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How can watching the World Cup help with your IELTS preparation?
Well, check out the following IELTS Speaking part 2 task that I got from the Official IELTS Practice Materials 2009. Read the full post »
IELTS and the World Cup
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To self-correct or not to self-correct (that is the question)
Thursday, July 1st, 2010Hi
If you notice that you make a grammatical mistake in your IELTS speaking test, should you correct yourself or not?
When I’m asked this question by IELTS candidates, which I often am, my answer always depends on how many mistakes they make and how easy it is for them to speak fluently.
To show you why, here’s what it says in the in the public version of the official IELTS descriptors for speaking band score 7: Read the full post »
Dealing with difficult questions
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010Hi
Do you think you could answer the following IELTS speaking questions within a few seconds of an IELTS examiner asking you?
- Some people think that education should be about memorising the important ideas of the past. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
- Should education encourage students to have their own new ideas? Why?
If you get asked a difficult question in your IELTS speaking test and you can’t answer straight away, one way to sound less hesitant is to buy yourself some thinking time.
Here are some suggestions: Read the full post »
A challenging IELTS topic
Friday, May 28th, 2010Hi
How easily do you think you could answer the following questions if you were asked them in your IELTS speaking test?
- Where can people in your country get information about genetic research?
- How do people in your country feel about genetic research?
- Should this research be funded by governments or private companies?
If you’d find these questions difficult to answer because you’re not familiar with the topic of genetic research, then check out the article at the link below to get some ideas on this challenging topic. Read the full post »
One way to get more spoken fluency practice
Friday, April 30th, 2010Hi
Imagine this…
It’s your IELTS speaking test and you’re able to give extended answers to your examiner’s questions; you even give your examiner the impression that it’s easy for you to keep talking.
If that was your real speaking test, your examiner might be looking at an IELTS band score of 7.0 or higher for your speaking.
Here’s what it says in the public version of the official IELTS descriptors for spoken fluency:
- IELTS band score 7: “[Candidate] speaks at length without noticeable effort…”
If you need to improve your spoken fluency for the IELTS test, it’s important to give yourself more opportunities to speak in English. Here’s one suggestion for how you could do this: Read the full post »