Update from Academic IELTS exam, France

Special thanks to our French friend G. who told us what his Academic exam was like:

Listening

1) A real-estate information form to fill (with phone numbers and name spelling).
2) Sport venue locations to find on a map and table completion on them.
3) A gap-fills exercise about requirements for a master degree for South-American students (quite hard as they were speaking fast and we had to find “ideas” more than words).

Reading

1) Cow manure-made water filters (I found the text: click here to read), task type: a gap-fills exercise.
2) About Pioneer 10 & 11 satellites going astray, task type: heading matching.
3) Prehistoric research struggles between scientists in Australia, task type: multiple choice questions.

Writing

Task 1 (Report)
Report on a table showing visits to London in 1996 and 2001 by UK-residents and overseas visitors. Visitors were sorted out by categories (business, family, holidays, other).

Task 2 (Essay)
Machines are becoming very sophisticated. Workers are benefiting from that. Discuss to what extent good points overweight bad points.

Speaking

Interview
Discussion of bicycle.

Card
Explain how and when you were given a good advice (I quit smoking 2 years ago…)

Discussion
How to give advice to others and in particular to children and teenagers.