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IELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading: Plant thermometers 🌡️How Plants Sense Temperature – IELTS Reading Made EasyThis episode breaks down a challenging IELTS Reading Passage about how plants use light and temperature to grow. I’ll guide you through the key ideas, explain tricky vocabulary, and help you answer the questions with confidence. Perfect for Band 6–8 students who want to improve comprehension, build science-related vocabulary, and boost their IELTS Reading score.2025-05-0730 min
IELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading: Music and the emotionsIn this lesson, you'll learn how to use the words you DON'T KNOW to get the right answers!It's a difficult Academic Reading Part 3, which contains several scientific terms that might cause confusion.But I will show you how IELTS uses these words for gapfills, and you'll learn the 6 'triggers' that indicate the answer.Get the full video lesson in the Bronze Membership on my website, and in the full Members Academy.https://ieltsetc.com/ielts-tips-and-tricks/Reading SummaryMusic is a powerful force that...2025-02-1827 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading: Maternity Allowance (Money Vocabulary Topic)This month, we've been exploring the huge topic of MONEY in the Members Academy.
It comes up in ALL parts of the test, so in this lesson, we examine two very similar General Training Texts in order to learn more about the topic of government benefit systems and the allowances that you might be entitled to.
Each country's benefit system is different, so it's really worth a listen as you'll learn valuable information and keywords.
Get the video and full text with vocabulary list in the Bronze Academy on my website.
...2025-01-2023 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading: Forced RhubarbThis is a lovely reading about forced rhubarb: its history and how it is grown and harvested.
There are 3 question sets:
Matching Headings
Multiple Choice
Gapfill
In this lesson you'll learn more about the general topic of FOOD and how this topic is tested in all parts of the IELTS test.
Get the full lesson in the Bronze Academy on my website.
https://ieltsetc.com/2024/12/ielts-vocabulary-of-food-cooking-and-eating/2024-12-2323 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Pie Charts - how to avoid making this common mistakeAlways check the title of a pie chart to make sure you're providing an accurate summary of the data.
Pie charts show percentage and proportion, not numbers. Here's an example of a mistake that is very easy to make when you're under pressure.
So practise plenty of pie charts before the test and get ready to use the language related to pie charts - listen till the end to find the 'marc' verbs that will help you.
Get the full lesson on my website and in the Members Academy Study Programme.
https://beacons.ai/ieltswithfiona
#ielts #ieltstask1 #ieltspiechart2024-12-1312 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSHow to learn prepositions from IELTS Reading (The impact of climate change on butterflies)In this lesson, we'll analyse a Part 1 Reading text with the purpose of improving our understanding and use of prepositions.
First, we go through the True, False and Not Given questions, followed by the Gapfill questions and then we go back to the first paragraph to analyse the prepositions.
This is something that I recommend you do regularly - spend 5-10 minutes 'noticing' language from real contexts like the Reading and Listening tests.
In the lesson you'll learn how to do this yourself and build up your independent learning skills. The vocabulary from...2024-11-2330 min
IELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Grammar snack: A shocking 97%Did you know that uou can use "a/an + adjective" before a statistic to express your reaction to the number?
This technique adds emphasis and helps the listener or reader understand your perspective on the data.
Examples:
A staggering 95% of teenagers spend over 4 hours daily on social media.
An alarming 62% of young adults report experiencing significant anxiety.
A heartening 78% of volunteers say they feel more connected to their community.
A disappointing 34% of students complete their language learning goals.
An impressive 92% of renewable energy targets were met this year.
A troubling 46% of food produced globally goes to wast...2024-11-0509 min
IELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Listening: A Science ExperimentIn this lesson you'll learn 5 IELTS Listening Tips that (I'm guessing) nobody told you about.
Get the full lesson with bonus materials in the Bronze Academy on my website.
https://ieltsetc.com/2024/10/5-ielts-listening-tips-nobody-told-you-about/2024-10-1526 min
IELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSCan I use personal pronouns in IELTS Writing?Get the free lesson on my blog: How to use personal pronouns in IELTS Writing.
In this lesson, we look at ways of USING and AVOIDING personal pronouns in Writing Task 2 essays.
You'll learn when to use "I", "we" and "you", and you'll get examples of how to avoid personal pronouns by using plurals, the passive voice, and more general language.
https://ieltsetc.com/personal-pronouns-in-ielts-writing/2024-10-0818 min
IELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Grammar: Quantifiers few, a few, little, a littleIf you really want to make a difference to your test score, stop practising grammar with useless examples that you'll never use in the IELTS test!
In this grammar review we look at how to use few, a few, little and a little SPECIFICALLY FOR the IELTS test.
You'll learn useful expressions that you can use in the Writing and Speaking Tests, and you'll find out how to avoid common mistakes with these quantifiers in the Reading and Listening Tests.
Get the full lesson in the Bronze Academy, starting at just $4 per month.2024-09-2418 min
IELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading: How animals keep fitIn this lesson, you'll practise 3 reading question types while learning essential IELTS animal-related vocabulary items such as 'hibernation' and 'migration'.
I also discuss differences between two summaries, which will help you use more formal language in the writing test e.g. to maintain fitness vs to stay fit.
For example:
(Advanced Summary)
The article explores how animals maintain fitness differently from humans. Unlike humans, who need consistent training to prepare for endurance challenges like marathons, many animals maintain or even enhance their fitness without deliberate exercise.
