IELTS test in Australia – January 2011 (General Training)

IELTS exam in Australia was share by our kind friends D and P. Here is what they remembered:

Listening test

Section 1. A conversation between Peter and Jim about sharing a house. Jim was inspecting a room.

Questions: about the price, thing that Jim needs to bring in, the location of the telephone and when Jim can move in.

Section 2. An interview with Alan of Echange.com

Section 3. A lecture about Just Coffee.

Section 4. Don’t remember.

Reading test

Passage 1. How to get information from a newspaper, yellow pages and a library.

Passage 2. Advertisement for second-hand things.

Passage 3. The procedure for filing a complaint about your workplace.

Passage 4. The story of Gwen John.

Writing test

Writing task 1 (a letter)

You are on a business trip and stayed at a hotel. Unfortunately you left something behind in your hotel room. Write a letter to the manager, in your letter please include the following:

a. details of your stay.
b. details of what you left.
c. what you want the manager to do.

Writing task 2 (an essay)

In some countries wedding ceremonies are becoming bigger and more expensive than in the past. Why do you think this is the case? Is this a positive or negative development?