IELTS Reading: Rural Transport Project 🚜 🐴
Ok this one is pretty tedious BUT! it covers 4 question of the WORST types (Matching Headings, YNNG, Sentence completion and Q40) so it’s well worth a listen. There are also some fab collocations at the end.
12 Sep 201930min
IELTS Listening: ⛔️ SIGNALS and SIGNPOSTS to lead you to the answer.⛔️
Listening Part 3 is a very carefully structured dialogue full of signals like ‘So!’ ‘’Well!’ ‘’Now!’, emphatic structures (‘What I decided to do was....’), negative tones (‘But I’m afraid I didn’t manage to...’) and advice structures (‘If I were you I’d...’ ‘I think you should...’ ‘You really do need to...’).
29 Aug 201923min
IELTS Reading: Sustainable Architecture - 🐜 lessons from the ant 🐜
Reading about a building in Zimbabwe whose ‘air-conditioning system’ was based on termite mounds. Fascinating!
22 Aug 201934min
IELTS Grammar: a simple way of remembering the difference between ‘ing’ and infinitives 🙌🏽
If you struggle to work out when to use ‘ing’ the solution is here! Find the whole blog on my website and 10-minute tutorial on YouTube. https://www.ieltsetc.com/2019/08/ing-versus-infinitives/
15 Aug 201935min
IELTS Vocab and Reading: The true cost of food 🚜🐑👩🏽🌾
I chose this one JUST because of the vocab! It’s fabulous to review the topic of intensive industrial agriculture and its impact on the environment.
2 Aug 201933min
IELTS Reading: Climate change and the Inuit ❄️🌞🌎
A problem-solution structure with matching headings and gap-fill.
18 Juli 201931min
IELTS Reading: Bring back the big cats 🐅🐈🐾
If you listen to just one podcast this week, make sure it's this one! A fascinating text bursting with IELTS vocabulary.
4 Juli 201936min
