How to improve listening

How to improve listening

Burxoniddin Yarashev

Agenda

1) Tips for improving English listening

2) The best websites to improve listening skills

3) Common mistakes in Listening Exam

Introduction

Your listening skills are important because when you acquire good listening skills, we:

• can have access to the world, we can listen to podcasts, lectures and YouTube Videos about a wide a variety of topics.
• can listen for pleasure, we can watch movies and listen to music with the only intention of getting entertained.
• can travel around the world and communicate with people whose native language is English
• Can meet academic and work requirements.

Tips for improving English listening

For those of you who prefer to study English better, here are some tips to get better at listening.

• Study a little bit at a time.
• Listen to the same English podcast every day for a week.
• Take advantage of “white noise.”
• Read and listen at the same time.
• Listen to yourself.

Study a little bit at a time.

Try to introduce microlearning in your English-learning daily routine. The greatest thing about microlearning is that you only need five minutes to finish a task, so we can do one in the morning, one in the afternoon and one in the evening—or all three when we have a 20-minute break… we choose how we want to do it, just do it every single day!

Listen to the same English podcast every day for a week

Find a podcast that you find interesting or entertaining and choose one episode. Listen to that episode every day for a week—while you’re driving, riding the bus, washing dishes, etc. Pick out words or phrases that are difficult to understand and look them up on the first and second days. Don’t forget to hit “pause” and listen again.

Take advantage of “white noise.”

I would define white noise as some kind of sound, normally continuous, that goes on in the background while you do something else.
Play a podcast, an audiobook or an English series in the background while you clean your flat or iron your clothes (or do any other chore). Don’t pay special attention to it, just let it play and go on with your activities.
You might think that you’re not learning anything if you’re not paying attention, but the truth is that your brain is registering everything that’s happening in the background, and that white noise that you think is only filling the silence is actually making your brain work.

Read and listen at the same time.

Another way to improve your listening skills is to use two sources of information at the same time.
The easiest way to do this is by watching an English video with English subtitles. This way, you’ll be listening to and reading the words, which will make it easier to understand everything and will help you to remember more.

Listen to yourself.

This way of improving your listening skills is related to the previous one. If you’re having a conversation with yourself in front of the mirror or in your head, you’re already listening to yourself. Use your own voice to practice your English listening skills!
You can talk to yourself in the languages you study when you have a shower or go for a run. You must create imaginary conversations, ask yourself questions and give yourself answers pretending to be another person. Sometimes you even change your voice or your accent!

The best websites to improve listening skills

The best websites for improving listening skills

• SpeechYard
• English Central
• Lyrics Training
• Player FM
• Youtube English Channels

• Voscreen
• ESLvideo.com
• Elllo
• ESOL Courses
• Talk English

All of them you can find on google, and each website have a special structure for teaching you

Common mistakes in Listening Exam

The best websites for improving listening skills

• Losing concentration
• Understanding the distractors
• Predicting the answer
• Ignoring the instructions
• Spelling mistakes
• Gramatical Errors

• Don’t leave blank spaces
• Transferring answers on answer sheet
• Choosing without listening to whole passage
• Not aware with different question types
• Poor note taking skills
• Forget to Revise the Answers

You can read more in this link :
https://www.romaielts.com/blog/avoid-common-mistakes-in-ielts-listening

Funny time!

I recommend to watching video or listening audios only from native speakers without dialect, otherwise you may not understand like this:

Bonus page

IELTS academic correct answers	IELTS score
39-40	9
37-38	8.5
35-36	8
33-34	7.5

Thank You For Your Attention!