Ielts course

Task
Match the listening skills to the examples:
listening for specific information, predicting, identifying key words
listening intensively, identifying attitudes of speakers

You are trying to work out what your friend really thinks about your new jacket.

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You are at the train station listening to announcements because you want to find out which platform your train leaves from.

correct
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You have come into a lecture and are thinking about what you have read about the subject in preparation.

correct
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You are listening to your teacher giving you directions to the library.

correct

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You are listening to someone who is speaking very fast and trying to pick out the important words.
correct
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Answers
You are trying to work out what your friend really thinks about your new jacket.
identifying attitudes of speakers
correct

You are at the train station listening to announcements because you want to find out which platform your train leaves from.

listening for specific information
correct

You have come into a lecture and are thinking about what you have read about the subject in preparation.

predicting
correct

You are listening to your teacher giving you directions to the library.

listening intensively
correct

You are listening to someone who is speaking very fast and trying to pick out the important words.

identifying key words
correct

Task types

The particular listening skills that we need in a situation will depend to a large extent on our purpose for listening. In the IELTS Listening test, the purpose for listening is provided by the questions and these will affect the way learners need to listen.

There are several different task types used in the Listening test. As with the Reading test, the task types could be used in any section of the Listening test. Very often, each section in the Listening test will have more than one task type.