Is it you who want to improve your listening skill even though you know all the words
when you read them in the transcript you can't understand them when you listen.
Or, you're stuck at a certain band score and don't know how to break through. Hello everyone,
Hong is back and if you're having trouble with your listening skill,
I'm here to help you. For more IELTS tips you can visit our website weloveielts.org
and of course, don't forget to subscribe to this channel. Without further ado,
let's begin. These are the three tips to improve your Listening band score.
come on come on catch it good job
nah it sounds wrong native speakers don't speak like that they say
come on come on catch it good job do you notice the difference when you listen to native speakers
you realize that they don't speak individual separate words instead they combine words together
come on come on catch it catch it instead of saying come on the final consonant sound
links with the first vowel sound in the next word and it becomes come on
come on becomes come on the same would catch it becomes catch it
the thing is when they do this it sounds like they are speaking a completely new word
which makes it even harder for learners like us to understand so what should we do
well the first thing you can do is to practice pronouncing ending sounds
such as the final consonant sounds ed cells or plural cells fine cat love wanted laughed played
keeps dogs classes if you teach yourself to say ending sounds you can also hear ending
sounds and in fact it's impossible to say the ending sound without connecting it with the next
vowel sound the next word for example come on catch it catch it the next thing you can do
is learn to listen to words in chunks chunks are groups of words that are usually spoken together
really quickly i'd like to how are you doing not at all can you see i should have
what do you say i don't understand you huh ah what what do you mean huh what do you mean
if you want to improve your listening band score you should think about listening as a skill the
best thing to do is to immerse yourself in an english speaking environment so my advice is
you can listen to songs news podcasts in english anything that you can get access to
even when you're doing something else
and you don't have to worry too much about
understanding everything because the purpose of passive listening is to train your ears
to listen to english bit by bit without you being stressed out
one of the common mistakes that i see people make is to focus too much on practicing ielts materials
thinking that the more practice tests that they finish the higher best score they get but often
they don't see any improvement ielts listening can sometimes be dry or too academic and may not
give you interested so you can re-energize yourself by listening to something else
that you really like and understand better it can be something on youtube about recent blockbusters
makeup tips or cooking instructions or it can be a ted talk about a topic of your concern
or it can be a movie or a sitcom of your interest remember to diversify as your source of listening
to cover a variety of accents styles of language and topics now back to practice stats 150.
let's recap tip 1 get used to connected speech tip 2 practice listening passively
and tip 3 diversify your listening material i hope that my three tips has been useful for you
and you can also share with me how you improve your listening skill by commenting below this
video don't forget to subscribe to this channel and i will see you real soon bye
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