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IELTS News: July 2022

IELTS News: July 2022

Here we bring you the latest updates on migration news to English-speaking countries. The recent pandemic has made moving much more complicated – as have more regional events, such as Brexit. But behind all the difficulties, a raft of new opportunities are opening up...

School’s Out: IELTS and OET Teaching Stories From June 2022 

School’s Out: IELTS and OET Teaching Stories From June 2022 

It's been an exciting and busy month!  Where We've Been We attended a Digital Enterprise Top 100 event in Leeds after being voted one of the most digitally transformational, resilient and innovative businesses in the Leeds City Region for the third year in a row…...

Spotlight IELTS Vocabulary, Issue 40

Spotlight IELTS Vocabulary, Issue 40

Welcome to Issue 40 of Spotlight Vocabulary. To help you prepare for exams like the IELTS or the OET, we've compiled a collection of articles that cover a wide range of concepts and vocabulary you could find useful on test day.  In addition to this, you can discover...

Practice IELTS Speaking Questions: Sport

Practice IELTS Speaking Questions: Sport

Sport appears regularly in both Speaking and Writing.  Read the following speaking-style questions, paying close attention to words you don’t know and the words in bold. There are definitions for the words in bold at the end of the page. Before you read the...

IELTS Academic Writing Task 1: Line Graph and Pie Chart

IELTS Academic Writing Task 1: Line Graph and Pie Chart

The Percentage of People Interested in Certain Sports This mock IELTS Academic Task 1 question and answer tackles a double-graph question. One of the most common mistakes candidates make with this kind of essay is to miss at least one of the categories from the...

IELTS News: July 2022

 OET and IELTS News: June 2022

As the world continues to recover from Covid and deals with rising inflation — more people than ever are on the move, and new opportunities are arising! In this article we bring you up to date on the latest IELTS news. This month we show why it is likely IELTS will...

School’s Out: IELTS and OET Teaching Stories From June 2022 

School’s Out: OET and IELTS Teaching Stories From May 2022

This month we heard that we have won another award, but that information has been embargoed until next month, here is what we can tell you... Where We’ve Been We’ve been very busy this month and have found it difficult to get out of our office! Digitally we have...

Spotlight IELTS Vocabulary, Issue 40

Spotlight IELTS Vocabulary, Issue 39

Welcome to Issue 39 of Spotlight IELTS Vocabulary. In this series, we curate articles that contain ideas and high-level vocabulary you can use in tests like IELTS or OET. These are just a selection of the articles we read in April; you can find more on...

Mock IELTS General Task 1 Question: A friend is coming to visit you

Mock IELTS General Task 1 Question: A friend is coming to visit you

Get some IELTS practice by answering the informal General Writing Task 1 question below. Our model answer follows the following template... Salutation – following an informal style 1st paragraph – answering the first bullet point 2nd paragraph – answering the second...

Mock IELTS Task 2 Essay: An Ageing Population

Mock IELTS Task 2 Essay: An Ageing Population

This week's model essay is a simple positive or negative style question on the topic of an ageing population. This type of question could be written using the 5-paragraph model, which answers with only positive or negative ideas. However, we have chosen to write a...