OET Listening is tricky. You listen to consultations, workplace conversations and talks on a variety of healthcare topics.
There is a variety of accents, different question types and you have to use different skills, such as identifying specific details, opinions, the gist of what the speaker says or their purpose when talking.
This course gives you essential techniques and language as well as plenty of test practice.
SLC’s OET Listening course, taken from our hugely popular Reach OET B course, prepares you to achieve a high score. You work on a combination of carefully structured language and test-based tasks, video tips and lesson recordings. You listen to a wide range of texts, answer practice test questions and develop your listening skills.
Want to work with an OET Listening expert? You can book 10 one-to-one lessons with an experienced OET teacher who will work on your listening skills and make suggestions for improvement so you can maximise your score.
The course includes 3 practice OET Listening tests, written by official test writers, where you practice OET Listening under timed conditions.
Test questions are integrated into all the units, so you really see what you need to do in the real exam.
There are video tips and techniques throughout the course, plus recorded video lessons with an OET Listening expert.
The course is highly visual with many videos, different tasks and activities.
Study on PC, tablet or mobile phone through the course app, work offline if you need, offering the ultimate in convenience.
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Skill by skill focus, test practice, multi-media learning, essential strategies and techniques.
Written by official test writers, with accurate and immediate scoring.
Lesson recordings from our live lessons with an OET expert teacher.
Understand quickly what you need to do to get a high score in the official test.
Tons of multi-media materials that will keep you engaged and help you learn more easily.
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Skill by skill focus, test practice, multi-media learning, essential strategies and techniques.
Written by official test writers, with accurate and immediate scoring.
Video tips and techniques throughout the course.
Lesson recordings from our live lessons with an OET expert teacher.
Understand quickly what you need to do to get a high score in the official test.
Tons of multi-media materials that will keep you engaged and help you learn more easily.
Subscribe for 3 months and save £12. Subscription renews every 3 months and can be cancelled at any time.
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Receive one-to-one lessons with an expert OET tutor (10 classes of 1 hour each) which target your specific needs. Lessons are given at times that suit you.
Classes are organised around your schedule to give you maximum flexibility.
Skill by skill focus, test practice, multi-media learning, essential strategies and techniques.
Written by official test writers, with accurate and immediate scoring.
Video tips and techniques throughout the course.
Lesson recordings from our live lessons with an OET expert teacher.
Understand quickly what you need to do to get a high score in the official test.
Tons of multi-media materials that will keep you engaged and help you learn more easily.
After your first access to the course, you have 3 months to use it. Want to extend the course? Contact us for more information.
The course shows you how to develop OET-specific listening skills and techniques.
Vocabulary and grammar are integrated throughout covering key language of healthcare.
You can see what you’re learning, how it all fits together and what you have achieved at the end.
Enter the test centre with the knowledge, language and techniques you need to take the Listening test with confidence and achieve a high score.
There are 3 parts to the Listening paper.
In Part A you listen to 2 extracts from consultations between a healthcare professional and a patient, each lasting around 5 minutes. You then complete the professional’s notes with details from the information you hear. The professional may be any one of the 12 professions who can take OET.
In Part B, you listen to 6 short workplace texts, such as an extract from a handover or briefing, and answer a multiple-choice question on each one. The topics should be familiar to healthcare professionals, but it’s important to know what to expect before taking the test.
In Part C, you listen to 2 extracts from a presentation or an interview and answer 6 multiple-choice questions on each. The topics are chosen so they are equally accessible to all professions. They are of general medical interest and present a range of attitudes and opinions about a topic.
There are 42 marks available in the Listening test. Part A has 24 marks, Part B has 6 marks, and Part C has 12 marks. To achieve a B grade, you will typically need to score at least 30 marks.
To do this, you need a clear understanding of the different types of listening text in the three parts, the question formats, a wide range of healthcare vocabulary, and a command of listening techniques such as understanding gist, opinion and inference.
Reach OET B was written by a team of accredited OET Trainers under the guidance of Virginia Allum.
Virginia wrote SLC’s Medical English courses and is SLC’s Head of Medical English. She writes for OET, is a lecturer in English for Medical Purposes, a Medical English teacher trainer, and a widely published writer. Virginia co-authored the Cambridge OET Preparation book and the Cambridge English for Nursing text books, used by Medical universities around the world.
Here are just some of the things you will do:
Lots of test practice
Test questions are integrated into all the units, so you really see what you need to do in the real exam.
Develop reading strategies
The course shows you how to develop OET-specific listening skills.
Take a properly structured and sequenced course
You can see what you’re learning, how it all fits together and what you have achieved at the end.
Conduct part by part, question by question analysis
Understand all the OET Listening formats and question types and how to best answer them.
Engage with dynamic multi-media learning
The course is highly interactive with videos, audio, practice questions, multiple inputs and lots of exercises.
When you subscribe to the Premium course, you will be assigned a personal tutor who will give you lessons when you are free and make sure you focus on what you need to do to achieve a high score in the test.
The subscription options are available for either one month or three months. You can choose to have your subscription renewed monthly or on a quarterly basis. If you wish to cancel your subscription, you can do so at any time by following the instructions provided in your registration email.
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SLC’s OET preparation courses are perfect for international healthcare professionals who need to achieve an advanced score so they can register to work in an English-speaking country such as the US, UK, Australia or Canada. We work with organisations to prepare their candidates. Courses are tailored to specific needs, including schedules, durations and budgets.
