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How many different ways of comparing things do you know? (For those of you who have been reading this blog for a while, you may remember that I’ve asked you this question before).

I’m asking you this again 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.

As I said in my the post ‘Compared to…‘, 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 a native speaker comparing two cities in her country): Read the full post »

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At the end of last year, I wrote a post explaining what complex sentences are and why you should use them in your IELTS writing. Today, I’d like to give you a couple more examples of complex sentences and show you why they are important in IELTS speaking. Read the full post »

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I often get asked by IELTS candidates about whether they need to use complex sentences in their IELTS writing, and so I thought I’d use this post to explain what complex sentences are and why it is important to use them.

Complex sentences are sentences which have two or more parts called ‘clauses’ joined by words such as ‘if’, ‘when’ or ‘so that’.

To show you what I mean, here are two examples from an essay written by an IELTS candidate who used our IELTS tutoring service and got 6.5 for her writing. Read the full post »

Hi

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):

Read the full post »

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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 candidates we are tutoring make.

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