Seminar: A Business Case Study on Brightleaf Tea

IELTS Listening PracticePart 3hard

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Questions

Question 1

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

What does the tutor identify as Brightleaf's most urgent problem?

The most urgent problem is

A. weak marketingB. poor cash flow caused by too much stockC. an unreliable website

Questions 2–4

Who makes each recommendation?

Choose the correct person A–C for each recommendation and select the correct letter.

Options

A. Meera
B. Josh
C. Dr Fairhurst

cutting the product range to about twenty teas

starting to sell online

finding a second supplier as a backup

Question 5

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

What risk does the tutor warn about when cutting the product range?

Cutting the range too hard risks

A. losing loyal customers of niche teasB. upsetting the shop staffC. running out of shelf space

Question 6

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

Why does relying on a single supplier concern the group?

The single supplier is a concern because

A. the supplier is too expensiveB. a supplier failure or bad harvest would leave nothing to sellC. the supplier is in the wrong time zone

Questions 7–9

Complete the sentences below.

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

The written analysis must be no more than ______ words.(max 2 words)

The analysis is due on the Friday of week ______.(max 1 word)

It must be uploaded to the portal by ______.(max 2 words)

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About this Listening test

“Seminar: A Business Case Study on Brightleaf Tea” is an original IELTS Listening practice test in the style of Part 3 with 9 questions (Multiple Choice, Matching Features and Sentence Completion). Play the recording, answer as you listen, then submit to have every answer marked instantly and read the transcript.

Part 3 is a conversation between two to four people in an academic setting — typically students discussing an assignment with each other or a tutor. You answer 10 questions, usually multiple choice and matching, by tracking who says what, who agrees, and what they decide.

How to approach it

Before the audio, read the questions and note whose view each one asks about — "What does Marta think…" is answered by Marta’s words, not her tutor’s.
Learn the voices in the first few seconds: names are always exchanged early, and attaching name to voice immediately pays off for the whole part.
Common trap: Attributing one speaker’s opinion to another, especially when a speaker summarises someone else’s view before disagreeing with it.

Read the full Listening Part 3 strategy guide · How we write and check our tests

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