Practice materials
Essay questions – a selection of essay questions
Sample essays – a selection of sample essays with tutorial advice
Sample essays
Sample IELTS essay – Families and modern life – a sample essay to download with an exercise on family vocabulary
Sample IELTS essay – School curriculum – a sample essay with a commentary on how to make your writing more coherent
Sample IELTS essay – Nuclear technology – a sample IELTS essay with a detailed commentary on how the essay is structured, coherence and cohesion and on what vocabulary was used
Planning the essay
IELTS essays – the planning process – general advice with download examples on how to plan, how long to plan and what to plan for essays
Planning an IELTS essay – the 10 minute solution – advice on how long to spend planning the essay and how to use your time efficiently in the exam
IELTS essays – 3,4, or 5 paragraphs? – advice on how to select the number of paragraphs for your essay
IELTS writing – Essay Map – recommended website – a video tutorial on how to use Essay Map for essay planning
Reading the question
IELTS essays – answering the question 1 – advice on how to read the question and identify the task and the topic
Essay vocabulary
IELTS essay vocabulary – a list – a downloadable list of vocabulary to help with structuring an IELTS essay with an explanation of how to use the vocabulary in practice
Introductions
Featured video – IELTS essay introductions – a video from IELTS Ryan on how to write an introduction to an IELTS essay
