FCE Listening Test 4: market recycling, shared workspaces and touchable museum displays
FCE Listening Test 4 is a free B2 First Listening practice test: 30 questions in four parts and 41 min 30 s of audio, with every recording played twice. You hear everyday exchanges, recycling-station instructions, views of shared workspaces and a designer discussing touchable museum displays.
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- Layout modelled on the computer-based exam
- Estimated Cambridge English Scale score
What is in FCE Listening Test 4
| Part | Task | Questions | What you hear | Audio, both plays |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Multiple choice, short extracts | 1–8 | Eight unrelated situations, 8 voices | 13:52 |
| 2 | Sentence completion | 9–18 | “The market recycling station”: A woman called Beth explaining how to volunteer at a market recycling station. | 9:43 |
| 3 | Multiple matching | 19–23 | Five short extracts in which people explain what they value about using a shared workspace. You match what each speaker values most. | 8:01 |
| 4 | Multiple choice, interview | 24–30 | An interview with a woman called Laila, who makes museum displays that visitors can explore by touch. | 9:39 |
| Total | 8 synthetic voices: 5 British, 1 Irish, 1 Australian and 1 Canadian | 41:30 | ||
Part 1: the situations and questions
- You hear two customers discussing a café’s new menu. What does the woman like about the new layout?
- You hear a student explaining a change of course option. Why has he chosen a different option?
- You hear two friends planning to watch the sunrise. What do they decide to do?
- You hear a volunteer describing a busy book sale. What surprised her about the customers?
- You hear a technician explaining a software update for a factory machine. Why is the update needed?
- You hear a swimmer discussing an outdoor pool. What has made her more willing to use it?
- You hear a visitor explaining why he entered a garden through the wrong gate. What caused his mistake?
- You hear two colleagues discussing a visit to another workplace. What would the man like their team to try?
Part 2: the sentences you complete
- Volunteers collect an (9) from the office when they arrive.
- The volunteer’s first task is to inspect the (10).
- Items made of (11) must be taken to a different collection point.
- Visitors must remove any (12) left inside their packaging.
- Volunteers should replace their (13) if these become damaged.
- Containers that need emptying are moved using a (14).
- At the end of the morning, the (15) of each material is recorded.
- Beth says that the person helping people in the queue particularly needs (16).
- Each volunteer has a break of (17).
- At the end of the session, the instruction boards are put away in a (18).
Marking and review notes
FCE Listening marking
1 mark per question. In Part 2, minor spelling slips are accepted if the word is recognisable. 18/30 is about 160 and 27/30 about 180 on Cambridge’s guidance. Scores are estimates.
From our review
Our reviewer found that some wrong options in Parts 1 and 4 are never mentioned in the recordings, which makes them easier to rule out.
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