Monthly Archives: May 2016

IELTS Listening: Multiple Choice: GM Food

Read the questions first and underline the key words/phrases. Think of synonyms and ways to paraphrase those things before the recording starts. Multiple choice questions may ask you to choose one, two or even three things from a list labelled … Continue reading

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IELTS Listening: Short Answers: Busy Life

It’s best to practice all the different question types separately so that you get used to the particular difficulties for each type. Some of the techniques you use will be the same for all of the question types. For example … Continue reading

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IELTS Reading: Matching Information: The Idea of Europe

These questions will say something like this: Which paragraphs contains the following information? The paragraphs in the passage will be labelled A, B, C … The information you need to “match” could be a: fact / reason / summary / definition / example / … Continue reading

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IELTS Listening: Notes Completion: Nuclear Disasters

Taking notes is a way of recording important information in an economical way. When you are finally over there in the UK or elsewhere studying, you’ll have to attend lectures and take notes. You’ll have to listen carefully and jot down … Continue reading

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IELTS Vocabulary: The Countryside

The countryside is a place where you might spend your free time, pursue a hobby, go for a vacation. You might have grown up there or went to school there. It might be under threat from pollution. Whatever your connection is … Continue reading

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IELTS Listening: Summary Completion: Global Real Estate

You need to listen to the audio and then complete the summary by filling in the gaps. The summary uses synonyms and a lot of paraphrasing to condense what you hear in the recording. The summary might come from a … Continue reading

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IELTS Listening: Sentence Completion: Religious Women

In this type of question, the question sentence (that you need to complete) summarises important information from either all of the recording or from one part of it. The questions might be worded differently from what’s heard on the recording — they will … Continue reading

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