Tutorial: Planning a Geography Field Trip

IELTS Listening PracticePart 3medium

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Questions

Question 1

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

How many sites do the students finally decide to survey?

The number of survey sites will be

A. threeB. fiveC. one

Question 2

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

What safety measure does the tutor stress for the estuary site?

At the estuary the students must

A. working there only at low tideB. wearing waders to go in deepC. avoiding the estuary altogether

Questions 3–5

Which measurement is each person responsible for?

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

Options

A. Beth
B. Callum
C. Priya

speed of the flow

depth of the channel

width of the channel

Question 6

Choose the correct letter, A, B or C.

How does the tutor want the results recorded in the field?

Field results should be recorded

A. typed straight into a phoneB. on waterproof paper in pencilC. spoken into a voice recorder

Questions 7–8

Complete the sentences below.

Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.

The students will present their findings as a ______ rather than a written report.(max 1 word)

The tutor will decide whether to postpone the trip on ______ evening.(max 1 word)

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About this Listening test

“Tutorial: Planning a Geography Field Trip” is an original IELTS Listening practice test in the style of Part 3 with 8 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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