A Person You Know Describe an old person that you know. You should say: What your relationship is to this person How often you see them What people think about this person Explain why you like them. Describe a child that you know and like a lot. You should say:...
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...
Now more specifically IELTS Speaking Part 1 contains familiar information questions, which means that everything you will be asked deals with things about yourself – your background, origin, preferences, hobbies, etc. This is done to assess if you can sustain a...
IELTS Collocation What is collocation? This refers to words (often two or three) that are commonly placed together. There may be grammatical reasons for this, but there may not be. It may be that through long-term usage, it just sounds correct. It is one of the most...
Common Idioms Learning common idioms first is the best way to begin building up your knowledge of these types of words and expressions. This page has been divided up into 5 tables of 10 words, so you have 50 of the most common phrases, and you can learn them as a set...
