Write Your Own Listening Part 1

Write your own Listening Part 1 dialogue:

Traditional Format

Description: Part 1 features 2 speakers talking. The dialogue is usually transactional--some sort of information is being exchanged between the two speakers, usually for business purposes.

For Example:

A student enrolling in a course

A man buying a new cell-phone

A man booking airplane tickets on the phone

Have Fun

On the real IELTS test, they usually stick to boring conversations like this. So don’t expect any unusual situations on the real test.

However, for the purposes of this class, feel free to have some fun with this. You can think of crazy or unusual situations, like an alien trying to buy a bus ticket, or a woman hiring a hitman to kill her husband, or Tarzan trying to enroll in university. Or whatever. Feel free to get creative.

The Questions

IELTS Listening Part 1 contains ten questions, so write down 10 questions for your classmates to answer on a separate sheet of paper.

Distractors

The IELTS test is fond of using distractors. Distractors are places where the IELTS tries to trick you into writing down the wrong answer by including several possible answers, only one of which is really the right one.

For example:

A: What’s your name?

B: My name is John. No, wait… let me think… it’s Mike. No, I mean Kevin. Sorry, did I say Kevin? My name is Tom. It’s definitely Tom. I mean Scott. Scott is my name.

When writing your own dialogue, make sure to include lots of distractors.

Synonyms and Paraphrases

The questions on the IELTS test will usually use different words than the actual recording. For example:

On the test, the question might read. Question 1: What is his name?

But the recording will say: “My parents called me Tom when I was born.”

The thing your parents call you when you are born is the same as your name, so in this instance the answer to question 1 is “Tom”.

When writing your sample dialogue, make sure you use different words in the dialogue than in the test questions.

Write down ten questions for your dialogue. You can use any format (short answer, note completion, True/False/Not Given, multiple choice, etc.)

10.

Write your dialogue below:

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