Are map and plan questions always in IELTS Listening Section 2?
In the official samples they are: the library sample is Part 2, Questions 11 to 15, and the computer-delivered sample is a Part 2 extract. Part 2 is the one-speaker part that gives information about a product, location or service, which is the recording a description of a place needs.
In the official samples they are: the library sample is Part 2, Questions 11 to 15, and the computer-delivered sample is a Part 2 extract. Part 2 is the one-speaker part that gives information about a product, location or service, which is the recording a description of a place needs. The test owners do not publish a rule that confines the task type to that part, so prepare for Part 2 first and stay ready to meet a plan anywhere.
Some versions of this task ask you to write words from the recording into the gaps instead of choosing a letter. When the instructions print a word limit above the questions, that limit shapes the answer but never its position, so the sentence still decides which gap the words belong to. The letters are not a running order either: in the published library sample the key runs H, G, D, B, F, which bears no relation to the order the box is printed in, and the number of items varies between samples, five there and three in the computer-delivered one.
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