(Intermediate Summary)
2024-09-1628 min
IELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS GT letter of request to a singerIn this lesson we look at direct and indirect ways of asking for help.
You will learn fixed expressions that you can use in any letter of request letter, and you'll also learn how to demonstrate flexibility with a variety of tenses when you 'give details of your musical activities'.
Find the full lesson with models and interactive practice on my website (Bronze Academy).
https://ieltsetc.com/2024/09/ielts-general-training-letter-of-request/
You recently went to a concert and thought one of the singers was very good. You want to tell him/her how you feel.2024-09-1016 min
IELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS maps and plans (describing future changes)In this lesson, we look at how you can use Listening Test maps to improve the way you describe maps and plans in the Writing Test.
In this lesson we'll cover
How to talk about FUTURE changes
How to avoid over-using 'going to'
How to use the passive tense
How to use the vocabulary of change related to maps
We also review map prepositions, and we look at a model answer. The lesson ends with a list of map expressions collated from 4 real Listening Tests.
Members get the full lesson on my website:2024-08-3024 min
IELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Listening Section 2: Tips for runners 🏃♀️In this Listening Section 2 about tips for runners, you'll learn how to spot distractors in different question types such as matching people and multiple choice.
Get the full lesson with 180+ more lessons in the Bronze Academy
https://ieltsetc.com/2024/07/ielts-listening-matching-people-distractors/
Get the list of phrasal verbs to talk about hobbies (Free)
https://app.getbeamer.com/ieltswithfiona/en/phrasal-verbs-hobbies-and-new-skills2024-08-0620 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Writing: 9 tips for a Band 9 essayIn this lesson, you'll see why so many model essays are NOT model essays.
For each of the points I mention, you'll learn a better alternative so that you can make changes to your own writing.
Here's the question:
Some people believe that charities should help people in need no matter where those people are in the world. Others feel that these organizations should only serve the people living in the country where they are based.
Discuss both sides and give your own view.
Find the full lesson on...2024-07-1530 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS GT Part 1: Passport Applications and Airport Services 🛂🛄A quick look at TFNG and a less common type of Matching Headings.
Get the full text here https://www.ieltsetc.com/2019/03/ielts-gt-reading-passports-and-airports/
2024-06-0820 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading: Crows and tools 🧰Quick tips to help you with the Speaking Challenge followed by a Reading Passage 2 about the tool-making abilities of crows (and what we have in common with them). True/False/Not Given. Get the full reading here https://www.ieltsetc.com/2018/11/ielts-reading-two-wings-toolkit/2024-02-0534 min
IELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Listening: Elephant translocation 🐘This Part 4 Listening is all about moving elephants.
In the lesson you'll learn about:
using word prompts to keep your place
using intonation and sentence stress to identify answers
using spelling patterns and plurals to get the right answers
The full transcript is available in the Bronze Membership on my website.
https://ieltsetc.com/2023/10/ielts-listening-part-4-keeping-up-with-the-speaker/
2023-10-2220 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading: Forest Management 🌳This is a relatively easy Passage 2 from a Cambridge Past Paper, with 3 sets of questions [Matching Information, Categorising and Gapfill].
https://ieltsetc.com/2023/10/ielts-reading-forest-management/2023-10-0320 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading: The birth and growth of Manhattan's Skyscrapers. 🗽This is a Passage 3 review about a book about The Birth and Growth of Manhattan's Skyscrapers.
This is an extremely difficult text. It would really help if you have the text in front of you.
The only good thing about this text is that everything goes in COMPLETE ORDER and we know where everything is, because it goes from 'Chapter 1' to 'Chapter 10'.
The Yes, No, Not Given questions are not too difficult either.
But the last Gapfill Summary with Answers is a nightmare.
Good luck with it!2023-06-2723 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading: Urban farmingFarming and agriculture is my Number 1 Vocabulary topic for IELTS, and I noticed that most of the readings in this new Cambridge Practice Test Book (18) are related either to the environment (Week 1 of my vocab course) or to cities/architecture/buildings (Week 2 in my Vocabulary course - the Man-Made Environment).
So make sure you re-read this text for the useful vocabulary e.g. sustainable, organic, intensive farming.
Members: the video version of this podcast with pdf download is now available for you to watch.
...2023-06-1222 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading: The development of the London underground railwayI guarantee that you can do this in under 10 minutes if you follow my system.
Find the Reading online and do it yourself before you listen.
Learn more about my IELTS Reading techniques with TWO courses in the Members Academy.
ieltsetc.com/courses2023-05-1924 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Listening Part 2: Matthews Island HolidaysGet the full blog with audio on my website:
https://ieltsetc.com/2023/04/ielts-listening-tips-complete-guide/
In this lesson, I examine the MACRO and MICRO skills you need to get all of the answers right in this Section 2 IELTS Listening about a holiday company.
For example:
Background knowledge (what you already know about holiday companies, tour itineraries, travelling/place names in the UK etc etc)
Vocabulary (phrasal verbs, synonyms, numbers)
Spelling (ea words, al/ol words)
Grammar (comparisons, 'used to', perfect modals for guessing)
Accents (Northern English 'u')
Pronunciation features (meet you)
Linking (However...)
Signalling...2023-04-2028 min
IELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTS📝 Which is the best (free) online IELTS writing checker?There are many free online IELTS Writing checkers available, and they can be useful when you’re starting your IELTS preparation.
