This video looks at Section 2 of the IELTS Listening Test, which often includes a MAP in the second half. 

Watch the video on YouTube if you would like to practice with the real test.

https://youtu.be/PwXSREaBQ-k

The first part is Multiple Choice and this video shows you how to recognise distractors: 'rather than' and 'instead of' are CLUES which tell you that you should choose the correct answer RATHER THAN/INSTEAD OF the trick!

I break the Listening up into more manageable parts, so this is a LEARNING video rather than a test, but you can pause the video to test yourself too.  

I also point out the useful vocabulary that you can extract from the listening to help you with Writing Task 1 (Academic - describe changes to a building; General Training - tell your friend about your new home)  Here is an extra Listening to help you describe changes to maps: 

https://youtu.be/RYwrFUphmrc

So sorry for the delay - I'm back now! Been working on the daily YouTube lives during Lockdown. Did you miss them? Just go to my YouTube channel (I'll add this podcast as a video if you prefer to read the text and try it for yourself).

This is a difficult Academic Passage 3 with Matching Headings, Gapfill and TFNG.

Get more Reading practice on my website.

In this podcast (also on YouTube) I ask my boss Max to give us his insider tips about #IELTS (it's exactly the same as what I say but people actually listen to him!).

Watch the video here:

https://youtu.be/vCqJ3zLGbcs

This week I've been working really hard on preparing full lessons for my free YouTube Writing Workshops, and I wanted to give you a taste of what happens in the workshops. They are very interactive - I ask you questions and you give me your examples so I can check them. I also take requests!

This lesson followed on from 'Although' and 'whereas', so we covered a lot of advanced linking words in 2 days.

If you'd like to take part in the sessions, join me every day on my YouTube Channel www.youtube.com/fionawattam and in the Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/ieltsAtoZ/.

This was the first day of my Live IELTS Writing Workshops on YouTube, so I wanted to give you a taste of what happens in the workshop.

Catch the video on my channel if you missed it (also on the webiste page above and on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/ieltsAtoZ/)

Come and join us!

Today we practiced 'Reduced Adverbials' (complex, but simple to use when you know how).

Need to read faster in the test? In this video and podcast, I'll take you through a Reading test and show you what you can do at each stage to answer the questions more quickly.

The text is called 'The Birdmen' and you can watch the video and try it yourself on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/R7H38LB28P0

This podcast is taken from my YouTube Video (watch this to see the text).

https://youtu.be/Fq000OEq_OU

I take you through the first part of a Computer-Delivered #IELTS General Training Reading Test and look at the benefits of taking the test online (as well as the drawbacks!). 

The first reading is horrendous - the second is much easier, so skip forward if you don't like the first one! 

This is the practice test I used: 

https://ielts.com.au/computer-delivered-ielts/computer-reading-practice-test/ 

Test 1 Part 1: Difficulty rating 8/10 😣 

Test 1 Part 2: Difficulty rating 3/10 😄 

And here's my FULL analysis of the Computer-Delivered test https://ieltsetc.com/2020/02/ielts-paper-computer/

Do you rely on a teacher to correct your writing mistakes for the IELTS Test? Is this the most effective way?   

In this podcast I look at some research that's been done about the best way to learn from your mistakes - and the answers may surprise you!  

Here is the YouTube video, where you can see all the texts that I mention:

https://youtu.be/JPjqoJA-Fhk

You can find out more about the award I won from EnglishUK and CambridgeESOL for my research on error correction here: 

https://www.englishuk.com/en/about-us/news-press/english-uk-news?newsId=2202  

Here are some of the tools you can use to correct your own writing: 

https://www.grammarly.com/ 

https://prowritingaid.com/ 

https://www.grammarcheck.net/

I also talk about times when a teacher is essential for helping students meet the criteria of the IELTS test.

I made this as a YouTube video so you can watch it here if you'd like to see the text at the same time:

https://youtu.be/3px5vTBQ5Mk

It's a Part 4 gap-fill Listening and I would give it a difficulty rating of 9/10!

What do you think?