Category Archives for IELTS Listening Tips
The Listening Linchpin: Why Listening is Key in Learning a Foreign Language
Anyone who has ever studied a second language in a classroom and then had the experience of speaking with a native speaker in a real conversation can tell you; the real thing is so much harder to understand! You might think that you are fluent in French until you are greeted by your waiter at […]
Continue readingTake Your First Step to Passing the IELTS: IELTS Step by Step Learning Programme
There is so much information out there about taking the IELTS test and developing your language skills. An overwhelming amount of information. It can take months or even years to go through it all and to figure out what works for you! What if there was a way that you could get focused training to […]
Continue readingManaging the questions in IELTS Listening
When trying to improve skills in listening (this is also true of the reading) see if you can pinpoint where you are making the mistakes and concentrate in these areas in order to increase your IELTS score. Here are a few ideas to help with the questions Make sure that you really read the rubric […]
Continue readingHow to practise your IELTS Listening
IELTS listening usually gets the highest marks in any test and is generally the easiest area to improve. You do need to expose yourself to as much listening material as possible, but watching movies is not necessarily the best way to do this (with movies, much of the information you get is visual). The IELTS […]
Continue readingHow to improve your Speaking and Listening
As with reading and writing, these two skills are linked. You can use language from your listening practice to help with your speaking and vice versa. The more you practice the speaking the more you will be able to pick up on the listening. Can you think about examples of issues you have with either […]
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