Listening practice
IELTS Listening Sentence Completion practice
Complete sentences with heard words.
This page is for doing Sentence Completion questions: start the drill, then use the routine and the checks below to make each attempt count. For the strategy behind it, read the Sentence Completion guide.
Practise Sentence Completion only
5 Sentence Completion questions from General Training Practice Test 1, with the recording and instructions they were written for. Your answers are saved and marked exactly as in a full section.
- Questions
- 5 questions
- Time
- 32 minutes
A Listening section is one continuous recording, so the drill plays the whole recording — you only answer the Sentence Completion questions in it.
No account needed — sign in later to keep this attempt in your history.
What Sentence Completion looks like on screen
Each question is a sentence with a gap, and you type the missing words as you listen. The sentences sum up points from the recording, so the words around the gap are often not the ones the speaker uses. The instruction sets the word limit.
Where you will meet it
Sentence completion can appear in any part. The sentences follow the order of the recording.
A routine for doing a set against the clock
Listening sets its own pace: the recording plays once, and there is time to read the questions before each part. The routine is about where your eyes and attention go:
- In the reading time, read each sentence to the end, so you know what the whole sentence claims.
- Decide what the gap needs — a noun, a number, a plural — from the words either side.
- Listen for the idea of the sentence; the answer is a word you hear, but the words around it may be reworded.
- Type the answer as soon as you hear it and move straight to the next sentence.
- In the checking time, read each completed sentence for grammar and spelling.