Listening

All About IELTS Listening Tests

Is there any stress-free way around any section in the IELTS test? The answer is, No. It is the modest reality. I recommend doing two things. One is to remain with the customary dosage of preparation exams, once you have completed the exam, recap the exam one week later. Second, listen to other external resources from websites. Try to apprehend what the news presenters and news articles say. Most IELTS practice material are taken from news articles and periodicals such as the Readers Digest, CNN, Fox, BBC, Nature and Guardian and then edited or graded to some degree. New material is not developed for the IELTS exam.

Exercise doing open book exams and then do a real exam. Try reading and listening at the same time and perceive how the conversation matches the Question paper. Then move on to real exams. Set Objective for quality rather than quantity at the start. Learning a new language is a developing skill, you can’t just get it all overnight. In fact, you have to exercise and exercise sensibly.

Here are some additional learning resources. Use them well....

BRITISH COUNCIL

This site is useful as you can make paper copies of the Question paper and listen to the recording. For more inferential learning, you can also download the audio script.

Part 1:

Listening Part 1 Q. Paper
Listening Section 1 Tape

Part 2:

Listening Section 2 Q.Paper

Listening Section 2 Tape

Part 3:

Listening Section 3 Q.Paper and Tape

Listening Section 4 Q.Paper and Tape

BRITISH COUNCIL PODCASTS

IELTS Listening Exam Practice 1

IELTS Listening Exam Practice 2

IELTS Listening Exam Practice 3

IELTS Listening Exam Practice 4

UEfAP

This resource offers more listening practice and some advice on note taking.

Listening and Note Taking

Exam English Practice Tests

This is a useful resource for quick practice. Please use this resource website for listening practice only.

Listening Full test

Listening Part 1

Listening Part 2 (1) & Listening Part 2 (2)

Listening Part 3

Listening Part 4

BBC 6 minute English - This website is AWESOME, GO HERE NOW !

Short listening tapes (approx. 6 minutes) with 1-2 questions that you can do while you listen for the busy bee amongst you. You are also allowed to download the audioscript and test that you can complete in your free time which is fantastic. I can’t recommend this highly enough !

There are other different podcasts which you can listen to.

BBC 6 minute English

I hope you find the above resources useful.