Cambridge IELTS 4 · Listening · Test 3 · Part 2
The Summer Arts Festival — IELTS Listening Answers
All 10 answers for The Summer Arts Festival, Cambridge IELTS 4 Listening Test 3 Part 2, with the transcript evidence and an explanation for each.
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The Summer Arts Festival answer key at a glance
Questions 11–20. Tap an answer to see the evidence.
What this part tests
This part is tested with One Choice (Q11–14). Each section below gives the strategy for that question type, the answers, and the sentence that proves them.
Questions 11–14: 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.
“This is the third year they've run it and the timing's slightly different: for the last couple of years it's been around the fifth to seventeenth, but this year they wanted to allow everyone enough time to recover from the first of January celebrations and they've put it at the end of the month”
C — this year the festival is 'at the end of the month', later than the usual fifth to seventeenth.
“For today's report though, Geoffrey, I'm looking at some of the theatrical events that you might like to see; in particular, at this year's theme - circuses”
A — the report focuses on 'this year's theme - circuses', so circus events are the subject.
“I'm going to tell you about two circus performances, but there are plenty of others in the programme”
C — she will describe 'two circus performances' out of 'plenty of others in the programme'.
“As this is a travelling circus, it follows a long tradition by performing in a marquee - which is really like a canvas portable building, usually put up in a green space or car park, rather than in a theatre or stadium”
B — a travelling circus performs in 'a marquee... a canvas portable building', not a theatre or stadium.
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It is Part 2 of Cambridge IELTS 4 Listening Test 3, and it covers Questions 11–20.
What question types appear in The Summer Arts Festival?
The part is tested with One Choice. Each type is explained on this page, alongside the answers.
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