630334807-Unit-1-Listening-Mindset-1.pptx

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1. Unit 1 Listening

2. Contents

3. This unit covers two IELTS tasks, short- answer questions and multiple-choice questions. Multiple-choice questions require students to listen carefully to have an understanding of either specific or general points. Whereas short-answer questions, require students to listen for facts such as names of places or people.

4. For multiple-choice questions eliminating distractors is a key skill which students need to be aware of. Distractors : the incorrect options in a multiple choice question. Designed to distract students from choosing the correct answer Eliminating distractors therefore, is the skill of discarding the incorrect options in a multiple choice question. For short-answer questions, the skills of prediction and listening for specific information are key.

5. Who is usually responsible for selling houses? an estate agent 1. Listen to an estate agent describing the three properties in the pictures and write the correct number in each box. flat, two levels, 3 bedrooms, a bathroom, kitchen & living room

6. Which helped you find the answers?

7. ADVICE This type of multiple-choice task is common in the exam and students must have practice in being able to interpret pictures/diagrams quickly. You need to identify the key features in these visuals and then listen for the same key information in the recording.

8. Churchill Road Three/3 T wo/2 garden (a) cooker (a) dishwasher 1/ one o’clock Eliot 07863905073

9. 53.72 472 01897 625730 110 55 B1074

10. 350,000 4.3 x 3.28 30 x 10 4.91 x 3.95 4.2 x 3.55

11. name, address and home phone number mortgage from bank and deposit in bank account two months (three at the most) C (she wants to move in before her children start school)

12. Exam skills