Online writing checkers such as Grammarly can give you simple feedback on your grammar, vocabulary and linking words.
There are more sophisticated versions available that claim they can assess your IELTS writing using the Band Criteria, and give you a grade and feedback in a matter of seconds.
But how accurate and reliable are they?
I tested a few and here are my results.
The one...2023-03-2323 min
IELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSHow many IELTS Reading question types are there? (Tips on how to tackle different questions in the IELTS Reading test)[Skip the 5-minute introduction if you want to just get to the question types!]
Different websites have different ways of categorising IELTS Reading Question types.
See my latest blog for all the details:
https://ieltsetc.com/2023/03/how-many-ielts-reading-question-types/
In my online courses, I follow the official IELTS.org guidelines, and I have simplified the types so that you focus more on developing your reading skills. Developing good reading skills will enable you to answer all question types.
The 3 basic categories are:
Matching things (headings, statements, features, sentence endings, dates...2023-03-1021 min
IELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSHow to prepare for IELTS in 10 daysThe best thing about the IELTS Test is that you cannot fail it. The test simply takes a ‘snapshot’ of your current level of English.
So if you’ve suddenly realised that you need to take the test in 10 days don’t panic too much. Consider it a ‘practice run’.
10 days is just enough time to familiarise yourself with the test requirements so you can give yourself the best chance of getting the best indicator of your overall ability.
Here’s what I would do in the next 10 days.
Read the blog here
...2023-02-2034 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSPronunciation for IELTS Listening - how to understand fast speechThere are 7 key features of fast speech and pronunciation that you need to develop a better understanding of in order to increase your Listening Score:
Features of connected speech (dropping sounds, adding sounds, changing sounds, weak sounds and twin sounds).
Word boundaries
Homophones
Sounds that are different or don’t exist in your language
Accents and rhoticity (‘r’)
Minimal pairs
Consonant Clusters
Read the full blog here.
https://ieltsetc.com/2023/02/ielts-pronunciation-tips-listening-test/
Buy the workbook guide here:
https://payhip.com/b/HzVmy2023-02-1126 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Listening: Hotel Staff TurnoverIn this Listening Section 2 we look at:
- Multiple choice questions
- distractors - matching from a list
- the word 'staff' and how it's repeated 32 times
- how to pronounce 'staff'
- academic language you can use in Task 2
Improve your IELTS score with my intensive Listening Course:
ieltsetc.com/courses2023-01-2627 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS New Year Resolutions 2023What will you do differently in 2023? Here are my 7 resolutions to help you get the IELTS test over and done with once and for all. Get all the tips on my Daily Tips page https://app.getbeamer.com/ieltswithfiona/en and get all my lessons on my website ieltsetc.com. Join the Members Academy to make faster progress.2023-01-1329 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading: To catch a king 🤴👑In this episode, I'll take you through one of my Guided Readings - it's an Academic Passage 3 from Book 17 and, unusually, it's a book review.
Follow my Advent Challenge on my website:
https://ieltsetc.com/ielts-advent-adventure/
Join the Members Academy:
https://ieltsetc.com/courses
2022-12-1632 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Mindset: 😵💫 How to deal with 'too much information' (feeling overwhelmed)Question: "How do I cope with so much information when I'm preparing for the IELTS test?"
Answer: "Just do as much as you need to do for the Band score that you want."
In all aspects of life, there are different levels of expertise and knowledge.
Deciding what you want to do with your IELTS score will help you manage your time and your learning.
I've carefully programmed this into the Members Academy.
Aiming for Band 6? Just watch the videos.
Need to get Band 7? Watch the videos and do the practice.
Want Band 8/9? Do the EXTRA practice that I include in...2022-11-1329 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Mindset Part 3: How to ask SMARTER questionsI've spoken a lot about Mindset for IELTS in 2 earlier blogs:
1. How to train your mindset for IELTS
https://ieltsetc.com/how-to-train-your-mindset-for-ielts/
2. How to stop making excuses and start making progress
https://ieltsetc.com/2020/11/improve-ielts-score/
In this (rather long) podcast I talk about asking SMARTER questions to get smarter answers.
S = Specific (Why, What, Why, When, Where?)
M = Measurable (How much? How many?)
A = Achievable
R = Realistic
T = Time-bound
E = Evaluate
R = Revise2022-10-1637 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Listening Part 3: Veterinary science studentsIn this podcast, you'll practice listening for the tricks in Multiple Choice Questions.
This is yet another Listening based on the topic of farming, and it includes many of the keywords on my IELTS planner list Day 1 (Agriculture), for example:
- breed
- bred/reared
- livestock
- to increase production
- domesticated animals
- controlling and eradicating those diseases
Add these to your wordlist and check out the other lessons related to agriculture on my website https://ieltsetc.com.
Get...2022-09-2622 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Writing Task 2: How to write a Band 9 essay [Introductions]In today's September Challenge, we're reviewing Task 2 essays, starting with how to write a good Introduction.
Check out the blog I refer to here (with a model essay):
https://ieltsetc.com/2021/03/ielts-band-9-sample-essay-charity/
and learn more about Introductions here:
https://ieltsetc.com/2020/05/ielts-writing-task-2-how-to-write-an-introduction/2022-09-0520 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Writing Task 1: 🐟🍗Consumption of meat and fish.Day 3 of the September IELTS Planner Challenge is all about describing changes in Writing Task 1.
