Lesson objectives

1. Overview of IELTS Listening

2. Strategies to tackle an IELTS Listening
Test (Gap-Fill)

3. Practice Listening

4. Further Practice: Numbers & Letters

OVERVIEW OF IELTS LISTENING
4 sections:
+ Section 1: a dialogue on a social context.
+ Section 2: a monologue about a social context.
+ Section 3: a conversation on an academic topic (the
most difficult)
+ Section 4: a lecture on an academic topic.

40 questions: 30 minutes + 10 minutes to transfer answer onto

the answer sheet.

The recording is played only ONCE.

 questions

Gap-fill MCQs Matchings

Section 1 & Section 2 & Section 2 &

Section 4 Section 3 Section 3
LISTENING 01
SAY IT BACKWARDS
y-a-d-i-l-o-h n-o-i-t-a-d-o-m-m-o-c-c-a

→ holiday accommodation (n.)

l-a-i-c-e-p-s s-t-n-e-m-e-r-i-u-q-e-r

→ special requirements (n.)

y-l-l-u-f d-e-p-p-i-u-q-e

→ fully equipped (adj.)

g-n-i-k-r-a-p e-c-a-p-s

→ parking space (n.)

g-n-i-k-o-o-b e-c-n-e-r-e-f-e-r

→ booking reference (n.)

l-a-r-t-n-e-c g-n-i-t-a-e-h

→ central heating (n.)

e-d-o-c-t-s-o-p

→ postcode (n.)
ACTIVITY 01
THE WHISPER CHALLENGE

TIPS: For NAMES, spell them out!

 STRATEGIES TO TACKLE AN IELTS
LISTENING TEST
Gap-fill (Form completion)
1. Context:
- Read the titles.
- Listen to the introduction of the audio.
2. Identify locating words/ key words.
3. Prediction (word form, collocations, meaning,
distractions – *numbers)
4. Listen and fill the gap
Keywords → Prediction
1. Proper noun (spelling)
2. Proper noun (name of street)
3. Number
4. Date (Day # Date)
5. Number + Days/ Nights,…
6. Number
7. Noun (room in apartment)
8. Noun (sth you can see from
apartment)
9. Adjective
10. Noun (place?)
Practice Listening: 1st
Listen individually

Share your answers in pairs

Practice Listening: 2nd

Listen again and write you

answers on the board
Practice Listening: 3rd No more than TWO WORDS
AND/OR A NUMBER

1. Leo Blucher
2. Blumengasse
3. 4312 11057
4. 1st
5. nine/ 9 days
6. two hundred/ 200
7. kitchen
8. (the) sea
9. quiet
10. parking space/ parking/
space
 DISCUSS IN GROUPS

Describe a place
where you stayed at

1. Why did you stay there?

2. Who did you stay with?
3. What did you do while you were there?
ACTIVITY 02
https://www.baamboozle.com/game/1111564
Keywords → Prediction

0. numbers + letters
1. numbers + letters
2. numbers + letters
3. numbers
4. numbers
5. numbers + letters
Listen and fill the gap

0. numbers + letters
1. numbers + letters
TLM 19772
2. numbers + letters
XY331373TV
07967 55 33 79 3. numbers
49 4. numbers
BE5 9KV 5. numbers + letters
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