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Check out the video below to see Harriet, a Chinese candidate, do Part 2 of an IELTS Speaking test.
As you’ll see on the video, I’ve included some comments on how Harriet can improve her speaking and I’ve also said what IELTS band score she got in her test.
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The key to making fewer mistakes in your IELTS writing is to know what mistakes you make, what kind of mistakes they are, and how to correct them.
One way to do this is to make an error correction log, a list of your common mistakes and their corrections.
Have a look at these corrected sentences from an IELTS candidate’s essay on the importance of maintaining old buildings, and then check out the error correction log below.
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In IELTS Academic Writing task 1, how do you introduce the graph, chart, table or diagram?
Many of the IELTS candidates who I work with use ‘The chart shows…‘ or ‘The diagram illustrates…‘ but are often unsure about what information should come next.
For this reason, I’d like to show you some examples of how you can write this kind of sentence for a particular chart. (You can find the chart on the official IELTS website under ‘Academic Writing sample’).
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How many different ways of comparing things do you know?
I’m asking you this because in your IELTS speaking test there’s a good chance your examiner will ask you to make some comparisons and then listen to how you do it.
(I included some example IELTS speaking questions in a previous post).
If you use a variety of grammatical structures and/or linking words to make comparisons, you’ll have a better chance of getting the IELTS band score you need.
Here are some different ways of making comparisons (taken from a recording of two native speakers comparing the cost of living in various cities):
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As you probably know, in IELTS Academic Writing task 1 you have to write a summary of the information in a graph, chart, table or diagram (or more than one of these). When the information relates to countries such as America or Britain, which it often does, there is one very common mistake that I see a lot of our learners make…
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