See the graph and video here.
https://app.getbeamer.com/ieltswithfiona/en/september-challenge-day-3-writing-task-1
Or just go to my Daily Tips Day 3 on ieltsetc.com2022-09-0417 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading GT: 🥾The best hiking bootsThis is Day 1 of my free IELTS September Challenge 2022.
Follow the challenge every day on my website (What's new - daily tips):
https://app.getbeamer.com/ieltswithfiona/en/september-challenge-day-1-reading-the-best-hiking-boots
Get your FREE copy of the planner and work through it with me:
https://payhip.com/b/7OZlV2022-09-0116 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Listening 🍁 Maple Syrup 🇨🇦In this lesson we cover more words from The List (my 100 Most Common Listening Gap Fill Answers).
Pay special attention to the second half, where the speaker describes how maple syrup is produced. This is really useful for Academic Writing Task 1.
Get my guide to IELTS Reading Book 17 (Course) in the Members Academy with all the other workbooks, guides, planners and lists.
Get individual printable PDF guides in my shop:
https://payhip.com/ieltswithfiona
Thank you for supporting my small business.2022-07-2729 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading: 🍅 Domesticating the tomatoThis is an Academic Test Passage 2 Reading from Book 17 and the podcast covers 3 types of questions: matching information, matching people, and gapfill.
In the podcast I discuss how you can understand more of the text if you learn my basic vocabulary lists - you can buy my 3 IELTS vocabulary workbooks and guides on my website shop:
- A complete guide to IELTS Word Formation and Spelling
- A complete guide to IELTS Vocabulary
- A complete guide to the most common IELTS Listening gapfill answers.
https://payhip.com/ieltswithfiona
If you're trying to improve your Academic Reading Skills, I have 2...2022-07-1833 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Listening: LabyrinthsBook 17 Test 1 Part 4
I chose this Listening just because it's from the most recent Cambridge Practice Test book, and I was pleased to see that all of the gapfill answers conformed to my theories about common IELTS gapfill answers e.g. uncountable nouns, irregular word forms, "made from ____" etc.
I put all of my research together in a handy little booklet which you can get in my shop:
https://payhip.com/b/vQlet
I also mentioned the previous Listening Podcast I did a couple of weeks ago, which also refers to these patterns (The History of Cleaning):
https://app.getbeamer...2022-07-0927 min
IELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Listening: 🧼 Early History of Keeping CleanThis is a Section 4 IELTS Listening Test Gapfill Summary based on a lecture about the history of keeping clean.
Get more listening practice on my website or follow my 28-day Listening Course in the Members Academy.
https://ieltsetc.com/courses2022-06-2523 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTS⭐️IELTS with Fiona daily tips from February 2022⭐️Here's my roundup of daily tips from February. Watch the video version on YouTube with this link:
https://youtu.be/zZ0TLDv0qxc
In the podcast we'll review:
- Idioms for IELTS Speaking ('food for thought' 'peckish' 'flagging')
- Formal language ('a high risk of failure')
- How to use inversion (Rarely I have? Or Rarely have I?)
- Tech tools to help you practise Speaking
- Collocations with sports (do, go, play or practise?)
- Can or Should? - Task 1 Graphs: "Temperature AVERAGED 25 degrees")
- Portmanteau terms: breakfast + lunch = ?
- 20 WRONG ways to say 'Alt...2022-05-0929 min
IELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTS⭐️ IELTS tips ⭐️ Jan 19th - 31st (also on YouTube)Here's my round-up of the weekly tips that you can find on my website (ieltsetc.com).
This podcast is also on YouTube/fionawattam:
https://youtu.be/TNcyL63yWbI
https://app.getbeamer.com/ieltswithfiona/en
In this episode we look at my daily tips from January 19th:
- when to use the contraction 's' instead of 'is' (Pronunciation)
- how to start a letter and why you shouldn't use 'maam' (GT Letter Writing)
- 'claptrap' advice: "elucidate" (Academic Task 1)
- when to use "Having said t...2022-04-1721 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTS⭐️ IELTS tips ⭐️ podcast Jan 1st - Jan 17th 2022 with YouTube videoThis podcast talks you through a fortnight of daily tips, with an accompanying YouTube video.
https://youtu.be/byb9_Dg2UP8
Get the daily tips here on my website.
