Improve Your Listening Accuracy with Grammar Awareness

1. 🧱 Sentence Completion & Grammar Form

📍 Example:
“He is a _____.”
You heard: “teacher”
You wrote: “teaching” → ❌

🎯 Fix:
Always check if the sentence requires a noun, verb, or adjective. Listening gives you content — grammar gives you correctness.

📥 Practice Sentence Completion Grammar →

2. 🔢 Singular vs Plural Forms

📍 Example:
“The company needs several engineers.”
You write: “engineer” → ❌

🎯 Fix:
Listen for clues: “a few,” “many,” “several,” “both,” etc.
Always add or remove the final “s” accordingly.

📥 Download Singular/Plural Drill Sheet →

3. 🔍 Modals of Uncertainty (may, might, could)

📍 Audio:
“He might attend the meeting.”

🎯 Trap:
Choosing “He will attend” (too certain)
Fix:
In multiple choice questions, modals often weaken the claim. Learn to separate possibility from fact.

📥 Download Modal Verbs Listening Practice →

4. ⏳ Tense and Time Clues

📍 Audio:
“It was launched last year.”
You wrote: “is launching” → ❌

🎯 Fix:
Look out for verb tense changes that show time reference:

• Past = “was,” “had,” “last year”
• Future = “will,” “going to,” “by next week”

📥 Try Tense Tracker Quiz →

5. 🧾 Passive Voice

📍 Audio:
“The application will be processed by the manager.”

🎯 Fix:
If the question asks “Who processes the application?”
→ Correct answer: manager
If it asks “What will happen to the application?”
→ Correct answer: will be processed

Understanding who is doing the action (or not) is essential.

📥 Download Passive Listening Practice Sheet →