Are you throwing away all the good stuff? via GIPHY Learning points: IELTS tests are bursting with absolutely essential vocabulary Doing a Practice Test, checking your score and then throwing it in the bin is like buying a banana and just eating the skin (?! 😄) You must EXPLOIT the text for vocabulary and grammar…
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Grammar for IELTS: Modals of deduction
This lesson will help you understand: the meaning of ‘deduce’ and ‘deduction’ the meaning of ‘assume’ and ‘assumption’ how to make assumptions and deductions in English the grammar of modals of deduction easy ways to remember the grammar and meaning how these modals are used and tested in IELTS What do people ASSUME about you?…
IELTS Reading: History of the tortoise
Academic Reading Passage 3: open questions, TFNG, flowchart, Q40. Learning point: knowing the fundamental theories of evolution and animal types will help you skim this difficult text you can still use simple location strategies to find answers, even when you don’t know what the words mean Q40: look for the synonym of significant (remarkable) in…
IELTS Reading: How to match information
General Training Reading Passage 3 Look for: TYPES of information e.g here we need to find ‘threats’ (dangers) EXAMPLES e.g. here ‘ways in which glow-worms have been used’ or ‘glow-worm distribution‘ = examples of places where they live. General Training Passage 3 Matching Information and True/False/Not Given. I have broken up the text to help…