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Expressing dislikes

September 11, 2013 By Nestor Leave a Comment

In the IELTS Speaking test, it is possible that you will have to talk about your dislikes, for example what you dislike about your work, a type of music that you don’t like, the negative aspects about your hometown, a party or event that you didn’t enjoy, etc. Here are some tips for talking about what you dislike in natural English.


Filed Under: IELTS Speaking Tips, Tips for Band 7-9 Tagged With: Vocabulary tips

Expressing personal opinions with ‘find’

September 8, 2013 By Nestor Leave a Comment

In the IELTS speaking test, the examiner will ask you about your opinion or feeling about a particular event, book, film, person, situation etc. Many advanced candidates use grammatically correct but unnatural structures in their responses. So, in this post I'm going to present a simple and natural structure that native speakers commonly use.

Filed Under: IELTS Speaking Tips, Tips for Band 7-9 Tagged With: Vocabulary tips

The word ‘interesting’

September 7, 2013 By Nestor 2 Comments

If you want to get a high band in the IELTS Speaking test, you need to show the examiner that you have a wide vocabulary. This means that you should try not to repeat the same simple words all the time. 'Interesting' is an adjective that many learners use too much. In this post, I am going to show you how you can use more 'interesting' words than 'interesting'. :)

Filed Under: IELTS Speaking Tips, Tips for Band 7-9 Tagged With: Vocabulary tips

IELTS Speaking Tip – Giving Opinions

May 25, 2013 By Nestor Leave a Comment

In the IELTS speaking test, the examiner may ask you for your opinion on a particular topic. You may need to express opinions in part 1, part 2 or part 3 of the test.

Therefore, it is a good idea to learn some special phrases that you can use in your response.


Filed Under: General tips, IELTS Speaking Tips Tagged With: Speaking test Part 1, Speaking test Part 2, Speaking test Part 3, Vocabulary tips

Vocabulary for Band 7-8

May 19, 2013 By Nestor 7 Comments

It is not easy to achieve a Band 7 in the IELTS speaking test. In order to achieve higher than 6.5 you need to demonstrate that you can use less common vocabulary, including idioms and collocations. Let's look at how you can say common words and phrases in a 'less common' way. ...

Filed Under: IELTS Speaking Tips, Tips for Band 7-9 Tagged With: Vocabulary tips

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