First, IELTS listening background

IELTS listening consists of daily topics (1), life scenes (2) and academic topics (3, 4).

Usually three or four parts are academic topics, but the fourth part is much more difficult than the third part.

Second, the source of listening materials

1. Watch English and American dramas

Watching English and American dramas can accumulate a sense of language. Conversation is difficult at ordinary times, and it is also a daily conversation, which is helpful for listening practice.

2. Newspapers and magazines

Subscribe to English newspapers and magazines, especially academic ones. It can expand our knowledge and accumulate academic vocabulary, which is very helpful for the third and fourth parts.

Reading newspapers and magazines can also exercise our reading ability.

encyclopaedic knowledge

Although IELTS listening mainly talks about these topics, it involves a lot of encyclopedic knowledge. Books or newspapers and magazines with encyclopedic knowledge can be used, and candidates can accumulate some in peacetime, preferably bilingual versions.

IELTS listening should pay attention to the combination of intensive listening and extensive listening.

The vocabulary required by IELTS is not very difficult, but also very practical, with certain scenes. For example, an international student studying abroad will have many practical problems. When he gets to school, he will definitely consider the problem of accommodation. There are many words about accommodation scenes, such as accommodation, landlord, rent, deposit and so on. Generally speaking, mastering at least the vocabulary equivalent to CET-4 is a necessary condition to ensure good thinking. You should not only know these words, but also spell them. The IELTS test not only requires candidates to quickly reflect the meaning of words when listening, but also requires candidates to spell them in many cases, so students are required to memorize related words. The grammar required by IELTS listening part is not too difficult, and the grammar of junior and senior high schools is enough to cope with it. If you don't have enough vocabulary and basic grammar knowledge, even if you can hear many answers, you may not be able to answer them because of your weak knowledge.

After all, listening is actually a process of distinguishing sounds. Quite a few students sometimes can't reflect simple words. In the final analysis, it is a pity that my pronunciation is different from the recording of the exam, which leads to unnecessary loss of points. Therefore, if there is a gap between the examinee's own pronunciation and the standard pronunciation, then you must try to correct your pronunciation. In the exam, the accent that candidates mainly hear is not only British English, but also international standard English. American accent can distinguish short vowels from long vowels. For example, Americans may be confused between ant and aunt because they have the same pronunciation. Australians will pronounce ei as ai, so when you hear Australia say, "Where are you going today?" I will be confused and mistakenly think that he is saying, "Where are you going to die?" There will be other accents in IELTS listening, such as Japanese accent, Indian accent or Korean accent. The main purpose of this is to restore the authenticity of the scene. Therefore, it is suggested that candidates should pay attention to a wide range of ranges when doing training.

Candidates need to practice repeatedly how to correctly locate signal words and special signal words and how to master the rhythm of the questions in a short time. In IELTS listening, more than 90% need synonymous conversion, and IELTS listening follows the question number principle, so the positioning of signal words is particularly important. The correct positioning of signal words can help us locate the answers effectively, thus improving the efficiency of doing problems. Signal words refer to those words that don't change much in the article and are not easy to be converted into synonyms, such as names of people (James), place names (Birmingham) and times (6 December 1975). Special signal words refer to conjunctions that play a turning role in listening materials, such as "although the room is large, it is quiet and airtight." "Although" is a special signal word, which is the thing behind the test, although it is not the test center. Candidates should consciously cultivate their sensitivity to signal words and special signal words when listening at ordinary times, so as to grasp the rhythm of the questions and have a good sense of language to correctly capture the answers.

Pay attention to the combination of intensive listening and extensive listening. Candidates are advised to listen carefully to targeted materials every day. Listening materials are not limited to IELTS real questions, but also should expand the area of materials, such as BBC, VOA, CNN and so on. The specific way is to listen sentence by sentence and try to understand every sentence. When you meet something you really don't understand, make a mark, and then compare it with the original text after listening to it all to find out the problem. In addition to listening to targeted materials every day, we should also do a lot of extensive reading exercises. Extensive listening is mainly to be familiar with pronunciation, intonation and tone. You may not understand the content at this time, but it helps to improve the sensitivity of English listening. At this time, you can listen to the sound instead of listening to the content clearly, so there will be no frustration. The combination of intensive listening and extensive listening ensures a qualitative leap and a quantitative accumulation.

