This presentation provides an overview of the IELTS Listening test, test hints and strategies. Online IELTS teachers can use this to teach students, and students can use this to prepare for the test.

1. IELTS
LISTENING
Prepared by :
Your Online IELTS Tutor:
Anna Hilis

2. Lesson Outline:
1. Structure of the IELTS Listening Sub-test
2. Understanding the demands of the test
3. Skills you need for a Higher Band Score in IELTS
Listening

3. TEST STRUCTURE
- The Listening and Reading tests have over 10 different types of questions
each. All of these questions require a different strategy and set of skills.
- The majority of your IELTS preparation should be spent learning these
skills.
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4. THE LISTENING SUB-TEST
▪ The Listening Sub-test takes 30 minutes: approximately 20 minutes to listen to the tape
and answer the questions, and 10 minutes to transfer your answers to an Answer Sheet
provided with the test booklet.
▪ The test consists of 4 sections, and you will hear the tape only once. There are 40
questions in total.
▪ The listening passages become more difficult as you progress through the test.
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5. The Listening Sub-test
▪ Part 1 is based on social or life situations: for example, travel arrangements, visiting a new
city, or making arrangements to go out. This is usually a conversation between at least two
speakers.
▪ Part 2 is also based on social or life situations: for example, a news broadcast, or a description
of college facilities. This is usually a passage with only one person speaking.
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6. ▪ Part 3 is usually based on education and training situations: for example, a group of students
planning a project, or a tutor and a student discussing career options. This is often a
conversation with up to four speakers.
▪ Part 4 is also based on education and training: for example, a lecture or a talk of general
academic interest.
▪ Spelling & grammar are important.
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7. ▪ Your answers need to be legible, that is, they must be able to be read. This applies to all the
types of answers you give: letters, numbers and phrases.
▪ You write your answers on the question paper as you do the Listening Sub-test, and when it is
completed, you have 10 minutes to transfer them carefully onto the Answer Sheet. Make sure
that each answer is transferred accurately and is legible.
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8. Listening Tips:
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9. Listening Tips:
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1. Listen actively.
2. Listen to the speaker’s intonation.
3. Listen for content words to understand.
4. Listen to focus words for grammatical correctness.

10. 1. BE READY TO LISTEN
Listen for details – who, what
where, when, why
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Listening Tips:
2. LEARN TO PREDICT
IELTS Listening Question Tasks
a. matching tasks
b. multiple choice tasks
c. short-answer question tasks
d. true/false tasks
e. sentence completion tasks
f. chart / table completion tasks
g. gap fill tasks
h. diagram labelling tasks

11. Listening Hints
▪ In the Listening Test you use four skills at once. It is not surprising that
candidates often find this the most demanding of the four tests. You need to
be able to:
~ read the instructions and questions
~ listen for general information
~ listen for specific information
~ write the answers as you listen for the answers to the questions that
follow.
▪ Make word associations.
▪ Think about the words that you expect to hear (prediction).
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12. The secret to increasing your listening
skills is to better predict what you might
hear.
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13. 3. WORK OUT THE WORD VARIABLES
▪ Listen for a general understanding
▪ of the situation, and at the same time listen for the specific keywords or
phrases.
4. THE ANSWERS ARE OFTEN STRESSED AND REPEATED
Listening Hints
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14. 5. KNOW WHEN TO MOVE ON TO THE NEXT QUESTION
6. LOOK AT OTHER QUESTIONS FOR THE ANSWER
7. LISTEN FOR THE SPEAKER CHANGING HIS/HER MIND
8. USE SHORTHAND FOR SPEEDY WRITING
Listening Hints
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15. Listening Hints
9. PRACTICE FOR LISTENING GAPFILLS
- information concerning a particular topic or event
10. PRACTICE FOR SHORT-ANSWER QUESTIONS
11. SHORT-ANSWER QUESTIONS - SPECIFY THE TOPIC
12. SHORT-ANSWER QUESTIONS - SUMMING UP
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16. Listening Hints
13. PRACTICE FOR MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
The choices for answers to a multiple choice question are either
a. directly or indirectly supported (correct),
b. directly or indirectly contradicted (incorrect), or
c. not mentioned at all (incorrect).
14. MULTIPLE CHOICE - CONSIDER ALL THE CHOICES
15. MULTIPLE CHOICE - LENGTH OF THE CHOICES
16. PRACTICE FOR TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS
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17. For more help regarding your IELTS PREPARATION, contact Your
Online IELTS Tutor through any of the following:
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Website: www.youronlineieltshelp.com
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18. Good luck!
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