For the IELTS exam, there are many issues that need to be paid attention to during the exam, so let’s take a look at the 2019 IELTS listening, speaking, reading and writing precautions.

Listening section

Question review

1. There is plenty of time to read the questions, just read them as required.

2. Use the word limit to determine the answer.

3. When the question says that you only need to fill in one number, do not add am/pm when writing the time.

Listening questions

1. Determine gender.

2. What you hear is what you get. (Inference, summary and induction are not tested, but details are mainly tested)

3. Be careful with semantic transitions

4. There is no relaxation time before keywords appear, because the focus of IELTS is to test Synonym substitution and sentence-by-sentence understanding. Listen carefully to every word.

5. Determine the singular and plural of a word based on listening and common sense.

6. Pay special attention to whether there are hyphens in single words, such as: note-taking (n)

7. As long as you hear clearly, it’s okay to choose in the last half minute, don’t Panic, but this is the last resort.

Do the questions

1. Order (the last one among the several options you heard is the correct answer), the most recent answer (find the word with synonymous conversion), unfamiliar words (and It is unfamiliar and will not be considered), homogeneous and mutually exclusive, absolute terms (must be wrong), common sense, positive (guess more positive and less negative)

2. Quick memorization (abbreviated words), avoid dense answers Omission.

3. An answer corresponds to a piece of listening original text. Generally speaking, in this interval, the first part is to help understanding, and the last part is to show the answer by replacing words. Interfering items that appear in advance can be marked with small ticks, but they must be Select the last content.

4. Pay attention to capitalization and strive for zero mistakes. (If you are really not sure, just capitalize it all!)

5. When you don’t know the meaning of a certain word, listen patiently to the auxiliary meaning of the following clauses, and predict the possible answers.

6. Postal code: written in three digits.

Check

1. The first intuition is usually the most accurate. (When doubting the correctness of the answer written.)

Common words

1. Every second day: every second day.

2. To distinguish between tens and tens, the stress at the end is tens, and the light reading is tens. If you are not sure, guess the tens.

3. The pronunciation of 0: zero, nought, null, nil, nothing, oh.

4. Phone number reading: 7 digits, 34 in one group and 44 in one group. Repeat: double/triple 2246555-double two four, six triple five.

5. Three zeros at the end: read thousandsand.

6. House number: read out in quantity, such as No. 197-one hundred and ninety seven.

7. Thousands, millions, billions: remember to add commas.

8. Decimal point: read point.

9. A few tenths: read point directly, such as 0.25-point twofive.

10. Morning and afternoon: a.m. p.m.

11. Era: 90s, 21st century

12. Unit of measurement: meter, kilometer, mile (mile), foot (feet), inch (inch), gram (gram), kilogram (kilogram), pound, litertre (liter), gallon (gallon)

　13. Currency unit: US dollar-ar, Australian dollar-Australian dollar , Canadian dollar-Canadian dollar, main currency-dollar, auxiliary currency-cent, pound, peny (penies), Japanese yen-yen, euro-euro

Frequently asked questions

1. Map question: Read the entire message and draw a route to the left and right with the speaker's heading direction as the direction. Circle the bearings, starting point and street directions. If there is no specific direction, the map facing the candidate will be used as the reference direction.

2. Number calculation: When it comes to calculations, the last number in a pile of numbers is usually the answer. When male and female students are arguing, listen to the woman.

3. Multiple-choice questions/matching questions: Find the mentioned keywords, make brief notes, put a cross or a small check mark, and it is best to use the last half minute to choose the final answer. In particular, use more symbols and try not to write words to avoid missing dense information. Pay attention to whether the words used are repeated with the given information. For example: disease should be removed from heart disease problem.

Common scenarios

1. Renting: the better the location, the higher the house price. The location is slightly off, the price is cheap, but it has flaws.

2. When viewing a house over the phone, furniture must be provided.

3. Extracurricular research: mostly small projects.

4. Library

5. Geography

6. Computer room

7. Course selection

8 . Freshman Reporting Meeting

9. Introduction to the agenda (the original listening text has interference items, and the conference locations are mostly in the capital)

10. Personal health

11. Teaching

12. Student banking services

13. Telephone message (you have reached + phone number, please leave the message)

Pre-exam training

1. Practice listening and memorizing numbers and letters. (It is especially recommended to do it the day before the test)

2. Corpus dictation: Write within a time limit, follow the dictation, and follow the reading cycle until the accuracy rate is 100%. Review by following the reading method.

Reading

Question review

1. Underline special symbols, special prints, conjunctions and causal combinations.

2. Guess the part of speech and the relationship between active and passive.

3. Use common sense and logic to check the rationality of the answers.

4. The year and location are specially marked, which are easily overlooked anchor points.

5. See clearly whether to write yes, no or true, false! ! !

Read the article

1. Locate the central word.

2. Position first, think later.

3. Refine the positioning words, not only looking for range words, but also for nearby words.

4. When the positioning word cannot be found: Use the principle of order to determine the paragraph, define synonymous conversion through understanding, and determine the answer through inference. (Be careful with allusive questions)

5. When you read it for the first time, you must underline the names of people, places, etc., and find all the answers at once.

6. Find the central argument and sub-arguments of the article, which will become the breakthrough point for many thinking-type questions.

7. Research articles generally talk about problems first and then solutions.

8. Throughout the data article, the keywords should be in other content words, and there is no need to mark the data.

Do the questions

1. Write the answers directly, there is no extra writing time.

2. Time allocation: 15+225. Finally, the problem of not being able to find the positioning information is solved, but generally no questions can be left.

