Five IELTS listening band booster steps
IELTS listening consist of 40 questions which are to be answered while listening the audio clip and this need active listening practice. In listening test you have to listen, read and write all at the same time so if you want to be multi functional and score good bands in your test you should practice with audio clips accompanied with questions in other words search for practice papers. During your practice sessions you must keep in mind Five IELTS listening band booster steps as they can really help you. To know about some tips to get 9 in listening click here.
1: Listen only to the audio clip
In the starting stage you should only listen the audio clip and look how much you can understand the main idea of the speech and try to identify the keywords.
2: Repeat again and again
In the initial practice stages and sometime in later stage you don’t understand what the narrator said. To know the piece of information repeat the audio clip again and again and look what you understood the first time, and what later on.
Repeat the clip until you get the whole abstract of the speech. You will feel that every time you hear the audio you get some extra information than the previous time.
Now when you start getting the whole required information from the clip in the first time than be ready to move to third step. Your goal should be to understand as much as possible from the audio!
3: Read the questions
Read the questions carefully and try to identify any new vocabulary. If you find any word you are not familiar with try to understand its meaning based on the context.
4: Listen with the text
Now it’s time to listen the audio with the text here you can check the pronunciation of phrases and words.
5: Listen a few more times without the text
For more practice you should hear the audio clips few more times. Practice will make you perfect and listening words again and again will help you understand words and phrases easily.
IELTS writing and listening simultaneously (a key skill!)
Writing while listening is a challenging thing but it is key skill to get great score in IELTS listening. It become more hard and confusing when you try to capture each and every information shared in the clip. So here are some tips that you should follow to make your work easy-
– Focus on the information the speaker is delivering and just try to get stick to it only. Don’t get distracted by looking at the way the narrator is speaking.
– While writing the answers on the question paper just writes the key points and abbreviations that you can understand while coping it to the answer sheet. Don’t try to write whole sentences or big words as they will distract you and some useful information can be missed.
– In IELTS listening there is much irrelevant information that is given to you in order to mislead and confuse the candidate. Try to differentiate between relevant and irrelevant information as this will make you identify the answer easily. For example there are two people making a plan to go for a vacation the essential information will be date/time they finally agree upon other dates and time they discussed upon will be irrelevant.
– Try to guess what the speaker is going to say. Speakers, will often drop clue words or outline what they will to talk about beforehand. This gives you the ability to start your own outline to then fill in.
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