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Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Learn writing skills and listen to people talking about certain topics.
These lessons will introduce possible topics that will come up on the IELTS tests.
This series is about vocabulary building.

Test Yourself

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Learn how to discuss a topic stating your facts and opinions.
Distinguish the language used for factual questions and opinion-based questions.

Test Yourself

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Learn about how to talk about businesses and discuss certain financial and economic information.
In formal academic writing, keep your language impersonal and objective. Keep it impersonal.

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Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Review on how to make comparisons and comparative adjectives in discussing the Australian economy.
Note that these videos are very out of date when it comes to economic information- they are from 2004.

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Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Learn brainstorming, note-taking, and idea developing strategies.
Learn how to further discuss the Global Warming phenomena in detail.
Strengthen your skills is translating pictures/visuals into written notes.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Further develop your language and skills regarding Global Warming and greenhouse gases.
Develop your skills in determining causes, effect, and implications.

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Continue strengthening your knowledge about the environment and environmentally-friendly technologies.
Understand how to talk about a process of how a system works.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
LOok at confusing relative pronous- that, which, and who.
Also review certain pronunciation errors.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Learn the difference between acronyms, abbreviations, and names.
This is a good basic lesson on psychology and medicine.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Learn how to connect ideas using conjunctions like and, or, but, therefore, and more.
This is a good review about environmentally-friendly technologies and energy.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking Review past tenses and learn how to form compound and complex sentences - combining two or more ideas in one long sentence. This lesson is about the medical problem of having a stroke.
Please take the test at the end of the video to see if you understand the main points.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Learn to talk about cycles. Review certain phrasal verbs and correct punctuation.
This video explains the role of mushrooms and fungi in the Carbon Cycle.
Take the quiz at the end of the video to test your knowledge.
Please take the test at the end of the video to see if you understand the main points.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Review indefinite articles - a and an - compared to the definite article - the.
This video shows an oceanographer describing monsoon predictability.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Review conditional sentences in the context of junk DNA and how they are actually quite important in to living species.
Please take the test at the end of the video to see if you understand the main points.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Review adjective use and order when comparing and describing.
This video talks about one of the last unexplored frontiers - the sea floor.
Take the quiz at the end of the video to test your knowledge.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Review how to talk about future possibilities.
Learn about the dangers of sitting still on an airpline - this a condition called Deep Vein Thrombosis or DVT.

Part - riting, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Review the features of formal written English.
This video is about how one man believes that water is the key to a healthy life.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Review how to talk about places, locations, and directions.
This article is about the geographical features of demographic information about the Torres Strait in Australia.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Review how to talk about places, locations, and directions.
This article is about the geographical features of demographic information about the Torres Strait in Australia.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Review the continuous tense and practice sentence stress.
This video is an interview with the hobby of bird watching.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Listen to a finance report including numerical data using decimals, fractions, and currencies.
This report compares the currency fluctuation of the Australian dollar.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Review how to describe the appearance and character of animals and people.
This video describes the strange phonology of octopuses.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Learn about intonation - using rising and falling tones of voice.
Also review on how to use commas.
This video is about the benefits of an afternoon nap and its correlation to productivity.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Review the simple present tense, definitions, and technical vocabulary.
These skills are required to write a report.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Review pronouns, homonyms, and suffixes.
This video is about health care problems of the poor blind individuals in rural areas.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Review on how to use the word -say- to give an example, to narrow down, to quote, and to use as a filler.
This video is about the anti-cancer qualities of the plant - ginseng.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Learn about how to describe spacial relationships and a few proverbs.
This video is about the Jarrah Forest in Western Australia.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Review how to construct paragraphs. A paragraph is a group of sentences that organizes ideas.
The video is about an interview with a meteorologist talking about the scientific significance of clouds.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Review on how to link in spoken English. Then, review the uses of the word - there.
This video is about new technologies in medicine.

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Learn about how to structuring a description of how something works.
Review some color vocabulary.
This video is about lasers- what they are and how they work.

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Review the differences between some and any.
Increase your vocabulary about space and astronomy.
This video is about a planetary geologist talking about the possibility of life on Mars.

