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IELTS Listening - the basics
In this step, we’ll give you a brief overview of IELTS Listening.
As you sit down to your IELTS Listening test, you’ll get this introduction:
Let’s take a look at some of the important things to highlight from that.
- The IELTS Listening test is 40 minutes long. The actual time for listening is around 30 minutes, but you have an additional 10 minutes to check your work and transfer your answers to the answer sheet at the end of the test.
- You’ll have time to read the instructions and questions before you listen.
- One of the most important things to note is that you only hear the recordings once. This is different to many other tests you might be familiar with.
- The test is divided into four sections.
There are some other important things to know at this stage:
- Each section has a different recording and 10 questions for you to answer about it, so there are 40 questions in total. Each question has the same value: one mark.
- The answers to the questions appear in the recording in the same order that you see them in the question paper.
- You’ll hear a variety of accents in the recordings, including British, Australian, New Zealand, American and Canadian.
How do you feel about listening to different accents?
The four sections of the test
In this step we’ll look at each section of the test in a bit more detail.
Remember you can come back at any point to check this step and review some of the key points.
Section 1
Section 1 has a social context and is a conversation between two or more people. Listen to this extract to give you an idea of the kind of recording you’ll listen to in Section 1:Section 2
Section 2 is also set in a social context, but this time it’s a monologue – just one person speaking. You can listen to an extract from Section 2 here:Section 3
Section 3 is set in an educational or training context. It’s a conversation between two or more people. Here’s an extract:Section 4
Finally, Section 4 is also set in an education or training context, but is a monologue. It’s often something like a lecture or educational talk:Did you find the recordings became more difficult? Which extract was most difficult for you to understand?
Numbers and the alphabet
Even if you’re confident in these areas, it’s still a good idea to practise, as it could help you in the first section of the Listening test.
The alphabet
In the test you might have to write down names or places that are spelled. You almost certainly know the English alphabet but in exam conditions it’s easy to get confused and make mistakes. These mistakes might even be caused by differences between English and your own language. Which letters of the English alphabet are often confused by speakers of your language? Listen to the alphabet here as many times as you want. Try to repeat the speaker after each letter. Make sure you know every one! Pay particular attention to ‘A’, ‘E’ and ‘I’, as well as ‘R’.
As well as the alphabet, if you’re writing down an email address you’ll need to know that ‘@’ is ‘at’, and ‘.’ is ‘dot’ in English. These are ‘capital letters’: JOHN, and these are ‘lower-case’: john. The email address in this audio is ‘[email protected]’:
Numbers
You’ll often find numbers in the answers to Section 1. For example, you might be asked to write down a telephone number, or a date or the price of something. Here are some areas to make sure you’re confident in:
1. Ordinal numbers:
Ordinal numbers are ‘first’, ‘second’, ‘third’, and so on. They aren’t difficult to learn but it’s easy to make mistakes if you aren’t careful.Ordinal numbers: 5th, 21st, 30th
2. Dates:
Ordinal numbers are also important in dates. There are a few different ways of giving dates in English. Perhaps the two most common are the form ‘on the [day] of [month]’ and ‘on [month] the [day]’. We use ordinal numbers in both cases. You can use these formats when you’re writing your answers, without ‘of’ or ‘the’:30 October / October 30
3. Similar-sounding numbers:
It’s easy to get confused between ‘13’ and ‘30’ and other pairs like that. Listen carefully to some ‘-teen’ and ‘-ty’ numbers: 14/40, 15/50, 16/60:4. Large numbers:
For very large numbers, there’s sometimes more than one way of saying them. For example, 2,500,000 could be ‘two million, five hundred thousand’, or ‘two point five million’. The second is more common.5. Telling the time:
Remember in English you can tell the time by just using numbers, or for times ‘on the hour’ by using numbers with the expression ‘o’clock’:It’s very unusual to use the twenty-four hour clock, but possible in some cases, such as when talking about transport schedules:
The train arrives in Manchester at 13:30.
6. Telephone numbers:
The main thing to look out for with telephone numbers is the different ways of saying ‘0’. In the number ‘020’, for example, you can say ‘oh two oh’ or ‘zero two zero’.As well as ‘oh’ and ‘zero’ in telephone numbers, there are other ways to talk about ‘0’. If a football match finishes 2-0 we’d usually say that the score was ‘two-nil’. And if something weighs 0.4kg we can say ‘nought point four kilos’ (‘nought’ sounds like ‘thought’).
0.4kg = nought point four kilos
7. Others:
You might need to write down a price, weight, measurement or something else. Make sure you know and are ready for the following:
- Price: pounds (£), euros (€), dollars ($).
- Measurement: millimetre (mm), centimetre (cm), metre (m), kilometre (km).
- Weight: gram (g), kilogram – or kilo (kg), tonne (t).
Mark this step complete and go to the next step to practise what we’ve looked at here.
New Words：
in the test 在测试中 text文本
transcript 记录文本 thorough 全面的，彻底的 overview 概述
plain text
external third-party websites theatre monotone
reality show tech subtitle at time to time audiobook council
type v 打字 type your comment or answer dive
dropdown menus book mark transfer sheet context
monologue – just one person speaking.
extract plan n 平面图 chart 表格 flow-chart 流程图 diagram n图表
labelling n标记 progressively adv transport n交通运输工具
