Part 2 is two people who already know each other sorting out an ordinary day. Play two short clips with no timer, settle on your answers, then reveal the transcript and the reasoning behind each option. The trick here is hearing the feeling under the plan.
The Daily Life conversation is the part that sounds most like eavesdropping. Two people who know each other well, coworkers or family, are settling something small and everyday: how one of them gets to work while the car is in the shop, or what a brother still needs before he can make jam. There is no problem being rescued here and no stranger being helped. It is just the texture of a familiar relationship, caught mid-conversation.
That familiarity is exactly what makes Part 2 its own challenge. Because the speakers already know each other, they do not stop to introduce themselves or spell out the background. They use first names, half-finished references and little jokes, and they trust each other to fill in the rest. You have to fill it in too, which means listening for the shared history in how they speak rather than waiting for it to be announced.
On the real 2026 test the whole exchange is one clip of about a minute and a half to two minutes, and afterwards five questions are read to you, one at a time, roughly in the order the conversation raised things. That order is a gift: if you keep the thread of the talk, the questions walk down it with you. Lose the thread and you are hunting backwards through a memory that is already fading.
The two clips below are each a single Daily Life conversation in that shape. One is a pair of coworkers, one is a pair of siblings, and in both the practical arrangement is only half the story. The other half is how they feel about it, which almost nobody in this part ever says out loud.
How the Daily Life conversation is built on the timed 2026 test, so these clips prepare you for the right thing.
Part 2 is decided by tone as much as by fact. These speakers rarely say how they feel; they let a warm jab, a sigh or a quick "fine, then" carry it. Track the mood alongside the plan and the inference questions stop being guesses.
The relationship rule is worth dwelling on, because it does quiet work on every question. Once you know Rosalind is Cody's sister, her nudge about their mother's recipe reads as family teasing rather than a complaint, and the option that treats it as a real objection falls away. Misread the relationship and half the tone-based options start to look plausible.
The feeling rule is the one candidates most often skip. Part 2 is polite and low-stakes, so it is tempting to treat it as pure logistics and file only the facts. But the CELPIP writers plant at least one question on attitude, and they plant its evidence as something said sideways, never stated. Hear the sideways line and that question is free; miss it and it is a coin toss.
Each clip opens in the player. Listen once or replay it while you learn, answer the questions shown as text, then reveal the transcript and a reason for all four options on each question. Nothing here is timed and nothing is scored.
Two coworkers in Saskatoon, Harpreet and Glen, work out how Glen will get to the office while his car is in the shop. The lift is easy to arrange; what the last question hangs on is how Glen feels about accepting it, which he never quite says.
In Saskatoon, Rosalind and her brother Cody talk over what he needs to turn a pail of saskatoon berries into jam. Most of what he owns will do; one item has to be bought new, and Rosalind's aside about their mother's recipe is easy to take the wrong way.
On the real 2026 test the Daily Life clip plays once, starts on its own, cannot be paused, and the five questions are spoken to you afterwards, one at a time, with about thirty seconds each. You hold the whole conversation in your head and answer from memory. That is the skill the exam measures, and it is worth rehearsing under those conditions before test day.
Here the conditions are turned around so you can learn. Replay each clip as often as you need, read the questions as text instead of catching them once by ear, and when you reveal, you get the full transcript and a written reason for every option rather than a mark. Only the clip is audio in this course; on the real test the Part 2 questions are spoken, so treat the text versions as a study aid, not a preview of the exam screen.
About the sound itself: the voices are North American, since no Canadian text-to-speech voice is available to us. What is Canadian is everything in the script, from the Saskatoon setting to the pail of saskatoon berries, so your ear still trains on Canadian phrasing and vocabulary. For the exam version, the timed listening tests run all six parts under the real clock.
The specific ways good listeners still lose marks on the Daily Life conversation.
The ride gets arranged, the jam gets planned, and a candidate files the facts and stops. Part 2 always plants a question on how someone feels, and that one is decided by tone, not by the schedule.
