IELTS Reading: Motivational Factors and the hospitality industry 👩🍳🧑🍳
This is an extremely difficult Academic Reading Passage 3. It took me 30 minutes to find the answers even with the answer sheet in front of me. What can we learn from a text like this? Background kn...
29 Dec 202028min
IELTS Advent Challenge Tasks 🎄1 - 12
No time to do my Advent Challenge? This podcast (watch the video version on www.YouTube.com/fionawattam) talks you through the past 12 days, so you'll get up and running really quickly! It's never too...
12 Dec 202040min
IELTS Listening Part 3: Children's Literature Course 📚
Is this Listening more difficult than usual? I got a special request from Elango in my Members Academy, and yes I think it is a tricky one! I had to read the tapescript very carefully to figure out th...
25 Nov 202029min
IELTS Reading: Why fairy tales are really scary tales 🧚♀️👻
I had a special request from Isabella on Instagram today 👋🇧🇷. She asked me to look at a really difficult text (yes, this one's 9/10!). It's an Academic Passage 3 and it follows the Reading Type 2 s...
24 Okt 202030min
IELTS Reading: 🚴♀️Bike-sharing schemes around the world
Do you have a bike-sharing scheme where you live? In London there are the so-called 'Boris bikes' (named after Boris Johnson, who launched them in 2010 after being inspired by the success of a similar...
18 Okt 202030min
IELTS Listening: The hunt for sunken settlements and ancient shipwrecks 🚢⚓️⚱️
This is a difficult Section 4, but if you listen to my podcast regularly, you will be very familiar with this common IELTS topic! It's about marine archaeology, the use of technology to find ancient s...
10 Okt 202030min
IELTS Reading GT Part 2: Border crossing and Dealing with absence in the workplace
Both texts are gapfill summaries. The first one gives you practice with summary Flow Charts (IELTS 28-Day Planner Day 12) and the second covers the common topic of how to deal with absence in the work...
3 Okt 202020min
IELTS Listening: Agricultural programme in Mozambique 👩🏽🌾🌾🐝🎣
Listen out for the 5 most common gapfill types in this Part 4 gapfill on the very common topics of Agriculture and Water (28-Day Planner Week 1). Practise these topics on my website: https://ieltsetc....
22 Sep 202030min
