IELTS Listening: Form, note, table, flow-chart and summary completion

Predict the word class before you hear it

The layout tells you what belongs in each gap. A gap after "Name:" takes a name; one after a currency symbol takes a number; one between an article and a noun takes an adjective. Deciding this in the preparation time means you are listening for a kind of word rather than for everything.

• Mark each gap N (noun), V (verb), ADJ or # (number) before the audio starts.
• Note the units already printed — if the form says "£", do not write the pound sign again.
• Check the word limit once and apply it to every gap in the set.

Spelling and numbers

Part 1 spells names and reads numbers out deliberately. That is not a courtesy; it is the question. A correctly heard name written wrong scores nothing.

• Letters. Practise the pairs that sound alike in rapid speech — B/P/V, M/N, S/F, G/J, A/E/I.
• Double letters. "Double L" is said as such and must be written as two.
• Numbers. Thirteen and thirty, fourteen and forty — the stress is on the first syllable in the -ty forms.
• Dates. Write them in any clear format; the marker accepts the common ones.

British and American spellings are both accepted, but a word must be a real spelling of the word you heard. There is no partial credit.