I’m sure you’re doing a great job preparing for IELTS test and you will be looking
for some tips to improve your IELT’S score. So todays lesson will be all about these tips
for IELT’S specifically for listening. Welcome to my new class. My name is Emmelda and we
will be discussing few tips or pointers, which are very important and are recommended by
the British Council members themselves. So let’s take a look at few tips. Tip number
one, Instructions. Sometimes people have the tendency to go straight to the question before
reading it. This is a place where a lot of students make mistakes. Why? Because some
questions will have instructions saying that, no more than three words. In questions like
this which has instruction so specific, even if you add one more word. You will lose the
score. So please be very careful, read the instruction first before you head on to the
question. The second tip would be, Time. There are various phrases to describe time, I’m
sure you would have heard some. Let me give you few examples, have you heard of the phrase
quarter two, half past, ten minutes to five? These are ways to describe time. Now this
is where people loose scores as well. For example, if the phrase says quarter to eight.
The time actually means seven forty five. But someone who’s listening to the audio
clip and he listens to quarter to eight, he may only focus on number eight and may write
eight o’clock. This is wrong because quarter to eight means seven forty five and not eight
o’clock. Moving on to the third tip, the writing skills. This test IELT’S listening
is about your listening skills, no doubt about it. However you will be tested on your grammar,
your sentence frame work as well as your spellings. If you make a mistake in either of these three,
you will be losing your score. So be very careful while you are writing. Anyways you
will be given sometime when you are transferring your answers, so take a moment before you
write something and be very sure of what you are writing. The forth tip is the Abbreviation.
A lot of students don’t know about this, if you want to write your answer using abbreviation,
it is fine, but you have to look for very standard abbreviation. For example, if you
want to talk about thirty seconds or ten seconds. It’s okay if you write ten sec, because
sec is a standard abbreviation for IELT’S British Council members. However if you write
ten s, this is wrong. They will not be able to accept this answer, so you have to be very
careful. My recommendation would be write the full word thirty ten seconds. You will
save a lot of, I will not say, you will save a lot of time, but you will improve your chances
to get a higher score. The next tip is practice test. There are some people who are very confident
with English and say, Yeah I’ve been living in that country for so long, I can do this.
Good for you, do it. However practice makes man perfect. So practice as much as you can
as you never know, you may be improving your level of ability in English a little higher
then what you have. And it is a good thing, so practice as much as you can. The next and
the most important tip is tricky twist. You will have audio clips with portions where
they will be going back and forth with the same information. For example, someone would
be saying, hi lets meet at 10 pm and if you have a question, which says, what time have
decided to meet? And if you answer just based on this sentence, let’s meet at 10 pm and
you write 10 pm, be watchful, because this is where the twist comes, the other person
may say, Oh no I can’t, lets meet at nine fifty , so you’ll write again nine fifty.
Then I say no nono I can’t do it, let’s meet at ten thirty, that will be fine. So
your final answer is ten thirty. If you are not able to get this information and the moment
you write, the moment you finish listening to 10 pm, some people tend to go to the next
questionimmediately without listening clearly and this is where you become wrong. So hold
on to that question, while the information on your audio is still running. If they are
talking about the meeting, let them finish the topic on meeting, before you move on to
the next question. So tricky twist are very very tricky and be very careful. The next
tip would be, Teen vs. Ty. What do I mean by that? It means some people get confused
when you are talking about numbers, you don’t know are they talking about fifteen or are
they talking about fifty. This requires practice; you have to practice over and over again to
get the right answer. The only trick or the only tip I would say is, whenever the number
ends with teen, the focus would be at the last part, fifteen. So focus is on teen, however
whenever the number ends with ty, for example, fifty. The focus or the stress is at the first
part of the word or the number, so if you’re hearing lets have fifteen glasses of juices,
focus where is the stress is it the last or the first half of the number? Teen, the stress
will be on teen. Fifty, the stress will be on the first half which is fifty. The next
one we have is, Clues. You will have your question paper ahead of you for you even before
you start hearing your audio clips. So as soon as you get the question paper, please
take a moment go through the question clearly and try to find out words that will give you
clues on what the audio clip will be all about. Now clues could mean synonyms, when you’re
talking about, let’s say request. What did the person request? Request have other words,
what did the person ask for, so use those words as your clues and understand, what the
audio clip might be? And at what areas can you get your answers? So these are the tips
that are recommended by The British Council members themselves and it is very useful.
I would recommend all of you to take a note of all these points. I hope this video was
useful to you, you’ve learnt something new? And all the best for your IELT’S examination.
I will be coming back soon with a new lesson on reading, writing or speaking. But I will
be back soon, till then have fun, stay healthy and wish you best of luck. Goodbye.