How do you know if you are ready to take the IELTS exam?  In this episode, I give some quick tips that you can use to evaluate yourself and your progress and help you to know when is the right time for you to take the IELTS exam.

In this episode, I begin to look at how your first language affects your writing. I discuss why this happens and some techniques you can use for improving it.

In this episode I take the time to answer student questions about the IELTS exam.  These are a few very specific questions that some of my current students in my IELTS Writing and Speaking Video Course have been asking me.  I thought this would be a really great way to help all my other listening students as well because you might be having the same type of questions.  Remember if you have a specific question you would like to ask you can submit the question with the link below.

In this weeks episode I answer a listener question about How to Speak English perfectly.  I talk about why it's not important to be absolutely perfect in your speech and what you can do to improve it.

In this episode I review the computer-based exam.  I look at what is the same and what is different, whether you should do it or not, and what the benefits and disadvantages are.

In this episode I breakdown the grammatical range and accuracy area of the marking criteria for both writing and speaking tasks, then I show you how you can apply grammar to speaking task 2 so that you are able to get a good score in this area of the IELTS exam.

I get a lot of students asking me for advice for exam day, I also get a lot of students telling me about their experiences with exam day and things that went wrong and things that went well.  I decided to share some advice and tips in this episode to help everyone calm their fears and get a little more prepared for the big day.

In this episode I focus on helping you work on a common pronunciation mistake the many students make.  Pronunciation is an important part of doing well on the speaking part of the IELTS exam so you need to make sure you are working on any areas that you are struggling with.  For this episode I focus on the -ed ending pronunciation of words in English.

In this episode I continue my interview discussion with my student Yerke about his experiences studying English, preparing for the IELTS exam and the recommendations that he gives for other students preparing for the exam.  We discuss organizing our writing, marking criteria, writing correction, vocabulary tips

In this episode I spent time with one of my students, Yerke from Kazakhstan.  Yerke is an example of a very hardworking student who is very dedicated to getting a great score on the IELTS exam.  He had taken the exam a few times and came to my course to get extra help in improving his writing and speaking skills.