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In today's live class.

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In the April Live class, I'll be going over listening section one or reviewing listening section one.

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Some people take listening section one for granted, but I think your goal when doing the exam is to

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be able to really get a perfect score on listening Section one.

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And so today I'm going to be reviewing.

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I'm going to be reviewing.

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What involves Section one in terms of what they test on the skills that they want to see that you have.

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And also, we're going to practice applying the strategy for Section one.

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So let's go ahead and get started.

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So in terms of the basics, we all know the basics of Section one, which are pretty clear.

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This is the easiest section.

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The entire listing exam gets progressively more difficult as you go.

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So section one is really at a basic level of English.

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And Section four is at an advanced level of English.

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So that's the way that it progresses.

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That progresses from basic level of English to advanced level of English.

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And as they're going through this progression during the exam, they're testing different skills and

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abilities that you should have at the basic level, the intermediate level, and at the advanced level

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of English.

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So very often when students tell me I'm having a lot of trouble with Section three or Section four,

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then most likely you're having trouble with advanced level English concepts.

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Because after all, as I've said many times, it is a skills test.

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Section one is going to be a conversation between two people.

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They'll be two people that are in person or two people that are talking over the phone.

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You're only going to hear the conversation one time.

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That's it one time.

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So when you're practicing, make sure you practice that way.

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Practice with that rule.

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One time to listen, you must listen and answer simultaneously.

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Which means at the same time that's very different than, for example, the total exam.

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With the full exam, you get to listen, you take notes, then you answer the questions for the exam.

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You listen and answer simultaneously.

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There's no time given for note taking and then answering.

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That's not the way the exam works.

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That's not what they're testing.

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So they progressively move from section to section to section.

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There's no time for that.

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Your answers will be written in 1 to 3 words.

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Always read the instructions.

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Always read the instructions.

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Write exactly what you hear and make sure that you spell it correctly.

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A lot of students ask me if I write in all caps.

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Is that okay?

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Yes.

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All caps, all small.

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First letter B.

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You know, it's all those forms are accepted.

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So, you know, they're not they're not testing proper capitalization.

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Like if it's a if it's somebody's name and you write it in small letters, that's fine.

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If you write their name in all caps, that's fine.

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So let's make sure we understand that, because I get this question a lot.

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So we're going to start out we're going to start out with section one.

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Would just a skills warm up practice.

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And what I'm doing here is I'm going over all of the different skills that they test in section one

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of the Isles listening section.

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And this is extremely important for you to understand because it's a it's an English test.

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And if you know the skills that they're testing, then you could improve on those skills.

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That's how you get better at the exam.

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If they're testing on paraphrasing and synonyms, then you have to.

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Then if you want to improve your score, you get better at that skill.

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So for Section one, some of the some of the skills they're looking at are spelling numbers, dates,

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measurements, recognizing what is coming.

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So I'm going to go through some skills, warm up practice, just so we can all be familiar with everything

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that they're testing us on in Section one.

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So of course, spelling.

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Now, spelling is tested on every section, section one, two, three and four is tested on all sections.

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And so it's important that you have to be able to spell things exactly correct.

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If you get one letter wrong, the entire answer is wrong.

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If it's supposed to be singular and you write it as plural, then your answer is wrong.

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The only exception to that is if the if the grammatical form of the question allows for a singular or

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plural answer.

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So the best advice is just to write exactly what you hear.

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Some students want to improve their spelling.

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You want to keep a spelling list word bank.

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What that means is when you spell something wrong, keep it in your word and keep a list of it.

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You learn your phonetic sounds.

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They have a lot of phone spelling applications, write a lot of applications on the phone that can help

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you with spelling.

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Create a common list or look at a list of commonly difficult words.

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You can create an audio bank of words where you hear it, write it and check it if you spelled it correctly.

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And remember, practice makes perfect.

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So every time you are, for example, writing an essay or writing a task, one write, spell everything

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correctly.

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Don't be lazy when you're when you're lazy in your spelling, then you're going to make mistakes.

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If you're losing your in your writing and spelling, then very often you can make mistakes.

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Mistakes in your listening and spelling.

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So don't be lazy with spelling.

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Always try to do it perfectly correct every single time.

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We're going to look at these first six and all we're working on is spelling, which is something that's

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involved very often in Section one.

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So I'm going to play the audio.

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You want to.

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You want to write down numbers one through six on a piece of paper or write down one through six on

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However, you want to record your answers.

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But listen to the audio.

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And spell.

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Spell the word that they're saying correctly.

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Test one.

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Training spelling three.

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My address is 23 Boro Road.

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That's b.

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Send your application to Jaywick Ltd.

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That's j a y.

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My name is Anna Frawley.

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I'll spell that for you.

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F r a v.