3. If you don’t have enough time, give up the fill-in-the-blank question in the last article.

4. Find positioning words. If you still can’t find the answer after reading the entire paragraph, put it at the end of the article, or don’t do it. Because you don’t have extra time for follow-up.

5. Find synonymous conversion. (You must not write the answer without finding the basis for the original text, otherwise the accuracy rate will be reduced by half)

6. Do the detailed questions first, and then the summary questions, starting from easy to difficult.

7. The information points may be in the same sentence, the same paragraph or the same position in different paragraphs. Pay attention to detailed analysis.

8. When filling in factors: Read the prompt words clearly to avoid filling in the wrong order. (Such as: also, usual, common, etc.)

9. When you don’t know, you must guess the word by analyzing the sentence pattern.

10. Connected words with initial capital letters cannot be separated.

Check

1. Pay attention to capitalization, especially at the beginning of sentences.

2. Be sure to check when you have time, especially to see if the numbers are filled in correctly.

Common question types

1. TFN/YNN question type:

Presuppose a negative proposition and look for the basis/contradiction/related ambiguity.

Avoid subjective judgment, be sure to locate keywords, and then go back to the original text to find evidence. Be patient.

Scope judgment is the first priority. (Whether the object expands or shrinks)

Distinguish between facts and predictions.

If there is a possibility that the item does not conflict with the original text but no supporting sentence can be found, it must be not given. Emphasis on consent conversion rather than natural logical judgment.

See whether the original text and the title have the same theme or are derived from it. Distinguish between false and not given.

If the comparison scene or object in the question does not appear in the original text, it is regarded as not given.

If it is not mentioned, it is not given. Please do not be opportunistic and count the number of answer categories.

When you cannot judge due to understanding of the problem, and the positioning is synonymous conversion rather than direct information, it is mostly correct.

Consider sufficient and necessary conditions, think from multiple perspectives, and avoid errors caused by rigid thinking.

2. Matching questions:

See clearly whether you are looking for agreement and conversion, or generalization. (containinformation?)

3. Run-on sentence questions:

First, look for the subject and object, and consider their collocation issues.

4. Flow chart questions:

The answers generally appear together or in the same paragraph. Use the more conspicuous words to locate them, and do not necessarily stick to the first word.

5. Paragraph meaning matching question:

Find the corresponding paragraph according to the meaning of the sentence given in the question.

Be cautious in choosing details.

Avoid looking for topic sentences and central sentences, because everyone’s judgment of the central idea of ??the paragraph is usually different. And the first and last sentences of each paragraph are not necessarily the topic sentence or central sentence.

Bring the meaning of the options into the paragraph and use reverse thinking to do matching questions.

Category first, then exclude. Keywords in the paragraph must be marked with a big check mark to indicate ideas. The opening paragraph or the closing paragraph must be useful in expressing the theme of the article, but it rarely elaborates on specific details. General versus specific disagreements can be used to eliminate incorrect options.

6. Fill in the blanks:

Make full use of the word limit to find complete information.

Pay attention to collocation, especially the preceding article and the following preposition.

Fill in the blanks with content words, most of which are semantic conversions.

Pre-exam training

1. Set a time limit of 55 minutes. If the alarm clock does not ring, do not check the time. Each article lasts 18 minutes, 8 minutes for reading and 10 minutes for doing. To adapt to the tense atmosphere in the examination room and avoid mental fluctuations.

Writing

Reviewing questions

1. Write an outline (just write down the keywords of the argument.)

2. Keywords and The examples must be written carefully when making the outline, otherwise the word count will not be enough.

Answer the questions

1. Write clearly.

2. Order: 2 first and 1 last. The second article should be at least 250 words (15-18 sentences, 30 lines), and the first article should be at least 150 words (10-12 sentences, 18 lines).

3. Look at the topic accurately, elaborate on the point of view, have a clear stance, logical argumentation, appropriate connections, clear central sentences, accurate parts of speech, appropriate wording, add word combinations, accurate substitutions, and write more complex sentences. .

4. Complex structure: at least 5 in the second article and at least 3 in the first. (Parallel sentences, compound sentences, non-predicate verb forms)

5. Details: The topic sentence should be straight to the point, the sub-topic sentence should be written at the beginning of the paragraph, linear thinking, emphasis on forensic evidence (facts, data, ordinary people, events, experts in the field), generally concrete, relying on transitional words to express coherence, and ending with generalizations (rather than instruction).

Common question types

1. Chart compositions focus on description, while large compositions focus on ideas.

Spoken English

Ideas

1. Concrete information: Concrete the answer and describe the specific content and details, that is, the word "what" Expand.

2. Everything happens for a reason: Talk specifically about why you came to this point of view, that is, start with the word "why".

3. Space-time rendering: Describe in detail the time and place when you saw this thing or did this thing, that is, expand on the two words "when" and "where", and discuss the topic. Effective extension.

Answer questions

1. Unscripted.

2. Think of the key words for each question and start answering.

3. Memorize vocabulary to the point where you can blurt it out and internalize it into your own language.

4. Keywords to open up ideas: time, cost, mood, health, safety, knowledge.

5. Tips for making paragraphs longer: cause and effect, hypothesis, concession, comparison.

Misunderstandings and solutions

1. Repeated use of the same vocabulary: It is recommended to "talk to yourself" in English in your mind on the road or when you are free, and always pay attention to your own Whether the wording "falls into clichés" will weaken after a period of time.

2. To display vocabulary, you need to rely on difficult words, big words and famous sayings that no one can think of: the vocabulary of IELTS speaking first pays attention to applicability and accuracy. The vocabulary must be familiar to you and must be your own. It doesn't matter if it's simple if you can control it.

3. Find the most suitable word: During the exam, you can use any word as long as you can express what you mean.