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Review grammar tenses present perfect and simple past.
Also, hone your skills on using adverbs of time.
This video is about greenhouse gases stored in ice in the continent of Antarctica.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Review using contractions in spoken English.
Contractions are short forms in speech.
This video is about tourists helping scientists study whale sharks off the coast of Australia.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Review the use of pronouns - personal pronouns, possessive pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, and reflexive pronouns.
This video is about durian orchards.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Learn about the language of speculation and speculating about the future.
Learn how to identify and use the future tense.
This video is about the mangrove goana, and an animal that may be threatening mangrovs - the cane toad.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Learn about how to express attitude. Review the uses of so and such.
This video is about toxic cane toads and the threats they cause to humans and other animals.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Review word form groups - noun, verb, and preposition phrases.
Also, learn about some words that can be used as both nouns and verbs.
This video is about the art of welding in the manufacturing process of cars.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Review the tenses and different ways of making comparisons.
This video is about an ecologist talking about termites in tropical Australia.

Part - Reading, & Speaking
This video focuses on the reading and speaking tests with focusing on a video of an interview with an Astronomer.
Learn how to structure your answers by ordering points logically and using linking words.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Learn about how English users convey negative meanings through the use of - not.
Learn about the ancient art of glass blowing, which dates back to ancient Egyptian times.

Part - Reading
This video focuses on developing your reading skills.
The article is about naturopathic medicine.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Practice using hyphens in sentences.
Review how to show contrast by using - despite, although, and but.
This video is about a tourism in the Outback of Australia.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Learn the meanings and functions of sentences.
This video is about the function and importance of trees through an interview with a horticulturalist.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Review infinitive verbs and conversation markers.
This video is about a man who designs natural habitats for zoo animals.

Part - Listening
This video overview the Listening section of the IELTS test.
Develop your previewing and predicting skills to increase your chances of a better score and listening comprehension.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Learn how to increase your vocabulary through guessing word meaning.
Use context (words, phrases, and sentences) and root words to guess meanings.
This video is about how to help children how to read.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Practice pronunciation by focusing on words with consonants, and focus on the letter - H.
This video is about an area in Melbourne previously home to the growling grass frog.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
Review the use of adverbs. Adverbs describe actions, events, and situations.
This videos describes the problem of there not being enough skilled workers and Australia.

Part - Writing
Learn strategies on how to answer Task 1 IELTS academic questions.
Learn how to plan an essay and plan answers.
Task 1 asks students to describe data - do not interpret or comment on the data.

Part - Writing
Learn skills on how to write formal and informal letters.
IELTS Task 1 in the General Training Module asks students to write a letter.

Part - Writing, Reading, Listening, & Speaking
This video discusses how to score better on the IELTS in addition to skills needed to pass the IELTS test.
There are four modules in the IELTS test - Writing, Speaking, Reading, and Listening.
There are two IELTS tests - the Academic Test for tertiary students and professionals, and the General Test for immigrants and people going on vacation or traveling for training.

Part - Writing
IELTS essay topics are of general interest and relate to current issues in society.
Topics include - the media, education, environment, health, communication, technology, and society.
Listen to more news stories from media sources like the BBC.

Part - Writing
Learn how to organize your ideas in the Writing section of the IELTS exam.
Establish your main point in the topic sentence. Provide supporting details and examples.

Part - Writing
Grammatical range and accuracy are criteria IELTS examiners will assess you on.
Sentence types include simple sentences, descriptive clauses, and compound sentences.

Part - Writing Both Academic and General tests ask students to write essays. Topics include - media, censorship, privacy, the influence of advertising, education, testing, computers, public and private education, environment, eco-tourism, global warming, pollution, health, obesity, alternative medicine, exercise, diet, communication, the internet, mobile phones, society, youth issues, juvenile delinquecy, and aging populations.

Test Yourself

Part - Speaking
There are three parts to the Speaking Test. Examiners record interviews for later review.
Part 1 is to make you relaxed. You will be asked familiar topics like studies, travel, sport, family, food, and exercise.
Part 2 is about a topic on a prompt card to talk about for 1 to 2 minutes. You will have 1 minute to prepare notes. These are general topics including important things, festivals, architecture, and more.
Part 3 is a discussion about the topic in Part 2. The examiners look for interviewees who can talk about a topic in depth.

