Listening: Four Essential Exam Skills

There are four important techniques that you will need to use throughout the listening exam.

Specifically, we will look at:

1. 🎯 Predicting answers

2. 🔍 Predicting and understanding synonyms and paraphrases.

3. ⚖️ Avoiding being tricked by 'distractors'

4. 📝 Understanding fast, connected, and reduced speech

5. 💬 How improving your vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation will improve your listening score

1. 🎯 How to Predict Answers

Before listening, you have 20 - 35 seconds to read the questions and predict some of the answers. Making predictions will help prepare your ear