IELTS Tips: Writing and Speaking

Hi Pelawat, As promised, this email is all about the Writing and Speaking tips, and how you can use IELTS-Blog to get better at both of these skills. You may remember that we talked about breaking down your preparation into 2 stages, where stage 1 is learning the techniques, and stage 2 is practicing. And of course you need resources for these two stages. Below you will find links to helpful tips and samples, and a way to get a teacher's help when you need it. Writing tips Understand how your essay is marked - click here Learn how to avoid getting penalized - click here Four mistakes you shouldn't make in IELTS writing - read here Learn the difference between formal and informal writing here Transitional phrases you can use - click here Improve coherence - use connective words (read part 1 here, part 2 here, part 3 here, part 4 here) Free Writing Samples Complete Writing tests with model answers - click here Essay samples of Band 8 - click here Essay samples of Band 7 - click here Report samples of Band 7 - click here Letter samples of Band 8 - click here Letter samples of Band 7 - click here   Writing Tasks for practicing  From recent IELTS exams here you can borrow the writing topics and use them to practice in writing your own essays. To get a teacher to analyze your writing and show you how to improve - click here Speaking Tips Learn how to handle the Interview part - click here  How to speak and answer questions on a Cue Card - click here How to improve your Speaking score - click here Speaking tips from an IELTS examiner - click here Free Speaking samples Speaking test video of Band 8.5 candidate with examiner's commentary - click here Watch our students take a Speaking test + examiner's explanation how they can raise their scores by one whole band  - click here Complete Speaking tests with model answers - click here Complete speaking recordings of real candidates with Examiner's reports - Band 8 here, Band 7.5 here Recordings of speaking samples, each with an evaluation report - click here Video of a Speaking test (Cue Card and Discussion) - click here Speaking topics Use the large collection of topics from past exams, shared by students here This should be enough to keep you busy for a couple of days :) I will send you more links to IELTS free resources later.   Meanwhile, have a productive day!   Warm regards,   Simone Braverman Founder of IELTS-Blog.com Web: https://www.ielts-blog.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/IELTS.exam Subscribe to my RSS or follow me on Twitter

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