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8/10/2017 IELTS Listening Overview and Tips
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Listening Overview
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The IELTS listening test is the same for both those taking the Academic and General Training papers.
It consists of 40 questions (10 per section) and lasts around 30 minutes. You will have 10 minutes at the end to transfer your answers from
the question paper to the answer sheet.
The listening test consists of four separate sections, each more di cult than the last. In other words part one is the easiest and part four is the
most di cult. Each part has a different theme or focus.
In section 1 you will hear a conversation between two people and it is almost always someone making an appointment or making a
booking of some kind (e.g. making a hotel reservation or hiring a car). The questions are normally gap- ll questions in which you have to
listen to the information and complete a form or sentence.
In section 2 you will hear someone talking by themselves about a non-academic subject (e.g. TV or radio presenter).
Section 3 switches to an academic context and it will always be more than one person discussing something (e.g. an academic paper or
assignment).
Section 4 is normally an academic lecture and you will hear one person (normally the lecturer or professor) talking for an extended period
of time.
You will be given a short amount of time (approximately 30 seconds) between each section and you should use this time to look at the
questions coming up.
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There are several different types of question and each requires a different strategy so you should familarise yourself with all of them. They
include:
Form/note/table completion
Labeling a diagram or map
Sentence Completion
Short Answers
Selection
Multiple Choice
Matching
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1. You will have to practice listening to both one person speaking (a monologue) and more than one person speaking at the same time.
Listening to monologues is challenging because the person doesnt often stop speaking for very long so students can feel like they are
being overwhelmed. Listening to more than one person can be di cult because there may be different accents or styles of speaking and
it is tricky to tune-in to what is being said. For lots of free practice activities for both monologues and more than one person talking,
please check out our guide on IELTS listening practice (http://ieltsadvantage.com/2015/05/20/ielts-listening-practice/).
2. Be careful with your spelling. Lots of easy marks are thrown away because of poor spelling. My advice is to keep a notebook of words you
nd di cult to spell. Even native speakers have a hard time with some English words, so the only way is to record and learn. Both US and
UK spelling are allowed in the listening test.
3. You will be given a short break (normally around 30-40 seconds) before each section and in the middle of sections 1, 2 and 3. You should
NOT use this time to check your answers from the previous section. You should look at the questions in the next section and try to
understand the questions and predict the answers coming next. When you predict try to think about the context of the question. Can you
guess the answer? For example, if there is a $ in front of the answer, you will probably be listening for an amount of money. Also,
establish what type of word (adjective, noun, verb etc.) the answer will be.
4. At the end you will be given 10 minutes to transfer your answers to the answer sheet. When you are doing this make sure you are very
careful with spelling and make sure your answers are correct grammatically. For example, if the question was The man wanted to ______
a ______ car. the answers are likely to be a verb and then an adjective. If your answers are not grammatically correct or spelled incorrectly,
then they will be marked as wrong.
5. Be careful with capital letters. If your word is someones name or a place, then it must have a capital letter to be correct.
6. Make sure you follow the instructions carefully especially when it comes to word limit. If the question states No more than three words
you cant write any more than this. If your answer is four words for this answer it will be incorrect.
7. A range of accents are used to re ect the international nature of English. These could be from anywhere in the English-speaking world,
including the US, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, Ireland or Australia. You could also hear one of many regional accents from the UK.
You should therefore try to get used to all of these different accents. Instead of just listening to the BBC News
(http://www.bbc.co.uk/news), you could try listening to the news, or anything else for that matter, from a range of different countries. A
quick search on Google (https://www.google.com/) is all you need to nd these.
8. It is important to familiarise yourself with the different types of test questions and practice IELTS past papers
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should be under exam conditions, but then it is important to nd out why you got certain questions wrong. Focusing on your mistakes is
very important. You should listen again and again until you nd out why you got the question wrong, dont just look at the answers and
forget about them. If you do this you will not improve very quickly. You can also look at the transcripts and nd out where you went wrong
by reading.
9. I did just say that you should practice past papers, however you should also remember that this is a test of your general level of English ,
so you should listen to not only IELTS, but everything you can in English. In general, those who do the best on the listening test are those