If you do not clock that Rosalind and Cody are siblings, her jab about the recipe can read as a genuine dispute. The relationship colours every line, and getting it wrong makes the wrong options sound reasonable.
The shop mentions the battery and then says it is not just the battery. Answer with the first half and you pick the very detail the speaker walked back. Hold on for the corrected version.
The tone is relaxed, so people relax their listening. But these speakers pack real information into throwaway lines, and the friendliest sentence in the clip is often the one carrying the answer.
The five questions track the conversation, so answering the third from something you heard at the very start usually means you have slipped a place. Trust the sequence and it keeps you honest.
An option that repeats a word from the clip feels safe. In Part 2 the correct answer is reworded, so the familiar word is usually bait. Match the meaning of the whole option instead.
One woman, one man, and they know each other. In the first few seconds decide who is who and how they are connected, so that when a question asks what one of them offered or felt, you are not sorting out the speakers while the clock in your head runs down.
You get paper on test day. Write the arrangement on one line and a word for how each person feels beside it: ride ok, Glen awkward. Splitting your notes that way mirrors the two kinds of question Part 2 always asks.
Everyday talk is full of "well, actually" moments where a fact is nudged into shape. The real answer is usually the nudged version, not the first draft, so wait for the sentence to finish settling before you commit.
A chatty exchange between two friends trains the exact ear Part 2 needs. Listen to how much they leave unsaid because they share a history, and how feeling leaks through in a tone rather than a statement. That gap is the whole part.
After you reveal a clip, the lesson is in the notes for the wrong options, not the letter of the right one. Each distractor is written for a listener who caught the plan but missed the mood, or the mood but missed the plan. Reading why they fail is how you stop failing the same way.
Part 2 is a single conversation between two people who already know each other, one woman and one man, settling something ordinary: a lift to work, a batch of jam. It runs about a minute and a half to two minutes, and you answer five questions after it. Because the speakers are familiar, nobody introduces themselves and the feelings sit under the practical talk.
Five, all drawn from one clip rather than split across sections the way Part 1 is. Each is a four-option multiple-choice question with one correct answer, and they tend to arrive in the order the conversation raised things. This course gives you two worked Daily Life clips, each with its questions and a full explanation of every option.
In Part 1 the two speakers are strangers and one helps the other; in Part 2 they already know each other and are just talking through an everyday plan. That shared history is the whole distinction. It means they use shorthand, tease each other, and rarely state a feeling outright, so you read mood from tone rather than from a plain sentence.
On the real 2026 test the five questions are spoken to you one at a time after the clip, with four written options and about thirty seconds each, answered in order. In this practice course the questions are printed so you can reread them at your own pace, since there is no timer and the point is to see exactly why each answer holds.
No, and it never will. You listen, pick an answer in your head, then reveal the transcript and a written reason for all four options. There is no clock and no evaluation anywhere on this page. When you want a marked result and a CLB band, that is what the timed listening tests are for.
Because there is no Canadian text-to-speech voice on any provider we can reach, the accents are North American. The scripts are firmly Canadian, which is why the coworkers are in Saskatoon and the siblings are turning a pail of saskatoon berries into jam. The format, the register and the settings all follow the 2026 CELPIP test.
Part 3 keeps the two-speaker shape but turns it into an information exchange, where one person holds the facts. Then meet the single-voice parts, and take the whole section under the real clock.
One speaker holds the prices and dates the other needs, and so do the wrong options.
Learn Part 3 → 1Two strangers, one helping the other, and a catch hidden inside every fix.
Learn Part 1 → 4A single news reader, facts in order, and the questions switch to sentence completion.
Learn Part 4 →All 38 questions across the six parts, played once under the real conditions.
Start a listening test →Play one Daily Life clip, decide your answers with no clock running, then reveal the transcript and the reason behind every option. Both clips are free.
