Monday, October 25, 2010

IELTS speaking exam video

I've been told this student scored 7 on their speaking exam following this performance. Their language demonstration here is pretty impressive. When watching, please note the number of colloquailisms she uses. She sounds very fluent and pauses only enough to properly prepare her answers (these are healthy pauses).


Sunday, October 24, 2010

Another speed-reading video...

I am hooked to these now! Here is a short course (you'll have to go to YouTube for the rest of the series).


Thursday, October 7, 2010

An old vid but a good one!

Here's an old video (I'm sure many of you have seen it before) with some great IELTS-related tips for the spoken portion of the exam.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

If you're going to pay your IELTS examiner a compliment, do it correctly...

A couple examples regarding how to give a compliment to someone in English without sounding fake or insincere...