room will be accessible 24 hours a day.

11. A card payment system will replace the coin-operated machines.

Questions 12–13. Complete the sentence below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Notice B for each answer.

12. Residents are asked to remove lint from the dryer filter to reduce __________.

13. Items removed from an unemptied machine may be placed on the __________ provided.

Question 14. Answer the question below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Notice B.

14. Where will residents need to top up their laundry card?

Section 2: Workplace

You should spend about 20 minutes on Section 2.

TEXT A — Health and Safety: Inspection Notice An external health and safety inspector will visit the premises next Tuesday and Wednesday to carry out the annual workplace inspection, covering fire safety equipment, emergency exit accessibility, and workstation ergonomics. Staff are asked to keep walkways and fire exits completely clear of boxes, bags, and other obstructions in the days leading up to the visit. Department heads should ensure that any outstanding minor repairs identified in last year's inspection, listed in the shared tracker, have been resolved or have a clear completion plan in place. The inspector may speak informally with staff during the visit; while this is not a formal interview, staff should feel free to raise any genuine safety concerns. A summary report will be circulated to all staff within two weeks of the visit. TEXT B — Learning and Development: Staff Training Day Announcement The annual all-staff training day will take place on the third Friday of next month, with the office closed to external visitors and all client meetings rescheduled in advance. The morning session will cover mandatory topics including fire safety refresher training and an update on the company's code of conduct, while the afternoon offers a choice of three optional workshops: public speaking, advanced spreadsheet skills, or conflict resolution. Staff should register their preferred afternoon workshop by the end of this week, as places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Lunch will be provided for all attendees, and dietary requirements should be noted at the time of registration.

Questions 15–18. Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.

15. When will the health and safety inspection take place?

16. When will the annual all-staff training day take place?

17. What are the mandatory morning session topics?

18. What does the annual workplace inspection cover?

Questions 19–20. Do the following statements agree with the information in Text A? Write TRUE if the statement agrees, FALSE if it contradicts, or NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this.

19. Staff are asked to keep fire exits clear before the inspection.

20. The inspector's conversations with staff are formal interviews.

Question 21. Complete the sentence below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Text A for each answer.

21. A summary report will be circulated to all staff within __________ of the visit.

Question 22. Answer the question below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Text A.

22. Where are outstanding minor repairs from last year's inspection listed?

Questions 23–25. Do the following statements agree with the information in Text B? Write TRUE if the statement agrees, FALSE if it contradicts, or NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this.

23. Client meetings will be rescheduled in advance of the training day.

24. Staff can attend all three afternoon workshops on the same day.

25. Lunch will be provided for all attendees at the training day.

Question 26. Complete the sentence below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Text B for each answer.

26. Places on afternoon workshops will be allocated on a __________ basis.

Question 27. Answer the question below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Text B.

27. What should staff note at the time of registration for the training day?

Section 3: The Science of First Impressions

You should spend about 20 minutes on Section 3.

Research in social psychology has repeatedly demonstrated a phenomenon that most people intuitively suspect but rarely fully appreciate: judgements about a stranger's competence, trustworthiness, and even political affiliation can form within a fraction of a second of seeing their face, well before any conscious, deliberate evaluation takes place. Studies using extremely brief image exposures, sometimes as short as one-tenth of a second, find that participants' snap judgements correlate surprisingly well with judgements made after much longer, unhurried viewing, suggesting that rapid, automatic assessment rather than careful consideration dominates our initial impressions of others. Princeton psychologist Alexander Todorov, whose research has been particularly influential in this field, has proposed that facial first impressions cluster around a small number of core dimensions, most prominently perceived trustworthiness and perceived dominance, both of which appear to be inferred substantially from structural facial features that have no genuine bearing on a person's actual character, such as the width-to-height ratio of the face or the specific curvature of eyebrows. Faces that happen to resemble expressions associated with positive emotion, such as a naturally upturned mouth, are consistently rated as more trustworthy even in a completely neutral, non-smiling expression, an effect entirely independent of the person's actual trustworthiness. The practical consequences of this rapid, largely inaccurate judgement process extend well beyond casual social interaction. Studies examining political elections have found that voters' snap judgements of candidates' competence based purely on facial photographs, made in under a second and with no other information provided, predict actual election outcomes at a rate considerably better than chance, an unsettling finding given that facial structure has no logical connection to governing ability. Similar effects have been documented in hiring decisions, criminal sentencing outcomes, and even loan approval processes, where subjects whose faces are independently rated as more trustworthy receive measurably more favourable treatment even when the substantive information available to the decision-maker is held constant. Awareness of these biases does not straightforwardly eliminate them, since the judgement occurs prior to conscious control, but several practical interventions have shown promise: structured interview processes that separate a candidate's application materials from any image, blind auditions in orchestras using screens to conceal performers from judges, and formal decision-making checklists that force evaluators to justify judgements with concrete evidence rather than gut feeling have each been shown to reduce the influence of facial-appearance bias in their respective domains. Todorov and other researchers are careful to note that rapid facial judgement likely served some adaptive purpose across human evolutionary history, perhaps in assessing immediate threat in ancestral environments where quick decisions carried survival value, even though the same mechanism produces systematically unreliable and often unfair results when applied to the vastly more complex judgements required by modern political, professional, and legal decision-making.