who have practiced listening in English the most. The best candidates listen to English a little every day. Please check out our article on
25 online language learning tools (http://ieltsadvantage.com/2015/04/08/25-free-online-language-learning-tools/) for lots of ways you
can listen at home for free.
10. Focus on getting the easy questions correct rst before worrying about the more di cult questions. Anyone hoping to do well on the
IELTS listening test should be getting 10 out of 10 on the rst part of the test. Make sure you can do this consistently in the rst part
before worrying about the other parts, especially part four.
11. Make sure you dont get tricked. IELTS listening tests will often try to fool you by giving you something that seems like the correct answer
rst and then changing this to something else later in the recording. For example, your questions might be The man would like a ______
car. At the start of the recording the person might say they want a big family car, but then change their minds and say they want a small
sports car. If you wrote down the rst option you would be wrong.
12. You have to get used to listening to things only once. Lots of teachers allow their students to listen to a recording three or four times. You
can of course listen again and again when analysing your mistakes, but when practicing the exam you should do it under exam conditions
and that means listening just once.
13. Do you have messy handwriting? Lots of people do, dont worry. In the listening test you should write your answers in all capital letters if
your writing is messy.
14. Remember to bring an eraser. You will have to write your answers in pencil, so make sure you can change any notes or answers using an
eraser.
15. Its not just a listening test; its an understanding, reading, writing, vocabulary and spelling test. Make sure you practice all of these skills
under exam conditions.
16. Write your answers on the question paper as you do the test. I know lots of students who dont do this and try to remember all of the
answers and then use their memory to ll out the answer sheet. You are under enough pressure without making it a memory test on top
of everything else. Keep it simple and note down the answers as you go.
17. Practice your short hand. Short hand is when you write a shortened version of a word. For example, you might write aprox. for
approximately or Ensh. for English. This will help you save time in the exam. Often two answers will come in a very short space of time, if
you are busy writing a long word instead of listening, you might miss it. Shorthand is a very personal thing, so do whatever suits you.
18. Concentration is key in the listening test. It is totally normally to lose concentration and most people nd it di cult to concentrate for the
complete 30 minutes. To improve your concentration you need to practice active listening. Active listening involves setting yourself small
tasks when you are practicing and actually doing something when you are listening, just like you will be in the IELTS listening exam. See
our article on IELTS listening practice (http://ieltsadvantage.com/2015/05/20/ielts-listening-practice/) for ways you can listen actively.
19. Dont leave any blank spaces. This might seem very obvious, but you wouldnt believe how many students do this. You are not penalized
for wrong answers so you should always have a guess.
20. Before each section you will be given information about the speaker and what they will be talking about. You wont be tested on this, but it
will help you answer the questions that follow by understanding the context.
8/10/2017 IELTS Listening- Labeling a Map or Plan IELTS Advantage
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This post will help you answer labeling map or plan IELTS questions more effectively by looking at common problems, useful language and
giving you a strategy to use on test day.
This type of questioncould appear in any of the four listening sections but it is most likely to appear in section 2. In section 2 you will listen to
just one person talking about a non-academic topic. It is often someone giving information to an audience about an event or showing them
around a building, such as a university or hotel. This section is a little more di cult than section 1.
Labeling a Map or Plan
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This type of question requires you to identify the different parts of the map or plan by listening to and understanding a description or following
directions. You will therefore be listening to a persondescribing a map or plan or to someone showing a group of people around and you have
to follow their directions.
You might be given a list of possible answers, like above, or not and in this case you will have to select the answer from the recording itself.
The information you need to answer the questions is in the same order as on the recording.
Common Problems
1. Not being aware of the vocabulary and functional language used to describe locations and directions. See our useful language section
below.
2. Too much information. This question requires you to not only listen, but to also follow a description or directions, understand the map or
diagram and write short notes, all at the same time.
3. Spelling. A common problem in all IELTS listening questions, but particularly in this type of question because you have to do so many
things at the same time.
4. Visualization. This refers to your ability to form mental visual images. You will be sitting in an exam room and the person talking will be
describing a plan you have never seen before. Unless you can imagine what it looks like it is very di cult to answer these questions.
Useful Language
Below is a selection of vocabulary and phrases you should be aware of before doing the listening test:
at the top/at the bottom

