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IELTS listening practice – how to listen for key words – a tip

This post looks at how you can improve your listening score by thinking about how to listen for key words. This is an area where many candidates make a basic mistake. To help you understand this mistake, there is a short interactive listening practice.

What do you do in the listening exam before you hear the cassette? You read the questions. Of course. And as you read the questions… Continue reading

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IELTS listening – over 20 exercises

Published on 29 November 2009 by Dominic Cole in listening

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IELTS listening – over 20 exercises

Pearson Longman iTest – top recommendation

This is an excellent place to start if you need to want to find out your approximate level. It is a site run by one of the major publishing houses and has excellent quality materials. You need to go through a registration process, but at the end of it you get a

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Free IELTS listening and reading tests

Published on 24 November 2009 by Dominic Cole in listening

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Free IELTS listening and reading tests

Here is is another highly recommended IELTS resource website with free and high quality listening and reading practice tests. Sadly, not everything you find on the internet is great. This is. The site is produced by Oxford University Press, one of the major publishers of English language books. It is:

Masterclass – a complete reading and listening test

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IELTS Listening – how to listen for numbers

Part 1 of the listening is supposed to be the easy part. You need to get as many of these right as possible as the questions get harder as you go along. In practice, however, many candidates lose marks here when they should not. This post looks at one way to avoid this. You will find one of my videos explaining how to deal with a very common problem and… Continue reading

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Spelling and IELTS – a test and some tips

Is your IELTS target band 7? Or do you want to improve your IELTS listening from band 6 to band 7? Or from band 5 to 6? Here’s some really practical advice – think spelling. Spelling matters not just in the writing paper but in listening and reading too, where if you misspell a word, you get no mark. Indeed, it’s really quite common for candidates to miss as many… Continue reading

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What is the best way to improve your IELTS listening score? You often see it written that the best thing to do is to practise, practise, practise. I beg to differ. Listening is a skill and skills are improved by practice – but so long as you are doing the right kind of practice. For me it is obvious that you need to practise in a way in that

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IELTS listening – 10 tips

Published on 05 June 2009 by Dominic Cole in listening

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You sometimes see it said that all you have do with the listening paper in IELTS is to practice: that there aren’t any particular skills to learn. I disagree – profoundly. There are not just definite skills to learn, there are also I would suggest very definite ways in which to practice. Here are a few of my suggestions.

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Here is some more free IELTS listening practice from the internet. May I suggest before you do it, you take a look at some of my listening tips. Listening is a skill that needs to be practised, but it does help if you practise in a focussed way trying to improve your skills.
As you do these tests, it is a good idea to familiarise yourself

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This video post is about the listening paper – a paper many candidates disregard, believing there is not much technique involved. In fact, there is just as much need to practise your skills on this as on any of the other papers.

Listen to the video and consider what I have to say about reading, thinking, listening and writing. When do you read? When and how do you write?… Continue reading

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This video posting advises you to look at Words in the News from the BBC. Here are 5 reasons why you should try it:

  1. it’s great for vocabulary with exactly the language you need for IELTS, explained clearly
  2. it’s gives you excellent listening practice: you can listen and read or just listen
  3. it has a huge archive – there is something

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