Questions 28–30. Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.

28. How quickly can judgements about a stranger's competence and trustworthiness begin to form, according to the passage?

29. What practical intervention is mentioned for reducing bias in orchestra auditions?

30. Where else, besides hiring and elections, have facial-appearance bias effects been documented?

Questions 31–34. Do the following statements agree with the information given in the passage? Write TRUE if the statement agrees, FALSE if it contradicts, or NOT GIVEN if there is no information on this.

31. Snap judgements made from brief exposures correlate well with judgements made after longer viewing.

32. Facial structure has a genuine, logical connection to a person's actual character.

33. Awareness of facial-appearance bias completely eliminates it.

34. Structured interview processes that hide application images have shown promise in reducing bias.

Question 35. Complete the sentence below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage for each answer.

35. Todorov's research identifies perceived trustworthiness and perceived __________ as core dimensions of facial first impressions.

Questions 36–38. Answer the question below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from the passage.

36. What facial feature is mentioned as making a neutral face seem more trustworthy?

37. What kind of decision-making tool forces evaluators to justify judgements with concrete evidence?

38. What university is Alexander Todorov associated with, according to the passage?

Questions 39–40. Do the following statements agree with the writer's claims? Write YES if the statement agrees with the writer's claims, NO if it contradicts, or NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks.

39. Voters' snap judgements of candidates' faces predict election outcomes better than pure chance.

40. Researchers believe rapid facial judgement likely served an adaptive purpose in human evolutionary history.

Speaking

Part 1: Introduction and interview

The examiner asks you questions about yourself and familiar topics (4–5 minutes).

Part 1 (Money / Saving) — the examiner asks about two familiar topics. Topic 1: Money Q1. What do you spend most of your money on? Q2. Did you get pocket money when you were a child? Topic 2: Saving Q3. Are you good at saving money? Q4. Do you think it is a good idea to teach children about money at school?
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Model answer: 1. Rent takes the biggest share, followed by food. After that I spend a little on books and the occasional weekend trip, but nothing extravagant. 2. Yes, a small amount every Sunday, though I had to do jobs like washing the car to earn it. It taught me early on that money doesn't just appear. 3. I'm getting better. I've set up an automatic transfer into a savings account on the day I'm paid, so I never see that money and can't spend it on impulse. 4. Definitely. Many adults struggle with budgets and debt simply because nobody explained how interest or credit cards work. A few lessons in school could prevent a lot of trouble later.

Part 2: Individual long turn

You have one minute to prepare, then speak for one to two minutes.

Describe a historical place that you have visited. You should say: - where it is - when you visited it - what you saw there and explain what you learned from visiting it. Take one minute to prepare and then speak for one to two minutes on it.
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Model answer: I'd like to describe a visit I made to an old fortress town on the coast, about two hours from where I live, which I went to with my family during a school holiday when I was around sixteen. The town has stone walls dating back several centuries, originally built to protect it from pirate attacks, and you can still walk along the top of parts of the wall, looking out over the sea on one side and the red rooftops of the old town on the other. Inside the walls there's a small museum in what used to be the governor's residence, full of old weapons, maps, and household objects from different periods of the town's history. We also visited a church with beautiful, slightly faded frescoes on the ceiling that a local guide explained had been restored twice after earthquakes. What I learned, beyond the specific historical facts, was how much effort has gone into preserving these places for future generations, since much of the restoration work was apparently done entirely by volunteers. It also made me appreciate how different life must have been for ordinary people living there centuries ago, constantly aware of the risk of attack from the sea.

Part 3: Two-way discussion

The examiner asks more abstract questions linked to the Part 2 topic.

Part 3 (museums and cultural heritage) — the examiner asks four related questions. Q1. Why do you think museums are important for a society? Q2. Do you think entry to museums should always be free? Q3. Should historical artefacts be returned to their countries of origin? Q4. How might museums change in the future to attract younger visitors?
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Model answer: 1. Museums preserve a society's history and creativity in a tangible way, giving people a direct connection to the past that books or documentaries alone can't fully provide. 2. I lean towards yes, since free access lets everyone benefit regardless of income, though I understand some museums need ticket revenue simply to maintain and protect their collections properly. 3. In many cases, yes, particularly when items were taken without consent during periods of conflict or colonisation, since returning them can help repair historical relationships between countries. 4. I think museums will rely more on interactive and digital displays, since younger visitors often respond better to hands-on experiences than to traditional glass cases and long descriptive labels.

Writing Task 1

You would like to request permission from your employer to work part-time or flexible hours for a period of time due to personal circumstances. Write a letter to your manager. In your letter: explain your circumstances, describe the arrangement you would like, and say how you will ensure your work is completed. Write at least 150 words. You do NOT need to write your own address. Begin your letter 'Dear ...,'

Writing Task 2

Plastic waste in the oceans is becoming an increasingly serious environmental problem. What are the causes of this problem, and what solutions can you suggest? Write at least 250 words.
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