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  • Hi, everyone. I'm Jade. In this lesson, I've put together all the tips I have for IELTS

  • listening, so if you're preparing to take the test, you've got all my tips to help you

  • do your best in the listening exam.

  • So, it's 40 marks, and it's around 30 minutes long, so how can you make the most of your

  • listening exam? Well, it's true what they say: practice really does make perfect. So

  • you should aim to do as many practice tests of the listening section as you absolutely

  • can. It will really, really help you.

  • There's a book that I recommend, it's the Cambridge Series for IELTS, we've got some

  • practice tests. There are other parts in that book, not just for listening, but the listening

  • materials are good, so I've used those many times. And you don't get that many listening

  • tests in the book, but what you can do is do the tests, and then take a break for, you

  • know, two weeks or three weeks or whatever, and you'll forget, and then you can do it

  • again. So, that's really important, because I'll tell you that as a native speaker, yeah,

  • plus someone with a university degree, but I'll do... I'll do an IELTS listening test

  • after a long break, and I'll not get a lot of the answers right. Okay? So what that tells

  • me is that doing IELTS, and the listening part is just another example, it's as much

  • about learning how to pass a test and learning an exam technique, basically. Because if a

  • native speaker isn't going to get it all right, it shows you that you need to train yourself

  • to be able to do this listening test. So, anyway, if I do a couple of those tests, then

  • I'm getting them all right.

  • So what I'm telling you, just from my experience is: the more you practice those tests, you

  • really will become better and better at doing those tests. Even if right now you think that

  • your English is, like, really good and you're going to get a really high score in the IELTS

  • listening because you're good at listening, it may be true that you are a really good

  • speaker of English and you understand a lot, but if you haven't practiced any of the IELTS

  • tests, you might not get a good score, because you haven't learned the exam technique, and

  • you're not familiar with those tests. So rule number one: Practice makes perfect.

  • Also in these tests, you really need to spell carefully, because if you make a spelling

  • mistake, you don't get the mark. So, try your best to spell things correctly. And especially

  • in questions where they are spelling something to you, make sure you don't lose an easy point

  • for writing down the wrong letter.

  • Which brings us to this one: Learn the pronunciation of letters. So, just do a little bit of revision,

  • go back over how to say the letters in British English, because the IELTS test is mainly

  • in British accent. So make sure you know how we say our letters here. But it would also

  • be quite handy for you to practice the letters in American English and Australian English,

  • because these will also be covered in the... In the test. You'll get these different accents.

  • So there's a tip for you.

  • Going back to this one: when you're doing the test, in between the different parts of

  • the exam (there are four parts), you get a little bit of reading time. When you get this

  • reading time, what you should be doing is reading the questions that you're about to

  • answer. Not checking the answers that you wrote before. See, a lot of people will just

  • be looking back at what they've already done, but when they do that, they're not preparing

  • for the next questions. So you really need to make the most of that time, and make sure

  • that you've read what's coming. And that will help you, because these listening exams, they're

  • in chronological order, it means it starts at the top of the page, the first answer's

  • somewhere at the top of the page, and then it goes down. It's not like you have to be

  • looking all over the paper for the answers, basically.

  • Next tip: You're only going to hear this once, so don't stress about that. When you are practicing

  • your exams, doing the practice tests, try to do it in a way that you're only listening

  • once. And don't worry so much if you get them wrong. Just listen once, then leave those

  • tests for a while, and then when you've forgotten about them, come back and do it again. If

  • you're listening twice, you're not really practicing the IELTS listening skill.

  • And... What else have I got to say about it? IELTS has a particular speaking style; it's

  • not like normal spoken English. It's nothing like normal spoken English, but in one way,

  • it makes it very easy to understand. So, get used to that kind of speaking style. It might

  • be in a British English accent, maybe it's in an American accent or an Australian accent.

  • And this will just make you more ready for doing the test.

  • Here are some other, more general tips, okay? As a listener, key words are really important.

  • These are, as you're listening, the words that are going to point you to the answers.

  • Like when you're looking at the question written on the paper, you'll be looking for verbs,

  • adjectives, and nouns. Especially in the third and final part of the listening test, it gets

  • increasingly difficult. So, it's also very likely that you don't know the nouns that

  • they're talking about. It could be a scientific or academic context that they're talking about.

