IELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTS
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IELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTS
Join me for a weekly talk-through of IELTS topics to help you learn about the issues, vocabulary, tips and strategies you need to prepare. Find all my tips on my website ieltsetc.com and join the Members Academy for all the downloads, step-by-step online courses, and support to get you a Band 7+ i...
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How Plants Sense Temperature – IELTS Reading Made Easy
This episode breaks down a challenging IELTS Reading Passage about how plants use light a...
IELTS Reading: Music and the emotions
In this lesson, you'll learn how to use the words you DON'T KNOW to get the right answers!
It's a difficult Academic Reading Part 3, which conta...
IELTS Reading: Maternity Allowance (Money Vocabulary Topic)
This month, we've been exploring the huge topic of MONEY in the Members Academy.
It comes up in ALL parts of the test, so in this lesson, we exa...
IELTS Reading: Forced Rhubarb
This is a lovely reading about forced rhubarb: its history and how it is grown and harvested.
There are 3 question sets:
In...
IELTS Pie Charts - how to avoid making this common mistake
Always check the title of a pie chart to make sure you're providing an accurate summary of the data.
Pie charts show percentage and propo...
How to learn prepositions from IELTS Reading (The impact of climate change on butterflies)
In this lesson, we'll analyse a Part 1 Reading text with the purpose of improving our understanding and use of prepositions.
First, we go throug...
IELTS Grammar snack: A shocking 97%
Did you know that uou can use "a/an + adjective" before a statistic to express your reaction to the number?
This technique adds emphasis and hel...
IELTS Listening: A Science Experiment
In this lesson you'll learn 5 IELTS Listening Tips that (I'm guessing) nobody told you about.
Get the full lesson with bonus materials in the Br...
Can I use personal pronouns in IELTS Writing?
Get the free lesson on my blog: How to use personal pronouns in IELTS Writing.
In this lesson, we look at ways of USING and AVOIDING personal pr...
IELTS Grammar: Quantifiers few, a few, little, a little
If you really want to make a difference to your test score, stop practising grammar with useless examples that you'll never use in the IELTS test!
IELTS Reading: How animals keep fit
In this lesson, you'll practise 3 reading question types while learning essential IELTS animal-related vocabulary items such as 'hibernation' and 'mig...
IELTS GT letter of request to a singer
In this lesson we look at direct and indirect ways of asking for help.
You will learn fixed expressions that you can use in any letter of reques...
IELTS maps and plans (describing future changes)
In this lesson, we look at how you can use Listening Test maps to improve the way you describe maps and plans in the Writing Test.
In this lesso...
IELTS Reading: The Fosbury Flop
This is a talk-through of a General Training Reading Passage 3.
The text tells the story of the 'Fosbury Flop', which is a high-ju...
IELTS Listening Section 2: Tips for runners 🏃♀️
In this Listening Section 2 about tips for runners, you'll learn how to spot distractors in different question types such as matching people and multi...
IELTS Reading: How tennis rackets have changed 🎾
This is a talk-through of a Passage 1 Academic Reading text about tennis rackets (Book 19 Test 1).
It covers 2 sets of questions (True, False, N...
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...
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-pass...
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 commo...
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 y...
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...
IELTS Listening: Elephant translocation 🐘
This Part 4 Listening is all about moving elephants.
In the lesson you'll learn about:
The full transcript is available in the Bronze Memb...
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].
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
Get the full v...
IELTS Reading: The birth and growth of Manhattan's Skyscrapers. 🗽
This is a Passage 3 review about a book about The Birth and Growth of Manhattan's Skyscrapers.
This is an extremely difficult text. It would rea...
IELTS Reading: Urban farming
Farming and agriculture is my Number 1 Vocabulary topic for IELTS, and I noticed that most of the readings in this new Cambridge Practice Test Book (1...
IELTS Reading: Stadiums
This is a pretty straighforward Academic Part 2 about Stadiums.
In this podcast we'll go through 3 question types (Matching Statem...
IELTS Reading: The development of the London underground railway
I guarantee that you can do this in under 10 minutes if you follow my system.
Find the Reading online and do it yourself before you listen.
IELTS Listening Part 2: Matthews Island Holidays
Get the full blog with audio on my website:
https://ieltsetc.com/2023/04/ielts-listening-tips-complete-guide/
In this lesson, I examine th...
📝 Which is the best (free) online IELTS writing checker?
There are many free online IELTS Writing checkers available, and they can be useful when you’re starting your IELTS preparation.
Online writing...
How many IELTS Reading question types are there? (Tips on how to tackle different questions in the IELTS Reading test)
[Skip the 5-minute introduction if you want to just get to the question types!]
Different websites have different ways of categorising IELTS Rea...
How to prepare for IELTS in 10 days
The best thing about the IELTS Test is that you cannot fail it. The test simply takes a ‘snapshot’ of your current level of English.
So if you’v...
Pronunciation for IELTS Listening - how to understand fast speech
There are 7 key features of fast speech and pronunciation that you need to develop a better understanding of in order to increase your Listening Score...
IELTS Listening: Hotel Staff Turnover
In this Listening Section 2 we look at:
- Multiple choice questions
- distractors - matching from a list
- the word 'staff...
IELTS New Year Resolutions 2023
What will you do differently in 2023? Here are my 7 resolutions to help you get the IELTS test over and done with once and for all. Get all the tips o...
IELTS Reading: To catch a king 🤴👑
In this episode, I'll take you through one of my Guided Readings - it's an Academic Passage 3 from Book 17 and, unusually, it's a book review.
F...
IELTS Mindset: 😵💫 How to deal with 'too much information' (feeling overwhelmed)
Question: "How do I cope with so much information when I'm preparing for the IELTS test?"
Answer: "Just do as much as you need to do for the Ban...
IELTS Listening: 🇮🇸 The impact of digital technology on the Icelandic language
Can you guess the answers to the gapfill before you listen? In this episode I talk you through a Passage 4 where I think about 60% of the answers are...
IELTS Reading: Feathers as decoration in European History
A tricky GT Part 3 Reading with Matching Headings, Multiple Choice, and Matching Sentence Endings.
IELTS Mindset Part 3: How to ask SMARTER questions
I've spoken a lot about Mindset for IELTS in 2 earlier blogs:
1. How to train your mindset for IELTS
https://ieltsetc.com/how-to-train-you...