What you need to know about the IELTS speaking test.
Here are a few tips for the IELTS speaking test from an IELTS speaking examiner. 1. Make sure you know what you have to do in the exam. It is really awkward when people come in without knowing anything about the exam. You ask them about their job and they just talk and talk and talk. The exam is not a chance for you to just speak. You are being tested by the examiner and talking about whatever you like is not...
How can I improve my lexical resource in writing?
This is a good question that we reveived from a member in our private Facebook group. Feel free to join. This examiner had this to say. Generally, the best way to improve your vocabulary is reading. Read a newspaper online for example, and make a note of the vocabulary that appears that you don’t know. Don’t just copy the word but copy the whole phrase. Why copy the whole phrase? Well, the people that lose Lexical Resource marks are the ones that do one of...
What rules are important for writing?
This is a good question we got asked by someone in our private Facebook group (Feel free to join). "What rules are important for writing?" These are not rules as such but pieces of advice I give my students and they are especially relevant when it comes to IELTS, TOEFL, GMAT etc. 1. Know who you are writing to. If you are writing to your boss, don’t write to them as if they were your friend. 2. Don’t use gimme, wanna,...