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28/10/2024

How To Improve IELTS Listening Skills

Listen to English every day

The listening test is designed to test how well you understand spoken English. So, the most obvious way to improve your listening skills is to listen to lots of English being spoken. But what should you listen to?

You’ll find everything you need for free online. Whether you can spare just a few minutes to listen or have an hour of study time planned, there’s a wealth of material that you can access in seconds.

Listen to a range of things. The test will include two monologues (one person speaking) and two conversations, so you must practice listening to both.

Online News Channels are ideal because news broadcasts contain a good mix of reports and conversations. For all parts of the IELTS exam, I recommend BBC News as the best news channel to tune in to.

However, for the Listening test, listen to the news from a range of English speaking countries (UK, Ireland, US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa) so you get used to understanding different accents.

Podcasts are also an excellent resource. They can last for as little as 2 minutes or go on for an hour or more. They also cover a vast range of topics so you’ll easily find something interesting to listen to in the time you have available.

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03/10/2024

IELTS Listening Skills

There are 4 key IELTS listening skills that you need to master to score highly in the test. These are:

1. Prediction

2. Recognising synonyms & paraphrasing

3. Recognising distractors

4. Understanding connected speech

If you learn and practice these, you will be well prepared for your test.

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24/09/2024

IELTS Top Reading Tips 7

Check your spelling and grammar

The final item in our list of IELTS reading tips is something so basic that it shouldn’t need mentioning, but it does.

Many of your answers will come directly from the text so there’s no excuse for spelling and grammar mistakes, yet many people make them.

If your answer is correct but you have spelt it wrong or your grammar is incorrect, it will be marked wrong. Check it.

Don’t give away marks because of carelessness.

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19/09/2024

17/09/2024

Top IELTS Reading Tips 6.

Improve your vocabulary

In many ways, this is the most important of all the IELTS Reading tips . The reality is, the Reading test is essentially a vocabulary test. It’s your knowledge of vocabulary that will ultimately determine your score.

However, it’s not just a wide variety of words you need to know but also their synonyms, that is, words with the same or a very similar meaning.

Many of the questions will seem quite straight forward until you come to search for the answers and can’t find matching keywords and phrases in the text. This is because synonyms have been used or the question paraphrases the information in the text.

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13/09/2024

Top IELTS Reading Tips 5

Practice guessing meaning from context

You are not going to understand every word of the text so don’t panic when you come across one you don’t know. Getting stressed will only impair your ability to think. Accept that this is going to happen and practice making an educated guess at unfamiliar vocabulary during your test preparation.

Making an educated guess means looking at the text that comes immediately before and after the unknown word or phrase and using your understanding of this to work out what the new word might be.

If you can’t work it out quickly, leave it and move on. You don’t need to understand every word to get a high score and running out of time to answer all the questions is a greater concern.

Practice guessing meaning from context during your general reading practice. Instead of grabbing the dictionary to look up a new word, spend a little time trying to work out its meaning in the context of the sentence or paragraph.

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26/07/2024

Top IELTS Reading Tips 4.

4. Focus on the topic sentences

The fourth of our IELTS reading tips will help you to quickly understand what the text is about. It’s part of the skimming technique but deserves a separate mention as it’s so important.

A ‘topic sentence’ is the first line of a paragraph and introduces the main idea of that paragraph. If you were to read just the topic sentences of a text, you would have a fairly good idea of what the article was about.

This makes topic sentences powerful tools to help your general understanding of the whole text without reading it in detail.

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03/07/2024

Top IELTS Reading Tips 3

3. Read the questions first

Always read the questions before reading the text. By doing this, you’ll notice specific words, names, numbers and dates included in them as you then read the text.

This will help you to locate the relevant information again when searching for the answers. It will also aid your understanding of the text as the questions contain clues as to what it’s about.

14/06/2024

Top IELTS Reading Skills 2.

2. Skimming and Scanning skills

The second of our IELTS Reading tips identifies two key skills that you need to master for a high score. Together they will speed up your reading and help you to locate the answer quickly.

If you’re not sure what these terms mean, here are the definitions:

Skimming – to read a text quickly in order to understand the general meaning. You don’t read each word or study the text in detail as you’re only trying to get the gist of what it’s about.
Scanning – to read a text quickly in order to find specific information such a key words, names, numbers, dates or synonyms, that will help you locate where the answer is.

These are skills that you already use every day without even realising you’re doing so.

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13/06/2024

Top IELTS Reading Tips 1.

Each of these 7 IELTS Reading tips could make a significant difference to your score so take the time to read them carefully and practice any techniques and strategies recommended.

1. Read the instructions carefully

If you don’t follow the instructions exactly as they’re written, especially regarding how to write your answers, an answer may be marked wrong even if the information you have given is correct.

The easiest mistake to make is writing the wrong number of words. The instructions might tell you, for example, to answer in one of these ways:

One word only
No more than two words
No more than three words and/or a number

If you answer with the incorrect number of words, you won’t get the mark.

They are very strict about this. So, if you’re asked, say, for a one word answer which is ‘volcano’ and you write ‘a volcano’, you’ll score nothing for it.

This may seem harsh but remember, you are being tested on your reading skills and understanding the instructions is a big part of this.

The instructions will differ from question to question so take extreme care.

We will learn more of the reading tips in my subsequent posts.

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16/05/2024

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Worse still, you can't finish a reading test within the 1-hour time frame.

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What exactly is my problem?

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