Test Yourself

Part - Speaking
Fluency is speaking at a natural pace. This does not mean to speak very quickly.
This video includes an interview with a professional golfer.

Test Yourself

Part - Speaking
Learn how to discuss a topic. This skill is in Part 3 in the IELTS Speaking Test.
Skills include speculating, comparing and contrasting, and identifying a trend.
This video talks about internet crimes.

Test Yourself

Part - Speaking
Learn how to express your meaning in the Speaking test.
Learn how to talk around an idea if you do not know exactly how to answer a certain question.
This idea is circumlocution - talking around an idea.
This is a skill assessed in by the test givers.

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Part - Speaking
Intonation means the change in pitch in your voice and conveys meaning of a sentence.
This is one of the assessment criteria in the Speaking test.

Part - Reading
You are required to answer 40 questions within 60 minutes.
You are also required to answer three different essays of about 900 words each.
You must use skills to read information quickly in a text.
Learn scanning and skimming techniques for this part of the test, since there is not enough time to read the passages in detail.

Part - Reading
There are 2 IELTS Tests - the Academic Test and the General Training Test.
The difference between the test is that the General Test topics are more related to daily life.
Section 1 has up to 3 short texts.
Section 2 has 2 work-related passages.
Section 3 has a longer text.

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See an example interview given by the British Council
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This is a short example test in the IELTS Speaking interview.
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See another example of how people respond to the question - What do you do to keep healthy?
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In this very short clip, see another example of how people respond to the question - What do you do to keep healthy?
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This is the second part of the IELTS exam. You have 1 minute to prepare on paper given. Talk about a familiar topic for 1 to 2 minutes. Note - this was not edited, so you have to wait through the student preparing and taking notes.
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Hear another answer to answering the familiar topic - What are common social problems in your country?
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A student answers the question - What kind of activities do people do with their families?
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A student responds to the secnd part topic - Do you think positive thinking can cure illness?
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This student makes a mistake as she does not understand the question given. Be careful, as some test givers will not explain to you the meaning of their questions.
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This student talks about the transportation system in her country.
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A student answers the general topic about city life - What changes have occurred in urban areas or cities in the last 20 years?
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A student answers the question - How does your lifestyle compare to that of your grandparents? This students answers the question very fluently and comfortably.
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Another student compares her lifestyle with that of her grandparents. The test giver has to ask the question again. Be sure to keep speaking.
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The test giver shifts from a personal question to more of a general topic - What types of problems occur between different age groups?
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The test giver moves from personal issues to the general topic - What changes have happened in the cities over the last 20 years?
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This student asks the personal topic question - IS your lifestyle different from that of your grandparents? This student answers very fluently and eloquently. There are very minor errors, but these are not counted in the overall score. Notice, she is using more of a British accent, which will actually help her score (despite what some teachers say).
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How do you think city life will change in the next few decades. This student answers very clearly, despite his native language accent. Notice the comfort of the test giver.
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This student also answers the question - How do you think city life will change in the next few decades? This student struggles a bit with her answer, and pauses to think for more reasons. This will cause the scorer to dock some points.
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This is about Part A - Familiar topics. These are general topics you should be familiar with, like family, school, hobbies, and more.
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This is about part 3 of the speaking section. You are given a topic and will be asked to talk about this for 1-2 minutes.
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Use summary sentences. Be careful of your plurals. The teacher who recorded this does not have native English, so be careful of his broken English - ex- friend-li-er, sin-gu-lar.
British English - However, this teacher speaks American-style English.

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Learn how to give complete and fluent answers on your IELTS exam. Do not just give one word or simple answers, but elaborate with plenty of detail.
British English - However, this teacher speaks with an American accent.

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This is a sample of how an IELTS speaking interview will go.
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This video shows a full IELTS speaking interview. This student is very fluent in English. She does make a few grammatical errors, but she has very high confidence and is very fluent.
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In this part, you will be given a familiar topic. You will have 1 minute to prepare and paper you can write notes. You have 1 to 2 minutes to speak.
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The interviewer in this video is an American. The student gives rather short answers. Be sure to expand and elaborate your answers. Do not say that you have not thought of a certain answer - the test is the time to think and talk about the answers! Do not say you cannot think of any answers at the moment!
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This video shows a student answering questions from the Speaking section.
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