🎁 Band 9 Listening Rescue Pack
🚨 Fix your Listening score traps & train like a pro!
✨ Created by Ex-Examiner & Band 9 Trainer – Anshu
✅ PART 1: Top 25 Common IELTS Listening Spelling Errors
Even if your answer is correct, wrong spelling = 0 marks!
Here are the 25 most commonly misspelled words in Listening. Tick off the ones you keep messing up ⬇️
Incorrect vs Correct Spelling:
1. accomodation → accommodation
2. enviroment → environment
3. goverment → government
4. recieve → receive
5. adress → address
6. seperated → separated
7. begining → beginning
8. arguement → argument
9. occurence → occurrence
10. Febuary → February
11. resturant → restaurant
12. embarassed → embarrassed
13. definitly → definitely
14. beleive → believe
15. tommorow → tomorrow
16. pronounciation → pronunciation
17. calender → calendar
18. recomend → recommend
19. tution → tuition
20. vaccum → vacuum
21. interessted → interested
22. fourty → forty
23. oportunity → opportunity
24. equiptment → equipment
25. writting → writing
More:
1. enterprenure → entrepreneur
2. leasure → leisure
3. maintainance → maintenance
4. que → queue
5. freind → friend
6. acheive → achieve
7. calmnesss → calmness
8. neccessary → necessary
9. refered → referred
10. occuring → occurring
11. commitee → committee
12. restraunt → restaurant
13. hieght → height
14. governer → governor
15. inconvienent → inconvenient
16. liason → liaison
17. truely → truly
18. tommorrow → tomorrow
19. reciept → receipt
20. amatuer → amateur
📝 Quick Tip:
Use a spelling notebook with 5-a-day review. If you spell a word wrong, write it correctly 3 times with meaning.
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🎯 PART 2: IELTS Instruction Decoder – Don’t Fall in the Word Limit Trap!
If you write even 1 word extra, your answer is marked wrong.
Here’s how to decode question instructions:
Instruction Type What It Means Example Answer Style
> ONE WORD ONLY
✔ Only 1 word allowed.
📝 Example: airport
> NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS
✔ Max 2 words — write 1 or 2.
📝 Example: bus station or hotel
> NO MORE THAN ONE WORD AND/OR A NUMBER
✔ You can use 1 word, 1 number, or both.
📝 Example: 10 a.m. or Monday
> A NUMBER
✔ Just a number or digit.
📝 Example: 450 or 21st
Check Answer Format Beforehand
Form Completion? Likely short answers (1–3 words).
Sentence Completion? Read the sentence and check how many words naturally fit grammatically.
Table/Note Completion? Scan headings – if one row has two words, your answer might be similar in length.
Map/Plan Labeling? Usually just ONE WORD (e.g., Reception or Stairs).
📌 Train the Ear + Eye Combo
🎧 The speaker might say:
> "It’s called the Green Leaf Restaurant, two words."
💡 Always note if the speaker says "two words" or "that’s hyphenated" – that’s a big clue!
🤖 Smart Word Count Rules:
Hyphenated Words = ONE WORD ✅
(e.g., self-service, check-in)
Numbers (e.g., 23, £100) = ONE UNIT ✅
(Even if spoken as "twenty-three")
Dates (e.g., 15th March) = TWO WORDS ✅
(Unless only “March” is the answer)
Acronyms (e.g., EU) = ONE WORD ✅
(EU, BBC, MBA count as one word)
❗ Quick Tip:
📌 Read the instructions before the recording begins, not during!
📌 Highlight or underline “NO MORE THAN…” in your question paper.
🎯 Secret Formula: How to Decide Whether the Answer Should Be 1, 2 or 3 Words?
When the instruction says “NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS” – your job is to not guess randomly, but analyze the grammar + meaning of the sentence.
Here's the Band 9 tip:
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✅ Use the “Grammar Logic Formula”:
1. 🧠 Noun Needed?
If the blank is the object of the sentence → likely just 1 noun
➤ e.g., “The guest requested a ______.” → Answer: menu
2. ✨ Is It Describing the Noun?
If the blank needs a describing word + noun → you’ll need 2 words
➤ e.g., “The guest requested a ______ menu.” → Answer: vegetarian menu
3. 🔗 Specific + Adjective + Noun
If there’s a need to be specific + describe + noun → 3 words
➤ e.g., “The guest requested a ______ menu.” → Answer: low calorie vegetarian menu
🌍 PART 3: Daily 15-Min Accent Training (Free YouTube Playlist)
Want to stop panicking during accents? Use this daily 15-min playlist and rotate:
🇬🇧 British Accent:
Channel: BBC Learning English – Listening Practice
Video: “Train Your Listening: Travel”
Link: [https://youtu.be/z6E7t29sg0Y?si=81DGLfE4u2yNjLRX]
🇦🇺 Australian Accent:
Channel: ABC Australia – IELTS Listening Practice
Video: “Australian Slang & Conversations”
Link: [Search on YouTube – IELTS + Aussie Listening]
🇨🇦 Canadian Accent:
Channel: CBC Learning – Real English Audio
Video: “Canadian Speaking Practice (Intermediate)”
Link: [Search: CBC IELTS Listening Practice]
🧠 Listen with subtitles ON → then OFF → then REPEAT.
Repeat this cycle 3 times a week and watch your ears evolve!
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💬 How to Use This Pack:
✅ Practice spelling for 5 mins a day
✅ Decode at least 3 instruction styles every week
✅ Listen to 1 accent per day for 15 mins
📉 Even a 0.5 band improvement in Listening can change your overall score!
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