In this practice hook you will work your way through a Practice Listening testfrom beginning to end You will need to work with the book and the audio cassette together. When you see the words START YOUR TAPE NOW in the book, you should start the cassette tape and follow the instructions given in both the book and on the tape. | Oxford ANZ English OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS AUSTRALIA Oxford New York Athens Auckland Bangkok Bombay Calcutta C. Cape Town Dares Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madras Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi Pans Port Moresby Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto and associated companies in Berlin Ibadan OXFORD is a trade mark of Oxford University PrciS Wendy Sahanaya Jeremy Lindeek 1997 First published 1997 This book is copyright Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study researeh criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act no part may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmuted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photo copying recording or otherwise without prior written permission Enquiries to be made to Oxford University Prew Copying for educational purposes Where copies of part or the whole of the book are made under Part VB of the Copyright Act the law requires that prescribed procedures be followed For information contact the Copyright Agency Limited National Library of Australia Cataloguing in Publication data Sahanaya Wendy 1940- IELTS preparation and practice listening and speaking ISBN 019 554095 6 1 English language - Examinations 2 International English Language Testing System 3 English language - Examinations questions etc 1 Lindeek Jeremy 1961- II Title III Title International English Language Testing System preparation and practice Series IELTS preparation and practice 428 Edited by Eliza Collins Illustrated byjuli Kent Text designed by Rob Cowpe Design Cover design by Rob Cowpe Design Typeset by Banshee Graphics Printed through Bookpac Production Services Singapore Published by Oxford University Press 253 Normanby Road South Melbourne Australia Contents Preface How to use this book Part 1 The Listening test About the Listening test X 1 Section 1 7 Section 2 17 Section 3 22 Section 4 25 Listening exercise 1 Names numbers places 29 Listening exercise 2 Who s speaking 31 .