https://app.getbeamer.com/ieltswithfiona/en
In this episode we cover:
Pronunciation features - weak sounds e.g Fishnchips
How to spot a terrible "Model answer"
Free Flashcards for common IELTS topics (Quizlet - Marine Ecosystems)
How to use the LABELS in IELTS Task 1 Academic Writing
Synonyms for 'houses' in Task 1
A model Task 1 about the construction of houses
Banned expressions e.g. "No worries"
When to use the ampersand (&)
Do...2022-03-1920 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading:🧴Plastic is no longer fantasticIn this IELTS GT Part 3 Reading lesson we'll practise Matching Headings, Multiple Choice and Gapfill summary on the topic of plastic.2022-03-0324 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS ⭐️Daily tips⭐️from Fiona Dec 9th - 24th 2021In today's podcast you'll review my daily tips from my annual advent challenge which you can find on my website under "What's New" and https://ieltsetc.com/ielts-advent-adventure/
Day 9: "It's not worth + ing"
Day 10: Pronunciation - Juncture e.g. Ice-cream/I scream, That stuff/That's tough
Day 11: Factor vs reason vs cause
Day 12: Linking devices - the present participle
Day 13: Modals of deduction (must)
Day 14: Not only but also
Day 15: Mustn't vs Don't have to
Day 16: Academic Phrasal Verbs
Day 17: The grammar of very polite questions
Day 18: rise vs raise
Day 19: suggest + ing
Day 20: Tense review
Day 21: damage v...2022-02-0325 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading: Marine ecosystems 🐡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-ecosystems2022-01-0429 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTS⭐️IELTS tips⭐️ Oct 27th - Nov 8th 2021This 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
Pronunciation mazes by Matt Hancock (the 'ou' and 'ow' sounds and spelling),
What's the opposite of 'must'?,
"It's not worth it",
Listening tricks and synonyms "at least" and "a minimum of",
Is it ok to use "etc" in formal writing?,
Modal verb meanings e.g "That should be ok",
fifTEEN versus FIFty (15/50) in the listening test,
A GREENhouse vs a green HOUSE (word stress),
How important is the introduction in IELTS Writing...2021-11-2421 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTS🏆What's the best online IELTS course?🏆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/
2021-11-1539 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTS⭐️IELTS tips⭐️ Oct 17th - 27thHere'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.com2021-11-0528 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTS⭐️IELTS tips⭐️: a weekly summaryI'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:
Should I appeal my IELTS score? https://app.getbeamer.com/ieltswithfiona/en/daily-tip-should-i-appeal-my-ielts-score
Third Conditional and 'be able to' https://app.getbeamer.com/ieltswithfiona/en...2021-10-1728 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSThings you need to know before you buy an online IELTS Course 🤑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/2021-09-2048 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading: Henry Moore (TFNG Bootcamp Day 1) 🗿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 example2021-09-0616 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading: Attitudes to AI 🤖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:
- Word formation
https://ieltsetc.com/2020/06/word-formation/
- The 'marc' system for pie charts (Makes up, accounts for, represents, consists of)
https://youtu.be/bsBKQPpVs5g
- Willing to vs want
https://ieltsetc...2021-08-2244 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSHow to use idioms in IELTSAre you using the right idiom in the right place with the right person and the right pronunciation?
To use an idiom correctly there are so many factors that you have to take into account, for example
who uses this idiom (age, gender, profession, location)?
when do they use this idiom? (context)
why do they choose to use this idiom (humour, anger, sarcasm, style)?
how often do people use this idiom (once in a blue moon?)
In my latest blog, I talk about 3 key factors to help you use idioms correctly:
1. Accuracy
2021-08-1325 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Listening: Stoicism 🏛️This episode is a Part 4 Listening about an ancient philosophy called Stoicism (don't worry if you've never heard of it - the Listening will explain everything). It's a gapfill summary (one word only) and we also discuss:
DESPITE (+ noun or + ing verb or + the fact that)
US and UK spellings (do they matter in IELTS?)
how my 2-minute Pronunciation feedback can fix a common problem related to your first language (in this case, Spanish).
Review the grammar of 'despite' and 'in spite of' on my blog.
https://ieltsetc.com/2020/12/despite/2021-07-1922 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading: 🏥Back to the future of skyscraper design.This passage 2 Academic IELTS Reading is a problem-solution structure.
The problem: air-conditioning units generate 'spectacular and largely unnecessary energy use and carbon emissions'.
The solution: use natural ventilation, as they did in 19th-century hospitals.
This IELTS Reading is packed full of useful vocab like 'to squander energy' (= to waste) and 'it uses a FRACTION of the electricity/at a FRACTION of the energy cost' (=a small or tiny part, amount, or proportion of something).
There were also some interesting uses of nouns as adjectives (wards in hospitals = hospital wards) - see my blog about this...2021-07-0426 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Listening: The history of coffee ☕️This is a Section 4 Listening. I chose this Listening in order to show you why hyphens are NOT important in Listening gap-fill summaries.
There are 3 main types of words in gapfill summaries:
1) Words ending with a suffix like '-tion' or '-sion'
2) Commodities or materials like wool, gold, tea or sugar.
3) Irregular words like plurals ending in y/ies or irregular word forms like poor/poverty.
Get the full article about hyphens on my blog:
https://ieltsetc.com/2021/06/how-to-use-hyphens-in-ielts/
Learn more about Irregular Word Forms on...2021-06-2527 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading: The Effects of Noise 🙉I had a special request for this Academic Passage 3 because it's difficult, but honestly, it's a very early test (Book 7) and is just badly-written.
I think the reading itself is very useful as an example of academic writing, with lots you can learn from it, but the questions are simply not good - you can guess 3 of them without even needing to understand what they mean (a sure sign of a bad test), and there is too much similar language (very few synonyms required).
If you struggled with this one - forget it and move on (but listen for practice 😊.)
Lea...2021-06-0729 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Writing Feedback: improving your Task 2 essays with 40 keywordsWhen you get IELTS Writing feedback from your teacher, you should be able to see why you are not achieving your desired score.
But this feedback is only useful if you understand exactly what the teacher is talking about when they are pointing out areas you need to work on.
Writing Feedback about LANGUAGE is usually easy to understand – most people know the language related to grammar (e.g. wrong tense, article missing, third person -s), spelling and punctuation.
But Writing feedback related to CONTENT and academic STYLE is more difficult, especially if yo...2021-05-1629 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading: Attitudes to languageThis is an Academic Part 1 text. The text and subject matter is difficult but the questions (YNNG) are NOT.
