Did you read the news about the world’s worst traffic jam?

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

Hi

With the news last week of a nine-day traffic jam in China, I thought I’d have a look around for some related resources that would be useful for your IELTS preparation.

This is the best of what I found:

  1. Urban planning could cut air pollution woes‘ is an article about how city planners could help reduce air pollution caused by traffic.
  2. The world’s worst traffic jams‘ is an article about traffic in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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Some more recommended reading for you

Monday, August 9th, 2010

Hi

As I’ve mentioned before, as part of your IELTS preparation it’s a good idea to read articles related to topics that commonly occur in the IELTS test.

To give you an idea of the types of articles that are useful, here’s a link to one that’s related to the common IELTS topics of environmental issues, science and technology, and transport. Read the full post »

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Official IELTS Practice Materials Volume 2 released

Monday, July 12th, 2010

Hi

Just to let you know that Volume 2 of the Official IELTS Practice Materials has been released.

The good news is that, like the first volume, this book contains samples of the Listening, Reading and Writing modules. The even better news is that this volume also includes a DVD of candidates taking the Speaking module.

It’s available to order on the official IELTS website now, and will be available from most IELTS test centres soon.

We’ll be picking up our copy this week.

The e-englishteacher.com team.

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IELTS and the World Cup (2)

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Hi

In your IELTS Academic or General Training reading test, you may get a text that describes the history of an event or activity.

Some examples I’ve seen in published IELTS tests are the history of the Winter Olympics and the history of mapmaking (i.e. cartography).

To get some practice reading this kind of text, check out the link to the history of the World Cup below. Read the full post »

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The opinion of Professor Savulescu (2)

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

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Here are the answers to the reading questions in my post ‘The opinion of Professor Savulescu‘. Read the full post »

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