Understanding IELTS: Listening

Prepare for success in your IELTS Listening test

The four courses in the British Council’s Understanding IELTS ExpertTrack will give you a complete guide to everything you need to know as you prepare for the IELTS test.

This course focuses on the Listening test. You’ll explore the format of the test and develop learning strategies to help you tackle the different types of tasks you’ll meet.

You’ll also look at general English listening strategies that will help you cope with the kind of complex texts on unfamiliar topics that you’ll meet in your IELTS studies.

This IELTS preparation course is aimed at anyone who wants to improve their English listening skills in preparation for the IELTS Listening test. It will also be useful for anyone preparing for another English proficiency listening test.

It might also be useful for IELTS teachers. There are no formal entry requirements.

• Writing what you hear
• Listening and me
• Essential information
• Filling in the gaps
• Task type: form completion
• Listening for key information
• Task type: short answers
• Over to you
• Review of the week
• Listen better
• Widening your range
• Task type: sentence completion
• Understanding maps, plans and diagrams
• Task type: labelling a map, plan or diagram
• Staying focused
• Task type: matching
• Over to you
• Review of the week
• Putting it all together
• Getting ready for the test
• Listening to conversations
• Task type: multiple choice
• Lectures and presentations
• Task type: note/table/summary completion
• Exam day
• Over to you
• Round up