A tip for IELTS listening section 4

Friday, May 7th, 2010

Hi

As you probably know (and may have experienced), the most difficult part of the IELTS listening test is section 4: a four to five minute talk on an academic topic.

What I want to point out is that there’s a feature of this section that can help you follow what the speaker is talking about.

This feature is called ‘signposting‘ and this is how it works. Read the full post »

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Have you been following the news on the Icelandic volcano?

Saturday, April 24th, 2010

Hi

With all the talk this last week of ash clouds and cancelled flights, I thought I’d have a look around for some related resources that would be useful for your IELTS preparation.

This is best of what I found:

  1. Volcanoes‘ is a short talk on what volcanoes are, what causes them, and where they can be found (on Earth and on other planets).
  2. Volcanic ash affects airplanes, weather, sunsets‘ is an article about the effects of volcanic ash clouds.

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Listening to British, American, Australian and other accents

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Hi

In the IELTS listening test, the recordings include a range of native-speaker English accents, e.g. British, American, Australian, Kiwi and Canadian.

To help you become more familiar with these different accents, I’d like to introduce you to a great website with a huge choice of audio recordings of speakers from many different countries.

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