IELTS BOOTCAMP: DAY 4

Listening for Emotions

A. Can you tell if someone is excited to do something or is not looking forward to something? While listening, try to determine a speaker’s emotion. How is that emotion expressed?

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Listening for similar meanings

B. The words that you hear are not always the words that you see in your test. You will have to listen for similar meanings. You could hear a synonym or you could hear a paraphrase.

Listening for distractors

1. Listen to extracts from each Section of the Listening paper. SELECT THE DISTRACTORS. 



 

1.What date will they leave?
Dictractors....

 
2. What dat will the tour visit a farm?
3. The students decide to do a project from
4. Problems:

2. Listen to more extracts from each Listening Section. Complete the gaps with the correct SYNONYM OR PARAPHRASE.

 

 

1. What do they decide to organise first?

  • a place to stay =
  • their airfares =
  • car hire =

2. What change will they make in the garden?

  • improve the shade =
  • reduce plants =
  • add a water feature =

3. What do the students agree they need to do with their project?

  • do more research =
  • make some cuts =
  • add some visual effects =

4. The scientits are studying:

  • how snow forms in different conditions =
  • the effect that snow has on our climate =
  • the effect different clouds have on snow =

 

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