1、IELTS LISTENINGmultiple choice,Introduction,three choices of answersIt is commonly found in parts two, three and four of the listening test. The questions will be harder the further on you get in the sections of the test.,Difficulties with IELTS Listening Multiple Choice Questions,Hearing all the wo
2、rdsIn this type of question, it is very likely that you will hear ALL the words that you are given in each choice. Two will obviously not be referring to the answer, so you need to listen very carefully to make sure you get the correct one.,Similar ChoicesAnother problem is that you may be given ver
3、y similar choices. For example, all the choices may refer to years, so it is easy to choose the wrong one. Also, the information you hear about each choice may be quite similar.,Paraphrases and synonyms Also, sentences and words that you hear in the listening will often be changed in the actual list
4、ening script. The test would be quite easy if you could heard exactly what you see in the question, but it will be changed in some way.,A different orderThe person you hear speaking may not necessarily give you the information or choices in the same order as the question you see on the paper.,Strate
5、gies Test Tips,Your purpose of listening is to identify what the question requires you to do It is not necessary to understand every word that is spoken You will hear the information once only, so prepare yourself by anticipating what you will hear Read and analyse the question as pre-listening task
6、,How do you answer multiple choice questions?,What you need to do is look through the questions. You have 30 seconds to do this before you hear the audio.Underline key words in the question stems and look at the choices so you know what to listen out for.,Real Examples,1. PS Camping has been organis
7、ing holidays forA. 15 years B. 20 years C. 25 years Thank you for coming to my talk this evening. Its nice to see so many people in the audience. For those of you who dont know very much about PS Camping, let me start by giving you some background information about the company.The company started tw
8、enty five years ago. It actually started as a retail chain selling camping equipment, and then twenty years ago, it bought a small number of campsites in the UK, and began offering camping holidays. The company grew rapidly and has been providing holidays in continental Europe for the last fifteen y
9、ears.,So you should be able to spot some of the difficult things:You hear all the words 25 years, 20 years and 15 years. There are similarities in the choices - they are all years with a mix of the numbers twenty and five in there and they all mention about the company or holidays. The question stem
10、 has been paraphrased - nowhere does it say “organising holidays”. Instead you can see phrases like “began offering holidays” and “providing holidays”. This can be particularly confusing because you have to understand which one fits with the question. The possible answers are in a different order to
11、 the audio you hear 25 first and 15 last.,The company has most camping sites in A. France B. ItalyC. SwitzerlandIf you book a camping holiday with us, youll have a choice of over three hundred sites. In Italy we have some 64 sites that we either own, or have exclusive use of. France is where we have the majority of sites, and we currently have a project to expand into Switzerland. We also have a number of sites in Northern Spain, particularly the mountainous region of Picos de Europa. Weve upgraded all these Spanish sites, and improved them considerably from their original three-star rating,
