Andrew安德魯雅思權威

Instant IELTS ‘experts’ are everywhere. You need to know the danger signs. You could easily waste a lot of time and money, and send your IELTS mark downwards. In this post, I’ll look at the …

Here we go again, with collocation - the key to getting IELTS 7, remember. Try to improve the collocation (or logic) by changing the words in red. Remember, there can sometimes be different answers to this.

Okay, after the 'pigeon' interlude, we'll continue practising with collocation. Remember, (better) collocation is mentioned in the public version of the IELTS Band Descriptors in Band Score 7 and 8. This is important.

Me: "Uh, who's teaching this class: you or me?"

   Here we go again, continuing with the collocation. Collocation, or more specifically, bad collocation, is one reason people cannot achieve IELTS 7 or 8. It's certainly something to work on, and here is the next set of sentences for you to look at.

       Hi everyone.

Hey everyone. Well, after a reflective first post (after the Chinese New Year holiday), I was going to get more serious in this post. If you were reading and checking this pixnet, you would know that before Chinese New Year, I had been looking at all the 'Tricks to Watch Out For', trying to warn everyone to be very careful, and very cautious when choosing teachers to help you with the IELTS test.

In the three posts, I introduced the issue of memorising answers as a strategy for the IELTS Speaking Test, and gave the very obvious (isn’t it?) opinion that it is a bad approach. So, let’s continue examining the …