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10 Quick Ways to improve Vocabulary

I was working on IELTS reading with a student today. He’s actually very good at reading but I noticed he missed some answers because he didn’t understand the words in the passage. Often IELTS students can’t answer the questions in reading because they don’t have enough vocabulary. You must improve it and it is actually […]

Improve your IELTS Speaking

I have recently been working with a number of students who want to improve their IELTS speaking. This is great news as often students are a little gung-ho about this and don’t really prepare well and end up disappointed in the exam. I know that for some people speaking is actually the most difficult thing […]

3 things you should know about mastering IELTS Speaking

For many, the speaking part of IELTS is easy and they do not need to do a lot of practice. This is most likely because they use English every day in their work and are quite comfortable speaking English. For others it can be quite worrying and they are afraid of this part of the […]

Your Top 10 IELTS Speaking Questions

1. I don’t have anybody to practise speaking with, how can I improve my speaking?This is a conundrum for many people, especially if you love in a remote area. Clearly to improve speaking you have to speak! However, all is not lost because there are some things you can do to practise. Firstly are you absolutely […]

IELTS Speaking Made Easy

With the vast majority of band 7 and 8 IELTS students, speaking is generally at a good level. However, what can happen is that the general good level of speaking is not always reflected in the exam result and students who are fluent and confident can sometimes score 6.5 and then have to re-take the […]

Some wise words from a successful IELTS student

One of my students sent me this message last Friday: “Hi Berni, I have a happy news for you. All credit goes to you. Got it finally. Listening: 7 Reading : 7.5 Writing : 7.5 Speaking : 7” I disagreed with the comment about ‘all credit goes to you’ which was very flattering but not […]

The perfect IELTS Band 7/8 student

I was speaking to a student today and we were joking about putting together a perfect IELTS student for band 7/8 and then making every IELTS student into this character. I could picture my best listening student, my best reading student, speaking and writing students and I said that if I were able to combine […]

Will 2014 be the year you pass your IELTS?

It’s a New Year, time for all those New Year resolutions. Have you made any yet? I really want you to make just one resolution this year and that is to pass your IELTS. It’s that simple – focus and pass – that’s it really. So, how do you focus on this one thing? There […]

10 Myths about getting a high score in your IELTS Exam

I have worked with IELTS students for many years and over this time students have told me many things about the IELTS exam that I term ‘myths’. This means they are methods or ideas that are false and don’t work. The reason I consider them to be mythology is because they are mostly not true […]

How to improve your IELTS vocabulary

I often get asked by students how they can improve their vocabulary for IELTS. Vocabulary is an area of English that can constantly be added to and the wider your vocabulary is the more you have to offer in your IELTS speaking and reading. Vocabulary is also important in listening and reading – it will […]

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