Interview with Lin Guorong Wang Guan - How is the IELTS listening full score master refined?

In Lin Guorong, if you want to talk about Wang Guan in class 19-1, you can not only hear about her excellence from the class teacher and the IELTS teacher who teaches her - "not arrogant and impatient", "solid foundation", "modest learning attitude", "neat and well-organized homework", "clear goals", etc., but also feel her life from the descriptions of her classmates - "humble and courteous", "low-key and not ostentatious", "hard and serious"... This is what I heard before interviewing Wang Guan, which belongs to her, in IELTS learning, the necessary label of learning bully.

And when I actually started interviewing her, from those understated and relaxed conversations, I felt a more three-dimensional her in all aspects - "confidence", "rationality" and "maturity".

Turning Point: The Merchant of Venice in English

Compared with the first half of the first semester of high school and the second semester of high school, Wang Guan, who has been focusing on daily English learning, the English drama competition in the second half of the second semester of high school has become a major turning point in her study life.

Because of the heavy study of IELTS, at the beginning, the students of the spring class could not participate in the English drama competition, and under the initiative of Wang Guan and the positive response of the class students, with the help of the class teacher, they finally successfully registered and entered the final of the English drama competition.

"This may be the last chance in my entire high school career to compete in English drama." For her love of English and drama, this competition is undoubtedly an excellent opportunity to show her style and test her English strength.

They used the time of self-study every night to rehearse, go to the basketball court to "catch people", and disagreed in the process of rehearsal, and had quarrels... But what awaits them is the sweetness of hard work.

"I just wanted to get the first!"

Yes, she did it, and they did it, and it was more perfect than expected. Not only did it stand out in the Competition of English Drama and win the championship, but it also shone brightly and brilliantly on the halo-filled stage of the Double Dan Gala.

If you say that the confidence hidden in the depths of your heart is because of the accumulation of strength that was once unknown, because of the chemical reaction with this unexpected drama, which is stimulated. Then, I also hope that in the future, you will still smile like a flower, and continue to shine confidently on the road you love.

Future goals: "When I was very young, I decided that I would work in design in the future!" ”

Perhaps because of the influence of her family, she decided that she would be engaged in design-related work when she was very young, and she also knew that if she did not love, she could not insist on and continue to do a thing, so combined with her love for cars, she decided to apply for the "industrial design" major in the future.

She joined the student council and participated in the production of posters for school activities; actively participated in the school magazine and made head maps for the school journal; carefully completed the "Nian Wei Image" homework arranged during the winter vacation, the original "Nian Wei Animation", one frame and one painting, with care and love...

If English is the result of her interest, then design is integrated into the bits and pieces of her life, into the color of life.

Growth is always in an instant, no one can be born to have everything, and all the efforts will be echoed accordingly. There is no eternal smoothness, there is no sweetness that does not pay, hard running, serious growth, all the accumulated light will eventually be seen because of the shining, "when peter Pan looks back at the end of time, the road has been prosperous and blooming everywhere." ”

Wang Guan: Heartfelt words

Listening：

Listening is the easiest to score, and it is the simplest of the four. The most important thing to do a good job is vocabulary, so students with weak foundations must brush the corpus. For students with weak foundations, brushing words is much more useful than doing real questions.

I like to circle when reviewing questions, mainly to help see the questions. The time to review the question is limited, be sure to quickly look at the general question, and see clearly fill in a few words in the blank. The choice of positioning words is very important, and do not look at topics that do not have fill-in-the-blank needs.

*Some people say that listening to BBC and VOA can improve IELTS scores. It is true that it can be improved, but it will take a long time, after all, this is to enhance ability rather than to cope with the exam. I support pre-high and first-year students to read and listen to these grinding ears early, learning to learn phonetic intonation, which is also good for speaking, but students who are about to take the exam should still focus on the special exam vocabulary.

S1 does not have to worry at all, as long as the teacher practices in school is not a big problem, but it must be noted that there are no examples, that is, less time to review the questions, so when practicing usually, remember to skip the example.

The S2 question type is a little more complicated, but not very difficult. When I took the exam, I encountered the attraction matching question, there is no difficult substitute, but I have to emphasize that the same substitute is very important, promise me, the teacher let the back obediently recite well. Map problems in fact, do two questions can figure out the problem routine, if you are wrong, remember to copy the wrong sentence down to study and study, after all, it is a sentence that describes the orientation, and there is little change.

S3's single choice questions are really difficult. I remember the first time I did it wrong, and then I suddenly realized that the answer sentence is the rewriting of the question, they changed the answer sentence as the problem, so the same substitution is very important friends, when you can detect the same substitution with the question in the listening text, it is difficult not to do the right question. Single-choice questions especially need to be understood, so I recommend listening carefully and understanding the answer sentences. However, when I took the exam, I encountered a match + flow chart, that is, the two teachers first discussed the activities they did in the science class, let us match the evaluation of these projects, and the flow chart was an experimental diagram for us to fill in the corresponding component names. So the s3 question type is still quite flexible.

