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
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
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
One reason why I recommend this site to you is… Continue reading
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
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
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
This video posting advises you to look at Words in the News from the BBC. Here are 5 reasons why you should try it:
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