Listening · Foundation drills

Train one question type at a time.

Untimed practice with the recording in your hands. Replay it, scrub it, and after every answer go straight back to the moment it was spoken. The drill moves you up a level when you are ready and back down when a level is fighting you.

4CEFR levels

100recordings

840practice items

0time limit

Tier 1 · Catching the detail

Names, numbers, dates and the value a speaker changes their mind about.

L1 Form & Note Completion Write what you hear into a form or a set of lecture notes — and catch the correction when a speaker withdraws a value. 240 practice items · 40 recordings · A2 to C1 · untimed

Tier 2 · Following the speaker

Holding your place while somebody walks you through a space and keeps talking.

L7 Map & Plan Labelling Put the right letter in the right place on a plan — and keep your bearings when the speaker doubles back and left becomes right. 120 practice items · 20 recordings · A2 to C1 · untimed

Tier 2 · Writing what you hear

One recording carries both tasks, the way a real Section 4 does — a table first, then the discussion sentences.

L2 Table Completion Fill a grid while the speaker moves through it — across the rows at first, then down a column while you hold the whole table in your head. 240 practice items · 40 recordings · A2 to C1 · untimed L3 Sentence Completion Complete a sentence that paraphrases what was said. The answer is always the speaker's own words — the distance is in the frame around it. 240 practice items · 40 recordings · A2 to C1 · untimed

In build

Six more question types, each with its own difficulty ladder.

L4 · L5 · L6 Multiple Choice · Choose Two · Matching Distractor discipline and option banks — where the right answer is never the words you heard. Planned

L8 Flow-chart Completion Process order, and the steps a speaker describes out of sequence. Planned

Before you start. Read the page before you press Play — decide what kind of answer each gap needs, or find the entrance and north on the plan. The recording plays at normal speed, exactly as it does in the real test; it will not slow down for you, and neither will the exam. Every answer is marked the moment you give it, and the transcript for a line unlocks only once you have answered it.