Top 15 Study Tips

By Learn English with Emma (engVid)

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Want to do better on your tests? Improve your grades? If you are a student or have an upcoming exam, this lesson is for YOU. Many students spend hours studying in libraries, but they use bad study techniques and waste a lot of time. In this video, Emma from EngVid will give you all her BEST study tips. Whether you're prepping for the TOEFL or IELTS, taking university or high school classes, or want to improve your memory, this video will help.

IELTS Band 7+ Vocabulary Lesson 1: Family

By IELTS Master

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Learn words deeply to improve your IELTS writing, speaking, reading and listening scores. This first lesson from IELTS Master focuses on "family" vocabulary.

IELTS Speaking Exam part 2: Top 10 common topics

By Tony Box

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Listen to Band 9 model answers on 10 common topics in the IELTS speaking test part 2.

The role of grammar in the IELTS exam

By IELTS Buddy

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This website gives an overview on grammar in the IELTS exam. Here you will find explanations of things you will be graded on, such as 'Grammatical Range and Accuracy' and 'Lexical Resource'. You will see how it is important to:

• Get your word forms right
• Understand how to write complex sentences
• Expand your range of grammatical structures you can use
• Use grammar accurately (i.e minimising your error density).

And you'll find links to explanations and exercises on IELTS grammar to help you improve your overall score and your grammar in general.

IELTS preparation guides by International House

By IH London

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If you’re preparing to take the IELTS exam, this website has links to short preparation guides that can help you attain the score you need. International House World Organisation is a worldwide network of 160 language schools and teacher training institutes in 56 countries and one of the leading global providers of EFL.

IELTS Official on Facebook

By IELTS Official

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IELTS Official is the Facebook page for IELTS.org . Here you will find a wide range of videos, discussion topics and tips for everything IELTS. 

IELTS Speaking for Band 7 - describing a person

By ieltssimon

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IELTS Simon gives advice on how to describe a person at a Band 7 level for Speaking Exam part 2.

IELTS Reading: keyword technique

By IELTS Simon

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A short lesson with IELTS Simon about searching for keywords in the IELTS reading test.

IELTS Reading - Skimming and Scanning

By DistinctMotionMedia

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Skimming and scanning are two crucial skills for success in the IELTS reading test. This video explains what each skill involves and how to use them in the exam to answer questions quickly and correctly.

IELTS Reading - Matching Headings

By TargetIELTS

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Matching headings to paragraphs is one of the question types in the IELTS Reading Test. This video shows you how to do this successfully by using a number of strategies.

IELTS Reading Tips: True False Not Given

By IELTS Liz

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Essential IELTS Reading tips for True, False, Not Given Questions. Learn the best techniques to deal with both T/F/NG and Y/N/NG.
This lesson offers practice exercises and highlights common traps used by IELTS. There is a list given of the 10 most important tips.

5 Tips to Improve Listening Skills

By 5 Tips to Improve Listening Skills

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Five tips, five secrets, five tricks to improving your listening comprehension skills, from Rachel's English. Study how Americans speak to improve your listening and pronunciation.

IELTS Writing Task 2 - The Introduction

By engVid

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The IELTS essay's success is determined by its introduction. In this writing lesson we will look at how to construct an introduction paragraph that will not only make reading easier for the grader, but will also keep you focused on what you need to say. It really is as simple as 1, 2, 3, 4. Test yourself with the quiz after.

IELTS Writing Task 2: How to write an introduction

By IELTS Liz

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A full lesson to learn how to write an introduction for an IELTS essay. This lesson explains the content of the background statement and the thesis statement for an opinion essay. The techniques of writing the introduction can be used in all IELTS essays (both GT and AC).

How to write a basic paragraph

By engVid

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A writing lesson for absolute beginners! Here are four very basic rules you must follow when writing simple paragraphs. Learn the basics -- capitals, indentation, line spacing, and more. Then take the quiz.

How to write a perfect IELTS essay conclusion

By engVid

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The conclusion of an essay is where you must make your final argument clear. Many students struggle to write their conclusion because they don't know what to say other than just repeating their previous arguments. The process of writing a conclusion for an essay is a lot simpler if you follow a structure in your writing. In this lesson, Jade from engVid explains different conclusion structures you can use in your IELTS writing exam.