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The best FREE IELTS writing resources in 2023

Here’s a list of what me and my Members Academy students think are the best free IELTS writing resources available online.

There are hundreds of free IELTS materials and websites, but the quality varies. This page shows you where to find the most reliable resources to improve IELTS Writing.

Get all the links in this PDF. 

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Free IELTS writing materials - general sites

EAP Foundation.com takes you through different aspects of Academic Writing, like essay types, style and paraphrasing.

British Council Learn English Teens has excellent Task 1 and 2 colour-coded models like this For/Against essay about the internet.

WriteandImprove.com uses technology developed at the University of Cambridge to mark your writing. The first one is free.

The UEFAP.com site (Using English for Academic Purposes) looks old-fashioned, but it still provides basic and useful information e.g. how to use signal words and different types of cohesion.

Manchester University Phrasebank – lots of help for Academic Writing

An A-Z of Writing Skills (Skillsyouneed.com/write).

Free IELTS writing feedback resources

Analyzemywriting.com – ‘an online text content and readability analyzer. Copy and paste a text into the homepage and gain a wealth of information about your text including word and character counts, word and sentence lengths, the readability of your text, and other analyses’.

Virtual Writing Tutor (virtualwritingtutor.com) checks your writing for free. 

Wordtune is a Google Chrome Extension that offers alternatives for any sentence you highlight.

Free IELTS Writing materials for collocations

  • English Club has a fantastic A – Z of collocations
  • Collocation Checker – Just-the- word.com
  • Sketchengine.co.uk (SKELL) helps you find words that go together and synonyms
  • Wordhippo.com – a kind of thesaurus an SO much more.
  • Ludwig.guru – ‘a search engine that helps you write better English by giving you contextualised examples from reliable sources’.
  • Lexico.com does something similar – it gives you lots of sentences with the word in context so you can see how it’s used (not just the meaning).

Get all the links in this PDF.

Free Spelling and Punctuation guides

  • Howtospell.co.uk – spelling lessons with videos
  • Thepunctuationguide.com – check all kinds of punctuation rules

Free IELTS materials for getting ideas

British Council Video Zone has lots of bite-sized video lessons on a variety of topics

ScientificAmerican.com/podcasts is a useful podcast with 1-minute IELTS-style articles

TubeQuizard is a fabulous place to do exercises based on well-chosen YouTube videos.

Improve your vocabulary through Reading and Listening with these awesome sites:

  • CommonLit.org
  • Newsela.com

Free IELTS grammar practice for IELTS

  • Englishclub.com has a great grammar section with lots of quizzes.
  • The coursebook English File, has its own site with lots of graded grammar practice

See also:

  • The best websites for IELTS Listening 
  • The best websites for IELTS Vocabulary.
  • The best websites for IELTS Reading

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