on the left/on the right/on the far side
North/South/East/West
to the north/to the west
slightly west of
in the southwest/in the northeast
in the middle of/in the centre of
above/below
inside/outside
opposite/in front of
left hand side/right hand side
clockwise/anticlockwise
a little beyond
just past
before you get to
before you get to

adjoining
enter via
runs alongside
If you dont understand any of these, please look them up and practice using them.
Listening Strategy
1. Read the question carefully. Understand the map or plan and its features.
2. Ask yourself where things are in relation to the questions. This should help you predict the answers and follow the talk.
3. Think about where the person might begin their talk from. What is to their right and left? What is in front of and behind them?
4. Look at the major parts of the map orplan to help you understand and navigate your way around.
5. Predict what type of words might be the answer i.e. will it be a place, room, street, building etc.
6. Listen to the beginning of the talk carefully because this will help you understand the context and help you follow the talk more easily.
7. Visualize the place they are describing whilst the person is talking. Note down any possible answers, but be careful with distractorse.g.
this was the library but we decided to move it down to the end of the corridor.
8. Use signposting language like The next room we are about to see is, or If you now follow me to., to help you understand each stage
of the talk.
9. Make short notes on the question paper and then transfer your answers at the end using correct spelling.
Next Steps
For further listening practice visit the British Council IELTS site (http://takeielts.britishcouncil.org/prepare-your-test/free-ielts-practice-
tests/listening-practice-test-1).
I would also recommend you look at our articles on general listening tips (http://ieltsadvantage.com/2015/06/03/ielts-listening-tips-overview/)
and how to practice listening (http://ieltsadvantage.com/2015/05/20/ielts-listening-practice/).
I hope you found this guide useful and if you have any comments or questions, please let me know below.
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8/10/2017 IELTS Listening- Multiple Choice Questions IELTS Advantage
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This post will show you how to effectively answer multiple choice questions in the IELTS listening test. It will show you the three different types
of multiple choice questions, look at common problems and give you tips and a strategy to help you on test day.
3 Kinds of Multiple Choice Questions

There are three different formats for these questions.
The rst is a short answer multiple choice question. You will be given a statement and a number of different options to choose from. Below is
a picture of a sample question.
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The second type of multiple choice questions are sentence completion questions. You will be given a sentence stem and you will have to
complete it with one of a number of options. Below is an example.
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answers from ve options or four answers from seven options. Approach these in the same way you would a single answer question.
Common Problems
1. When given three choices, like above, you are likely to hear the speaker talking about all three options. Just because you hear it
mentioned, doesnt make it correct. You must select the correct answer, not the rst one you hear.
2. The answers will normally come in the form of synonyms or paraphrases. Dont just listen for exact matches; think about how the answer
could be expressed using synonyms or paraphrasing.
3. The three choices often look similar in meaning and it may be di cultfor you to tell the difference. Look for keywords in the different
options that allow you to tell the difference between the different options.
4. This is not just a test of your listening skills but also your reading skills. There is much more to read in multiple choice questions, so
practice underlining the keywords in the questions and quickly understanding the difference between the different options.
Tips
1. Dont check your answers from the previous section when you have a break. It is important that you read the multiple choice questions
and try to understand them.
2. Highlight keywords.The keyword in the question will help you answer the question correctly. The keywords in the different options are
those that differentiate meaning between the choices.
3. Dont write the rst answer you hear. Remember that they will try and trick you.
4. Dont spend too much time on one question. If you didnt get the answer or you are unsure, make an educated guess and move on.
5. Be careful if you hear words like but or however. This often means that the speaker is going to qualify a previous statement.
6. Practice makes perfect.
7. You answer will often be a letter and not a word. Read the instructions to make sure and be careful when transferring your answers at the
end.
Strategy
1. Read the instructions carefully.
2. Read the questions and identify what is actually being asked. Highlight the keyword in the question.
3. Look at the different options and underline any keywords that help you tell the difference in meaning.
4. Think of any synonyms or paraphrases you might hear.
5. Predict the answer.
6. When listening, listen for any keywords and synonyms.
7. Dont write the rst answer you hear. They will probably talk about more than one option so wait until they have talked about them all and
then answer. Be careful with answers that are given by the speaker and then taken away.
8. If you think an answer is correct, put a tick beside it and keep listening to make sure.
9. Dont spend any more time than is necessary. If you miss an answer, make a guess and move on.
Next Steps
For further listening practice visit the British Council IELTS site (http://takeielts.britishcouncil.org/prepare-your-test/free-ielts-practice-
tests/listening-practice-test-1).
I would also recommend you look at our articles on general listening tips (http://ieltsadvantage.com/2015/06/03/ielts-listening-tips-overview/)
and how to practice listening (http://ieltsadvantage.com/2015/05/20/ielts-listening-practice/).
I hope you found this guide useful and if you have any comments or questions, please let me know below.
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This lesson will help you prepare for the IELTS listening test by familiarising you with summary completion questions, giving you some tips and
a chance to practice.
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IELTS Summary Completion- Skills Tested

