Tiêu đề 19. Get Ready for IELTS Listening.pdf ✅

I ih Pre-intermediate A2+ = POWERED BY COBUILD
Unit Title Introduction Topic Exam focus Page 4 1 Friends abroad Travel, countries and nationalities Food, cooking, measures and weights Academic subjects Form completion, note completion, multiple-choice questions Completing notes, tables and flow charts, matching information Completing sentences and tables, diagram labelling, multiple-choice questions 8 2 Food and cooking 14 3 Presentations 20 Review 1 26 4 Work Types of work, workplaces University facilities Note completion, short-answer questions, matching Labelling maps and flow charts, short- answer questions, sentence completion Multiple-choice questions, short-answer questions, table completion 28 5 On campus services 34 6 Staying safe Crime, protection and safety 40 Review 2 46 7 Studying, exams and revision Shopping and spending Study habits Multiple-choice questions, completing flow charts Completing notes, answering matching questions, short-answer questions 48 8 Spending habits, products 54 9 Hobbies, interests and sports Review 3 Interests and pastimes Completing forms and tables, multiple- choice questions 60 66 10 Work-life balance Time management Completing notes and sentences, labelling diagrams Matching sentences, short-answer questions, multiple-choice questions 68 1 Comparing cultures Food, dress, housing 74 12 Exploring the oceans Natural resources, ocean life Diagram and flow chart completion, note completion 80 Review 4 86 Practice test 88 Audio scripts Answer key Glossary 93 118 129
Get Ready for IELTS Listening has been written for learners with a band score of 3 or 4 who want to achieve a higher score. Using this book will help you improve your pre-intermediate listening skills for the IELTS Academic Listening test. You can use Get Heady for IELTS Listening: • as a self-study course. We recommend that you work systematically through the 12 units in order to benefit from its progressive structure. • as a supplementary listening skills course for IELTS preparation classes.The book provides enough material for approximately 50 hours of classroom activity. Get Ready for IELTS Listening • • This comprises a book and tw o CDs. The book contains 12 units. Each unit focuses on a different topic and these topics are ones that often appear in the IELTS exam. After every three units, there is a Review unit which helps you to revise the language and skills covered in the previous units. At the end of the book the Practice test gives you the opportunity to take an lELTS-style test under test conditions. There is also a full answer key at the back of the book so you can check your answers. Here you will find suggested answers for more open-ended questions and model answers for the exam practice questions in Part 3 of the unit. The glossary at the back of the book lists the useful words from each unit with their Cobuild dictionary definitions. Two audio CDs accompany the book. These contain the listening exercises. When you see this icon ^ ))) please play the CD. CD1 features language at a pre-intermediate level speed and CD2 features language that is a little faster. This is to help you prepare for the speed that features in the IELTS test. • • • • • Each unit starts with the Aims of the unit. They outline the key language and skills covered. Part 1: Language development provides exercises on vocabulary related to the topic as well as key grammar related to the IELTS Task covered in the unit. Clear structures are provided. Part 2: Skills development provides step-by-step exercises and guidance on specific question types that appear in the test. There are explanations and examples that show you how to approach each question type. Useful tips are highlighted to help you develop successful test-taking strategies. Part 3: Exam practice provides one exam practice question for eitherTask 1 orTask 2 in a format that follows the actual exam. You can use this to check whether or not you are ready for the test. Finally, a checklist summarises the key points covered in the unit. 4
Exam information boxes in each unit provide key background information about the IELTS Listening exam. Exam tip boxes provide essential exam techniques and strategies. Watch out! boxes highlight common errors in the exam. • • Each unit contains approximately three hours of study material. Try to answer the questions without looking at a dictionary to develop the skill of guessing the meaning of unknown words from context. This is im portant because dictionaries cannot be used during the actual exam. Use a pencil to com plete the exercises, so that you can erase your first answers and do the exercises again for revision. Try to revise w hat you have learnt in Parts 1 and 2 before doing the practice IELTS questions in Part 3. This will improve the quality of your answers, and using the new language will help you to remember it. It's recommended that you try and com plete all questions in the unit as the skills needed to do well at the IELTS test can only be improved through extensive practice. Part 3 contains exam practice questions. You should try and complete Part 3 questions listening to th e a u d io only once, as this gives you the opportunity to practise under exam conditions. Do not look at the audio script at the back of the book while doing Part 3 questions. After you have finished listening, make sure the form at and spelling of your answers is correct. Then, check your answers using the answer key. Read the answer key carefully as this provides information on what kind of answer is awarded high marks. Reading the audio script at the back of the book at the same tim e as listening to the recording will help you to develop your listening skills and identify answers. Remember that the answers are underlined in the audio scripts. • • • • • • Also available in the Collins Get Ready for IELTS series: Heading, Writing and Speaking.