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We'll meet outside quarry side school.

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That's q u a.

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W r y.

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You need to get a bus to my village.

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It's Charlesworth.

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charlesw0rth.

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Have a look at my website.

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It's w w w dot kim marshall dot com.

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That's k i w m a r s h a w l let's look at s try one more time.

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We're going to do another practice with spelling.

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And I see a couple of people in the live class have raised their hand.

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Ask me a question.

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As I've said earlier, if you have a question, just type your question in the chat box and I will end

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up addressing your question in the chat box.

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All right.

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So we're going to we're going to do another spelling practice.

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And this is practice spelling number two.

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So listen to the audio and write down what you hear.

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Training test one listening part, one exercise to listen to some words being spelt out and write down

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what you hear.

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One.

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So let me just give you the manager's name.

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It's Sarah Peterson.

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That's peters0n.

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You can contact me at my email address.

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I'll spell it out for you.

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It's y0shi.

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Y u k i.

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And that's at gmail.com.

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So the meeting point for the race will be at the sports field at our new high school.

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The spelling for that is a.

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But the hotel I'd recommend is called the Fairview.

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That's f a i r v i e w.

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It's got great facilities.

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The address for delivery is 112 Bartholomew Terrace.

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all rights.

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The company is called Delaney Movers.

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Let me just spell that for you.

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It's Delaney.

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So let's have a look at the answer choices.

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And hopefully you got them all correct.

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If you didn't get them all correct, then you need to work on the skill of spelling.

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Right.

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So number one is borrow, borrow you gauge.

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Number two is Jay Jay Y, wic k.

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Number three is for Velie.

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F r a.

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E l i.

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Number four is query side.

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Quarry side.

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A double r y side.

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Number five is Charles worth c h a r lease w0rth.

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And number six is Kim Marshall.

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K i w m a r s h.

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A double l.

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So for that first practice, those are the correct answers.

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And then four.

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Number two.

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Number one is Peterson.

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P e t e.

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s0n.

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y0sh.

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Y uk i.

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Number three is a w a in UI.

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Number four is f a r.

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Number five and second, my my zoom bar is blocking my screen.

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Number five is Bartholomew varth0lomw.

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And number six is Delaney dl a n e y.

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So if you got all 12 of those correct, then you are in really good shape.

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We have one question in the group.

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I'm going to address that question and then move on.

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Yeah.

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Somebody said they couldn't hear the last two words.

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I'm not sure why you couldn't hear the last two words, but hopefully it'll get better as you move on.

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So spelling is one skill that you need for Section one.

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Now let's go ahead and move on to another scale numbers in section one, they ask you about numbers.

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You don't see this really.

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You see it maybe in section two also.

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But when you get up to sections three and four, you don't really get into a lot of numbers.

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Section one involves numbers quite often.

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So in this first practice, listen to the audio and write the number that you hear.

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Test one training numbers.

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One.

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I live at 391 King Street.

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To.

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A family ticket is cheaper.

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It's only $48.

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Three.

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You can ring me on my mobile.

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The number is 0786 to 335201.

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For.

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The theatre, which is very old, has been open since 1899.

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Take the application to the secretary who is in Room 117.

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Six.

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Your flight will be £454.50, including taxes.

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Now, let's go ahead and move on to the second practice set.

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Please listen to the audio and write the number that you hear.

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Training.

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Test one.

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Listening.

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Part one.

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Useful language numbers.

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Exercise three.

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Listen and write the numbers you hear.

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One.

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Let me give you my cell phone number.

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It's 02799013436.

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The race is a bit longer this year.

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It's now 13 miles, which is the distance for half a marathon.

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So if you choose just to buy a one way ticket, the cost there would be £237.

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Let me give you a home address.

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It's 114 beside route.

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I've measured the window frame and the width was 240 inches across.

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Oh, hang on.

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That's the height.

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It should be 310 inches.

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Six.

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You're booking reference is actually a mix of letters and numbers.

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It's

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axj0577120.

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All right.

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So one thing that I want you to notice in going through those two practice sets is that you have to

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be able to deal with different accents.

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We heard an American English accent, an Irish accent, a British accent.

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You heard different accents.

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And so that's something also that they're testing on, is your ability to handle different English accents.

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Right.

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So if you look here, number one is 391.

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Number two is 48.

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Number three is oh seven or 0786 to 335201.

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Number four is 1899 or 1899.

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Number five is 117 or 117.

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Number six is four or 54.50.

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Number one in practice, 202799013436.

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Number two is 13 miles.

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Number three is 37.

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Two, I'm sorry.

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Number three is 237.

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Number four is 114.

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Number five is 310 and six is eight.

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xj0577120.

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Right.

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So if you're got all of those correct, then you are probably pretty good at writing down numbers.