Verbs Followed by Gerunds admit He admitted cheating on the test. advise The doctor generally advised drinking low-fat milk. allow Ireland doesn’t allow smoking in bars. anticipate I anticipated arriving late. appreciate I appreciated her helping me. avoid He...
Talking about personal experiences In Part 1 of the Speaking test, you will have the chance to talk about yourself, where you live, what you do and a range of familiar topics. In addition, in Part 2 of the Speaking test you will be asked to talk for 1 to 2 minutes on...
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...
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...