When you get to university or start working, twoof the key skills you will have to use aresummarising and paraphrasing. These skills are
tested in summary completion questions.
You will be given a list of sentences that summarise the clip you will listen to. IELTS have taken text from the clip and used paraphrasing to
change these sentences so that they have same meaning, but different words. They have also summarised the listening by choosing a number
of phrases that sum up the key points. In other words, you should be able to read the sentences before listening and have a very good idea
about what you are going to hear.
What do I have to do?

You should rst look at the sentences and try to understand the general meaning. Use the sentences to predict what you are going to hear.
This will help you follow the listening and hopefully get the correct answers more easily.
Next you have to remember that the sentences are just paraphrases of what you will hear and you will therefore need to think about how they
might have changedthe sentences. For example, the sentence might say The ________ family structure has changed greatly in the last fty
years. but in the listening you might hear In the last half century the nuclear family unit had been altered signi cantly.
Next you need to look at the gaps and try to predict what the answer will be. You can predict what type of word will t grammatically (verb,
noun, adjective etc.) and predict the content based on the other words around it.
You should be very careful not to go over the word limit. The instructions will normally say NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER
but read the instructions carefully to make sure.
Now you are fully prepared to listen and ll in the gap with the correct information from the text. You answer will be taken directly from the
listening.
Summary Completion Practice

Look at the sentence below and try to guess what the talk is about. The sentences summarise the key information from the listening.
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The video is quite long so Ive only used the rst 5 minutes.
1. Elon rst thought about making_____________ when atcollege, when he thought about the most challenging issues facing the planet.
2. They are more e cient than gasoline enginesbecause charging it at home gives you double the e ciency compared to ______________.
3. Their ________ is competitive because of very small energy consumption and a cutting-edge battery pack.
4. The goal of the company has remained a three step method, where model one was __________ at low production numbers, version two
has a reasonable price and an average volume and three would be at a cheap price, high volume.
Next look at the spaces and try to guess the type of word that would t, thinking about both grammar and content.
Finally, think about how I might have paraphrased the listening.
Now listen to the rst 5 minutes of the Ted Talk and try to nd the answers.
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You can also read the transcript on theTed Talk website.

(https://www.ted.com/talks/elon_musk_the_mind_behind_tesla_spacex_solarcity/transcript?language=en)
Answers
1. an electric car
2. a power plant
3. range
4. an expensive car
If you got any questions wrong, go to the link below and read the transcript to nd out how you got it wrong. This is a very important thing to
do for any listening or reading IELTS questions.
Next Steps
For extra practice go the o cial IELTS site and practice their summary completion questions.
(http://www.ielts.org/test_takers_information/test_sample/listening_sample.aspx)
If you want to get better at these types of questions, you really need to perfect your summarizing and paraphrasing skills. When listening or
reading something in English try to think like those who make the reading and listening IELTS tests- how can I summarise this using
paraphrasing? If you practice this enough you will gradually improve to the point where you nd these questions very straightforward.
I hope you found this lesson useful. If you need extra help with listening please check out our IELTS listening page
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Labeling a Map or Plan

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3 Kinds of Multiple Choice Questions

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What do I have to do?

Summary Completion Practice

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