S4 is more test of hard power, not much skill, he will sometimes not report the answer sentence for a long time, and then pile several answers together to give you, so the mentality is very important. You draw the positioning word, if you don't hear any co-rotation, that is not yet there, don't fill it in. S4 questions are very important, there is no question to fill in the blanks do not review, jump directly to the next line to quickly grasp the positioning words. S4's answers are as difficult as mononution, and intact is as simple as wet, so hard vocabulary is important.

Memorize words well, listen more and practice more.

Reading：

Reading should be done together with a set of questions, which is helpful for understanding and familiarizing with the order of the questions, especially the chaotic order of the heads and matching questions, and doing a few sets of habits to experience the questions is of great benefit to the exam.

To be timed. Time a set of questions together, don't let anything interrupt your progress, and you can't go to the toilet, because in the formal exam, the listing and reading parts are not allowed to go to the toilet. Keep your phone far away and don't let him interrupt your train of thought.

No word search, no need at all. In fact, no matter what I do reading, I think people shouldn't look up words to do it, because it won't leave any impression on you. IELTS reading is not a topic that requires you to read intensively, their purpose is to test your information retrieval ability, so don't look up words.

IELTS so many words he can't expect you to every one, but the key words, or the answer words will definitely have to be. Resemble, halt and other very important homographs if not, the problem can not be done, so do not memorize any green book vocabulary, but also out of order, I hope that students can contact 538 early, gradually familiar with it.

To the students: Regarding the concept of IELTS reading, I have always been very afraid of IELTS mainly because "it is difficult to look at the past words and many words", but you remember that IELTS reading is nothing more than that, the topic finds the positioning word - the original text finds the same turn - back to the topic, and so on, that is, you read the article just to do the question. Practice with the teacher, you can definitely do it.

Listen to the teacher's words and obediently recite 538.

Writing：

I hadn't written a big essay before the exam, but I was always familiar with the framework of writing, that is, the framework of the four different question types. Whether speaking or writing, IELTS officially puts logic in a particularly high priority, so for writing scores, the importance of the logic chain can be imagined.

Different topics involve vocabulary, not logic, so in general, it doesn't matter what the topics are, what matters is your logical chain. When writing a logical chain, the most important thing is the qualifier in the title. It determines your TR score, and if you ignore it, then no matter how gorgeous your rhetoric is, it has strong limitations.

I used to particularly like to write big words — like monopoly, but in the examiner's eyes, your arguments were not convincing, and these things were meaningless.

This brings me back to my old days. I used to be ignorant and terrible, talking about "grammar is not important" - students, learn well, the importance of grammar is not something I can summarize in a few sentences: from reading long and difficult sentences to writing gra.

Don't look down on grammar.

Also, write a big essay (TASK2)! Big essays account for much larger scores, and I've seen many cases where small essays are not written and still have good scores, so be sure to write big essays first. I have practiced in the examination room and it is very worthy of praise.

Speaking：

In fact, spoken language is the most difficult item to improve in the short term, because it focuses on accumulation.

I finished the "IELTS SPEAKING SUCCESS" series of videos on youtube a month before the exam, the main teacher is called Keith, the person is very good, the speed of speech is very slow and detailed, you want to find ideas if you can go to see. Also, you can search for "ielts mock test", and I sometimes look at the ideas and phrases of native speakers.

About long-term improvement: It is true that American dramas and British dramas are useful, but when watching, remember that you are here to learn people's speech, not to watch the plot. Although the tone of voice does not have a clear impact rating, I always feel that it will have a little impact. In my experience, drama is the best material for studying pronunciation and intonation, because the ups and downs are generally exaggerated and the accent is particularly pure. Recommend RSC dramas, (including the Venetian merchants in our class who also used the RSC version as a benchmark) and the most popular Disney cartoons and so on. Imitation, repetition of listening, imitation, and so on. Look with a purpose. When answering, the tone is exaggerated a little, and the examiner may think wow you are different.

School drama competitions, dubbing competitions, etc. are all good exercise opportunities, and it is always right to participate actively. When you gain confidence when you speak English, you will be more willing to speak and express.

It is especially important to improve your self-confidence when speaking English.

Fluency is very important. A few pauses are allowed, but there are skills to stop, and there are levels of stops. When answering questions, you can use the strategy of slowing down first and then fast, answering slowly at the beginning, and then slowly speeding up after coming up with ideas, which is quite useful.

Only those who have truly groped through the night know how to cherish the dawn of the dawn, and only by really working hard can they be qualified to taste the sweetness of success; the calm that slows down, the clarity after experience, and the fruits after hard work are like the joy brought to us by each season. Every little and harvest in life, arriving at the softest part of our hearts, I hope that students can seize every opportunity in life, have dreams, go to, every one of you who fight for the future is worthy of recognition...