Hello, everyone.
Welcome to the video related to the IELTS listening.
In this video, I will give you a brief introduction to the listening part of the IELTS so as you know,
it has four Section: Listening, reading, speaking and writing.
And today we're going to focus on the listening part.
A very important thing to remember is that IELTS will definitely test your knowledge of English.
But even more specifically, you will test your skills, your skills of managing your time of listening
and reading very fast and writing very well.
So as for any test that that will examine a skill, it is way more practical and it's a great opportunity
for you to practice a lot and become really good at the IELTS test instead of needing to be a genius
of English already from those.
So do not worry because we are going to give you all the tips, resources, strategies to get the highest
grade in each of the section of the audience.
But let's focus on the listening.
So the listening has four sections, and each section is more difficult than the previous one.
The duration of each recording is over about five to seven minutes, and in total, the listening will
last for 40 minutes.
You will have time at the end of the listening to transfer your answer on the answers sheet.
So in that time, you will be able to read again all the answers that you have already written in the
test and also fill the gaps if you left any.
But I'm going to tell you more about fill in the gaps in a second.
There are around 40 questions in this section
varies in form of length.
Some may be more long, some may be shorter.
The answer will be giving in a sequential order.
So when you listen to the recording, they will give you the answer first to the question number one,
then the question number two, number free and so on.
So you know that if you missed the first one, you can focus all your attention to get the second answer
right.
You will be able to listen to the recording only once.
You may find different type of question from multiple choice.
Fill in the gaps, matching some part of the test to some other information.
And also you may need to fill a diagram or a chart.
Each correct answer will be worth a point.
If you spell the word wrong or if you make a mistakes when you write the word, that answer will count
as zero.
And if you put the wrong answer, that would also count as zero.
So again, as I was explaining before, it is better to just guess and answer at the end, of course,
of the listening part.
So when you will transfer your your answer in the answer sheet, you can fill the gaps where you have
missed a question or two.
It is better to just give it a go and guess because in any case, if you put the wrong word, you will
get the zeros so they would not deduct any point at the end.
For the entire section, you will receive a score from one to nine.
That is an equivalent of your English level in the recording.
You may hear different accents for the British one two, the American one, but also the one from Australia,
New Zealand, Canada and in general.
You may also find some people whose first language is not English, so they will have a foreign accent.
This is an excellent practice because when you will move abroad for studying or for work, you will
meet people from all over the world and you would be already used to hear different type of accents.
Apart from the accent, you will also find different type of lexicon because if you remember some words
in English and the British English and in the American English are different.
For example, autumn and fall, lift an elevator or also the spelling can be different, such as in colour
and behaviour.
So it's very important to know all this difference.
Even before starting your listening training in the next video, we are going to look at each of the
four section of the IELTS listening, and I'm going to give you all the information you need
to know of each section and some tips and strategies to get the highest grade possible in each section.