Gold Coast IELTS Podcast
Welcome to the Gold Coast IELTS podcast. This podcast is specifically for my students living on the Gold Coast and anywhere else in the world. This is where you can find the best IELTS writing preparation tips on the web. If you have any questions, please drop me a line. Expect one or two new podcasts every week. Enjoy! Also, please visit the website at:
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I have podcasts, a blog, and all the Cambridge IELTS exams with all listening MP3s (Cambridge IELTS Academic 5-14).
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 4 minutes
- Episodes
- 33
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2020
32. IELTS Task 2 : "Using adverbs in task 2"
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OK guys so adverbs are those words that (often but not always) end in –ly. They give us extra informati…
31. IELTS Task 1 : "Talking about the future with future perfect continuous tense"
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Today let’s take a look at the future perfect continuous tense and how it can be effectively used in the IELTS exam to explain what will be happening at a pa…
30. IELTS Task 1 and 2 : "Future predictions with 'will' and 'going to'
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There is no doubt that in IELTS we need to be able to describe what has happened and what is happening, but we also need to be able to make predictions for t…
29. IELTS Task 1 : "Past simple, past perfect, and past perfect continuous in IELTS task 1"
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The past simple, past perfect, and past perfect continuous tenses are great to use in IELTS. We can use them to compare actions that happened in the past and…
28. IELTS Task 1 : "Using the present tenses in the IELTS exam"
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Present tenses are used a lot in the IELTS exam, especially in the task 1 task. The two kinds of present tense verb in English are present simple and present…
27. IELTS Task 1 : "Using countable and uncountable nouns"
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Countable and uncountable nouns is a subject that many learners, even very advanced learners, have a lot of trouble with. In this podcast, we will look at qu…
26. IELTS Tasks 1 and 2: "Using noun phrases"
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Noun phrases are the building blocks of any language. They can refer to ideas, things, situations or just about anything else that you can imagine. There wil…
25. IELTS Task 1 : "Using the simple past and present perfect"
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Time is a tricky thing to get right, and the way you describe it in a task 1 shows how accurate your language is. IELTS task 1 charts usually show info…
24. IELTS Task 1 : "Using nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs"
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Today let’s do a quick podcast and learn a great technique that not many people know about. It’s a simple language variation technique that is especially use…
23. IELTS Task 1 : "Using comparative language in a task 1"
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In the IELTS task 1 many people describe the details of the charts quite well, but the forget to make adequate comparisons. There are many ways of comparing …
22. IELTS Task 2: "Using referencing language for cohesion and coherence"
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Another skill that is going to help us get a high score on the cohesion and coherence part of the IELTS test is making good use of referencing, which means …
21. IELTS Task 1 : "Using sequencing connectors and relative clauses in a task 1 process essay"
Last time we looked at how to use the passive voice in an IELTS task 1 process essay. Let’s keep going with this idea and check out the last two things we need to use to make a really GREAT written p…
20. IELTS Task 1 : "Using the passive in a process essay"
There are many ways to use the passive voice in the English language. Firstly, let’s take a look at the different forms of the passive, then we can look at its uses. There are 14 different ways to us…
19. IELTS Task 2: "How to write a 3-sentence conclusion"
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So today guys lets look at how to write the conclusion of an IELTS task 2. A lot of IELTS students get confused at this part and try to rewrite and come up w…
18. IELTS Task 1 and 2: "Discourse connectors - PART 2"
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4. Exemplification/Restatement
Exemplification connectors clarify preceding information. These connectors may introduce examples or an expansion. The most co…
17. IELTS Task 1 and 2: "Discourse connectors - PART 1"
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Let’s talk about cohesion and coherence today. I wrote a blog about this topic, which explained what you should do to get a high CC score. In this podcast I …
16. IELTS Task 2 : "7 connecting phrases to use"
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OK guys so I don’t have a lot of time today. Corona virus seems to have made me more busy than usual even. Today let’s focus on some different ways…
15. IELTS Task 2 : "Writing a 3-part body topic sentence"
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All body paragraphs will need to have a very clear topic sentence in the sentence initial (S1) position. The purpose of the topic sentence in an…
14. IELTS Task 2 : "Analysing a task 2 question into 3 parts"
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In today’s podcast let’s take a step back. We probably should have done this a few weeks ago so I have to apologise about that. Today, let’s loo…
13. IELTS Task 2 : "Write a 4-sentence body paragraph"
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As I promised you all in podcast 12, today we can look at another, alternative way to write a fairly simple IELTS task 2 body…