Time management is a huge issue in the IELTS Reading Test. How can you possibly read 3 difficult texts (6 in General Training!) answer 40 difficult questions (12 different types!) transfer your answers in 60 minutes? When you’re already exhausted from the Listening Test and still worrying about the Writing and Speaking Test? (And you probably…
IELTS Reading
IELTS Reading: The Lost City
Academic Reading Passage : Matching Headings, TFNG and gapfill Learning points: use the chronological order of the text (it goes in order of TIME) to help you work out the logic of the paragraphs e.g. goals/aims come at the start of the text look for synonyms e.g. goal/aim TFNG: Look for opposite information for FALSE…
IELTS Reading: How to build vocabulary by using practice tests
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…
Grammar for IELTS: Modals of deduction in the Listening Test
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?…