A winter Christmas market on a harbour quayside at dusk – IELTS Listening Part 2 exam mode
Harbourside Food Festival
Exam conditions: you hear the recording once, there are no hints or checks along the way, and you have one attempt.
Questions 11–20. Listen to the talk. For questions 11–14 choose two letters for each pair; for questions 15–20 choose the correct letter from the box, A–G.
  • After Start you have 30 seconds to read questions 11–14. Then the recording starts by itself.
  • Halfway through, the recording stops for 30 seconds so you can read questions 15–20. The screen tells you when.
  • You hear the recording once – no pausing or rewinding.
  • For 11–12 and 13–14 choose two letters; for every other question choose one letter. You can change your answers until you finish. The answers come in the same order as in the recording.
  • No hints and no checking along the way. You’ll see your result after “Finish exam”.
  • One attempt. Don’t reload the page during the recording. If this happens, your answers are saved, and the recording continues from the same point (press Continue).
Marks · how scoring works
  • Each correct answer = 1 mark. A wrong or blank answer = 0; no marks are taken off, so always choose a letter, even if you have to guess.
  • “Choose TWO letters”: each correct letter is 1 mark, in any order. On the answer sheet you write one letter next to each number (for example, 11 A, 12 D).
  • Matching (15–20): write only the letter. In the box there are more letters than questions, so one of them is not used at all.
  • Here 10 questions = 10 marks (Part 2). The full test has 4 parts and 40 questions; your raw score out of 40 is converted to a band: