Hi friends! In this video, we're going to talk about one of the listening questions on the
Duolingo English test. It's called "listen and type" and it looks like this on the exam. And your
job is to listen and type out exactly what you hear. Sounds pretty easy, but doing it on the test
can be quite difficult. So in this video, I'm going to talk about some key points, give you some
tips, and then I've prepared lots of practice questions for you to practice with. And we will
jump into the key points in just one second. But I want to say if you're new to this channel, Hi, I'm
Teacher Luke from di t ready.com. If you're looking for more tools or courses to help you
prepare for the Duolingo English test, that's the website to go to. But anyway, back to this video.
So let's start by looking at the key points of this question type so you understand what it's all
about. Let's go here. You'll get this question type between four and six times on the test, which
is very similar to most question types on the Duolingo English test, and you only have one
minute to complete it. That is one minute to listen and type. There is no preparation time for
this question type. As soon as the question appears, the clock will start ticking. So you have
to be ready. As soon as you see this question type come up on the test. You can listen to the
statement up to three times the first one will be played automatically. But if you need to listen
again, you can hit the orange play button. And you can listen two more times if needed. So in total
three times. Another important thing you should know is that all of the speakers will have an
American accent. And your job is to write down exactly what you hear. This is a dictation
question type. So you should write down every single word that the speaker says. And make sure
that you use correct spelling and punctuation. Both of those things are very important for this
question type. And since this is a listening question, type, the score you get for it will
contribute to your comprehension and conversation scores. So those are the key points of this
question type they are very important to know before you take the test, as is with all of the
other question types as well. You could check my other videos for those. The Duolingo test is a bit
different than other exams like IELTS or TOEFL. So learning about the question types first, before
you take the exam is a really good thing to do. But now let's take a look at some tips to help you
score higher on this question type. So these are my tips to help you score the best you can. So as
I said earlier, you can listen three times. So this is a process I recommend. Listen once and
type out as much as you can hear the first time, then read what you have written to check if there
are any mistakes by now you will have a good foundation, hopefully at least 50% of the sentence
complete then in listen to you listen again and fill in any gaps you have. Ideally, you'll have
almost written out the whole sentence after the second listening. So the third listening then is
about checking mistakes or filling in any little gaps you missed. That would be an ideal way to
answer this question type. But if it's not possible, don't worry, just do as much as you can.
I will talk about this a bit later. But doing nothing is way worse than doing some things even
if there's a bit incorrect. And next up we have now the listening might be a statement or a
question. In the instructions. It does say type out the statement you hear. But I have seen
examples where it's not a statement, it's actually a question. So of course, if that happens, you
should use question grammar plus a question mark at the end. Next up, don't worry if you make a
mistake. The Duolingo English test has a very sophisticated scoring algorithm. Most of the
questions are not based on a right or wrong evaluation. Rather, they're based more on a
sliding scale. So you will get some points even if your answer is not 100%. Perfect. So that means
that you shouldn't worry if you make one mistake, just try to do the best you can and in this case
for for this question type, fill out the sentence as much as you can. I've seen a lot of students
get very stressed out quickly when they do this question type if they can't hear a word, but
still, that's okay. Do as much as you can.
The next one is my opinion. I don't know if this is officially a part of the scoring criteria, but
I suggest that you avoid using contractions. Contractions are like it is it's they are there it
would it et cetera. I think you should avoid using these because firstly, the speakers on the
Duolingo test don't use these contractions very often. And secondly, they're kind of difficult to
use correctly. I think it's much easier if you write out the full form rather than using a
contraction. Now you might save some seconds if you write out the shortened version, but I think
that's a risk because using these contractions can cause problems for a lot of it. English students.
So my suggestion is avoid them and write out the full form instead. If you hear a number, you can
write out the number like this, you do not need to spell out the number. So in the past, I always
recommended that you spell out the number because I wasn't sure if Duolingo would count the numbered
version correct or not. However, in their new official guide, if you go down to the sample
questions at the end, you can see that in the sample answers, they used a number here three
hours, which shows us that you don't have to spell out the number instead just use the number that
will be great. It's much easier for spelling and it will save you some time. Okay, moving on to my
last tip, which is of course the most important and that is to practice every day. And to practice
typing quickly. Those two things are really important. And a great way to practice for this
question type is to use our website d et ready.com. Because the time limit is the same the
type of sentence you get is very similar, and the accents are very similar to the ones used on the
Duolingo English test. There is a link below in the description and there's a free and a paid
version for you to try out. But if you just want to practice here on youtube today, this is the
video for you. Now we'll do 10 practice questions going from easy to difficult the first one will be
relatively easy and then number 10 In my opinion is quite hard so we'll jump into these 10 practice
questions now and I would like you to write your score below in the comments below tell me how many
you got correct. Okay, well let's start with number one.
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the workshop will show you how to use the library
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you may ask your teacher for further assistance. In this presentation I am going to talk about
sport and society.
In this presentation, I am going to talk about sport and society. In this presentation, I am
going to talk about sport and society.
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information you need on the university's website
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education will change in the future
I am not sure how university education will change in the future I am not sure how university
education will change in the future
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hospital I would have visited you if I had known you were in the hospital I would have visited you
if you are unable to complete the task on time please notify me via email if you are unable to
complete the task on time please notify me via email if you are unable to complete the task on
time, please notify me via email.
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only a slight difference in happiness between men and women research shows only a slight difference
in happiness between men and women
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want to attend the conference must register before the end of the week
students who want to attend the conference must register before the end of the week the problem of
global warming will get worse unless the government takes immediate action
the problem of global warming will get worse unless the government takes immediate action the
problem of global warming will get worse unless the government takes immediate action
Okay, well done for watching this whole video. If you watched it, put a little heart emoji below in
the comments to let me know I'm always curious who watches all of these videos, and now you want to
practice the speaking questions. So I recommend you want to watch this video here because it will
help you with describing a photo which is a really difficult task. So I'll see you here. Bye