In fact, in this episode I will show you how you can mostly guess the answers without reading or understanding very much of the text.
Get more help with Yes, No, Not Given questions on my website.
If you'd like to contribute to the upkeep of my website and podcast, you can buy me a coffee here:
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/fionawattam
Many thanks
Fiona2021-05-0325 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Listening: 'Street Play Scheme' ⛹️♂️⛹🏻♀️🚗This is a really useful Part 2 IELTS Listening (Book 15) about a community that closed their road to traffic so that the children could play safely outside.
It practises Multiple Choice and Choosing from a list.
Useful vocab:
'the idea caught on' = the idea became very popular in other places
'give it a go' = try it
Useful grammar:
Present Perfect vs Past Simple
'The scheme's been up and running for 3 years' = 'The Street Paly Scheme first took place 3 years ago'.
'Be able to' with...2021-03-2927 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading TFNG: Alexander Henderson 📸📸📸This is a nice and easy Academic Reading Part 1 (great for GT too).
It goes in chronological order, so it's easy to find information from dates, names and places, and there are 2 sets of questions (TFNG and gapfill).
If you're aiming for 7 and you can get 10/13 correct in less than 20 minutes, you're doing very well.
Check your band score here:
https://ieltsetc.com/ielts-band-score-calculator/
Get the conditionals review here:
https://ieltsetc.com/2021/02/conditionals-review/
Learn about 'willing to' vs 'want to' here:
https://ieltsetc...2021-02-1422 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Listening: 🦣🦣🦣Woolly mammoths on St Paul's IslandToday's Listening is a 6/10 for difficulty. It's a Part 3 Listening with multiple choice and matching from a list.
Useful vocabulary and synonyms:
surprising = amazing
got cut off = became isolated
exact = precise
contact = get in touch with
make detailed notes = write down all the ideas
check timing = make sure we won't overrun
add personal opinions = give your own viewpoint
Join the Conditionals Bootcamp here.
https://members.ieltsetc.com/conditionals/
Get the Signals and Signposts lesson here.
https://ieltsetc.com/2019/09/ielts-listening-how-to-recognise-signals-and-signposts/
Buy me a coffee to say thanks here:
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/fionawattam2021-02-0126 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading/Writing: Driverless Cars 🚘This is a really really useful passage to read because of how it can help your WRITING.
The passage itself is not difficult, but it is jam-packed full of excellent examples of Formal Academic Writing so if you have this reading at home, go through it carefully.
- 'PEEL' paragraphs
- Hedging
https://ieltsetc.com/2020/12/hedging-in-academic-writing/
- Linking words
https://ieltsetc.com/2019/07/ielts-complex-sentences/
- Noun forms
- Conditionals
https://ieltsetc.com/2020/03/ielts-conditionals/
- Critical Thinking
Want to...2021-01-1130 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading: Motivational Factors and the hospitality industry 👩🍳🧑🍳This is an extremely difficult Academic Reading Passage 3.
It took me 30 minutes to find the answers even with the answer sheet in front of me.
What can we learn from a text like this?
Background knowledge and vocabulary will aid understanding
Strategies such as locating the researchers' names will speed up your responses
Every little helps - 2 of my recent daily tasks from the Writing Challenge will help you break down the dense text
1) affect vs effect
https://ieltsetc.com/2020/12/affect-vs-effect/
2) factor vs reason
https://members.ieltsetc.c...2020-12-2928 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Advent Challenge Tasks 🎄1 - 12No time to do my Advent Challenge? This podcast (watch the video version on www.YouTube.com/fionawattam) talks you through the past 12 days, so you'll get up and running really quickly!
It's never too late to start - just go to my website:
https://ieltsetc.com/ielts-advent-adventure/
and open the windows which will take you through to all the links.
Come and post your sentences on Facebook, where I will check them every day:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ieltsAtoZ
If you'd like to say thanks and contribute to the costs of running the free challenge, you are very...2020-12-1240 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Listening Part 3: Children's Literature Course 📚Is this Listening more difficult than usual? I got a special request from Elango in my Members Academy, and yes I think it is a tricky one!
I had to read the tapescript very carefully to figure out the answer to Question 27, and it even required a bit of background knowledge (possibly true of Question 28 too!).
Apart from that, this is a really good one to practise listening for:
- Signals and Signposts:
https://ieltsetc.com/2019/09/ielts-listening-how-to-recognise-signals-and-signposts/
- Synonyms (fascinating = interesting; amazed = surprised; type = genre)
- Grammar...2020-11-2529 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading: Why fairy tales are really scary tales 🧚♀️👻I had a special request from Isabella on Instagram today 👋🇧🇷. She asked me to look at a really difficult text (yes, this one's 9/10!).
It's an Academic Passage 3 and it follows the Reading Type 2 structure (discursive) which goes like this -
Title: asks a question (Why? The answer is not what everyone thinks).
1. Old theory: Everyone thinks fairy tales have endured because the STORIES give us WARNINGS about life e.g. Little Red Riding Hood.
2. New theory: Everyone is wrong. There's another reason.
3. Test to prove the old theory is wrong: Is...2020-10-2430 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading: 🚴♀️Bike-sharing schemes around the worldDo you have a bike-sharing scheme where you live? In London there are the so-called 'Boris bikes' (named after Boris Johnson, who launched them in 2010 after being inspired by the success of a similar scheme in Paris, which is mentioned in this reading).