Attach importance to IELTS listening test

Listening test is not only an important scoring item in IELTS, but also plays an important role in all kinds of English tests. If students do well in the English part of the IELTS test, the IELTS test will be very easy. There are many aspects that need to be paid attention to if you want to test English well in IELTS. Listening is the foundation.

Compared with other types of English tests, the sources of IELTS listening tests have their own characteristics, mainly focusing on the daily life of foreign students, participation in classroom discussions, academic exchanges with tutors and so on. , so that candidates are more prominent and focused when preparing content and being targeted.

Generally speaking, the IELTS listening test will generally include the necessary scenes for studying abroad, such as transportation, registration, accommodation, campus lectures, campus life and so on. Scenes of international students studying on campus, such as the use of library facilities, classes and other facilities; Foreign students and students teach the interaction after class and the scene of class, such as teaching topics and organizing academic activities. This relatively specific listening test enables us to make reasonable predictions about the listening materials and contents, and prepare for the words that may be used in real life and academic scenes, so as to win more time in the examination room and reduce the difficulty of the test through our own efforts.

In addition, the IELTS listening test focuses on being close to reality and real scenes, so there will be a very strong habit of daily conversation. However, in daily English learning, candidates are exposed to clear and standardized pronunciation, so they need to pay more attention to the linking, microphonic and voiced sounds used in the exam. In addition, candidates should also learn and recognize these common pronunciation methods and habits in their daily life, so as to achieve higher recognition rate and faster recognition speed for listening materials.

In addition, candidates should also ensure their listening vocabulary. The IELTS listening test is not very demanding on vocabulary, but it requires fast and extensive vocabulary response. Among them, the vocabulary of professional scenes is a compulsory content, which belongs to the content that candidates must master.

Therefore, I would like to remind the majority of examinees to have a correct attitude, grasp the review rhythm, study the psychology of the questioner, keep up with the frontier, sum up the methods and make a good job of IELTS.

How to effectively prepare IELTS phone numbers?

(1) Basic training. The telephone number consists of ten numbers from 0 to 9, so candidates must be very familiar with the pronunciation of these ten numbers. Many listening textbooks provide digital training tapes, so you can find a suitable one to practice. After training to a certain extent, it is suggested to carry out "self-talk" training, that is, to say some numbers quickly and unconsciously, and to train your sensitivity to numbers while talking, which is the most critical step.

(2) "0" has many expressions in English, such as zero, nought, null, nil, nothing, etc. It should be noted that British English and American English are different in pronunciation. In the TOEFL test, "0" is often pronounced as "zero", but in the IELTS test, "0" is often pronounced as "zero" (V35 in the telephone number, "0" is pronounced as the letter "Oh", just like the pronunciation in the word "go".

(3) The general rule for reading telephone numbers is that country codes, area codes and specific numbers are read separately. For example, the telephone number in China is pronounced as 86, 10, 8765432 1. Generally speaking, the telephone in a specific area has only 7 or 8 digits. When reading seven digits, the first three digits are connected together, and the last four digits are connected together, with a pause in the middle. For example, 6254598 is pronounced as 625 and 4598; Eight digits can be read in groups of four. Candidates can refer to some typical examples later in this section.

(4) Two identical numbers or three identical numbers can be replaced by double or triple. For example, 2246555 can be read as double two four, six three five.

(5) There are three zeros at the end, which can be pronounced as "thousand". For example, 9796000 is pronounced as 9796000.

(6) Fortunately, the IELTS real questions are not as complicated as those mentioned above. For example, the 1 part of V33 requires the landlady's telephone number of 889745, with only 6 digits. Candidates will have no problem as long as they master the "Double Eight", but in the 1 part of the new question type V39, they are required to fill in the extension number 365438.

(7) In the IELTS test, telephone numbers with more than 5 digits are usually repeated, and a short pause between groups also provides time for thinking. Candidates only need to go through some training and pay attention to the content described in this section, and the phone number problem will be solved.