In this tutorial we continue our 3 part series of IELTS Grammar – Essentials for 2020 – Band 9. This week we look at giving you examples, explanations, and show you how you can use specific structures in your IELTS essay to achieve your desired band 9 score in your IELTS Writing.

In case you missed PART 1 and PART 2, you can check them out here:

IELTS Grammar – Essentials for 2020 – Band 7 : https://www.ieltspodcast.com/ielts-writing-task/ielts-grammar/

IELTS Grammar – Essentials for 2020 – Band 8 :https://www.ieltspodcast.com/ielts-writing-task/ielts-grammar-band-8/

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Female Voice: You are now listening to the IELTS podcast. Learn from tutors and ex-examiners who are masters of IELTS preparation. Your host, Ben Worthington.

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INTRODUCTION

Ben: Hello there, IELTS students. In this tutorial, we will be continuing with the three-part series we’re making about essential grammar for IELTS. This is part 3 and on this tutorial, like the other two, we have Cate. How are you doing, Cate?

Cate: Hi, Ben. I’m great. How are you?

Ben: I’m good, too. I’m good. Okay. So, I guess we could jump straight into it and by the way, just before we do jump straight into it, if you’re struggling with IELTS grammar especially for the writing, there are a few different things you can do.

FASTEST WAY TO IMPROVE IS WITH ESSAY CORRECTION FEEDBACK

I think personally the fastest way to improve is to get feedback. We’ve got this service available at ieltspodcast.com and we are seeing amazing results with this day in day out. So, what happens is we’ll send you a question or you buy the essay correction. We’ll send you the question, you write out the essay, and then we’ll review your essay and we’ll give you feedback.

We won’t just criticize you and destroy you and say this is rubbish. This is bad. This is bad. What we aim to do is also highlight what you’re doing well and this makes such a big difference. Would you agree, Cate?

Cate: Yes, absolutely.

Ben: Cate also helps out with the essay corrections now and again as well and all the teachers actually really have taken this way of teaching. They’ve taken it to heart and we really do try and emphasize it with our corrections because it’s hard.

The study of IELTS is a challenge and if you get your essay back and all that’s happening is the teacher is just destroying your writing and just overlooking the parts that you did write because that’s also expected then– it...