1 Listen carefully.
Some students like listening to English when washing clothes or doing other things. I think this habit is really not very good. Because over time, when you are really doing IELTS listening, you tend to be less focused. You should hold your notebook in a quiet environment, concentrate on listening and record key information at the same time.
Shorthand skills are also important.
I think shorthand is really important, because when listening, you often hear a message and write it down quickly, but when you finish writing, you often find that the next message has been missed. Therefore, you should practice shorthand skills more, for example, when listening to the BBC, try to write down all the key sentences. Write quickly. You can practice English more. Lian Bi's writing style is also good. In addition, here I suggest that when you hear a message, just write down the first two letters or their abbreviations, and then you can listen to the next message immediately. However, sometimes when you are asked to fill in two confident messages next to each other in a sentence, it is best to listen to the whole sentence first, and then write those two messages. Teachers in Shanghai IELTS Training School emphasize shorthand.
Be careful.
Some people's English listening ability is really strong, but they failed in the IELTS listening test, mainly because they didn't pay enough attention. Because IELTS listening not only tests your listening ability, but also tests your carefulness. At the beginning, I often make low-level mistakes, such as singular and plural, capitalization, collocation and so on. In fact, these mistakes are very inappropriate and must be avoided as much as possible.
4 Pay attention to the turning point
IELTS listening is really difficult to learn. Often it says an answer in front and then changes it immediately, so you must pay attention to words like but, anyway, or sometimes you can say a plan first and then say it's not as good as right away ... then the answer will definitely become the latter. In addition, we should pay great attention to some keywords that change the subject, such as so, now, which means we may have to talk about the next question.
These are four simple skills, which I personally think are really practical. If you are not good at listening, you can also go to Shanghai IELTS training school to sign up for a course.