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	<title>Dominic Cole&#039;s IELTS Blog &#187; vocabulary</title>
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		<title>IELTS vocabulary &#8211; academic caution (1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Cole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The language of academic caution can be extremely helpful in IELTS in two ways. Naturally, it can help extend the range of your writing and speaking vocabulary by being more &#8220;academic&#8221;. More importantly, perhaps, it can help improve your coherence by allowing you to extend your written and spoken answers in a way that is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IELTS vocabulary &#8211; the language of problems</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Cole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you are studying for IELTS, it is sensible to concentrate on language that will be most useful in the test. Here is a suggestion for you: study the language of problems. This is a very important area of language because almost every IELTS essay task will ask you to write about a problem and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IELTS vocabulary &#8211; the language of comparison (1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Cole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One essential piece of language for IELTS writing and speaking is the language of comparison. Throughout the exam you have opportunities to compare and contrast and it is worth focussing on learning some variations: different ways of saying the same thing in order to help your lexical resource band score. In this article I look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A little but often &#8211; vocabulary learning with Verbalearn</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Cole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a continuation of my series of little but often exercises. The basic idea is that sometimes the mot efficient way to learn a language can be to spend 10- 15 minutes really doing, rather than one hour getting bored. This works particularly well internet based exercises, for those times you are sitting in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newspapers for IELTS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Cole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newspapers are an excellent free online resource for IELTS students both for reading practice and vocabulary and you will find below a list of links to some newspaper sites. To get the most out of these so that your language actually improve, here are some tips on how to use them.
1. Read regularly
For me, this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A little but often (4) &#8211; How to increase your vocabulary</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Cole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much of the philosophy of this blog is that the best the way to prepare for IELTS is to take care of your general English and not to focus solely on the exam. This is particularly relevant in relation to learning vocabulary which is a key to all 4 papers. Here is another &#8220;little but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spelling &#8211; test yourself</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Cole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spelling does matter in IELTS &#8211; particularly in the reading and listening papers. If you spell the word incorrectly, you lose the mark. So how do you learn to spell? My answer to that is mostly by reading: if you see the word enough, you soon recognise what&#8217;s right. But it&#8217;s not quite that simple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IELTS vocabulary: the interesting way</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 18:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Cole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like new technology? Doing IELTS? Here are some ideas for you.
Vocabulary is 25% of your score in IELTS speaking and writing and one of my concerns as a teacher is that learners either spend too little time on this key area or go about it in the wrong way. My purpose here is to show [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some common mistakes for Spanish speakers in English</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Cole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back I was asked by one of my students for a list of common mistakes made by Spanish speakers in English. This is my somewhat belated response. Sorry, Viridiana, I&#8217;ll try and do better next time.
Know your mistakes
For me, it was a really intelligent request as one of my top exam tips for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning IELTS vocabulary &#8211; a little but often</title>
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		<comments>http://www.dcielts.com/blog/vocabulary-blog/learning-ielts-vocabulary-a-little-but-often/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Cole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you learn vocabulary -some considerations
How do you learn vocabulary? There aren&#8217;t any easy answers to that one &#8211; it is a complex issue. Just some of the considerations you need to take into account are:
Which words should you learn?
How many words should you learn at a time?
How often do you need to use [...]]]></description>
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