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This is a nice GT Part 3 Reading to get 2022 off to a great start. It practises Matching Headings, Multiple Choice AND gapfill, and it's absolutely jam-packed with useful IELTS vocabulary, so I made a Quizlet for you to review it. Go to my website "What's new" to get the Quiz Link. https://app.getbeamer.com/ieltswithfiona/en/new-podcast-marine-ecosystems
This is an academic Passage 3 about the importance of laughter.
In this episode I go through a week of tips about: "is pissed" vs "ears pierced", PEEL paragraphs, Jacinda Ardern and New Zealand accents ("bed" vs "bid"), Bruce Willis, The Sixth Sense and modals of deduction ("He must be a teacher"), Why Martin Luther King didn't say "I've got a dream", Are you feeling OVERWHELMED?, Cost vs value, When "I will" sounds like "ul", Hey! and other offensive words, Third Conditional in the LISTENING test, When was the last time you had a barbie? Get all the daily posts on my website https://ieltsetc.com
This is my weekly round-up of tips from the "What's New" tab on my free website: ieltsetc.com
In this episode we look at
If you have a question that you'd like me to answer in the Daily Tips, please get in touch.
That's a tough question. It's so hard for anyone to measure the quality and effectiveness of an IELTS course objectively unless they've taken all of the IELTS courses available!
So here's a quick checklist of things to look for in a course. Go to the blog to download the checklist; I designed it to help you make an informed decision.
https://ieltsetc.com/2021/11/best-online-ielts-course/
Here's the latest round-up of all my IELTS Daily Tips blog that you can find on my website. In this blog we go through and revise: Have or get something done How to pronounce 'ative' How to pronounce 'able' Thinking critically Research vs researchers Economic vs economical deteriorate vs get worse instill vs install funnest vs the most fun Get all the tips on my website homepage ("What's New") https://ieltsetc.com
I'm trying out a new way of sharing my tips and advice for IELTS.
If you go to the 'What's new' tab on my website, you'll find a daily tip:
https://app.getbeamer.com/ieltswithfiona/en
You can leave a comment there and ask questions if you need help or if you have any requests.
In this podcast I cover the last 7 days of tips:
Have you ever been ripped off, conned, scammed, tricked, duped or just misled when buying an online IELTS course?
In this blog and podcast, I've outlined the 10 'red flags' that you need to know about before you decide which course provider to go with.
Here are are some common tactics that you may not even notice, and they range from being simply 'misleading' to illegal.
For more information and examples that I've collected over 5 years, head to my blog, where you might like to leave a comment.
https://ieltsetc.com/2021/09/read-this-before-you-buy-an-online-ielts-course/
The 10 sales tactics that might trick you into panic-buying an online course.
1. "The course is full" (but suddenly a place became available - buy it quickly before it goes!)
2. "Only 2 spots left!" (in an email to thousands of people, 2 weeks before the course starts)
3. "Totaly value $1999 - buy today for $9.99" (Meaning: it is only worth $9.99)
4. "Normal price $99 - today only $79" (Permanent discount - illegal in some countries)
5. "The world's most successful course" (Says who?)
6. "Lifetime access" (so you can buy it and forget about it)
7. "Unlimited Speaking and Writing" (you mean 24/7? Just write and speak all day?)
8. Affiliate Marketing
9. Testimonials
10. Other red flags - bad spelling and grammar, plagiarism from other sites, stolen watermarked images, Click Funnels.
If someone emails you to tell you that they could charge hundreds of dollars for their time, but they want to help you for free, there are red flags all over the place. Walk away. Find someone that you know, like and TRUST.
Big tutoring companies can afford to lose you because there are plenty more people who will fall for false advertising.
Maybe it's time to consider the smaller business who focus their time on developing quality courses rather than scamming their students.
End of rant.
The Members Academy Reading Bootcamp started today (you can still join - it's just $28 and includes 28 days of both live and recorded lessons). This week's focus is on True False Not Given questions, so here's a taster of today's lesson.
This is an Academic Passage 1 about a sculptor called Henry Moore.
I try to get my students to make educated guesses about TFNG questions by the way they're written, and this text is a perfect example of how you can follow a hunch to get the right answer pretty quickly and save time. For example
I also teach my students to quickly divide the text according to the questions, so that they don't waste any time looking in the wrong place. This text is another perfect example of that.
The Bootcamp will run until the end of September, so if you're struggling to get your Reading Score up, come and join us.
https://members.ieltsetc.com/register/ielts-reading-skills-course/
This is an Academic Passage 3 Part 3 (Book 16), so it's tough.
In this lesson we'll look at how the language that you learn for Task 2 will help you understand the Reading, and how Reading academic texts like this will help you improve your Writing.
Some of the points I mention include:
https://ieltsetc.com/2020/06/word-formation/
- The 'marc' system for pie charts(Makes up, accounts for, represents, consists of)
https://youtu.be/bsBKQPpVs5g
https://ieltsetc.com/2021/02/willing/
- Hedging
https://ieltsetc.com/2020/12/hedging-in-academic-writing/
- Biased, subjective (Task 2 problems)
https://ieltsetc.com/2021/05/ielts-writing-feedback-40-words/
- How to talk about cause and effect
https://ieltsetc.com/2018/07/free-public-transport/
https://youtu.be/Eo8y8ygcgcI
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