IELTSListeningfor Teachers

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

• What do candidates have to do?

What activities do you do in class to help

30 min. listening + 10 min. transfer time

Band Score Score

We will now do section one of a sample

• How did you feel about the practice test?

Skills and knowledge candidates need:

IELTS Business Development Manager, Vietnam

T: 08 38232862 ext 2402

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