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IELTS General Training Practice Test 32

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

1. Surname: ______

2. Address: 9 ______ Street

3. Type of car: ______

4. Price for a block of ten: ______ dollars

5. First lesson: Thursday ______ October

6. Lesson time: ______

7. Colour of car: ______

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

8. The caller has decided on an automatic because

9. For the first lesson, the instructor will

10. The caller should wear

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. The induction takes about: ______ minutes

12. Day pass price: ______ dollars

13. Height of the Top-Rope Wall: ______ metres

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

14. The Bouldering Wall

15. The Top-Rope Wall

16. The Lead Climbing Wall

17. The Auto-Belay Area

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

18. Before climbing for the first time, visitors must

19. Lockers cost

20. Towel hire costs

Part 3

Listen and answer questions 21–30.

21. What do Emma and Frank finally agree about their design?

22. How should the leaf bags be dried before weighing?

23. What environmental measurements will they record at each site?

24. What is the mesh size of the bags for?

25. To what level will invertebrates be identified?

26. What should be done with bags disturbed by the dog?

27. What does Dr. Adams say about adding a fourth habitat?

What does Dr. Adams decide about each of these? Choose your answers from the list, A-E: A Weigh them dry using an oven; B Record both at every site; C Note it as missing data; D Identify to order level; E Keep it at three, don't add more.

28. Number of habitats

29. Disturbed bags

30. Environmental measurements

Part 4

Listen and answer questions 31–40.

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

31. One of the earliest examples was Copenhagen's street called ______.

32. Strøget was pedestrianised in ______.

33. Shopkeepers initially opposed the change, fearing it would ______ their businesses.

34. After pedestrianisation, foot traffic and retail sales both ______.

35. People arriving on foot tend to ______ for longer than drivers.

36. Car-free zones show improved ______ once exhaust fumes are removed.

37. Lower noise levels are linked to reduced ______ among residents.

38. A poorly planned zone can push traffic problems onto ______ streets.

39. Successful schemes combine pedestrianisation with strong ______ infrastructure.

40. Planners are now testing ______ or seasonal closures before making them permanent.

Reading

Section 1: Notices

You should spend about 20 minutes on Section 1.

NOTICE A — Regal Theatre: Season Ticket Changes From next season, season ticket holders will be able to choose between a fixed-seat package, guaranteeing the same seats for every production, and a new flexible package allowing seat selection to vary by production, at a small additional cost of £15 per season to reflect the added administrative flexibility. Season ticket holders will continue to receive priority booking two weeks before tickets go on general sale, along with a 15% discount on programme purchases at any performance. Renewal notices will be sent eight weeks before the current season ends, giving holders ample time to decide between the two package options before their existing seats might otherwise be released to general sale. Ticket exchanges for a different performance date within the same production run remain free of charge, provided at least 48 hours' notice is given before the original performance. NOTICE B — Elmside Apartments: Window Cleaning Schedule External window cleaning for all upper-floor flats will take place on the second Tuesday of every month, weather permitting, using a cradle system operated from the roof; residents do not need to be present, though curtains or blinds should ideally be left open to allow cleaners full access to the glass. Ground and first-floor windows, which are accessible without the cradle system, will continue to be cleaned weekly as before. Residents who wish to opt out of the monthly cradle cleaning, for example due to privacy concerns, should inform the building manager in writing at least one week before the scheduled date. Any damage to window fittings caused by the cleaning contractors should be reported to the building manager within 48 hours so that it can be addressed under the contractor's insurance.

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

1. How much extra does the flexible seat package cost per season?

2. How often will upper-floor windows be cleaned using the cradle system?

3. What should residents ideally do to allow cleaners full access to the glass?

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. Season ticket holders receive priority booking two weeks before general sale.

5. Ticket exchanges always incur a fee regardless of notice given.

6. The fixed-seat package guarantees the same seats for every production.

Questions 7–8. Complete the sentence below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Notice A for each answer.

7. Renewal notices will be sent __________ before the current season ends.

8. Ticket exchanges remain free provided at least __________ notice is given.

Question 9. Answer the question below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Notice A.

9. What discount do season ticket holders get on programme purchases?

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. Residents must be present during the cradle window cleaning.

11. Ground and first-floor windows are cleaned weekly.

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

12. Residents wishing to opt out should inform the building manager in writing at least __________ before the scheduled date.

Questions 13–14. Answer the question below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Notice B.

13. Within how many hours should damage from cleaning contractors be reported?

14. Where is the cradle system operated from for window cleaning?

Section 2: Workplace

You should spend about 20 minutes on Section 2.

