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So sorry for the delay - I'm back now! Been working on the daily YouTube lives during Lockdown. Did you miss them? Just go to my YouTube channel (I'll add this podcast as a video if you prefer to read the text and try it for yourself).
This is a difficult Academic Passage 3 with Matching Headings, Gapfill and TFNG.
Get more Reading practice on my website.
In this podcast (also on YouTube) I ask my boss Max to give us his insider tips about #IELTS (it's exactly the same as what I say but people actually listen to him!).
Watch the video here:
https://youtu.be/vCqJ3zLGbcs
Need to read faster in the test? In this video and podcast, I'll take you through a Reading test and show you what you can do at each stage to answer the questions more quickly.
The text is called 'The Birdmen' and you can watch the video and try it yourself on YouTube:
This podcast is taken from my YouTube Video (watch this to see the text).
I take you through the first part of a Computer-Delivered #IELTS General Training Reading Test and look at the benefits of taking the test online (as well as the drawbacks!).
The first reading is horrendous - the second is much easier, so skip forward if you don't like the first one!
This is the practice test I used:
https://ielts.com.au/computer-delivered-ielts/computer-reading-practice-test/
Test 1 Part 1: Difficulty rating 8/10 😣
Test 1 Part 2: Difficulty rating 3/10 😄
And here's my FULL analysis of the Computer-Delivered test https://ieltsetc.com/2020/02/ielts-paper-computer/
Do you rely on a teacher to correct your writing mistakes for the IELTS Test? Is this the most effective way?
In this podcast I look at some research that's been done about the best way to learn from your mistakes - and the answers may surprise you!
Here is the YouTube video, where you can see all the texts that I mention:
You can find out more about the award I won from EnglishUK and CambridgeESOL for my research on error correction here:
https://www.englishuk.com/en/about-us/news-press/english-uk-news?newsId=2202
Here are some of the tools you can use to correct your own writing:
https://www.grammarly.com/
https://prowritingaid.com/
https://www.grammarcheck.net/
I also talk about times when a teacher is essential for helping students meet the criteria of the IELTS test.
I made this as a YouTube video so you can watch it here if you'd like to see the text at the same time:
It's a Part 4 gap-fill Listening and I would give it a difficulty rating of 9/10!
What do you think?
GT IELTS Matching Headings and gapfill practice.
Watch the podcast on YouTube so that you can see the text and my explanations (and try the test for yourself).
https://youtu.be/R7H38LB28P0
Part 4 IELTS Listening on the topic of Civilisation (again! See my YouTube video about this). Vocab Victor is the app where you can develop your IELTS vocab with my 28 days of Vocab wordlists.
YouTube video about Civilisation:
https://youtu.be/FzJCdaWMB7o
NEW!Vocab Victor App with all my IELTS Vocabulary wordlists from the 28-Day Vocabulary Course and Challenge!
www.vocabvictor.com
Join the course:
www.members.ieltsetc.com/mayday/
Multiple Choice and Matching in a Part 3 (student and tutor).
Watch my YouTube video about how to recognise signals in Part 3 Listening:
https://youtu.be/x6TE-ZND6xA
The Reading I mentioned is called Henry Perkins - the man who invented synthetic dyes, and I did a podcast about it with all the questions on Instagram. https://anchor.fm/ieltsetc/episodes/IELTS-Reading-last-one--The-man-who-invented-purple-e17bnl/a-a2p95f
GT Reading is not always as easy as it looks in Part 1. Yes, the texts are shorter but you have to do 2 of them in 20 mins and you need a good level of Vocab to get the answers quickly and not fall for the tricks! Here we look at Matching Info and TFNG.
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