IELTS Writing: 9 tips for a Band 9 essay
In this lesson, you'll see why so many model essays are NOT model essays. For each of the points I mention, you'll learn a better alternative so that you can make changes to your own writing. Here's t...
15 Juli 202430min
IELTS GT Part 1: Passport Applications and Airport Services 🛂🛄
A quick look at TFNG and a less common type of Matching Headings. Get the full text here https://www.ieltsetc.com/2019/03/ielts-gt-reading-passports-and-airports/
8 Juni 202420min
IELTS Reading: Crows and tools 🧰
Quick tips to help you with the Speaking Challenge followed by a Reading Passage 2 about the tool-making abilities of crows (and what we have in common with them). True/False/Not Given. Get the full r...
5 Feb 202434min
IELTS Reading: Stonehenge
This is my walkthrough of an Academic Passage 1 about Stonehenge. Keyword before you listen: ‘Winter solstice’ - the shortest day of the year (December 21st) Meaning: to stand still The solstice (comb...
24 Dec 202335min
IELTS Listening 🌋: academic words you need for Part 3
This listening about a research project contains several examples of ‘academic’ language (language related to studying at university) that you need to understand Listening Part 3. It's about a volcan...
26 Nov 202330min
IELTS Listening: Elephant translocation 🐘
This Part 4 Listening is all about moving elephants. In the lesson you'll learn about: using word prompts to keep your place using intonation and sentence stress to identify answers using spellin...
22 Okt 202320min
IELTS Reading: Forest Management 🌳
This is a relatively easy Passage 2 from a Cambridge Past Paper, with 3 sets of questions [Matching Information, Categorising and Gapfill]. https://ieltsetc.com/2023/10/ielts-reading-forest-managemen...
3 Okt 202320min
IELTS Listening: Victor Hugo
This Listening Part 4 about a writer called Victor Hugo is taken from the new Practice Book 18. In the podcast you'll learn why this particular test is more difficult than usual how reference words...
22 Juli 202325min