TEXT A — Human Resources: Staff Volunteering Day Policy All staff will now be entitled to one paid volunteering day per year, allowing them to support a charity or community cause of their choosing during normal working hours without using annual leave. Requests should be submitted to a line manager at least two weeks in advance, along with brief details of the organisation being supported, to allow the company to maintain records for its corporate social responsibility reporting. Team volunteering days, where a whole team volunteers together for a single cause, are also encouraged and can be organised through the Facilities team, who maintain a list of pre-vetted local charities seeking corporate volunteer support. Unused volunteering days cannot be carried over into the following year or exchanged for additional pay. Staff are asked to share a brief summary and, where possible, a photograph of their volunteering activity for the company's internal newsletter, though this is entirely optional. TEXT B — Facilities: Office Plant and Greenery Initiative Following positive feedback from a pilot in the marketing department, indoor plants will be introduced throughout the office over the coming month, with at least one plant placed near every desk cluster and larger feature plants in communal breakout areas. A rota of volunteer 'plant champions' from each floor will be responsible for basic watering and care, coordinated through a simple shared spreadsheet indicating which plants need attention each week. Staff with plant allergies should inform Facilities in advance so that hypoallergenic plant varieties can be selected for their immediate work area. The initiative is partly inspired by research suggesting that office greenery can measurably improve reported staff wellbeing and modestly reduce background noise levels in open-plan spaces. Any plant that appears unwell or is not thriving should be reported to Facilities rather than removed by individual staff members.

Questions 15–17. Choose the correct letter, A, B, C or D.

15. How many paid volunteering days will staff now be entitled to per year?

16. Where was the plant initiative first piloted?

17. How is plant watering coordinated among plant champions?

Questions 18–20. 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.

18. Volunteering days require using annual leave.

19. Unused volunteering days can be carried over to the following year.

20. Unused volunteering days can be exchanged for additional pay.

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

21. Requests should be submitted to a line manager at least __________ in advance.

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

22. Who can staff contact to organise a team volunteering day?

Questions 23–24. 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. Staff with plant allergies should inform Facilities in advance.

24. Individual staff members should remove any plant that looks unwell.

Questions 25–26. Complete the sentence below. Choose NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS from Text B for each answer.

25. A rota of volunteer __________ will be responsible for basic watering and care.

26. Larger feature plants will be placed in communal __________.

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

27. What does research suggest office greenery can help reduce in open-plan spaces?

Section 3: Why Some Languages Are Dying Out

You should spend about 20 minutes on Section 3.

Of the roughly seven thousand languages spoken worldwide today, linguists estimate that a substantial proportion, by some estimates as many as forty per cent, are at meaningful risk of disappearing entirely within the current century, a rate of language loss that considerably exceeds anything documented in earlier historical periods and has prompted growing concern among linguists, anthropologists, and the communities whose languages are affected. Language endangerment rarely results from a single identifiable cause but rather from a convergence of interrelated social, political, and economic pressures. Colonial-era policies that actively suppressed indigenous languages in schools, sometimes through explicit punishment of children for speaking their native tongue, left lasting demographic damage that continues to affect intergenerational language transmission decades after such policies formally ended. Economic migration compounds this damage further, as younger generations relocating to cities or abroad for education and employment opportunities frequently adopt a dominant regional or national language for practical necessity, gradually reducing opportunities for their own children to acquire the ancestral language as a genuine first language spoken fluently at home. The practical consequences of language loss extend well beyond simple communication, according to linguists who study endangered languages closely. Each language encodes a distinct, often untranslatable way of categorising and understanding the world, including sometimes unique classification systems for local plants, medicinal knowledge, and ecological relationships developed and refined over many generations of accumulated close observation within a specific environment; when a language disappears without adequate documentation, this accumulated, often irreplaceable knowledge frequently disappears alongside it, an loss that in some documented cases has included practical scientific information, such as traditional medicinal plant uses, that outside researchers had not previously recorded through any other means. Revitalisation efforts have achieved some genuinely notable, if still limited, successes. The Welsh language, once itself in serious decline, has been substantially strengthened through decades of sustained government policy support, including mandatory Welsh-medium education requirements in Wales and dedicated Welsh-language broadcasting, demonstrating that language decline, while genuinely difficult to reverse, is not always inevitable or irreversible given sufficient sustained institutional commitment and adequate long-term resourcing. Hawaiian has followed a broadly similar successful trajectory through dedicated immersion schools established specifically to rebuild fluent speaker numbers among younger generations who would otherwise have had little opportunity for genuine language exposure. Digital technology has emerged as a genuinely double-edged influence on endangered languages. While the internet and social media undeniably accelerate the practical dominance of a small number of major global languages in most online spaces and commercial contexts, the same technologies have also enabled entirely new documentation and teaching tools, including mobile applications and online archives specifically designed for endangered languages, that were simply unavailable to earlier generations of linguists and community language activists working to preserve their heritage.

