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CAE Listening Test 6: a community kitchen, everyday instructions and creative collaboration
CAE Listening Test 6 is a free C1 Advanced Listening practice test: 30 questions in four parts and 39 min 22 s of audio, with every recording played twice. You hear discussions of a science festival, a project handover and bookbinding, a kitchen-layout talk, an archivist interview and creative collaboration experiences.
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- Layout modelled on the computer-based exam
- Estimated Cambridge English Scale score
Time≈ 40 min
Audio39:22
Questions30
Voices9
What is in CAE Listening Test 6
| Part | Task | Questions | What you hear | Audio, both plays |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Multiple choice, three extracts | 1–6 | Three conversations, 6 voices | 9:31 |
| 2 | Sentence completion | 7–14 | “Testing the kitchen layout”: A coordinator called Ellis explaining how a community kitchen tested new working arrangements. | 7:38 |
| 3 | Multiple choice, interview | 15–20 | An interview with an archivist called Celia, who collects instructions for everyday tasks. | 11:49 |
| 4 | Multiple matching | 21–30 | Five short extracts in which people talk about joining a collaborative creative activity. Task 1: each speaker’s main reason for joining. Task 2: what changed in each speaker’s expectations or attitude. | 10:09 |
| Total | 9 synthetic voices: 7 British, 1 New Zealand and 1 Australian | 39:22 | ||
Part 1: the conversations and questions
- You hear two visitors discussing the atmosphere at a science festival.1. What concerns the woman about the main-hall demonstration? 2. Why do both speakers value the smaller session?
- You hear two colleagues discussing the handover of a project.3. What difficulty has the man encountered? 4. What do they agree to produce?
- You hear two adults discussing an introductory bookbinding course.5. How did the woman’s view of repeated practice change? 6. What do both speakers appreciate about the tutor’s insistence on accuracy?
Part 2: the sentences you complete
- Observers recorded people’s routes on a (7).
- Temporary work areas were marked out with (8).
- Clean (9) were moved to a position near the entrance.
- The team added (10) to make the purpose of different trays clearer.
- A volunteer from each group recorded the trial in a (11).
- The large table was made movable by adding (12).
- The final trial specifically included (13) volunteers.
- The layout will be assessed again after (14).
How it is marked
CAE Listening marking
1 mark per question. In Part 2, correct spelling is expected (British or American). 18/30 is about 180 and 26/30 about 200 on Cambridge’s guidance. Scores are estimates.
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