IELTS Listening Practice: Sports Festival

IELTS summary completion and sentence completion practice for listening about the topic of sport.

Tips

• Spend time reading through the questions for the summary and sentence completion because the audio will cover all questions.
• Pay attention to the title and key words in the questions.
• Predict the type of answer you will need to listen for (grammar will help you).
• Notice that the instructions (word count) changes as the type of question changes – pay attention to this.
• Be ready to move from one set of questions to another. Identify a key word that will help you to know when to move questions.
• Remember that some key words can be paraphrased.

Mongolian Sports Festival

Questions 1 – 3

Complete the summary using no more than one word and/or a number.

Naadam is a festival of three sports in Mongolia: (1)……………….. horse racing and archery. This festival is traditionally for men and takes place during (2)……………….. Previously, women were unable to (3)………………. in the festival but now they can take part in two out of the three sports.

Questions 4 – 6

Complete the sentences using no more than two words and/or numbers.

• 4) Historically, this festival was used to generate ………………….
• 5) People don ……………………………… for the festival.
• 6) Each year the celebration is held between ……. and ……………….

Click below to reveal the answers:

Naadam Festival Information

Watch a great video about this wonderful festival in Mongolia. The person giving the information is Mongolian and does make mistakes with English but she still has a wide range of interesting vocabulary and can explain her ideas clearly.

• delighted
• preparing warriors for combat
• huge
• great noise / shouting
• rush
• testing not only speed but endurance
• bare feet
• saddle
• cheering
• sharpness
• brings the community together
• harsh weather
• lifts the spirits of everyone

You may consider her accent difficult to understand in parts but her vocabulary, as you can see above, is very strong and flexible. She is able to explain her ideas and concepts very clearly.