How to Easily Boost Your IELTS Vocabulary Score

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If your job or course involves technical language in English, integrating it into your IELTS vocabulary in your speaking responses can significantly enhance your performance. By steering your answers toward your work or studies, you can demonstrate a higher level of proficiency and confidence. Here’s how to make the most of your specialized knowledge in … Read more

How to Answer If You Know Nothing in IELTS Speaking

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Taking tests such as IELTS Speaking are extremely challenging for many reasons, with one of the main ones being that a certain amount of life experience is needed to be able to talk about some topics. However, there are ways to deal with topics you are unsure of or even ones that you don’t know … Read more

How to Speak for Longer in IELTS Speaking Part 2

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This is a great way to extend your answer for IELTS Speaking Part 2. You use a strategy to suit the question, you do well, but there is still too much time left. What do you do? Home > IELTS > Speaking > Part 2 IELTS Speaking Part 2 Quiz: It Doesn’t Need to be Hell! There are many options, but … Read more

How to Zoom In: The Most Useful Technique for IELTS Speaking

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Imagine you are just starting to watch your favourite TV series. The theme music is playing, you see a view of a city, then a neighbourhood, then a street, then a house, the camera goes in the front door of the house, into a room, then just as the music stops, someone speaks. Home > IELTS > … Read more

How to Eliminate Hesitation in IELTS Speaking Part 2

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In IELTS Speaking Part 2, the examiner will give you a cue card. You have one minute to make some notes to help you speak on that topic/question for between one and two minutes. Preferably two. Home > IELTS > Speaking > Part 2 IELTS Speaking Part 2 Quiz: It Doesn’t Need to be Hell! Notes and Actually Reading Them The … Read more

IELTS Speaking Part 2 – Phrases and Vocabulary

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Here are some sentences and phrases to help you with IELTS Speaking Part 2. These are particularly useful for students who are using one of my strategies. This is a work in progress, so there should be more added when time allows. If you use any of them, remember to change the tense to suit … Read more