Cambridge IELTS 8 · Listening · Test 1 · Part 1
Summer Festival Ticket Booking — IELTS Listening Answers
All 10 answers for Summer Festival Ticket Booking, Cambridge IELTS 8 Listening Test 1 Part 1, with the transcript evidence and an explanation for each.
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Summer Festival Ticket Booking answer key at a glance
Questions 1–10. Tap an answer to see the evidence.
What this part tests
This part is tested with One Choice (Q1–2). Each section below gives the strategy for that question type, the answers, and the sentence that proves them.
Questions 1–2: 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.
“They had a video with all the highlights of the festival at a stand in the lobby to the library, so I heard them”
C: she heard the performers through a video of festival highlights at a stand in the library lobby.
“Yeah, though I think that if you sit at the back you can actually hear the whole thing better”
B: 'if you sit at the back you can actually hear the whole thing better', contrary to the usual assumption.
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Frequently asked questions
Where does the Summer Festival Ticket Booking listening section come from?
It is Part 1 of Cambridge IELTS 8 Listening Test 1, and it covers Questions 1–10.
What question types appear in Summer Festival Ticket Booking?
The part is tested with One Choice. Each type is explained on this page, alongside the answers.
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