how to apply for a homestay ielts listening
A homestay enquiry appears in Part 1 of the Listening test, and the British Council describes that part as a transactional conversation about an everyday situation, where you are asked for specific details such as names, dates, times, prices or addresses.
A homestay enquiry appears in Part 1 of the Listening test, and the British Council describes that part as a transactional conversation about an everyday situation, where you are asked for specific details such as names, dates, times, prices or addresses. The skill tested is not knowledge of how to book a room; it is catching and writing down what the speaker says. Treat it like any Part 1 recording: revise accommodation and meal vocabulary, practise writing names as they are spelled out letter by letter, and copy the exact form the answer key uses.
Keep a real booking form next to you while you practise this part. The word limit printed above each group of questions decides whether a price is written as a figure or as two words with a unit, so read that line before the audio starts. Two habits carry most of the marks here: when a speaker corrects himself after giving a date or a room number, the corrected version is the answer, and when a name is spelled out letter by letter you write what you hear rather than the spelling you expected. Before that, learn the vocabulary of the form itself — deposit, en-suite, shared bathroom, self-catering, arrival and departure dates, single or twin room — because you cannot catch a word you have never met.