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  1. WELCOME
    Welcome to IELTS Online Listening
  2. Meet Your Course Trainers
  3. Course Overview
  4. Using the Platform
  5. IELTS LISTENING TEST
    IELTS Listening Test
    2 Topics
  6. LISTENING SKILLS AND STRATEGIES
    Introduction to Skills and Strategies
  7. General Skills and Strategies
    6 Topics
  8. Skills and Strategies for Part 1
    6 Topics
  9. Skills and Strategies for Part 2
    4 Topics
  10. Skills and Strategies for Part 3
    4 Topics
  11. Skills and Strategies for Part 4
    6 Topics
  12. QUESTION TYPES
    Introduction to Question Types
  13. Common Strategies for All Questions
  14. Multiple Choice Questions
    8 Topics
  15. Matching Questions
    8 Topics
  16. Labelling Questions
    8 Topics
  17. Completion Questions
    8 Topics
  18. Sentence Completion Questions
    8 Topics
  19. Short-answer Questions
    8 Topics
  20. IELTS PRACTICE TESTS
    IELTS Listening Mock Tests
    2 Topics
  21. COURSE CONCLUSION
    Overall Tips for a Greater Score
  22. Congratulations on Course Completion
Lesson 18, Topic 2
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Format

Format of Sentence Completion Questions

Sentence completion questions may occur in any part of the listening test, but they are particularly common in Part 3 in which you will listen to a conversation between up to four people 

To answer this type of question, you need to complete a set of sentences summarising main ideas from a part of the listening text or the entire listening text.  You will fill in the gaps with a missing word, word group or number that you hear, and these answers will need to fit grammatically in the sentences to be considered correct. You will be given a word limit which must be adhered to.   

Below you can see how this question type looks in the paper-based and computer-delivered tests. 

Questions 11 – 12 

Complete the sentences. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS in each gap. 

In the past, studies have focused on how the 11 _______________ influences driver behaviour. 

This research project’s specific focus is on the 12 _______________ of the music.