Blog category: Vocabulary for IELTS

IELTS vocabulary related to the topic of education

By Pete on in Vocabulary for IELTS. No comments »

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I’ve said before that as part of your IELTS preparation it’s important to improve your vocabulary related to common IELTS topics, and so today I’d like to highlight some vocabulary related to the topic of education.

As you may have seen in my post ‘Discuss both views…‘, you could be given an IELTS Writing Task 2 essay related to this topic, and it will help you get a higher IELTS band score if you use a range of vocabulary in your writing.

All of the words and examples below are from the example IELTS Writing Task 2 essay at the link above.

Vocabulary for IELTS - Education

In each case, check you understand what the 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.

Verbs:

  • teach (e.g. ‘…it is the responsibility of parents to teach their children how to become good members of society’)
  • learn (e.g. ‘Children can learn how adults often contribute to their local communities…’)
  • educate (e.g. ‘…both parents and schools have a role to play in educating children in this regard’)
  • consolidate (e.g. ‘Having these lessons as part of a school curriculum can help consolidate the learning that happens at home…’)

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Around, about and approximately

By Pete on in IELTS writing, Vocabulary for IELTS. No comments »

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The words ‘around‘, ‘about‘ and ‘approximately‘ are often useful in IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, and so for those of you taking the IELTS Academic test it’s a good idea to know how to use (and spell) them correctly.

To see some examples of how to use them (and other words like them), have a look at the following sentences taken from the example answer in my post ‘The chart shows… (2)‘.

  • The number of men taking full-time courses increased from just under 100 000 in 1970/71 to around 200 000 in 1990/91, but still remained a fraction of the number studying part-time (about 900 000 in 1990/91).
  • …in 1990/91 the number of men and women studying part-time were approximately 900 000 and 1.1 million respectively. Read the full post »

Ten ways to use the word ‘environment’

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If you look at some official IELTS tests that have been published, you’ll realise that a topic that commonly occurs in the IELTS test is environmental issues.

In an IELTS Academic Reading test I just looked at, for example, there’s a text about how global warming may change sea levels. In a General Training Writing test I recently saw, Task 1 was to write a letter to an editor of a newspaper expressing your views on plans to build new apartments in a public park.

What this means is that you’re likely to see (or have to use) the word ‘environment’ in your IELTS test, and so it would be a good idea to become familiar with how this word is normally used.

Here are some examples from the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary:

A is for Academic (2)

By Pete on in Academic Word List, Vocabulary for IELTS. No comments »

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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‘.

Academic vocabulary

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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