IELTS Listening Practice Lesson about micro skills [Podcast - Section 2 Matthews Island Holidays]
Channel: Fiona Wattam
Date: 2023-04-21

In this podcast you'll learn about the MACRO and MICRO skills you need to get all of the answers right in this Listening example (Section 2 about a holiday tour company).

See the full blog here:
https://ieltsetc.com/2023/04/ielts-listening-tips-complete-guide/

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00:00 What are micro skills and why do I need to develop them?
06:28 Start the listening here
07:02 Micro skill - connected speech, weak forms
07:43 Micro skill - recognising sounds in different accents (Northern British here)
10:06 Micro skill - the grammar of comparisons
10:57 Macro skill - using your background knowledge about competition, competitors, customers
12:25 Macro skill - using your background knowledge of UK place names
13:40 Micro skill - connected speech 'meet you' sounds like "me chew" and reference/linking words "where"
14:46 Micro skill - number recognition
15:44 Macro skills - vocabulary and synonyms 'pay extra' = 'additional charge' = 'small administrative fee' (compare 'no supplement' for the distractors). Background knowledge about charges for changing bookings.
18:17 Macro skills - how to complete a table (following signals)
18:30 Macro skills - phrasal verb recognition and connected speech "looks out" (sounds like "look sout") synonym for 'has a view'.
19:54 Micro skills - grammar - 'may have been founded' (Perfect modals for guessing). Predicting the "However" linking word and signal thanks to your knowledge of 'claim' (meaning something might not be true).

Summary of skills

Background knowledge (what you already know about holiday companies, tour itineraries, travelling/place names in the UK etc etc)
Vocabulary (phrasal verbs, synonyms, numbers)
Spelling (ea words, al/ol words)
Grammar (comparisons, 'used to', perfect modals for guessing)
Accents (Northern English 'u')
Pronunciation features (meet you)
Linking (However...)
Signalling (What we do is...)
Predicting
Remembering

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