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Do you systematically take notes during your preparation for IELTS? When? Of what? How?



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About Note-Taking - The ultimate IELTS preparation website Although it is important to consider any feedback you are getting, during your preparation for IELTS you should not rely only on your teacher for guidance and new language. There is a lot you can learn from different other sources if you take consistent notes on your own as well. Here are some tips…

What are your recurring mistakes in your IELTS writing? Do you regularly take note of all the feedback you are getting?



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Keeping Notes of Your Teacher’s Feedback - The ultimate IELTS preparation website Other than rewriting the complete letter, descriptive report or essay that you got feedback on if it was not up to standard, further ahead in your preparation it might be enough if you only create a system for your notes of your teacher’s main comments. This is going to yield a useful collection of…

Which type of letter do you enjoy writing most?

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Letter Writing: Letter Types - The ultimate IELTS preparation website Although letters are thought to be the easiest of the three task types (letters, descriptive reports and essays) on the writing part of IELTS, there are a few aspects of letter writing that can be tricky for candidates preparing for the general training module of the exam. Before you set out to resp…

Do you know how to describe a process for IELTS? What proofreading checklist do you use to edit your report?



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Descriptive Reports: Process Descriptions and Proofreading - The ultimate IELTS preparation website Many candidates signing up for the academic module of IELTS find task 1 of the writing exam challenging. Here are a few tips that might help you with descriptive reports that require a process description and an overview of how to proofread your reports in general when you are done. Describing Proce…

Are you good at identifying the type of IELTS essay required by the task? How do you brainstorm for an IELTS essay?




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Essay Writing: Essay Types and Brainstorming - The ultimate IELTS preparation website The two main parts of the IELTS essay writing process that candidates typically struggle with are identifying the type of essay required and brainstorming for ideas before writing it. Here are some ideas on how to do both. Essay Types 1, For and against essays …present both sides of an issue, disc…

Do you want to improve your IELTS writing? Check out these free writing activities to help you:

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Free Writing Activities - The ultimate IELTS preparation website Writing is HARD. There are just too many things one has to pay attention to during the writing process: the context (audience and purpose), the right register (=formal or informal, depending on the latter), the task (and its various components), generating relevant ideas and planning structure; and…

What do YOU do with your teacher's feedback on your IELTS writings? Do you ever rewrite? (You should.) :D



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Why Rewrite? - The ultimate IELTS preparation website Other than always carefully reading your teacher’s comments on and assessment of your written work, from time to time you might also want to rewrite your IELTS letters, essays or descriptive reports during your preparation to try to bring your work up to standard (i.e the band score that you are hop…

What type of written feedback do you normally receive on your IELTS writing from your teacher? Do you feel you learn enough from it?

If you are a teacher, what type of written feedback do you provide your learners with and why?



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Have you ever wondered if a language can be learned at home or only abroad? Here're some ideas on the subject.

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Home or Abroad? - The ultimate IELTS preparation website Over the years many times I have been asked by students in various language learning contexts whether a language can really be learned only abroad or ‘at home’, in your own country as well. Well, here is some good news for those of you who might not have the money to travel to a different …

Are you taking the IELTS this year too? Check out our Writing Terms Glossary on the blog, to help you prepare!

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