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.
You can try out this skill on listenaminue.com. On this website you can find 500 small texts in conversational English. These texts can help you to improve your pronunciation and identify common words and phrases that mother tongue natives use. Learning and copying these can both help you to sound more natural in English.
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
also mark the text to remember some important aspects of pronunciation, in
particular word stress. For more information on this see
Listening is very difficult. On
English club you can find many dictation exercises that start from short
phrases and questions. These can help you to understand the difference between
how words are pronounced and how they are written.
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