IELTSPRESSO Charity Event
LISTENING
Rules, Strategy, Tips & Trick
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TIMING AND NUMBER OF QUESTION
± 30 min with 10 min transfer time, 40 questions
TASK TYPES
Multiple choice
Matching
Plan/map/diagram labelling
form/note/chart/summary completion,
sencence completion
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RECORDING 1 RECORDING 2
Two people Monologue
Everyday conversation Everyday Conversation
RECORDING 3
RECORDING 4
Up to four people
Academic subject/ Lecture
Educational-context Conversation
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How is the listening
ability tested?
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Form, note, table, flow-
chart, summary Matching
completion
Types of Plan, map, diagram
Sentence completion
Questions labelling
Multiple choice Short-answer
questions
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Task Type 1
Form, note, table, flow-chart, summary completion
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Task Type 2
Plan, map, diagram labelling
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Task Type 3
Multiple Choice
Source: Cambridge Practice Test For IELTS
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Task Type 4
Matching
Source: Cambridge Practice Test For IELTS
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Task Type 5
Sentence Completion
Source: ieltsessentials.com/prepare/free-practice-tests/listening
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Task Type 6
Short Answer Question
Source: ieltsessentials.com/prepare/free-practice-tests/listening
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Golden Rules
Listening module of the exam involves listening, reading, hearing,
and writing skills, learn to use them simultaneously
Develop your organizational and prediction skills, and your concentration
Practise listening to a wide range of accents
Concentrate on the questions one at a time, but be prepared for the
next question. Look ahead if you have time
Listen to the instructions on the tape as well.
A general clue is usually given
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In the IELTS listening test,
It is really important to
actively listen, it isn't a
passive activity.
PAULINE CULLEN,
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
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How to Improve Active Listening
Listen to short extracts. Listen and repeat.
Listen and write. Listen and explain.
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Cambridge University Press ELT (Youtube)
Skill Tip 1: Organizational Skills
SKIM
Organization of the questions
SCAN
While listening, scan the
recording
TAKE NOTES
Headings/sub-headings,
keywords. find common
patterns. .
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Skill Tip 2: Predicting and Checking
ANALYSE
PREDICT NOT GUESS
Where you can't predict, analyse the grammar
Use the information you have/know
or word patterns
LOGIC
PRACTICE
Use common sense and the organization of
Practice until you predict automatically
information
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Skill Tip 3: CONCENTRATE
Concentrate Listen, not hear.
and Write
FOCUS
Use the organizational and
prediction skills to focus.
PRACTICE
Hearing information on the radio then
consciously listening to it
BE STRAIGHTFORWARD
Do not expect anything extraordinary.
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Skill Tip 4:
Time Management
Use your time efficiently Use the thirty-second silences for Use checking time and the time
skimming and scanning or between answers to look ahead
checking
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BE DECISIVE
Change your skills between
sections automatically as
required
BE CONFIDENCE
Skim and scan the text at
speed
Skill Tip 5:
Speed and KEEP GOING
Efficiency If you miss a question, leave
it and go to the next one. It is
better to miss one question
than a whole section
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Skill Tip 6: Paraphrase
UNDERSTANDING PARAPHRASING
Always look out for synonyms. Practice to be able
to work out the meaning of the words and phrases
VOCABULARY BUILDING
Build vocabulary through reading and speaking;
Limit about five to ten words to learn every day
PREDICT
Use the information in the question and the
recording to predict meaning and any answers
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PRACTICE
Listen to the Audio given and answer the questions
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PRACTICE
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