Welcome to this IELTS Listening practice test based on a TED talk about augmented reality technology.
This test will assess your ability to understand main ideas, specific details, and speaker opinions.
The recommended time for completing these questions is 12-15 minutes. Listen carefully to the audio and answer the questions that follow.
Complete the sentences below.
Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER for each answer.
- The speaker demonstrates the technology using a painting of _____________.
- The processing of the visual information happens directly on the _____________.
- The speaker refers to the connection between digital content and physical objects as _____________.
- The scientists who developed this technology work in _____________.
- The tools to create augmented reality content are _____________ and available to everyone.
- Teachers have used this technology to enhance both _____________ and classrooms.
- In the past _____________ years, the Internet has transformed how we live and work.
Check your answers
Enter your answers and press Check. Spelling counts, but capitals and punctuation don’t.
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- 1Rabbie Burnsalso: robert burns, the great poet rabbie burns, burns“What we have here is a painting of the great poet Rabbie Burns”
- 2device itselfalso: device, phone“All the processing to do that was actually done on the device itself.”
- 3an auraalso: aura“that linking of the digital content to something that’s physical is what we call an aura”
- 4Cambridge“done here in the U.K. by scientists at Cambridge”
- 5freealso: free and open, open“the tools to do this are free. They’re open, they’re available to everyone”
- 6textbooks“teachers who’ve tagged up textbooks, teachers who’ve tagged up school classrooms”
- 720also: twenty“In the last 20 years, it’s really changed the way that we live and work”
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