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...
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...
If you look at the public band descriptors for IELTS speaking you will see that you need to demonstrate the following to achieve a grade 7 under the vocabulary section. • uses vocabulary resource flexibly to discuss a variety of topics • uses some less common and...