  • It could be a really unusual noun that you've never heard before. All right? That's okay,

  • because as long as you know that you're listening out for a noun, because you look at the question,

  • if there is a word that you don't know but you know it's a noun because it had "the"

  • before it, or "a" before it, that's probably your answer. So don't be too scared when you're

  • hearing words, like: "I don't know what that means. I don't know what it means", because

  • you're not supposed to know what every word means. You're just supposed to be able to,

  • you know, magically find the answer by knowing...

  • Knowing where a noun comes in a sentence, basically.

  • What else to say? Synonyms: your knowledge of synonyms will be useful and important in

  • the text. In the test. So, when you're listening, you might hear the word "suitcase", but on

  • the answer paper, the word "luggage" may be written. And the same for "reservation" and

  • "booking" and "holiday" and "vacation." So, know that when you're listening, you're not

  • necessarily trying to find the exact word; you'll be trying to find something similar.

  • And here is the IELTS trick that they love to do: Someone will be talking, and they'll

  • give the answer-whatever the answer is, I can't improvise-"Yes, I'd like to book a room

  • for, for... I'd like to book a table for two on Monday. Yes, that's great. Oh, no. Actually,

  • I've changed my mind. On Tuesday next week." Maybe I said the same day. But this is what

  • they do: they say the answer, and then they take it back. So... So sometimes, you think

  • you've found the answer, and you write it down, so just be aware of that IELTS trick.

  • What we're going to do in the next part of the lesson is look specifically at the harder

  • questions, question forms, and what you need to look out for in those specific question types.

  • Let's have some general tips for the specific question types now. I'm not going to look

  • at all the question types, because some are self-explanatory, like matching or multiple

  • choice. But let's have a look at form filling. Sometimes you'll get a form like this, with

  • some information missing. As I mentioned to you, the listening test is chronological,

  • so it will start talking about this diagram by mentioning Sarah, and then it will move

  • across. So you know that after you hear the name, you're likely to hear the telephone

  • number. And if this is repeated... Maybe you have somebody's name, here. Maybe you have

  • the number, here. There's my number. Not my number; it's just a number. So it's... When

  • you get here, again, you know you need to be waiting to hear this location. And it might

  • not be a place that you know, it might be a place that you've never heard of, so when

  • that... When that happens, you just have to either take a guess at spelling this word

  • that you've never heard, or they will spell that place to you. The person will be like:

  • -"Hmm. I'm not sure if I understood that correctly. Did you say 'Bristol'?" -"Yes, that's right.

  • B-r-i-s-t-o-l." So, either you'll have to guess, or they'll spell it to you.

  • And if you have this kind of question-I mean, this is important in the whole test, in every

  • single part-don't put too many words or too much information in these things. Because

  • let's just imagine you put the answer here, but then you also put in some extra piece

  • of information, you won't get any mark there; that will be wrong. So, the correct number

  • of words, okay? No more than that.

  • And the IELTS trick... The IELTS trick is that they give you... They give you unfamiliar

  • names, or ones that are spelt in unexpected ways. So, when you're listening out for that

  • name, you're only going to hear it once, but rather than think you already know how to

  • spell that name, spell it the way that you hear, because sometimes you'll doubt yourself.

  • You'll hear the... The weird name, and you'll be like: "Oh, I know how to spell..." Well,

  • it's not weird. Okay let's... I'll give you an example. Let's imagine they said the word

  • "Smith". And you're like: "Oh, I know how to spell 'Smith', but it didn't sound like

  • 'Smith'. Oh, but I must have heard that wrong." They'll probably... They'll probably smell

  • it... Smell it? [Laughs] Spell it in a strange way. I don't know. That's what they do. So,

  • trust your... Trust what you... What you hear, not what you think it should be. IELTS trick.

  • Let's have a look now at label and map, or label or diagram question. These will not

  • necessarily be in every single test, and therefore, you might... You might not actually get this

  • on your test. But they're really worthwhile to practice, because when they are on the

  • test, they are some of the hardest questions. So, you might... You might lose points, here.

