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Pronunciation with English Central

Dominic Cole — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:51:26 +0000

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 [...]

Graph language – recommended website

Dominic Cole — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 08:31:39 +0000

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 [...]

A little but often – vocabulary learning with Verbalearn

Dominic Cole — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:56:56 +0000

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 [...]

IELTS and Youtube

Dominic Cole — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:24:10 +0000

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 [...]