Improve your IELTS score with these quick tips In this lesson you will learn about the Listening module of the IELTS exam I will teach you the most common mistakes people make and how to avoid them Watch this free video so that you know how to practice for the IELTS Listening test I want you to be prepared and confident on your test day so that you can get the best results on your IELTS My name is Emma and in todays lesson I am going to teach you my top tips for the IELTS listening module Okay
So before I teach you these tips you might be wondering Whats the IELTS listening module Well the IELTS is a test and one part of the test is listening So in the listening section youre going to have 40 questions where youre going to listen to some conversations for about 30 minutes and then youll have 10 minutes to transfer your answers over to another sheet So in total its 40 minutes 30 minutes for listening 10 minutes for writing down your answers
Okay now this part of the IELTS is very possible to get a high mark especially if you follow my tips All right Now before we get started I just want to let you know I know you can do the IELTS I know you can pass I know you can get a great mark a great bandwidth - you just have to have confidence in yourself and you have to practice Practice practice practice it really pays off So lets get started
So my first tip write no more than three words What do I mean by this I dont mean for the whole thing write no more than three words On the IELTS you will have to read the instruction of what to do Often times the instruction before you listen youre going to see Write no more than three words This is an example of an instruction you must follow One mistake a lot of students make during the IELTS is they dont read instructions properly Theyre nervous theyre stressed out they write whatever they dont They dont follow the instructions If you see something like Write no more than three words Do that You cant write four dont write five Write three or less Okay So my main point here follow the instructions carefully
Point number two get used to British English A large part of the IELTS you will be listening For For Sorry for the listening you will be listening to British accents Sometimes you might hear Australian accents or Canadian you might hear a range but a lot of the accents will be British So its very important to get used to listening to British accents And also listen to other accents like Canadian Australian thats a good idea too Where can you find British accents to listen to I recommend the BBC They have a lot of great videos there and most of its with British accents so its a very good idea so you can practice listening The more you practice listening with British accents the easier it will be to understand British speakers Especially if youre used to American English this is a very good thing to do
Related to this point British vocab You should learn British vocabulary For example in American English and Canadian English we say truck In British English we say lorry So its good to know some of these British expressions some British words One idea where you can practice these is if you check out our website wwwengvidcom we have a new teacher who is British and who will be talking about British English so check out her Her videos It will also be good to help you with practicing listening to British accents
Number four spelling counts Okay Very important The listening part of the IELTS is not just listening youre actually using other skills like writing and reading Now with writing when you write down your answers you sometimes have to spell something out so you have to be very very careful with spelling Okay This is something you should really study and practice before you take the listening part of the IELTS Practice your spelling Learn spelling rules We have a lot of different videos on how to spell on engVid so I would come and check those ones out
Number five - this is the thing that always gets my students and I always warn them about when we practice - plural versus singular Okay You have to listen carefully on whether youre writing down the plural with an s or the singular If the question wants me to write down cat someones talking about their cat and I write down cats its incorrect I would get an X Okay so its important to be careful to really listen is it a singular thing is it a plural thing Are they saying store or stores Okay
