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Widening your range

Sally talks about how to improve your listening skills by listening to a wide range of different things.

Welcome to Week 2! Watch Sally introduce this week of the course.

As well as learning specific details about the IELTS Listening test on this course, you can also improve your chances by listening to a greater variety of recordings in English.

As Sally says, it’s not just about spending more time listening to English, but more about trying to widen the range of what you listen to.

Let us know in the comments what you think you could you listen to in order to widen your range.

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Understanding IELTS: Listening

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