This is going to be quite a long post, but perhaps a useful one. What it’s about is vocabulary for the IELTS essay. You’ll find a little further down the page a list of phrases to help you structure your essay. But before taking a look and perhaps downloading the document, I suggest you read on and watch the video first.
One of the elements I have recently introduced into this blog is a featured video section. Some of these videos will be my own, but more will come from the resources of the internet. Much of the philosophy of this blog is to show how and where you can find good materials to study at home.
Today’s post takes the form of a short mini-lesson about vocabulary for IELTS essays and opinion language in particular.
One of the new features I have added to the blog is a new website of the week feature. You’ll find here the sites I use with my students and they all come with my personal recommendation. If some of them don’t seem IELTS specific… Continue reading
So how well do you know the IELTS exam. Here is a little quiz I have prepared – see what you know. If you don’t get them all correct, I have added links to the sidebar on the right to the official IELTS site for you to find out more.
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Are you aiming to get an IELTS band 6 or above? If you are, can I suggest some grammar work for you? In order to get to band 6 your writing needs not just to be correct, it also needs to contain a mix of both simple and more complex structures. In plain English this means using some more advanced grammatical structures: tips and tricks aren’t always enough, you also… Continue reading
Is the task 2 writing different from the essay? Yes, clearly there are some special aspects to it. The mistake most candidates make, however, is to forget that much of it is very similar to the essay and concentrate only on its special aspects. This is a serious mistake as a good piece of writing is a good piece of writing and all good writing shares much in common.
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