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他有超过二十年的教学经验，去过不同的亚洲国家教英文。他专门教授亚洲人的口语，特别清楚我们学英语的困难和弱点。他此前曾于全球著名的国际学校、顶级大学以及世界五百强的机构教授学生、CEO人数超过十万。他的很多雅思学生也在跟他学习了很短的时间内进步超过一分，有些更是拿了British Council的雅思奖学金出国。

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Listening for specific details

Yesterday we looked at the first thing to do in the half-minute when the narrator says on the cd: “You now have some time to look at questions one to five.” We saw how it is important to quickly get the context of the questions first so you can understand each specific question faster in this context.  We saw that the woman in the picture was a hotel receptionist and the man was a guest checking in. Today we will look at two techniques to answer the questions about specific details.
Here is the same diagram taken from the textbook, “New insight into IELTS” but now we see some specific details we need to listen for.




First, the words underlined in yellow are wh/how questions. These are: what, which, where, when, who, why and how? How many? How much? How often?, and so on. Most questions can be changed to wh/how questions. For example, “Number of children” to “how many children?” and “date of birth” to “when was he born?” The other kind of question is the kind that requires a “yes/no” answer, for example, “Does he want a newspaper?  The answer is either yes or no.
We can change questions to wh/how to quickly understand what specific information we need to listen for.
The second technique for quickly knowing what to listen for is to underline the key words. These are the words that tell us what details we need to hear about and they are underlined in orange in the diagram above. In question 1 we listen for info about a wake-up call. In question 2 we want to hear about a kind of breakfast and we will be given a list of kinds of breakfasts available and we wait for the guest to decide. In question 3 we want to hear about a method of payment.
Now listen and check. Answers will be posted tomorrow.



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