IELTS Listening: Don't Make These 4 Mistakes!

If you have been practicing IELTS Listening, you will notice that sometimes the answer options are very tempting but they are wrong. They are called distractors and this is what leads to errors. There are four types of distractors and that is what we are going to see. In this video, before we look at the four different distractors, those misleading answer options. I want to play a little game with you. I'm going to show you an IELTS question by

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without audio. I just want you to look at her and say. me, which answer option do you think is correct, then, type of delivery chosen, plane, train or truck, which one do you think is correct, the answer is that you have no idea and you should never use your intuition when you are looking at one of these IELTS

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to questions, it's basically impossible to choose between what you see, it's okay, it's just guesses, you have to listen to answer the question, so don't use your intuition, you should also never use your prior knowledge, take a look at this question, what What nutrient does Dr.

Peterson recommend? before running a marathon fat, protein or carbohydrates I don't care if you are a doctor, a dietician or an Olympic marathon runner, you should never use your prior information, your prior knowledge to answer one of these questions, okay, so, without intuition, without prior knowledge. that's what you have to do in IELTS listening, okay, let's look at distractor number one, one of the ways you can

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a mistake in IELTS listening, distractor number one, similar sounding words, one of ways you can

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a silly mistake in IELTS. listening is mishearing an answer choice because the correct answer choice sounds very similar to a wrong answer choice, let's practice the listening question together a little bit, okay, listen carefully and how much do you think the contents of the package are worth?

That's a good question, well I guess the guitar and the lamp are worth about twelve hundred dollars but with the books I also guess about fifteen hundred great and where are you sending the package to austria okay great did you hear australia or austria ? These are two very similar sounding countries and this is one way you can make a silly mistake when listening to IELTS, that's pretty simple, let's look at a different type of distractor. almost all IELTS listening questions, that is, you are looking at a question, let's say a multiple choice question, and you hear one of the words actually mentioned and you think, well, they just mentioned that it is written here as a possible answer option which must be the correct answer option, not necessarily, let's take a look at this question and ask one together, let's listen carefully, okay, so you have three options for freight.

Could you explain it to me so that I can choose to have your products shipped by air? The fastest and safest, but also the most expensive, or you can choose to have them sent by train, which is safe and less expensive, and finally you can send your things by truck, which is less safe but much cheaper. Oh yes, shipping them by truck can take too long. I'm in a bit of a hurry, so I'll go with the quickest option please, just so you may have noticed that the speaker actually mentioned one of the answer options, but it wasn't necessarily correct, let's take a closer look, so here The speaker says that shipping by truck can take too long, so is this the correct answer?

The correct answer is truck. The correct answer is no, because then it says I will choose the fastest option and the fastest option is the plane or, as the speaker says, the fastest, so here. We have an example of an answer option that is not correct and has been put there to confuse you, that's okay, because then comes the correct answer. This is extremely common in IELTS, listen, okay, before we look at distractor number three, I want to talk to you. about our fantastic live classes at e2 if you find it a little difficult to prepare for IELTS like you don't know where to start or maybe you lack a little motivation, our live classes in preparation for the e2 exam are the way to go. follow occur twice a day every day with expert teachers and address each part of the exam, including listening and writing, speaking, and reading.

The teacher will go over everything you need to know before the exam so you feel confident, register and join the live classes on e2language.com distractor number three synonyms, so a synonym is a word that has a similar meaning, if not the same, than another word like big and huge or beautiful and pretty or intelligent and intelligent and sometimes it can be a little different as you could say, for example, that in the question we look at something like airplane or by air, then they are words different but they mean the same, they are synonyms, let's take a look at one of these questions and try to ask them together. listen carefully hello everyone, my name is tom and today I am going to talk to you about meditation, which is an excellent way to reduce stress and improve your well-being, so here the answer is because psychological well-being and mental health are The Synonyms basically mean the same thing, so the speaker said a word, but the synonym itself was written in the question.

This is one way that they can be right or you can be wrong now, sometimes it's not just the answer options that they will have. synonyms, especially if you are asking a short answer question, the question itself will be paraphrased or use synonymous language. Let me show you what I mean, so listen carefully this question says that learning to meditate requires a lot of what is at the beginning of your meditation practice. you need to maintain a high level of concentration because the mind will wander from one thought to another, so the answer here is concentration and that's what the speaker said, but the synonymous language was actually in the sentence itself.

Compare these two, the question said learning to meditate requires a lot and the speaker said that you need to maintain a high level of so actually it is the question that had synonymous language well, so we made similar sounding words like austria and australia, We have already mentioned words and I just looked at synonyms, let's look at the fourth way you can make a mistake in IELTS by hearing the distractor number four negative or the use of the word no, so when I say negative I am not talking about positive or negative or you know well. and bad, I'm talking about negation where we negate something with the word no, so for example I can say this is not a glass, this is a cup, this is not a glass, this is a cup and by listening you can write the word. glass when I said it's not a glass you see what I mean look at this question here if you meditate for long periods you should avoid sitting on the what let's do this together the vast majority of people will have no problem sitting on the floor to meditate but if you plan to meditate for more than 10 minutes then I recommend using a cushion so that you can raise your hips above your knees for greater comfort those who are injured or inflexible should use a chair to meditate notice how in this question the The question itself didn't say the word no because it would be too easy if it just said no, instead it used the word avoid, we could write it this way if you meditate for long periods you shouldn't sit on the what so in

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they listen , They do not do it.

I don't just say no because it's too simple. There are a variety of different ways they can deny something. Here is a list of critical words that might say avoid or never or sometimes they will use what are called prefixes that change a positive word like hydrate into. a negative word such as dehydrate or regulate to deregulate or accelerate to decelerate or disable not allow to dismantle insignificant inflexible invisible illegal illiterate illegible irreversible irresponsible mistrust misspelling misdiagnose unclear uncooperative or unavailable so they are prefixes where a word is changed from positive to negative be attentive or be attentive to those, so this is complicated, right, but this is where in our live classes, when you actually practice these types of questions with an expert teacher and the expert teacher explains to you why it is wrong and this one is right, that's where you get the aha moment and this is where you won't make the same mistake on the real exam.

Well, I have one last special distractor. So I was reviewing official IELTS listening material the other day and I noticed this one that is actually something like this. To be honest, it's complicated, it almost sounds like a negative, but it's not, and it's not a double negative either. Let's do one together and I'll show you what I mean, so listen carefully to what are the two factors that can make meditation difficult so that when you start learning. Meditate, you might think wow, this is not difficult, my mind is completely silent, but of course it is your mind speaking.

What I am trying to say is that many people gradually realize how busy their minds are and if you practice enough you will be able to sit still for a long time, but this also has its own problems. You see, it's not just self-deception that makes meditation difficult, but also the physical discomfort felt in the body, so the answers here are self-deception and physical discomfort or just discomfort, but notice how they used the word no and but still he was right, let's take a closer look, then the speaker said that it is not only self-deception that makes meditation difficult, but also the physical discomfort that is felt in the body, okay, so that is just one of the Stay tuned and this just takes practice.

Well, let's recap those four ways you can make a silly mistake or strong distractors in IELTS. Listening number one are similar sounding words like austria and australia. Words number two already mentioned like truck, but. the answer was actually for the plane number three synonyms like mental health or psychological well-being mean the same and the number four negatives where there is a negation with the word no or avoid or never or a prefix that makes a negative great thank you very much for Don't forget to subscribe to this YouTube channel. I hope you learned some good IELTS listening tips so you don't make silly

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