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Turn any video into IELTS listening practice.

Paste a video link, add that video’s own subtitle file, and this page builds a marked, IELTS-style exercise from the exact recording you are watching: gap-fills that target the numbers, names and content words the test rewards, plus true-or-false statements, each one replayable line by line.

What this is, honestly. Listening is a free resource on this site, not a paid product: lessons cover Speaking, Writing and Reading. The tool runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you paste or upload leaves your device, nothing is stored, and this site never hosts anyone else’s recording or transcript, so use material you have the right to watch and download captions for. If you want ready-made material that is legally free, VOA Learning English (public domain, American accents) and LibriVox (public domain, literary English) both publish audio with transcripts.
  1. 01Paste the video link. YouTube links embed on this page so you can replay any line with one click. Other links still work, with plain timestamps.
  2. 02Add its subtitle file. A .srt or .vtt for that video. On YouTube, caption files can be saved via the transcript panel or a caption downloader.
  3. 03Build and answer. The page writes a gap-fill and a true-or-false set from the captions, marks it, and lets you replay every line you missed.

A YouTube link embeds below. Any other link is kept as a reference: open it in another tab and use the timestamps.

Make it deliberate practice, not background noise.

01Numbers, names, spellings. Section 1 of the real test lives on prices, dates, phone numbers and spelt-out names. When a gap wants a number, expect it said as words, written as digits.
02Hear the paraphrase. The question rarely uses the recording’s exact words. Read each statement first, predict the idea, then listen for its disguise.
03One listen, then mark. The real test plays once. Answer everything on a single pass, mark it, and only then replay the lines you missed.
04Choose real speech. Interviews, lectures and documentaries are closer to the test than scripted drama. Ten deliberate minutes beat an hour of passive play.
→Listening, then the marked skills

Listening stays free here. The marked skills are where a tutor helps most.

Use this tool with anything you already watch. It sharpens your ear on your own material, on your own time.

Lessons cover Speaking, Writing and Reading, one to one with a British IELTS tutor, in proper British English. Lessons are £20 for fifty minutes, and the first step is a discounted trial lesson.

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