Name: Best Strategy + Practice | IELTS Listening - Note Completion Questions
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In today's lesson we're going to be looking at the strategy and doing a note completion task for IELTS listening.

A note completion task will look like this.

We'll have the instructions at the top and then the notes that we need to fill in.

So you need to listen to the audio and then choose a specific word or specific words that fit into these spaces.

Well first of all we need to read the instructions.

You'll find those here and in particular we need to pay attention to this part.

Write no more than two words and or a number.

So we can write one word, two words, a word and a number, two words and a number, just a number but we can't for example write three words.

The next thing I recommend to you is to look for a title.

It's going to give us a bit of context about the recording that we're going to listen to.

In this case it says study skills tutorial.

So we know we're going to listen to an audio of somebody talking about their study skills.

The next thing we're going to do is predict the answers.

So go from number one to ten and think about what the answer could potentially be.

Remember the answers come in order and sometimes you'll need to answer two questions in a short period of time so be ready for that.

I recommend that you write the answers on the question paper so that after the recording finishes you can neatly transfer them to your answer sheet.

Remember you need to practice writing the answer while still listening to the audio.

Okay we're going to do this one together.

Let's predict what some of the possible answers could be.

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Okay so we know we need a name of a dissertation topic so we would write that down.

We can't possibly predict that, there's too many topics it could be.

Okay so we need to come up with a study skill strength, possibly researching, planning, it's hard to say.

Then we've got computer modelling and then afterwards it looks at the weaknesses.

So what could this student's weaknesses be?

Well one of them is a lack of background information so they don't know enough about the topic that they're going to do their dissertation about, potentially problematic.

And then poor something skills, so what could be some possible answers?

Poor reading skills, poor English skills maybe?

Okay and then we've got some possible strategies.

So the first one is peer group discussions and then we're going to look at the benefits and problems of each of these strategies.

So what's a benefit of peer group discussions?

Remember peers are people that you're of the level with.

For example peers could be students and then not a teacher, the teacher is not their peer.

So if they're meeting with their peers, for example fellow students, what's a benefit of that?

Perhaps they can increase their viewpoints, if lots of students talk together then they'll be able to share different ideas.

And then a problem, well dissertations tend to contain the same, the same what?

Maybe everyone chooses the same dissertation.

Okay then we've got another possible strategy for number six.

Use the something service, use the library service.

Benefit of using the library service provides structured program.

Well maybe there's limited places available in the library.

Another possible strategy is to consult study skills books.

A benefit is that they are a good source of reference and a problem could be that they are, can be too time-consuming to read maybe.

The idea is by predicting we're engaging with the questions and we're learning more about the topic that we're about to listen to.

So some recommendations, use a card index or read all notes before class, it's hard to say.

The next tutorial date will be on, so number 10 we need some sort of date so maybe for example the 15th of January.

Okay now that we've taken the time to predict some possible answers it's time to listen to the audio.

Listen to the audio and write down the answers for number one to ten.

You will hear a geography student called Caroline discussing her dissertation with her tutor.

So how's the dissertation planning going?

Well Dr. Schulman, I'm still having a lot of trouble deciding on a title.

Well that's perfectly normal at this stage and this is what your tutorials will help you to do.

What we'll do is jot down some points that might help you in your decision.

First of all you have chosen your general topic area haven't you?

Oh yes that was one of the areas you mentioned.

Now what aspects of the course are you good at?

Well I think I'm coping well with statistics and I'm never bored by it.

Well I found computer modelling fascinating.

I have no problem following what's being taught whereas quite a few of my classmates find it difficult.

Do you think these might be areas you could bring into your dissertation?

It's just that I'm having difficulty thinking how I can do that.

You see I feel I don't have sufficient background information.

Well I think you really need to work on these weaknesses before you go any further.

Well I can go through the possible strategies with you and let you decide where to go from there.

Well some people find it helpful to organise peer group discussions.

You know each week a different person studies a different topic and shares it with the group.

You know having to present something to others.

The drawback is that everyone in the group seems to share the same ideas.

They keep being repeated in all the dissertations.

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