{"id":1626,"date":"2019-03-01T15:41:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T10:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brpaper.com\/ielts\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2019-03-01T15:52:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T10:22:22","slug":"how-to-improve-your-listening-skills-for-ielts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brpaper.com\/ielts\/how-to-improve-your-listening-skills-for-ielts\/","title":{"rendered":"How to improve your Listening Skills For IELTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Listen to the audio clip<\/strong><br \/>\nCheck how much you can understand and the general gist and start to pick out keywords.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Repeat and repeat again<\/strong><br \/>\nListen to the clip again. Based on what you understood the first time, is there now more than you can pick out?<br \/>\nContinue to listen to the clip several times through to see if you can comprehend a little bit more each time.<br \/>\nOnly move to Step 3 when you\u2019re not comprehending anything more from the audio. Your goal should be to understand as much as possible from the audio!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the text<\/strong><br \/>\nCheck your understanding and identify any new vocabulary. See if you can guess the meaning of any new words based on the context before looking them up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen with the text<\/strong><br \/>\nListen to the pronunciation of phrases and groups of words.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen a few more times without the text<br \/>\n<\/strong>At this point, you should be able to understand the majority of the clip. Repetition makes it easier to understand the words and phrases when you hear them again.As Ben W says: REPETITION IS THE MOTHER OF ALL LEARNING.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to the audio clip Check how much you can understand and the general gist and start to pick out keywords. &nbsp; Repeat and repeat again Listen to the clip&#8230;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/brpaper.com\/ielts\/how-to-improve-your-listening-skills-for-ielts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <i class=\"fas fa-arrow-right\"><\/i><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2149],"yst_prominent_words":[2143,2115,2144,1474,2142,2147,2145,76,2148,2146,994,57,527,1418],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-listening","tag-ielts-listening-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brpaper.com\/ielts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brpaper.com\/ielts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brpaper.com\/ielts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brpaper.com\/ielts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brpaper.com\/ielts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brpaper.com\/ielts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"https:\/\/brpaper.com\/ielts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brpaper.com\/ielts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brpaper.com\/ielts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brpaper.com\/ielts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brpaper.com\/ielts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}