2022-05-16 17:55:43
IELTS Listening tips and tricks (my personal band score 8.5)
1. Consistently listen to English everyday.
In your pocket or somewhere within arms reach of you right now is a device called a smartphone. On that smartphone you can listen to English at anytime and at anyplace. To prepare for your IELTS test you need to be listening to English everyday for 20 plus minutes at a time.
There is no excuse not to do this! On the commute to the office/school/college/university, or on the way back home you can easily listen to any English of your choosing. It does not have to be a podcast about learning English, it can just be a general news show, a Netflix series, YouTube channel you like, anything you want but you got to get used to listening to native speakers speaking English at a normal speed, remember you only hear the recording once on test day so you better be ready.
2. Listen to different accents.
When you listen to English make sure you listen to a range of different accents. The best way to do this is to select TED talks, Youtube channels, news programmes from different countries and so on. You absolutely must be comfortable listening to an Australian accent, a New Zealand accent, A North American accent, or a UK accent.
Australian podcasts here
USA accent here
New Zealand podcasts here
Canadian podcasts here
3. Don't do a lot of practice.
If I keep playing football I won’t get better at football! I will just get very tired. What you need to do is to practice the skills that you are using to become better at football. So, what you need to do is to be clever with your practice.
One way to do this would be to take a practice test under strict test conditions. You can mark it yourself but make a note of what question types you are struggling with. Once you know what question types you are not good at, then you can go away and work out what strategy you need for that question type then apply those techniques when you practice. You should be able to improve your score much more easily this way rather than doing lots of practice tests which include question types that you are already good at - that is not a great way to spend your valuable practice time!
4. Predict answers.
Take a look at the questions and start making predictions about what the answers could be. This will help you recognize the answer when it does come up. Will you be listening for a person’s name, a time, a verb, a year?
Often it is very easy to tell and so you should use this to your advantage. At the same time you should also be keeping an eye on the next question just so you know what is coming up and so you recognise the topic of the question when you hear it.
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@muzanigi
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