Another reason why you should improve your academic vocabulary for IELTS

If you’ve read my post ‘Why is the Academic Word List important‘, you’ll know that it’s a good idea to learn more vocabulary from the Academic Word List in preparation for the IELTS Reading test. You may not know, however, that it’s also important to improve your academic vocabulary for the IELTS Listening test, particularly for Section 4 of the IELTS Listening test.

To see why it’s important, have a look at the following figures: Read the full post »

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As I’ve mentioned in previous blog posts, it’s important to learn more vocabulary from the Academic Word List (AWL) as part of your IELTS preparation.

To help you do this, here’s some academic vocabulary (all beginning with the letter ‘a’) from the text I recommended you read in my post ‘Some weekend reading for you‘.

In each case, check you understand what the academic word means or click on the word below for a dictionary definition, and then look at how the word is used in the example sentence. You could, for example, think about whether the word is used as a verb, noun or adjective.

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   • “…to make hydrogen vehicles a viable alternative to petrol-driven cars. ” Read the full post »

Hi

As I’ve mentioned in previous blog posts, it’s important to learn more vocabulary from the Academic Word List (AWL) as part of your IELTS preparation.

To help you do this, here is some academic vocabulary (all beginning with the letter ‘a’) from the three texts I recommended you read in my post ‘A news story you could be following (2)‘. Read the full post »

Hi

Here’s a link to a great online tool that I’ve been using for a while: an Academic Word List highlighter. The tool allows you to highlight words in a text that are on the Academic Word List (AWL).

And best of all, it’s free and easy to use!

Check out the video below to see how to use it: Read the full post »