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		<title>IELTS listening practice &#8211; how to listen for key words &#8211; a tip</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Cole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IELTS listening &#8211; over 20 exercises</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Cole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pearson Longman iTest &#8211; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free IELTS listening and reading tests</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:59:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Cole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8211; a complete reading and listening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IELTS Listening &#8211; how to listen for numbers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Cole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spelling and IELTS &#8211; a test and some tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Cole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s some really practical advice &#8211; think spelling. Spelling matters not just in the writing paper but in listening and reading too, where if you misspell a word, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IELTS listening &#8211; how to avoid mistakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Cole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8211; but so long as you are doing the right kind of practice. For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IELTS listening &#8211; 10 tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Cole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You sometimes see it said that all you have do with the listening paper in IELTS is to practice: that there aren&#8217;t any particular skills to learn. I disagree &#8211; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free IELTS listening practice and tests</title>
		<link>http://www.dcielts.com/blog/listening-blog/free-ielts-listening-practice-and-tests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Cole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listening &#8211; it may be harder than you think</title>
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		<comments>http://www.dcielts.com/blog/listening-blog/listening-it-may-be-harder-than-you-think/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Cole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This video post is about the listening paper &#8211; 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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A little but often &#8211; Words in the News</title>
		<link>http://www.dcielts.com/blog/listening-blog/a-little-but-often-words-in-the-news/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dcielts.com/blog/listening-blog/a-little-but-often-words-in-the-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Cole</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[listening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vocabulary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daily exercises]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This video posting advises you to look at Words in the News from the BBC. Here are 5 reasons why you should try it:



it&#8217;s great for vocabulary with exactly the language you need for IELTS, explained clearly
it&#8217;s gives you excellent listening practice: you can listen and read or just listen
it has a huge archive &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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