IELTS listening speed

Difficulty level: Semi Hard

Heres a quick exercise, featuring some very fast speech! But dont worry; most native speakers dont talk like this, and youll never hear such fast speech in an IELTS test. I just thought you might like a challenge!

Very Fast Speech

Fill the gaps in the transcript below:

• The need to sleep is one of the strongest _____ _____ we have, one of the few that we really cant control; and the fact is, you can die faster from _____ _____ than _____ _____. So it is time to investigate the science behind this thing that we do for a _____ of our lives.
• Even though the _____ _____ will spend 25 years of their life asleep, theres no scientific _____ as to why exactly we do it. One thing we know for sure: our _____ definitely think that sleep is important.

Practice IELTS listening exercises more and more to improve your listening skills. On the real test, you will hear the recording only once and listening questions get increasingly difficult.

Start Full Listening Test

Practising different types of listening questions separately will help you to develop yourself with specific techniques for that kind of questions in the IELTS listening test.

Related IELTS Resources

Take a practice test to find out what is your current weakness in terms of IELTS scale and allow more time to improve your weak spots. The following IELTS resources will help you to develop your skills faster: