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

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Task Type 4
Matching

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Task Type 5
Sentence Completion

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 Task Type 6
Short Answer Question

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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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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
Click https://bit.ly/CharityListening
OR Scan this QR Code:

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