  • Label and map is usually in the first section or the second section, so it should be one...

  • Among the easiest listening questions in the whole test. So you really don't want to waste

  • any points in this section of the test. Label or diagram is more complicated, usually in

  • part three or part four, but the same principle. How can you prepare for this? You use your

  • reading time to look at the map. Okay? So you get 30 seconds to look at the map. So,

  • it could be a good idea to... I don't think it's actually possible to predict the answers

  • for all the questions in IELTS, but for the map, it could be helpful. If you look at the

  • map, you'll know: "Am I listening for shop names? Am I listening for street names? Am

  • I listening for building names, or numbers? Or is it particular landmarks, like trees,

  • lake, that kind of thing?" And just knowing what you're listening for will really help

  • you in the... In the map questions, or the... In the map questions.

  • Also in the map questions, it will really help you to learn directions phrases. Anything

  • like "across", "opposite", "on the right hand side". So make sure you study some directions

  • phrases before you take your test, to refresh those all in your memory. And when we... When

  • we get to a diagram question, these... These ones will be technical vocabulary or technical

  • language, probably language that you're not familiar with. You haven't heard it before;

  • you don't know it. So, when you're in these... When you're having this part of the paper,

  • know that you'll be listening out for an unusual word that you don't know. So don't let that...

  • Don't let that be a scary thing. Don't let that make you panic or something. It's meant

  • to be difficult in that way, that it's testing your ability to just find a technical word

  • in the middle of some other long technical thing.

  • And then, the most difficult out of all the questions are flowchart completion and classification

  • questions in the IELTS test. Flowchart completion would be something like this: you'd have some

  • boxes showing a process. A scientific process, or something, an academic... Something in

  • academic things. No, that's not right. Something, you know, at university level, this thing

  • happens, this thing happens, this thing happens. I'm thinking of biology or something like

  • that. So, there'll be different steps. And when you listen, you need to order which thing

  • happens first. How do you do that? Well, the biggest IELTS tip I can give you is that:

  • Use a different approach for these questions.

  • So I'll give you... I'll give you a real life example. When I was preparing IELTS with one

  • of my students, he was doing the practice, and he was consistently... He stayed not getting

  • the result that he needed for quite a long time. It was if... It was as if his practice

  • wasn't really helping him get a better mark. But when I suggested to him: "When you get

  • to this part of the listening test, don't read the questions and listen at the same

  • time." When I suggested that he just listen, but then after, write in the answer, fill

  • in the gap A, B, C, D, then, suddenly, the result that he was getting in the test went

  • up by four marks, or something like that. So when he changed the approach, how he listened

  • in these difficult questions, he was getting a much better result. Because when you get

  • to the end of the test, section four especially, which is the hardest questions, you don't

  • really have time to read complex, long words, listen to academic speaking; it's too much

  • information. So, you could try this, like my student tried: when you get to these hard

  • questions, you're listening to a long lecture by one person, just listen to it. And then,

  • when they're finished speaking, take your full knowledge of everything that you listened

  • to and then choose your answers. So try that. That's my number one tip for these hard questions.

  • I still think a different approach works in the earlier questions. Obviously, if you're

  • listening for a telephone number, you don't just let the telephone number go and then

  • say: "Oh, yes. I remember", because you won't remember. But for the hard questions, that

  • different approach really helps. And I put classification type questions in there, because

  • these are... It's a bit like matching. You have to say: "Oh, this thing goes with this

  • idea. This thing goes with this idea", and it's more complicated. So, you really need

  • to have an understanding of everything you listen to, to answer that well.

  • So, there are my IELTS tips for you. I wish you a very successful listening exam. Remember,

  • you do need to do the practice. Do as much practice as you can. Follow my tips. Also,

  • I'd really like you to do the quiz for this lesson, so go to the engVid site to do the quiz.

  • But before you go there, please do subscribe here on my channel, and my personal channel,

  • because I've got two YouTube channels. I'd really like to have you subscribe in both

  • places so you get all my videos. And, yes. I'm finished now, so good luck in your exam.

  • See you later.

Hi, everyone. I'm Jade. In this lesson, I've put together all the tips I have for IELTS

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