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    IELTSListeningfor Teachers

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    The document summarizes a workshop on teaching IELTS listening skills. It discusses the format of the IELTS listening test, including its length, number of parts, and question types. It provides an overview of the test and sample questions. Activities that could help students are suggested, such as predicting answers, focusing on word stress and sounds, using authentic materials, and encouraging self-study. Tips for teachers include familiarizing students with the test, incorporating listening practice, and using post-listening exercises to improve skills.

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    The document summarizes a workshop on teaching IELTS listening skills. It discusses the format of the IELTS listening test, including its length, number of parts, and question types. It provides an overview of the test and sample questions. Activities that could help students are suggested, such as predicting answers, focusing on word stress and sounds, using authentic materials, and encouraging self-study. Tips for teachers include familiarizing students with the test, incorporating listening practice, and using post-listening exercises to improve skills.

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    The document summarizes a workshop on teaching IELTS listening skills. It discusses the format of the IELTS listening test, including its length, number of parts, and question types. It provides an overview of the test and sample questions. Activities that could help students are suggested, such as predicting answers, focusing on word stress and sounds, using authentic materials, and encouraging self-study. Tips for teachers include familiarizing students with the test, incorporating listening practice, and using post-listening exercises to improve skills.

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    The document summarizes a workshop on teaching IELTS listening skills. It discusses the format of the IELTS listening test, including its length, number of parts, and question types. It provides an overview of the test and sample questions. Activities that could help students are suggested, such as predicting answers, focusing on word stress and sounds, using authentic materials, and encouraging self-study. Tips for teachers include familiarizing students with the test, incorporating listening practice, and using post-listening exercises to improve skills.

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    Teaching IELTS

    Listening
    British Council, Ho Chi Minh City
    Presenter: Tim Moore

    www.ielts.org
    Workshop Content

    • What do candidates have to do?


    • What skills do they need?
    • Classroom activities to help with listening.

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    Teaching Listening (in general, not
    necessarily for IELTS)

    What activities do you do in class to help


    students with listening skills?
    What can students do to improve their
    listening skills?
    What experience do you have of teaching
    IELTS listening?
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    IELTS Listening
    How long is the IELTS listening test?
    How many parts are there?
    How many times do candidates listen?
    What do candidates do in the last ten
    minutes?

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    An Overview Of The IELTS Listening Module

    30 min. listening + 10 min. transfer time


    4 parts and 40 questions
    You only listen once
    There are a variety of different question types
    30 second breaks between each section
    30 second breaks in parts 1, 2 and 3.

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    Types of Question
    There are a variety of question types. The most
    common are:
     Multiple choice
    Short-answer questions
    Sentence completion
    Labelling a diagram, map or plan
    Matching
    Completion tasks (forms, notes, summary completion).

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    Approximate Listening Scores

    Band Score Score


    9 40

    8 38 to 39

    7 33 to 37

    6 25 to 32

    5 17 to 24

    4 10 to 16

    3 4 to 9

    2 2 to 3

    1 1 www.ielts.org
    Practice Listening Test.

    We will now do section one of a sample


    listening test. (Cambridge IELTS practice
    tests, book 4, test 2, questions 1-10.)

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    Reflection

    • How did you feel about the practice test?


    (Did you find it easy or difficult?)
    • What skills and knowledge do our students
    need to do well in this test?
    • What can we do in class to help students?

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    Skills

    Skills and knowledge candidates need:


    • Reading and understanding the questions
    quickly
    • Understanding topic and context
    • Listening for specific information
    • Recognising word boundaries
    • Correct word and sentence stress
    • Recognising individual sounds

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    Activities for IELTS listening.
    What activities might help students with:
    • Understanding topic and context
    • Listening for specific information
    • Recognising word boundaries
    • Correct word and sentence stress
    • Recognising individual sounds

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    Activities
    • Predicting the type of answer required
    • Listening for word boundaries/how many words
    • Sentence stress – strong and weak forms
    • Differentiating between individual phonemes/minimal pairs
    • Identifying ‘signposting words’
    • Vocabulary knowledge on common IELTS topics/paraphrasing
    • Look at questions and completed answer sheet
    say which answers would not get a point and why-
    spellings, capitals, word limit etc.

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    With your group make a list of tips for IELTS
    teachers considering:
    • What to teach
    • What materials to use
    • What skills to teach
    • Activities you can use for this

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    Listening Tips
    • Teach test format (quizzes) and listening skills
    • Familiarise students with the variety of question types
    • Incorporate as much listening as possible/ dictation/
    communicative activities/ use L2 in the classroom
    • Use authentic materials. If they are difficult, make the
    tasks easier initially

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    • Move from multiple listening to listening once
    • Give practice of listening to long texts (8 mins+) to
    encourage concentration
    • Expose them to US, UK, Australian accents
    • Encourage learners to check spelling, word form and
    grammar post listening
    • Encourage learners to listen at home TV/ radio/internet.
    The more the better!
    • Give useful websites for self study

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    • Promote use of “top down” strategies- using their
    existing knowledge to answer questions e.g. prediction
    • Have students read tapescripts to check their answers
    post listening and identify answers/signpost words/
    keywords/ sources of errors/check spelling and grammar
    • Use sections of tapescripts for post listening
    pronunciation awareness raising ( e.g. C-V phoneme
    word linking)

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    QUESTIONS PLEASE?

    www.ielts.org
    Please contact:

    Mr Binh Le

    IELTS Business Development Manager, Vietnam

    T: 08 38232862 ext 2402

    E: binh.le@britishcouncil.org.vn

    www.ielts.org
    THANK YOU!

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