Level B1 (approx. band 4-5) · Academic and General Training In Part 1, the examiner asks about your own life. That sounds easy, but many learners find they lack simple words for everyday things: the rooms in a flat, a daily routine, a hobby. So they repeat "good", "nice" and "like". In this episode: • Home • Work and study • Hobbies and free time • Daily life and routine • Listening lab • Language bridge • Practice • Self-check questions with answers Key points: • Use "for" with a length of time and "since" with a starting point, after "I've lived". • Say what you do, then the best part or the hard part, and why. • Name the hobby, say when you started, and say what it gives you. • Use the present simple and "tend to" for habits, and contrast weekdays with weekends. 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.