Level A2 (approx. band 3-4) · Academic and General Training Listening Part 1 is an everyday conversation between two speakers. Someone books a room, joins a club or orders something. You must write names, numbers, dates and prices. In this episode: • Thirteen or thirty? • The alphabet in different voices • Phone numbers and postcodes • Dates and times • Money and the word limit • Listening lab • Language bridge • Practice • Self-check questions with answers Key points: • -TEEN is long and stressed at the end. -ty is short, with stress at the start. • Learn A, E, I, G, J and Z in every accent. Double means the same letter twice. • Oh means zero. Double means two of the same. Always write the corrected number. • Write the month as a word. Learn quarter past, quarter to and half past. • Read the word limit first. A longer answer is wrong, even if the facts are right. IELTS Complete Course: a self-study podcast from A1 to C2 for Academic and General Training. Listen, pause and answer, then take the 52-question quiz. Audio voiced with AI from an original script by Dr. Rashmi R Nair. Independent course, not affiliated with the IELTS test owners.