Lecture: The Garden City Movement

IELTS Listening PracticePart 4hard

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Questions

Questions 1–3

Background to the garden city idea

Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

The garden city was the idea of Ebenezer ______.(max 1 word)

He set out his vision in a book published in ______.(max 1 word)

Each town was to be surrounded by a permanent belt of ______.(max 1 word)

Questions 4–7

Key features of Howard's garden city

Complete the table below. Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

Population: strictly limited to ______ thousand people per town.(max 2 words)

Land: owned by the whole ______, not by private landlords.(max 1 word)

Layout: arranged in concentric rings with a public ______ at the centre.(max 1 word)

Layout: factories placed on the outer ______ of the town.(max 1 word)

Questions 8–9

What was built and its legacy

Complete the sentences below. Write ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.

The first garden city was ______, begun in 1903.(max 1 word)

Howard's most lasting contribution is the protected green ______.(max 1 word)

Question 10

Answer the question below.

Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS.

According to critics, which social group did the garden cities actually attract?(max 3 words)

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About this Listening test

“Lecture: The Garden City Movement” is an original IELTS Listening practice test in the style of Part 4 with 10 questions (Note Completion, Table Completion, Sentence Completion and Short Answer). Play the recording, answer as you listen, then submit to have every answer marked instantly and read the transcript.

Part 4 is a university-style lecture: one speaker, an academic subject, 10 questions — almost always note completion with a one-word limit — and, uniquely, no break in the middle. You succeed by using the printed notes as a map of the lecture and never losing your place.

How to approach it

Spend the whole preparation time on the notes: the headings tell you the lecture’s sections, and each gap’s surrounding words tell you the grammar and meaning of its answer.
Predict the word class for every gap — noun, adjective, number — and any obvious semantic field (a material, an animal, a place).
Common trap: Losing your position mid-lecture and missing a run of answers — the single biggest cause of Part 4 disasters.

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