Cambridge IELTS 8 · Listening · Test 3 · Part 3
Pauls Academic Interview — IELTS Listening Answers
All 10 answers for Pauls Academic Interview, Cambridge IELTS 8 Listening Test 3 Part 3, with the transcript evidence and an explanation for each.
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Pauls Academic Interview answer key at a glance
Questions 21–30. Tap an answer to see the evidence.
What this part tests
This part is tested with One Choice (Q21–26). Each section below gives the strategy for that question type, the answers, and the sentence that proves them.
Questions 21–26: One Choice
Strategy: Read the question stem and predict the answer before looking at the options. Wrong options often repeat words from the audio while the correct one paraphrases them.
Options for Questions 21–26
- AHe will do this.
- BHe might do this.
- CHe won't do this.
“Well, as I'm combining Spanish with Latin American studies, my main idea was to find out more about the way people lived there. My spoken Spanish was already pretty good in fact”
C: a Spanish course is unnecessary because his 'spoken Spanish was already pretty good' before he went.
“Yes, getting involved in building projects was an option. Then there was tourism – taking tourists for walks around the volcanoes – which I actually chose to do, and then there was work with local farmers”
C: building projects were only 'an option', while he 'actually chose' tourism, so building work is out.
“Because I never really knew whether I'd be needed or not. I'd thought it might be difficult physically, but I was certainly fit enough . . . no, I wanted to do something that had more of a proper structure to it, I suppose. I get de-motivated otherwise”
A: he will take work with 'more of a proper structure', since uncertainty left him de-motivated.
“Yes, but things soon improved. What struck me was that when people became more comfortable with me and less suspicious, we really connected with each other in a meaningful way”
B: real connection came only once people were 'less suspicious', so this is possible rather than certain.
“Yes and he gave me lots of advice and guidance”
C: the tutor provided 'lots of advice and guidance', so this is done for Paul, not by him.
“And they gave me all the equipment I needed . . . even a laptop. WOMAN: You didn't expect that then? PAUL: No”
A: the placement 'gave me all the equipment I needed ... even a laptop', which he had not expected.
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Frequently asked questions
Where does the Pauls Academic Interview listening section come from?
It is Part 3 of Cambridge IELTS 8 Listening Test 3, and it covers Questions 21–30.
What question types appear in Pauls Academic Interview?
The part is tested with One Choice. Each type is explained on this page, alongside the answers.
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