Before an important meeting or conversation, we can imagine what type of words or phrases we will hear, for example if you have an interview you can think about the questions the interviewer can ask you and you can prepare some answers. You can use the same skill for English.
Here you can read some information about how PREDICTION can help you to understand better.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1_B2HZ_bIslV0lLLW1nQnVQTWc/view?usp=sharing
You can try out this skill on listenaminue.com.
Before trying the listening gap fill exercise you can guess which words may be missing from the text based on your knowledge of the situation or of grammar and vocabulary.
Then compare your answers with the tape script. You will understand that it is not always neccesary to understand all the words to understand the general sense.
You can practise predicting and then listening on Page 41 of PET Result, exercise 1 and 2.
The recording contains examples of comparatives and superlatives.
Here is a very clear explanation video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G096Jdl2XVo
Try the exercises on Page 40.
You can use comparatives and superlatives to compare ways to improve your health and fitness on Page 48.
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