IELTS Listening

Botanic Garden Guided Walk

10 questions, about 8 minutes, marked the moment you submit with the right answer beside every question you missed. The recording plays once, the way the real test plays it.

What you will hear

A talk of a few minutes with specific facts: names, numbers, prices and times. The transcript unlocks after marking, so you can find the exact words that cost you.

The questions

  1. Who founded the garden? (A university / A local merchant / A group of sailors / A royal family)
  2. Approximately how many species does the garden hold? (Four thousand / Six thousand / More than eight thousand / More than eighty thousand)
  3. Where will the walk end? (The Temperate House / The Rose Garden / The Water Gardens / The café)
  4. How large can the leaves of the giant water lily grow? (Half a metre across / One metre across / More than two metres across / Five metres across)
  5. How will visitors know when the corpse flower is about to bloom? (An email will be sent / A sign will be put at the gate / A guide will announce it / It blooms every June)
  6. What is not allowed on the narrow paths? (Cameras / Tripods / Pushchairs / Walking sticks)
  7. Which animals may enter the garden? (No animals / Small dogs / Guide dogs / Any dog on a lead)
  8. Where may visitors have a picnic? (In the Rose Garden / On the lawn by the lake / Inside the Temperate House / Beside the gate)
  9. When does the shop close? (At two o'clock / At four o'clock / At half past four / At six o'clock)
  10. What does the annual ticket cost? (Thirteen pounds / Twenty-five pounds / Thirty-five pounds / Fifty-three pounds)

Answers are checked on our side when you submit, never shown here first.

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