The document explains the note completion task in the IELTS listening test, detailing how to identify such tasks and providing examples from different sections of the exam. It highlights the shift in complexity from social topics in parts 1 and 2 to more challenging academic topics in parts 3 and 4, emphasizing the importance of titles and subtitles for anticipating questions. Additional resources and support for IELTS preparation are offered at the end.

1. IELTS Listening.

2. Note Completion Task
Explanation & Useful Tips.
IELTS Listening.

3. Task identification
Examples are taken from Cambridge IELTS books.
Task
Identification
(How you can know this is a note
completion task)

4.  Task Introduction

5.  Note completion task in Part 1 & 2 of the Listening
test.

6. (1) Notice how questions mainly contain
factual information like names, numbers,
addresses, times, etc.
(2) Answers are easily predictable.
Example of note completion
task in Part/Section 1

7. Notice that it is still
on a social topic,
but questions are
not as easy as they
were in part/section
1.
Example of note completion
task in Part/Section 2

8.  Note completion task in Part 3 & 4 of the
Listening test.

9. Subtitles
(1) Notice that now the topic is
academic, and questions are
more challenging.
(2) The task is divided in
sections by subtitles
Example of note completion
task in Part/Section 3

10. (1) In this section, the task is the
most challenging. It is like a
university lecture on a purely
academic topic. Moreover, the topic
will always be quite unfamiliar.
(2) Here, you also have to follow the
development of thoughts, the
speaker’s attitude, and opinions.
(3) Also, note that it is divided into
sections by subtitles.
Question 31-40
Subtitles
Example of note completion
task in Part/Section 4

11.  The title is helpful in anticipating what kind of
questions you will see in the task.

12. Notice how all the questions
are related to the title.
Title
The title is helpful in anticipating what kind of
questions you will see in the task. (Example)

13. Title
Notice how all the questions
are related to the title.
When note completion task
appear in part 4, its title
becomes more significant as
you see in this example.
The title is helpful in anticipating what kind of
questions you will see in the task. (Example)

14.  The role of subtitles in note completion tasks.
Notice how the information is
grouped under each
subheading.
Subtitles are mostly in bold
letters.
Here is an example of subtitles.
Subtitles

15.  Subtitles are good keywords.

16.  Sentences without blank spaces are also
important.

17. Example of sentences
without blank spaces.

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