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OK guys so adverbs are those words that (often but not always) end in –ly. They give us extra informati…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 …
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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 …
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…
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…
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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…
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4. Exemplification/Restatement
Exemplification connectors clarify preceding information. These connectors may introduce examples or an expansion. The most co…
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…