IELTS for busy people
I put all my free IELTS lessons, tips and tricks on this website.
Each page is designed to help you improve ONE ASPECT of the test – Skills, Exam Strategies, Question Types, Grammar, Vocab or General Advice.
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If you follow my podcast, you can find some of the mini-lessons here with answers, explanations and model answers.
- 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: the 10 most common questions I get asked
- How to answer ‘to what extent do you agree or disagree?’ questions.
- IELTS Writing Workouts
- IELTS Time Management for the Reading Test
- 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
- How to write a job application for IELTS Writing Task 1
- 10 ways to make your writing LESS FORMAL in GT Task 1
- IELTS Reading: The Lost City
- 8 reasons why a free IELTS course might not help you get the score you need
- Have you hit an IELTS plateau?
- IELTS Writing Task 2 Topics and Models: Crime
- IELTS Listening: 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 build vocabulary by using practice tests
- 28 ways to make the most of your IELTS planner
- How to describe changes to a plan
- Grammar for IELTS: Modals of deduction in the Listening Test
- 28 ways to improve your IELTS vocabulary
- IELTS Reading: History of the tortoise
- IELTS Reading: How to match information
- IELTS Reading: Matching statements
- How to write a Band 9 essay
- IELTS Listening: Business Cultures
- IELTS Reading: How to complete a table
- IELTS GT Reading: Passports and Airports Part 2
- IELTS GT Reading: Passports and Airports
- IELTS Listening: Multiple Choice Questions
- IELTS Reading: How to match headings using first lines
- IELTS Reading: How comparisons can help solve Yes, No, Not Given
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- IELTS Reading: ‘Discursive’ Texts
- IELTS Reading: The Water Crisis
- IELTS Reading: Chronological Texts
- IELTS Listening: Thor Heyerdahl
- IELTS Reading: Gapfill with answers
- IELTS Reading: Doctoring Sales
- IELTS Reading: Matching People
- IELTS Listening: The history of moving pictures
- IELTS Reading: The story of silk
- 5 simple ways to improve your pronunciation
- IELTS Reading: Autumn Leaves
- IELTS Reading: Beyond the blue horizon
- 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: How did writing begin?
- IELTS Reading: Two wings and a toolkit
- IELTS GT Reading: Negotiating a pay rise
- IELTS GT Reading: Snake Oil
- IELTS GT Reading: Women in management positions
- IELTS Reading: Tidal Power
- IELTS Listening: Theatre refurbishment
- IELTS Listening: Completing a table
- IELTS GT Reading: Short courses
- IELTS Listening: Parks and open spaces
- IELTS GT Reading: Worm Farms
- IELTS Writing: Task 2 structures
- IELTS GT Reading: Emergency Evacuation
- IELTS GT Reading: High-tech crime fighting tools
- IELTS Reading: Nature or nurture?
- IELTS GT Reading: Professional Credentials
- IELTS GT Reading: Young Person’s Railcard
- IELTS Writing: A polite letter of request
- IELTS Reading: Raising the Mary Rose
- IELTS Listening: The Underground House
- IELTS Listening: Manham Port
- IELTS Reading: The Water Crisis
- A letter or email to colleagues
- IELTS Listening: Honeybees in Australia
- IELTS Reading: Easter Island
- IELTS Writing Task 2: Dress codes at work
- IELTS Listening – The dinosaur museum
- Podcast 191
- IELTS Reading: Matching Headings – Tourism
- IELTS Listening: Gender and finance
- IELTS Listening – soil and CO2
- IELTS Reading – The megafires of California
- IELTS Listening – Asiatic Lions
- IELTS Reading Test – Crop-growing skyscrapers
- IELTS Topics: Free public transport
- IELTS Reading Test – Johnson’s Dictionary
- IELTS Reading Test – The History of Glass
- Task 2 structures that strengthen your argument
- IELTS GT Reading Test – Kauri Gum
- IELTS Listening Test: MCQs in Part 4
- IELTS GT Reading Test – Serendipity
- Using ‘-ing’ (Present Participle) as a linking word to make your sentences more complex
- How a knowledge of word forms can increase your score
- How to get Band 7 in the IELTS Test
- How to make predictions in Writing Task 1
- How formal is formal writing?
- 14 simple ways to improve your IELTS Writing Score
- My Number 1 tip for saving time in IELTS Reading
- How to describe a process in IELTS Task 1
- Past Perfect – how do I use it in Academic Writing Task 1?
- Can I improve my speaking by myself?
- How do I describe a process in IELTS Task 1?
- How do I describe a cycle?
- IELTS Listening – How to follow directions
- Should I refer to research articles in IELTS Writing Task 2?
- IELTS Writing Task 2 Topic: Education
- IELTS Writing: Education
- IELTS Vocabulary Topic: Microplastics
- IELTS Vocabulary Topic: Plastic pollution
- Where do I start? Building your IELTS Vocabulary for Reading
- How to answer all parts of the question in Task 2
- Which of these General Training Task 1 Models gets the best score?
- How to make sure you answer the question in Writing Task 2