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Interaction is good for learning
One of the bonuses of the internet and ICT in general is that it can allow you to interact. And most teachers would tell you that interaction is good for the learning process. I would add that in my view this is one area where the computer is significantly more effective than books: it engages and if you are engaged, you are much more likely to learn.
The exam format
- Check your knowledge of the exam format : something everyone should do
Reading practice
- Paragraph matching: text on cats – Academic
- True/false/not given: text on birdwatching with 8 questions – General Training
- Multiple choice: text on concrete with 4 questions – Academic
Spelling and punctuation
Grammar and vocabulary
Common mistakes
Prepositions
- Education -prepositions: test how well you know prepositions for educational vocabulary
Cause and effect language
- Cause and effect: correct common mistakes
- Cause and effect: test your prepositions
- Cause and effect: word matching exercise
Connectors
- Connectors for contrast: 10 different exercises to help you improve your writing skills.
Articles
Conditionals
Futures
- Future sentences: some simple sentence exercise to practise different ways to write about the future
- Future language: a gap fill exercise to show you the range of different ways to write about the future in IELTS
- Future Earth: a gap fill exercise with a paragraph on more advanced future vocabulary and grammar
Relative clauses
- Choose the correct relative pronoun: 7 sentences where you need to select the correct relative pronoun
- Relatives for cohesion and coherence: a paragraph ordering exercise to show you how relatives help organise your writing and add details and define terms
Topic vocabulary
advertising
- crossword activity for spelling of advertising words
- children and advertising: paragraph gap fill activity
- different forms of advertising: paragraph gap fill activity
- how advertising works: paragraph gap fill activity
- regulation of advertising: paragraph gap fill activity
- essay gap fill
employment
- crossword activity: for spelling and word meanings
- job and work: 10 question quiz on common work and job collocations
- job satisfaction: model paragraph gapfill
- job satisfaction 2: model essay gapfill
technology
music
education
home town
Common mistakes
Listening skills
Essay writing
- Academic Word List exercises for essay writing
- Being academic: how to make your writing more academic by learning to generalise
- Write an academic essay: an exercise where you read a non-academic version of an essay on food and then try and write the more formal version yourself
Coherence and cohesion
- diet and health education: reconstruct an essay sentence by sentence
- cohesion exercises: how to use pronouns and other linking words to improve your cohesion and avoid repetition
Task 1 writing
Numbers
- Numbers in academic task 1
- Quiz on using fractions and percentages for pie charts
- Practice gap fill writing exercise using percentage language for a pie chart
Trends
Word forms
- Describe a line graph: word formation exercise
- Adverbs and adjectives in charts and graphs
Comparisons
Key details
Complete reports
Little but often exercises
A selection of my favourite little but often exercises from the web: they may only take 15 minutes or less, but they still do you good.
