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Check out the video below to see Florent, a French candidate in New Zealand, do Part 2 of an IELTS Speaking test.
As you’ll see on the video, I’ve included some comments on how Florent can improve his speaking and I’ve also said what IELTS band score he got in his test.
(If you can’t view the video above, try viewing it directly on our YouTube channel or our YouKu channel). Read the full post »
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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 »
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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.
(If you can’t view the video above, try viewing it directly on our YouTube channel or our YouKu channel). Read the full post »