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IELTS Writing Feedback: improving your Task 2 essays – What can you learn from your IELTS Writing Feedback? Here is a list of words that I use to help… 
What is a band 9 model essay? – What is an IELTS Band 9 Model Essay? Find out what will make your writing stand out with my 9… 
IELTS Writing Band 9 Task 2 model essay – How to get a Band 9 IELTS essay? Here are some of the key features and model of an advanced… 
15 Conditional Grammar tips from Zero to Mixed – Test your Conditional Grammar for the IELTS Test, from Zero to Mixed with this fun, interactive set of quizzes, poems,… 
How to use ‘willing to’ vs ‘want to’ – Are you saying ‘I’m willing to’ when really you mean ‘I want to’? In this lesson you’ll find out the… 
How to use ‘It’s (not) worth it’ – What’s the difference between ‘worthy’ and ‘worth’? Learn how to use both of these words accurately in IELTS. 
GT Writing Task 1: How to write an email to someone you don’t know – If ever you need to write an email in REAL LIFE, there are a few ground rules that will help… 
How to use ‘rise’ and ‘raise’ – What’s the difference between rise and raise? Learn how to use both of these words accurately in IELTS. 
IELTS Vocab: How to use have/get something done – How to use the English phrase ‘Have or get something done’. Check the meaning and grammar then practise using this… 
IELTS Writing: How to use ‘hedging’ language – ‘Hedging’ is a really important feature of IELTS Writing Task 2. But what is hedging and how can you use… Full list of lessons
- IELTS Writing Feedback: improving your Task 2 essays
- What is a band 9 model essay?
- IELTS Writing Band 9 Task 2 model essay
- 15 Conditional Grammar tips from Zero to Mixed
- How to use ‘willing to’ vs ‘want to’
- How to use ‘It’s (not) worth it’
- GT Writing Task 1: How to write an email to someone you don’t know
- How to use ‘rise’ and ‘raise’
- IELTS Vocab: How to use have/get something done
- IELTS Writing: How to use ‘hedging’ language
- IELTS Spelling: Words ending in -able or -ible
- IELTS Vocab: Affect vs Effect
- IELTS Grammar: How to use ‘despite’ and ‘in spite of’
- How to use formal language in IELTS Task 2
- How to improve your IELTS score
- IELTS Grammar: ‘Not only, but also’ and inversion
- How to use ‘the former, the latter’
- How to use ‘twice as much/many’
- How long will it take to increase my IELTS score?
- Word formation Practice for IELTS
- How to show concession in IELTS Writing Task 2
- IELTS Writing Task 2: How to write an introduction
- IELTS FAQs: 10 things you need to know about IELTS
- How to answer ‘to what extent do you agree or disagree?’ questions.
- A-Z of IELTS Writing Challenge
- IELTS Reading: How to read faster (10 tips)
- IELTS writing correction – how to correct your own mistakes
- How to use conditionals in IELTS Writing
- Which is better: Computer-Delivered IELTS or Paper-based?
- IELTS Writing Academic Task 1: How to describe a natural cycle
- Coherence and Cohesion for IELTS Writing Task 2
- IELTS GT Writing: How to write a letter of apology
- IELTS GT Writing Task 1: How to write a letter of complaint
- IELT GT Writing Task 1: How to write a job application
- IELTS GT Writing Task 1: 10 ways to make your writing LESS FORMAL
- IELTS Reading TFNG: The Lost City
- 8 reasons why a free IELTS course might not help you get the score you need
- How to get past 6.5 in IELTS
- IELTS Writing Task 2: A simple 4-paragraph structure that works
- IELTS Listening Test: How to recognise signals and signposts
- Grammar for IELTS: When to use ‘-ing’ forms and infinitives
- Grammar for IELTS: How to write complex sentences
- Grammar for IELTS: will vs going to
- IELTS Reading: How to use practice tests (Big Cats Reading)
- 28 ways to make the most of your IELTS planner
- IELTS Writing Task 1: How to describe changes to a plan
- Grammar for IELTS: Modals of Deduction
- 28 ways to improve your IELTS vocabulary
- IELTS Reading: 7 tips for flow charts (gapped summary)
- IELTS Reading: How to match information (glow-worms)
- IELTS Reading: Matching statements
- How to write a Band 9 essay
- IELTS Listening Section 4: Business Cultures
- IELTS Reading: How to complete a table (Stepwells)
- IELTS GT Reading: Passports and Airports Part 2
- IELTS GT Reading Text 1: TFNG (Passport Application)
- IELTS Listening: MCQs and completing a table (wildlife)
- IELTS Reading: How to match headings using first lines (UFOs)
- IELTS Reading: YNNG (Comparisons)
- The best songs to help you learn English
- IELTS Reading: ‘Discursive’ Texts (Pyramids)
- IELTS Reading Matching Headings: The Water Crisis
- IELTS Reading TFNG in chronological texts (Marie Curie)
- IELTS Listening MCQs: Thor Heyerdahl
- IELTS Reading: Gapfill with answers
- IELTS Reading: Doctoring Sales
- IELTS Reading: How to match people (Coffee and Chocolate)
- IELTS Listening: The history of moving pictures
- IELTS Reading: The story of silk (gapfill and TFNG)
- IELTS Speaking: 5 simple ways to improve your pronunciation
- IELTS Reading Matching Information: Autumn Leaves
- How to do YNNG and Multiple Choice Questions in IELTS Reading
- How to answer short questions in Speaking Part 1
- IELTS GT Reading: The Iron Bridge
- IELTS GT Reading: Company dress code
- IELTS Listening: Designing a public building
- IELTS Reading: MCQs and Matching People
- IELTS Reading: Two wings and a toolkit
- IELTS GT Reading TFNG: Negotiating a pay rise
- IELTS GT Reading: TFNG (Snake oil)
- IELTS GT Reading: how to answer ‘open’ questions
- IELTS Reading: Choosing from a list
- IELTS Listening: Lists, directions and distractors (Theatre staff)
- IELTS Listening: Completing a table
- IELTS GT Reading: Short courses (TFNG)
- IELTS Listening: Labelling a map
- IELTS GT Reading: How to label a diagram
- IELTS Writing: Task 2 structures
- IELTS GT Reading: Emergency Evacuation
- IELTS GT Reading: High-tech crime fighting tools
- IELTS Reading MCQs and TFNG: Nature or nurture?
- IELTS GT Reading: Professional Credentials
- IELTS GT Reading: Gap fill practice (Young Person’s Railcard)
- IELTS Writing Task 1: A polite letter of request
- IELTS Reading Test: How to choose a time period
- IELTS Listening Practice: How to recognise distractors
- IELTS Listening how to complete a table (Manham Port)
- IELTS Reading: The Water Crisis
- IELTS GT Writing: A letter or email to colleagues
- IELTS Listening: Honeybees in Australia
