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A common mistake in the IELTS Listening test is to not read the instructions carefully and to include too many words in the answer.
To show you what I mean, here’s a question from Section 1 of the Listening test in the Official IELTS Practice Materials (Volume 2) and a transcript of the audio recording.
(The recording is a conversation between a customer and a booking officer at a theatre).
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Here’s the answer to the IELTS Listening question in my post ‘Don’t get distracted in the IELTS Listening test‘.
As with any IELTS Listening test practice, if you find you’ve got an answer wrong, it’s important to understand why your answer is wrong.
The newest sports facility in the hotel is
A) a swimming pool
B) a fitness centre
C) a tennis court
Transcript: “The Bridge Hotel is set in three and a half hectares of grounds with an open-air swimming pool and four tennis courts. There is also a newly opened gym with fitness suite, which is considered one of the best equipped in the area.”
In this example, many candidates may be distracted when they hear ‘swimming pool’ or ‘tennis courts’ in the recording and choose ‘A’ or ‘C’. The correct answer, however, is ‘B’ because the ‘gym with fitness suite’ is the newest sports facility.
Here’s a more challenging example from Section 3 of the same test where two students (Katy and Harry) are discussing who will answer questions in their presentation: Read the full post »
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A common mistake in multiple choice questions in the IELTS Listening test is to get distracted by words in the audio recording that match words in one of the possible answers.
To show you what I mean, here’s a multiple choice question from Section 2 of the Listening test in the Official IELTS Practice Materials and a transcript of the audio recording. Read the full post »
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For some listening practice and for an example of IELTS-type speaking, check out the recording ‘Daily routine‘ on the elllo website.
In the recording, notice how one of the speakers talks about what he usually does at the weekend and how this compares to his daily routine on weekdays; the examiner may well ask you some questions about your daily routine in Part 1 of the IELTS Speaking test.
It would be better listening practice to hide the transcript the first time you listen to it. Read the full post »
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What makes you happy?
I’m asking you this question because an IELTS candidate we know recently told us that she was asked this question in her IELTS Speaking test and found it difficult to answer. Read the full post »