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What is the best online IELTS course? (Part 2) – Every online IELTS course is different, so here’s my advice on how to choose the best one for your needs. 
Read this BEFORE you buy an online IELTS course (Part 1) – There are so many online IELTS courses on the market. How do you know if what they’re offering is as… 
How to use idioms in IELTS – The IELTS test gives you Band 7 for less common and idiomatic vocabulary, but you must be careful and this… 
Nouns as adjectives: a simple tip to avoid mistakes – When can you use nouns as adjectives? This lesson shows you how to avoid common mistakes with noun modifiers in… 
How to use hyphens in IELTS – How important are hypens in IELTS? Get my simple guide to using hyphen in all parts of the IELTS test. 
IELTS Writing Feedback: keywords to improve 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… Full list of blogs
- What is the best online IELTS course? (Part 2)
- Read this BEFORE you buy an online IELTS course (Part 1)
- How to use idioms in IELTS
- Nouns as adjectives: a simple tip to avoid mistakes
- How to use hyphens in IELTS
- IELTS Writing Feedback: keywords to improve 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 won’t 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 gapfill (The story of silk)
- 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
