Welcome to our free resource to practise for the IGCSE ESL listening test for Question 1-4. Test 1 is just one of many exercises and quizzes to reinforce your learning so you feel confident when exam day arrives.
Questions 1-4 Test 1
Here are keywords and phrases covered in Questions 1-4 Test 1:
- art department
- airport
- blue
- bus
- City College
- competition
- daughter
- Forest Academy
- green
- hotel reception
- journey
- July
- Madrid
- May
- orange
- passengers
- problem
- railway line
- red
- running shoes
- science department
- sheep
- sports centre
- station
- Spain
- top quality
- white
- yellow
- Exercise 1 & 2 (Extended)
- Exercise 3 & 4 (Extended)
- Exercise 5 & 6 (Extended)
- Listening Questions 1-5
- Listening Exercise 3 & 4
- Listening 5 (Extended)
- Videos (Extended)
- Speaking Test
Exercise 1 - Read a text and answer a series of questions.
Exercise 2 - Read a text and answer a series of questions testing more detailed comprehension.
Exercise 3 - Make brief notes related to a piece of text.
- Exercise 3 Being Bilingual
- Exercise 3 Extended Video introduction
- Exercise 3 Finding time to do things
- Exercise 3 Frozen Caveman
- Exercise 3 Kite Surfing
- Exercise 3 Life in 2069
- Exercise 3 World’s Sporting Champions
- Exercise 3 Young Mountaineer
Exercise 4 - Write a summary.
Exercise 5 - Write an informal email.
- Bonfire Night
- Exercise 5 Birthday Party
- Exercise 5 Cousin Visiting (Description)
- Exercise 5 Favourite Film
- Exercise 5 Going for an Interview (Advice)
- Exercise 5 Going on Holiday
- Exercise 5 Interesting Meeting
- Exercise 5 New Attraction
- Exercise 5 Restaurant Visit (Narrative)
- Exercise 5 Returning Home
Exercise 6 - Write a report, review or article.
- Animal Sanctuary
- Becoming Vegetarian Article
- Ed Sheeran Concert Review
- Exam Advice Article
- Exercise 6 Career’s Talk Report
- Exercise 6 Dangerous Shopping Book Review
- Exercise 6 Eating Out in Berlin Travel Report
- Exercise 6 Important Developments Article
- Exercise 6 Living in Different Places
- Exercise 6 Recycling Centre Report
- Exercise 6 Subject Choices Article
- Exercise 6 Thai Restaurant Review
- Mission Impossible – Fallout Review
- Online Gaming Article
- Smartphone Review
- Snack Machine Article
- Sports Lessons Article
- Work Experience Day Report
- Working in the Summer Holidays Report
Exercise 1 (Questions 1 -4) - Short answer exercises
Exercise 2 - (Question 5) Gap-filled exercises
Exercise 3 - Matching
Exercise 4 - Multiple Choice
Exercise 5 - Gap Fill Part A
Exercise 5 - Gap Fill Part B
Here are videos to help you with the reading and wrting sections.
- Exercise 1 Extended Video introduction
- Exercise 2 Extended Video introduction
- Exercise 3 Extended Video introduction
- Exercise 4 How to write a Summary (Extended)
- Exercise 5 How to write an Informal Advice Email
- Exercise 5 How to write an Informal Descriptive Email
- Exercise 5 How to write an Informal Narrative Email
- Exercise 6 Becoming Vegetarian
- Exercise 6 How to write a Film Review
- Exercise 6 How to write a report
- Exercise 6 How to write a review
- Exercise 6 How to write an Event Report
- How to write a school magazine article
- Report Writing with Subheadings
Speaking Test Examples:
- Customs and Traditions
- Entertainment and Leisure
- Environment and Nature
- Family and Lifestyle
- Fitness and Sports
- Science and Technology
- Shopping and Consumer Society
- Travel and Adventure
- Work and Education
Exploring the way humans and animals live, adapt and change on our planet
- City or Countryside Living
- Transport Systems
- Dangerous Spiders and Snakes
- Extreme Weather
- Taking photos
- Natural World Puzzles
- Changes in the weather
- Seas and Oceans Puzzles
- Geography Exercises
- Natural World Word Search
- Exercise 2 Weather Reports
- Exercise 3 Managing Waste
- Exercise 1 Keeping Bees in the City
- Exercise 4 Reducing Noise Pollution
- Exercise 6 Important Developments Article
- Exercise 6 Recycling Centre Report
Explore the way we use technology and science in the modern world
- Exercise 4 Shipwrecked
- Ancient Structures
- Exercise 6 Eating Out in Berlin Travel Report
- Exercise 2 Different Cultures
- Exercise 1 Walking to the North Pole
- Exercise 4 Travel Writing
- Exercise 2 Time Travel
- Exercise 2 Train Journeys
- Exercise 2 Different Summer Camps
- London Travel Guide
- Riding a Motorbike Listening Exercise
- Adjective Suffixes
- Exercise 5 Returning Home
- Travel Puzzles
- Great Ship Adventure Listening Exercise
- Exercise 6 Living in Different Places
- Exercise 5 Interesting Meeting
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