This is a Section 2 Academic Text with 3 types of questions: Matching Statements, Choosing from a List and Gapfill.
So whenever there's a lot to do, the text is slightly easier. This is a chronological text (in order of time) and is suitable for General Training practice too.
It has some...2020-10-1830 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Listening: The hunt for sunken settlements and ancient shipwrecks 🚢⚓️⚱️This is a difficult Section 4, but if you listen to my podcast regularly, you will be very familiar with this common IELTS topic!
It's about marine archaeology, the use of technology to find ancient shipwrecks and building under the sea, and the lessons researchers can learn about how ancient civilisations lived.
In this episode I refer to similar IELTS Reading/Listening texts, so you can see how important it is to learn the vocabulary that is relevant to so many IELTS texts.
Find the Modals of Deduction Grammar here [e.g. Atlit-Yam MAY...2020-10-1030 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading GT Part 2: Border crossing and Dealing with absence in the workplaceBoth texts are gapfill summaries.
The first one gives you practice with summary Flow Charts (IELTS 28-Day Planner Day 12) and the second covers the common topic of how to deal with absence in the workplace (good practice if you never usually read this kind of document).
Get more General Training Reading tips on my website.
Follow me on Instagram and Facebook for daily practice.
#ielts #ieltstest #ieltscourse
2020-10-0320 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Listening: Agricultural programme in Mozambique 👩🏽🌾🌾🐝🎣Listen out for the 5 most common gapfill types in this Part 4 gapfill on the very common topics of Agriculture and Water (28-Day Planner Week 1).
Practise these topics on my website:
https://ieltsetc.com/?s=agriculture
Watch my YouTube 5-minute Vocab review of Agriculture here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha1KIJfkglA&t=56s
And here's the Honeybee Listening I mentioned:
https://ieltsetc.com/2018/08/ielts-listening-honeybees-australia/
Get the 28-Day Planner here - do NOT let it get lost in your computer. Print it off. Use it...2020-09-2230 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading: Nutmeg - a valuable spice 🌰🥜This is an Academic Reading Part 1 (so it's good for GT too).
The structure is chronological (in order of time) which helps you locate the answers more easily.
It's also very similar to a text on my website: The Story Of Silk, which you can find here:
https://ieltsetc.com/2018/12/ielts-reading-story-silk/
and I refer to last week's podcast about The Eucalyptus Tree to show you how similar they are in terms of the gapfill answers.
https://anchor.fm/ieltsetc/episodes/IELTS-Listening-The-Eucalyptus-Tree-in-Australia-ehm3hd/a-a2s5his
Check out...2020-09-1329 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSFactors influencing your IELTS Score 🎰 - how my new IELTS Progress predictor works.If you've taken my IELTS Progress Predictor Test, you may be wanting to know a bit more about how it works and what it means for your IELTS Preparation.
This podcast talks you through how to make the most of your assets and build a mindset that will help you prove the test wrong! Get the quiz and full blog here https://ieltsetc.com/2020/07/how-long-will-it-take-to-increase-my-ielts-score/2020-08-1628 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Listening: The Eucalyptus Tree in Australia 🇦🇺#ielts Listening Part 4 - gapfill summary. Find a similar topic here: https://ieltsetc.com/2018/08/ielts-listening-honeybees-australia/2020-08-0429 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Listening: Birth order and personality 🚼IELTS Listening Part 3: How birth order affects your personality.
2020-07-2729 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS GT Reading: 🦖🦕Dinosaurs and the secrets they hold 🦖🦕IELTS GT Reading Part 3 - gapfill summary, multiple choice and choosing from a list.
Find a similar reading with the vocab you need to know about animals here:
https://ieltsetc.com/2019/04/ielts-reading-history-of-the-tortoise/
Listening about a dinosaur museum and how to spot distractors:
https://ieltsetc.com/2018/08/ielts-listening-dinosaur-museum/
2020-07-1929 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Listening - Cities built by the sea 🌊🏙️This is a Section 3 (dialogue between 2 students) with lots of vocab related to the environment:
- urban planning
- coastal cities
- pollutants are discharged into rivers
- to protect against flooding
- global warming
- sea levels are rising
- they need to consider the whole ecosystem
- environmentalists
https://ieltsetc.com/2019/09/ielts-listening-how-to-recognise-signals-and-signposts/2020-07-1352 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading: Saving bugs to find new drugs 🐞💊A long and difficult but FASCINATING text with SO MUCH useful vocabulary which I list at the end.
- Matching Information with paragraphs
- Choosing from a list
- Gapfill summary
It's a KEY TOPIC (see similar texts on my website - https://ieltsetc.com/2019/01/ielts-reading-doctoring-sales/ and https://ieltsetc.com/2018/10/ielts-gt-reading-snake-oil/) and I also talk about how parts of the text help us with Writing.2020-06-2930 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Listening: 🗺MAPS and MCQsThis video looks at Section 2 of the IELTS Listening Test, which often includes a MAP in the second half.
Watch the video on YouTube if you would like to practice with the real test.
https://youtu.be/PwXSREaBQ-k
The first part is Multiple Choice and this video shows you how to recognise distractors: 'rather than' and 'instead of' are CLUES which tell you that you should choose the correct answer RATHER THAN/INSTEAD OF the trick!
