Pronunciation is 25% of your overall speaking band score and so it is obviously important that you work on it. This can be hard to do though if you are living in a country where English is not spoken and you do not have much chance to practise speaking. In this post I am going to suggest a cool website that may help you out if you are a computer… Continue reading
Here is a quick post of a link to useful site for describing graphs for academic task 1. In a way it is quite limited as it only gives you the trend-based language for time graphs, but the way it does this is excellent as it shows you how to use the vocabulary. Here are some reasons why I recommend this site to you:
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 front of your computer and you feel the need to do something else for a… Continue reading
Youtube is a fantastic IELTS resource and there is a lot of extremely good material out there. Perhaps there is too much, so here are two places to start:
voxguru: for me the king. The videos are low tech and unexciting, but the advice is as good as you will find anywhere.
EnglishRyan: also very sound advice here on the process of writing. This… Continue reading
I’ve just found a really great IELTS blog I want to share with you. It looks really terrific – which is certainly not true of everything IELTS on the net. It is
What you will find there is a real blog with daily IELTS lessons – it is as if you are there in the classroom. Not just does Simon write well, his advice is… Continue reading
Part 1 writing in the academic module is often a problem for candidates for the very good reason that it is unfamiliar. Most IELTS candidates will have written many essays before they get to prepare for the exam – it’s something everyone goes through at school or university. In contrast, the task of analysing and writing a report on a chart or graph is quite often a new experience. So… Continue reading
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
It goes without saying that a wide vocabulary is an essential requirement for academic IELTS. That is the bad news. The good news is that the words you need to know are relatively predictable. What this means is that there are certain topics (the environment, transport… Continue reading
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