This document provides tips for improving listening skills. It discusses the formats that may be included in listening exams such as monologues, dialogues, lectures and news. It outlines different types of questions like multiple choice, short answer, matching and gap fill. The document recommends practicing listening to English media, focusing on vocabulary, pronunciation and intonation patterns. It also offers exam strategies like understanding questions fully, writing answers as you listen and not dwelling on missed questions. The overall message is that regular practice listening to native English speakers in different contexts is key to developing strong listening abilities.

2. Best ways to be a good listener

3. Conducted By:
Monir Hossen
Lecturer
Department of English
CCN University of Science and Technology
Email: monir.eng.cou@gmail.com
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4. Introduction
Listening is one of the most important sections of four
modules in English Language. The good listener can do
well in achieving success in the other modules too. That’s
why, it is important to know the forms and patterns of
listening and the exam strategy.

5. What sorts of things come on Listening?
Various recorded text
Monologue or Dialogue
Lecture or Delivering Speech
Telephone Conversation
Free discussion or free conversation
Delivering Reports or Survey
Information’s and various types of News
Narrating story or different types of articles

6. Questions format
However, one who wants to know about listening he or she
has to know the test format or the question patterns. Here
you will find different sorts of questions. Such as:
Multiple Choice
Short Questions
Fill in the blanks with various synonymous words
Matching Headlines and different types of tables
Information transferring
Gap filling with correct words
Filling diagram of pictures

7. The Best way to do well in Listening:
While you are preparing for exam, the most important thing
comes to you that are listening. A good listener can be a good
speaker too. As it are the first steps for linguistic communication.
However, one should have some fundamental ideas for
improving his or her listening skill. Such as:
Interest for Listening
Deep attention
Enhance Vocabulary
Recognize Intonation Patters
Do Practice Listening
Pronunciation, Stress and Unstressed
Follow different Perspective Discussion

8. Continued
Careful for Listening to the record
Watching Video Conversation for building up
Confidence
Catching the text or Record Audio
Seeing the question paper properly
Getting a fresh view of mind
Following the British Pronunciation especially
Practice more and more
To fixed up your strong desire for Listening

9. How to do well in Listening Exam
The examinee can do well in listening if he or she can
understand the question properly. Understanding the
question helps the examinee to find out the answer very
rapidly. There are some other things for preparing oneself
for Listening. For example:
Seeing the question and content firstly.
Getting the speech of the speaker.
Writing answer on the question paper at that time of
listening.
If you miss any question, don’t think anything and
move to the next one.
Write correct spelling on the Answer Sheet when you
transfer answer from the question paper.

10. Continued
Write the correct thing asked by the examiner.
Write answers on Capital Letters within two or
three words suggested by them.
If the question is not clear to you skip it and go to
the next one.
Be much attentive in listening.
Have more and more mock test and practice test
before final exam.

11. Some Important Tips for Practicing Listening:
 Listening From Cambridge 5 to 10 Especially
Listening BBC news or Other British News
Watch English Movie
Listening English songs
listening to the British Speakers
Having conversation with native English speaker if you can
watch reports on anything in English
Try to imitate the speech of the British
Follow accent and unaccented, Stress and Unstressed
carefully
Finally try to pronounce the correct pronunciation for
getting speech very properly.

12. Thank You