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

28. Roughly what proportion of the world's languages are estimated to be at meaningful risk of disappearing this century?

29. What has helped strengthen the Welsh language, according to the passage?

30. What does economic migration contribute to, according to the passage?

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. Colonial-era policies sometimes punished children for speaking their native tongue in schools.

32. Language endangerment usually results from a single, easily identifiable cause.

33. Hawaiian has used dedicated immersion schools to rebuild fluent speaker numbers.

34. The internet accelerates the dominance of a small number of major global languages online.

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

35. Some languages encode unique classification systems for local plants and __________.

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

36. What kind of information has sometimes been lost alongside a disappearing language, according to the passage?

37. What does the passage describe digital technology's influence on endangered languages as?

38. Roughly how many languages are spoken worldwide today, 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. Language decline is always inevitable and can never be reversed.

40. The internet has created entirely new documentation and teaching tools for endangered languages.

Speaking

Part 1: Introduction and interview

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

Part 1 (Holidays / Airports) — the examiner asks about two familiar topics. Topic 1: Holidays Q1. Where did you go on your last holiday? Q2. Do you prefer holidays by the sea or in the mountains? Topic 2: Airports Q3. Have you spent much time in airports? Q4. What do you usually do while you're waiting for a flight?
Recorded on your device only — play it back and compare with the model answer.
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Model answer: 1. I went to Portugal for a week last September. We stayed in a small guest house in Lisbon and took a day trip to the coast, and the food was fantastic. 2. The sea, without a doubt. I love swimming and I find just listening to the waves very relaxing. Mountains are beautiful, but I get tired climbing them. 3. A fair amount, because my sister lives abroad and I fly to see her twice a year. I know the airport near my city quite well by now. 4. I generally have a coffee and read a magazine, or I people-watch. If the flight is delayed, I catch up on emails, which at least makes the time useful.

Part 2: Individual long turn

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

Describe a game you enjoyed playing when you were a child. You should say: - what the game was - who you played it with - how you played it and explain why you enjoyed it. Take one minute to prepare before talking about it for one to two minutes.
Recorded on your device only — play it back and compare with the model answer.
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Model answer: When I was young, a game I loved was a kind of hide-and-seek we played in the small park near our block of flats, which we simply called 'shadows.' I usually played it with about six or seven neighbourhood children, ranging from around seven to twelve years old, most evenings after school during the warmer months. One person would be chosen to count to fifty against a large tree while everyone else hid among the bushes, benches and parked cars nearby, and then that person had to find everyone before they could sneak back and touch the tree without being caught. What made it more exciting than ordinary hide-and-seek was that we played it right at dusk, when the light was fading, so the shadows made everything look mysterious and slightly frightening, even though the park itself was perfectly safe. I enjoyed it because it felt like a genuine adventure every single evening, and because it brought together kids from different buildings who didn't necessarily go to the same class at school. There was also a nice sense of community, with older children looking out for the younger ones. I still think about those evenings fondly whenever I walk past a park at dusk.

Part 3: Two-way discussion

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

Part 3 (environmental responsibility) — the examiner asks four related questions. Q1. Do you think individual actions, like recycling, really make a difference to the environment? Q2. Should large companies bear more responsibility for pollution than ordinary people? Q3. What could governments do to encourage more environmentally friendly behaviour? Q4. How do you think environmental responsibility will be shared in the future?
Recorded on your device only — play it back and compare with the model answer.
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Model answer: 1. Individually, the impact is small, but collectively, small habits like recycling or reducing waste can add up meaningfully, especially if they encourage wider changes in how products are designed. 2. Yes, I think so, since a small number of large companies are responsible for a disproportionate share of global emissions, so focusing solely on individual behaviour can distract from bigger structural problems. 3. Financial incentives, like tax breaks for green choices or penalties for excessive waste, tend to be effective, alongside clear public information campaigns that make sustainable choices easier to understand. 4. I imagine responsibility will increasingly shift towards companies and governments through stricter regulation, while individuals continue playing a supporting role through everyday choices and public pressure.

Writing Task 1

You are helping to organise a charity fundraising event and would like a local newspaper to cover the story. Write a letter to the newspaper's editor. In your letter: explain what the event is for, provide key details, and ask if they would be willing to feature it. Write at least 150 words. You do NOT need to write your own address. Begin your letter 'Dear Sir or Madam,'

Writing Task 2

Some people believe it is better to specialise in one subject area from an early age, while others think a broad general education is more valuable. Discuss both views and give your own opinion. Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. Write at least 250 words.
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