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Listening Tips

This document provides guidance on avoiding common mistakes when listening for specific information like numbers, names, addresses, and dates in the IELTS Part 1 listening section. It outlines best practices for listening for telephone numbers, addresses including house numbers and street types, spelling names letter-by-letter, and stating dates in both spoken and written form. The goal is to help test takers correctly understand all the basic information asked in Part 1 in order to score full marks.

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Listening Tips

This document provides guidance on avoiding common mistakes when listening for specific information like numbers, names, addresses, and dates in the IELTS Part 1 listening section. It outlines best practices for listening for telephone numbers, addresses including house numbers and street types, spelling names letter-by-letter, and stating dates in both spoken and written form. The goal is to help test takers correctly understand all the basic information asked in Part 1 in order to score full marks.

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The focus of this lesson is on avoiding silly mistakes in part 1 listening.

If you require a band


score 7 or above, you should really aim to get 10 out of 10 here as the questions only get
harder. However, it can be surprisingly easy to make mistakes in this part if you are
unprepared.
To help you out, I describe some of more problems and explain how to listen more effectively
for numbers, names, addresses and dates the questions everyone should get right. There is
a full part one listening practice at the end.

Telephone numbers
There are one or two points to consider when you are listening to a telephone number in
English.

0 is pronounced oh and you are most unlikely to hear zero


if there is a double number, we say double 7
we dont say the numbers one by one, rather we read them in groups of 2 or 3. So
13554684616 would be said 13-double 5 468-46-16

Addresses
House numbers
When you are listening for an address, you should expect a number and a street name.
Typically, the number comes before the name of the street, for example
13, Fairfax Street

Types of different roads


If you have to write down the name of a road, the name will either be spelled out for you or be
a common English word that you should be able to spell, eg
34, Bishop Street
or
48, Ormondroyd Street, thats O-R-M-O-N-D-R-O-Y-D
You should also make certain that you can spell the different words that we use for roads,
these are:

Road
Lane
Street
Avenue

You should also be prepared to write down letters and numbers for the postcode (what
Americans call ZIP code). In the British system, these come at the end of addresses and
combine a series of letters and numbers, eg
14, Fairhill Road
York
YO1 7AH

The spelling of names


If you see you need to write out a name, you can expect that the family name will be spelled
out letter by letter. This can sometimes cause problems for candidates (even high-level ones)
who cannot automatically recognise the names of the letters in English perhaps because
they missed out on learning English at the very elementary level and their sounds do not
match their names. The ones which most frequently cause trouble are:

a as in say
e as in teeth
i as in eye
x as in ex-wife
y as in why

Dates
There are a number of different ways in which say and write down dates. The most common
system is:
the 25th of October speaking
25 October/25th October writing

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