I break the Listening up into more manageable parts, so this is a LEARNING video r...2020-06-0718 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Experts - 10 of your most common questions about IELTS answeredIn 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/vCqJ3zLGbcs2020-04-1821 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Computer-Delivered General Training Reading Test Part 1This podcast is taken from my YouTube Video (watch this to see the text).
https://youtu.be/Fq000OEq_OU
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 rati...2020-03-1722 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Writing Error Correction - The Blue Book project 📘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:
https://youtu.be/JPjqoJA-Fhk
You can find out more about the award I won from EnglishUK and CambridgeESOL for my research on error correction here:
https://www...2020-03-1118 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading: Matching Headings - A visit to Oymyakon 🥶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
2020-02-2620 min
IELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSComputer-delivered IELTS: An interview with Jessica from the IELTS Energy PodcastThis week on the podcast I was very happy to invite Jessica Beck from All Ears English and the IELTS Energy Podcast to talk about the pros and cons of the Computer Delivered IELTS Test (amongst other things!).
Jess actually took the test herself, and in the interview she tells us what she thinks is great about doing the test on a computer.
Here's the link to my blog about the podcast:
https://ieltsetc.com/2020/02/ielts-paper-computer/
Find Jess's fantastic IELTS Podcast here:
https://www.allearsenglish.com/episodes/ielts
And there are lots of IELTS tips on their IELTS Preparation page...2020-02-1639 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Listening: Kite-making kite 🪁 by the Maori people of New Zealand 🇳🇿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!
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Join the course:
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2020-02-1018 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Listening: Natural Dyes 🧶🧵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-a2p95f2020-02-0320 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS listening: Field Trip Proposal 🏜Listening Part 3 (Book 8 Test 1). Looking at signals, multiple choice and gap fill. Get more help with Part 3 here https://ieltsetc.com/2019/09/ielts-listening-how-to-recognise-signals-and-signposts/ and watch my video about the Answer Sheet here https://youtu.be/iVM_uRkWpm4. Join my A-Z of IELTS challenge here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvkiACElwBjPMqV7c3kRiwxxY8AmTEc3a2020-01-1026 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading: The Lost City 🇵🇪Here’s the full blog https://ieltsetc.com/2019/11/ielts-reading-the-lost-city/2019-11-2214 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Tips: What to do when you hit a plateau ⛰Have you hit a plateau with IELTS? Are you stuck at the same band despite studying really hard? I’ve done some research and condensed it into this 40-minute episode so that you can push yourself to the next level.2019-10-1137 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Listening: ⛔️ ⛔️Signposts Part 2Last week I outlined the 10 signals and signposts that lead you to the answer in the Listening Test (see my blog for more details and a YouTube video). This week I’m showing you an almost identical example so that you can see exactly how these patterns work in other tests and you can apply the same principles to all your tests. https://ieltsetc.com/2019/09/ielts-listening-how-to-recognise-signals-and-signposts/2019-09-0625 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading: Bring back the big cats 🐅🐈🐾If you listen to just one podcast this week, make sure it's this one! A fascinating text bursting with IELTS vocabulary.2019-07-0436 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSCan I prepare for IELTS in one month?This episodes encourages you to dust off your 28-Day Planner and use it more effectively. Find all the tips and links on my blog https://www.ieltsetc.com/2019/06/28-ways-ielts-planner/2019-06-2731 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading part 1: The history of cinema 🎬🎟Academic passage 1 (good for GT too) all about how cinema developed. Good to learn about this topic (there's a listening about it here https://www.ieltsetc.com/2019/01/ielts-listening-history-moving-pictures/)!2019-06-1129 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Listening: Neolithic Ireland ☘️This episode focuses on the grammar of Modals of Deduction in IELTS Listening. Find a full explanation with practice on my website. https://www.ieltsetc.com/2019/05/ielts-grammar-modals-deduction/2019-05-2124 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTS28 ways to improve your IELTS Vocabulary.📕Check out my website for all of the 28 tips with links https://www.ieltsetc.com/2019/05/28-ways-improve-ielts-vocab/.
Get the full vocabulary course in the Members Academy www.ieltsetc.com2019-05-0934 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading: The history of tortoises 🐢A very difficult Passage 3 where a Degree in Zoology might help. Here is the text on the website https://www.ieltsetc.com/2019/04/ielts-reading-history-of-the-tortoise/
2019-04-2524 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading: Is there anybody out there? 👽 Matching HeadingsHow to match headings quickly using only first lines. See the video on YouTube and get the full text on my website 👽 https://www.ieltsetc.com/2019/02/ielts-reading-match-headings-first-lines/ 👽 https://youtu.be/OWorhQ_nw1A #ielts2019-02-2824 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading: Autumn Leaves 🍁A tough Passage 2 from #ielts Book 10 Test 3, with matching statements, True/False/Not Given and Gapfill. Get the full Reading on my website https://www.ieltsetc.com/2018/12/ielts-reading-autumn-leaves/
Also a 5-minute review of when and when not to sound the 'r' in words like 'leaRn', 'teacheR' and 'ManchesteR aiRpoRt' (see the Advent Adventure, December 18th 2018 for more information. Full course coming soon).2018-12-1828 minIELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTSIELTS Reading: Tidal Power 🌊🌊This reading gives you practice with matching statements, and it recycles key IELTS vocabulary related to renewable energy.
Find the full test and explanations here: https://www.ieltsetc.com/2018/10/ielts-reading-tidal-power/2018-10-2325 min