Daily lessons with Simon,
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General Writing Task 1: Job advice part 3
Let’s continue working on the ‘job advice’ informal letter task. In this lesson we’ll move on to the final bullet point.
Speaking Part 1: Find the mistakes
Try the quick exercise in this lesson. Which sentences are correct, and which sentences contain mistakes?
IELTS Listening: Campsite matching exercise
Listen to some information about facilities provided by a holiday company, then try today’s matching exercise.
IELTS Reading: Choose the title 6
Try today’s practice exercise. Read the passage and choose the best title.
‘Words vs Pictures’ essay skeleton
Let’s look at a ‘partly agree’ essay structure for the ‘pictures vs words’ essay task.
IELTS Advice: Mistakes are ‘stepping stones’
Are you making mistakes and learning from them?
Writing Task 1: Land degradation overview
Can you finish my overview paragraph for this ‘pie chart and table’ task?
General Writing Task 1: Job advice part 2
Let’s continue working on the ‘job advice’ informal letter task.
Speaking Part 2: Describe a positive experience
I think this is an easy task because you could answer it in so many different ways. Let me know what you think.
IELTS Listening: Maps
Listen to a university lecturer as she describes a course about maps, then do today’s multiple choice exercise.
IELTS Reading: Ancient tribe
Try this multiple choice exercise that many students find difficult.
Writing Task 2: A new ‘rule’
After checking the introductions that people wrote below last week’s lesson, I’m going to introduce a new rule for ‘agree or disagree’ tasks.
IELTS Advice: What’s the secret?
What’s the secret to learning English and passing the IELTS test?
Writing Task 1: Land degradation task
Let’s start work on a new ‘pie chart and table’ task. Follow my advice to write the introduction.
General Writing Task 1: Job advice part 1
In this lesson I’ll show you how I would begin the ‘job advice’ letter, and then we’ll move on to the first bullet point.
Speaking Part 1: Home town
This is a very common topic, so it’s a good idea to prepare some easy answers that you can give without much hesitation.
Listening Advice: Listen again and again
If you want to improve your ‘ear’ for English, try the ‘deep listening’ exercise that I describe in this lesson.
IELTS Reading: Harry Houdini
Read the passage about a famous illusionist, and complete the ‘true, false, not given’ exercise below it.
Writing Task 2: Pictures vs Words
In this lesson we start work on a new essay topic, and I’ve asked ChatGPT for some ideas. Look what it gave me!
IELTS Advice: Being ‘original’
Question: Millions of students take the IELTS exam in my country, so should I try to write differently and be original? Read my answer in this lesson.
General Writing Task 1: Job advice task
Let’s start work on a new informal letter task. It’s a letter to a friend giving him or her some advice about getting a job.
Academic Writing Task 1: Different word forms
A good way to vary the language you use is by learning different forms of the same word e.g. rise (verb), a rise (noun).
Speaking Part 3: Hospitality
In your country, how do people treat visitors from abroad? Today’s lesson contains my sample answers to this question and two other related questions.
IELTS Listening: Trick questions
Be ready for ‘tricks’. For example, more than one possible answer is mentioned, or the speaker gives an answer and then changes it.
IELTS Reading: Cities and environment
Read the passage about cities and the environment, and complete the ‘true, false, not given’ exercise.
How to show that A outweighs B
How do you “prove” that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?
IELTS Advice: Basic study plan
People often ask me to give them a study plan. I don’t believe that study plans need to be complex or detailed, so I usually suggest a basic plan like the one in this lesson.
Have you tried ChatGPT?
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence system that is going to revolutionise learning. In this lesson I discuss how we can use it as a tool for IELTS preparation.
Writing Task 1: Further education answer
Here’s my full answer for the further education bar chart task. Can you fill the gaps to complete it?
Speaking Part 2: Describe a conversation
Read my model answer for the following task: Describe an interesting conversation. I’ve also listed the most useful vocabulary in my answer.