Listening: strategy and practice
How to predict answers, spot distractors and spell what you hear, with original scripts your device reads aloud.
6 lessons, About 5 hours
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- Lessons
- 6
- Study time
- About 5 hours
- Practice tasks
- 6
- Questions to answer
- 171
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- How the Listening test worksEach part in turn, and the answer rules on spelling, word limits, numbers and dates that stop correct answers being marked wrong.
- Predict before you listenA fast routine for the reading time before each part: predict the type of answer, expect paraphrase, follow signposts, then use it on an original Part 2-style talk.
- Forms, notes and spellingCatch names spelt letter by letter, numbers, dates, postcodes and last-second corrections, then use the method on an original Part 1-style booking form.
- Multiple choice and distractorsSee how Listening multiple-choice traps are built, learn a step-by-step method to follow speakers to their final answer, then use it on a full Part 3-style tutorial.
- Maps, plans and directionsLearn the language of position and direction, a five-step method for following a speaker round a plan and five common map traps, then practise on an original site tour and a directions conversation.
- Listening practice: lecture and conversationTwo original practice tasks, a Part 1-style phone call and a Part 4-style lecture, plus a four-pass method that turns every recording into real listening progress.