Verbs Followed by Infinitives agree Tom agreed to help me. appear His health appeared to be better. arrange Naomi arranged to stay with her cousin in Miami. ask She asked to leave. begin He began to talk. can’t bear He can’t bear to be alone....
First we’ll talk about global environmental problems Tell me about some of the environmental problems that are affecting countries these days? Well, there are a lot at the moment. Although it has not been proven for sure, there is a great deal of consensus about...
In Part 2 of the Speaking test, you are given a card with a topic, and 60 seconds to prepare. You then have to speak on the topic for one to two minutes. This one minute of preparation time is absolutely critical, and can make all the difference in achieving the band...
When you are preparing for the IELTS Speaking test, it’s really important to improve your fluency. Here’s an idea that might help. But first, what is fluency? Fluency is the ability to “keep going”, to produce continuous speech and not have to stop and pause a lot....
Academic Word List The academic word list is designed to improve your knowledge of vocabulary for the IELTS test. The AWL consists of 570 word families, and these words are the most common words to be found in academic texts. This is why they are so useful to learn if...
