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MUET My Way Part 1 - Listening

2 Shadowing, where we read along with the audio, has also been
found to be effective. As you listen, you speak along the audio.
Research has also shown this to bring numerous benefits
like increased listening skills. It will also improve students,
pronunciation and overall speaking skills.

3 Extensive listening is where students are exposed to a large amount
of rich and comprehensible data. The key here is to allow yourself
to listen to things which you can understand. The more you expose
yourself to a large listening input, the more words you will acquire
and learn. These words can then help you in your writing skills
as the more words you know, the easier it is to verbalise your
thoughts into words; be it speaking or writing. Renandya and Day
(2020) strongly advocate the need to infuse extensive listening into
LISTENING
language classrooms.

Dos and Don’ts in Listening

Dos

Concentrate Read and Read ahead Use the words Use the pause
and listen listen to the to be that you hear to check your
actively instructions prepared in your answers answers

Don’ts

Spend too much Dont panic if you miss a Do not leave any
Get distracted time on one question – continue with answer blank
question the next question

Example of A Complete Listening Paper

PART 1 Track 1

Listen to a conversation between Tony and Sam. As you listen, choose the
correct answers for questions 1 to 7. Indicate your answers in the answer
sheet.

1 What course did Sam do in university?
A Theatre
B Movies
C Education

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