A Conversation About a Special Leave Request - IELTS Listening Sample Answer

The Listening test is the same for both the IELTS Academic test and the IELTS General Training test. Candidates need to answer 40 IELTS listening questions. Candidates will listen to four recordings which are a mix of monologues and conversations from a range of native speakers and will only hear each recording once. This IELTS listening topic - A Conversation About a Special Leave Request is IELTS Listening section one and contains the following question types:

• Complete the form
• Choose the correct answer

Audio Transcript

Telephone rings

Bob: Hello, Foreign Student Adviser’s office. This is Bob Wills speaking. Can I help you?

Angela: It’s Angela Tung here. Bob. I’d like to make a request for special leave. Can I do that over the phone?

Bob: Hello Angela. You can make that request by phone – but I’ll have to fill the form out. Let me get the special leave form. Okay. I lore it is. Tell me your student number, please.

Angela: It’s H for Harry, 5712.

Bob: H 5712. Okay. What’s your address, Angela?

Bob: Hello, Foreign Student Adviser’s office. This is Bob Wills speaking. Can I help you?

Angela: It’s Angela Tung here, Bob. I’d like to make a request for special leave. Can I do that over the phone?

Bob: Hello Angela. You can make that request by phone – but I’ll have to fill the form out. Let me get the special leave form. Okay. Here it is. Tell me your student number, please.

Angela: It’s H for Harry 5712.

Bob: H 5712. Okay. What’s your address, Angela? Angela: I live at 10 Bridge Street, Tamworth.

Bob: 10 Bridge Street, Tamworth. And your phone number?

Angela: The telephone number’s 810 6745.

Bob: Thanks. What course are you doing?

Angela: I’m in the writing class.

Bob: Writing. Who’s your teacher this term?

Angela: Mrs Green – she spells her name like the colour.

Bob: Thanks. Hmm. When does your student visa expire?

Angela: Let me look. July 15.

Bob: July 15. Okay. Which term do you want to take leave?

Angela: Do you want dates?

Bob: First, I have to write a term number. When do you want to take leave?

Angela: In term one.

Bob: Okay. Term one. Now can you tell me what are the exact dates?

Angela: I’d like to be away May 31 to June 4.

Bob: Okay. I’ve got that. You’ll miss four working days between May 31 and June 4. Is that right?

Angela: Only three. I’ll be away over a weekend. I’ll be back at my classes on June 5, so that’s three days away.

Bob: Why do you want to take leave, Angela?

Angela: I’m going to visit my aunt May. She’s my mother’s sister. She and her husband are my guardians while I’m here.

Bob: Where do they live?

Angela: About fifty kilometres from here, near Armidale.

Bob: Do you have to take so long if they live nearby?

Angela: My mother is aiming with me. She’s come for a holiday, so she wants to have some time with May, and I want to spend some time with my mother, too.

Bob: Aren’t you going home soon?

Angela: I’ve applied to extend my time here. I expect to go home in twelve months

Questions 1-8

Complete the form.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS OR NUMBERS for each answer.

REQUEST FOR SPECIAL LEAVE

Name: _____Angela Tung_________

Example Student number: ______H5712_____________

Address: 1_________ Tamworth, 2340

Course: 2 _________

Teacher’s name: 3 _________

Student visa expiry date: 4 _________

I wish to request leave in Term: 5 _________

Dates of leave: 6 _________ to 7 _________

Number of working days missed: 8 _________

Question 1.

Answer: 10 Bridge Street

Explanation: Angela said ‘I live at 10 Bridge Street, Tamworth’. Therefore here the answer must be 10 Bridge Street.

Also, check:

Question 2.

Answer: writing (class)

Explanation: Bob questions Angela about the course that she is doing. Angela answered ‘writing class’. So the answer must be ‘writing class’ or ‘writing’.

Question 3.

Answer: Mrs. Green

Explanation: Angela mentioned that Mrs. Green will be her teacher for the term. Hence the answer will be ‘Mrs. Green’.

Question 4.

Answer: July 15(th) / 15(th) July / 15/7

Explanation: Bob questions “When does your student visa expire?” Angela replied on July 15. So the answer must be July 15.

Question 5.

Answer: 1 / one

Explanation: Angela said that she would want to take leave in term one. So the answer will be 1.

Question 6.

Answer: May 31 (st) / 31 (st) May / 31/5

Explanation: Bob asks the exact dates of leave, Angela replied ‘I’d like to be away from May 31 to June 4’. Therefore the answer must be May 31.

Question 7.

Answer: June 4(th)/ 4(th) June / 4/6

Explanation: Bob asks the exact dates of leave, Angela replies ‘I’d like to be away from May 31 to June 4’. Therefore the answer must be June 4.

Question 8.

Answer: 3 / three (days)

Explanation: Bob assumes that Angela will “miss four working days”. To which Angela replies ‘Only three’. Therefore the answer should be three.

Question 9-12.

Circle the appropriate letter A-D.

9. Why does Angela want to take leave?

1. to visit her aunt and uncle
2. to see the National Gallery
3. to see the Southern Highlands
4. to study more writing

Answer: A

Explanation: Angela is going to visit her aunt and uncle. So the correct answer is A.

10. Where is Angela going?

1. Tamworth
2. Brisbane
3. Armidale
4. Sydney

Answer: C

Explanation: Angela mentioned that her uncle and aunt live ‘About fifty kilometres from here, near Armidale. So C should be the correct answer.

11. Who is going with Angela?

1. her uncle
2. her mother
3. her aunt
4. her father

Answer: B

Explanation: As stated by Angela ‘My mother is aiming with me’. Thus the answer is B.

12. When will Angela go home to her own country?

1. in five years
2. in twelve months
3. in two months
4. when her mother goes home

Answer: B

Explanation: Angela said ‘I expect to go home in twelve months’. Hence the correct answer is B.