Surely there are plenty of standardized tests that you
have to take even only for fluency purposes if you want to move to and live in
other countries that use other languages that are different from your mother
tongue. It is such a requirement to make sure that when you are ready to move
into those countries, you will be able to communicate using those languages
fluently and also effectively and one of those skills that are needed to be tested
is listening because this is the first step of communication. You need to hear
before you make verbal or non verbal responses.
Like we said before, there are tons of standardized
tests especially for English language and one of those tests is IELTS. IELTS is
the International English Language Testing Examination which is an important
test people have to take to prove that have decent literacy in English and that
they can survive living in English-speaking countries at least if they can
communicate with other people using English which is an international language.
Speaking of listening, this section is actually the only section that you will
have difficulties in finding good materials to practice but in actuality, you
do not have to worry because we have couples of tips you can apply in taking
the listening test.
The first tip is about leaning British accent because
a lot of listening test on IELTS are recorded using British accent and we know
exactly that this particular accent is actually the hardest to understand among
other usual English accents. The next tip is to try to understand thoroughly
the written and verbal instructions of the listening section. The next is to
make sure that the actual tape is audible and easily understood. And about your
handwriting, make sure that it is neat and legible.
