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IELTS Band 8 Tips

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IELTS teacher has hair done and answers questions on hairstyle

February 9, 2020Posted by Kate Keating1IELTS Band 8 Tips, Speaking

Recently people have been reporting IELTS questions on hair. Just before New Year, I had my hair done at my local salon. I wanted to write about it here to …

IELTS speaking band 8 – secrets of native speakers

November 26, 2018Posted by Kate KeatingIELTS Band 8 Tips, Speaking

This article will tell you two ways to go from a 7 band to an 8/9 band in IELTS speaking. It has some key secrets that native speakers know that you don’t. But if you read the article and do the exercises, you will have the secrets within the next 20 minutes.

February 18, 2017Posted by Kate Keating1IELTS Band 8 Tips, Speaking

Watch this video on how to speak about colours in English with some rarer and idiomatic vocabulary for a high vocabulary score.

7 Last-Minute IELTS Tips – 7 Ways to Keep Calm on Exam Day

May 23, 2016Posted by Kate KeatingIELTS Band 8 Tips

Feeling stressed when taking exams is a normal feeling that happens to everybody. Examiners say that students generally get one band lower in IELTS speaking due to stress. If you …

October 24, 2015Posted by Kate KeatingIELTS Band 8 Tips, Speaking

In IELTS part 2 you get 60 seconds to plan. What’s the best strategy? Q: What’s the best way to use those 60 seconds planning time in IELTS speaking part …

IELTS 8.0 Speaking: Not using contractions can sound angry.

September 17, 2015Posted by Kate KeatingIELTS Band 8 Tips, Speaking

Is having an accent such a bad thing? Many students never learn to pronounce English words properly. I’m not talking about the sounds you make when you mispronounce a vowel or …

13 FOR REAL Ways to Sign Off an Informal Letter in IELTS General Writing

March 12, 2015Posted by Kate KeatingIELTS Band 8 Tips, Writing

AUTHENTIC WAYS TO SIGN OFF AN INFORMAL IELTS LETTER How do English native speakers sign off an informal letter? Only one week to go before your IELTS exam and still …

Collocations for IELTS – climate change, extreme weather

November 1, 2014Posted by Kate KeatingIELTS Band 8 Tips

What is some good IELTS weather vocabulary to express how summers and winters are changing?Here are some collocations for the extreme weather we are experiencing with climate change. They will …

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