From ex-IELTS examiner James Castleden’s YouTube channel IELTS Step-by-step comes a course dedicated to learning, using and remembering the most important vocabulary for the IELTS exam, both Academic and General Training. 100s of IELTS past papers have been studied to identify the high-level vocabulary that most often comes up in the Reading and Listening modules, and top-scoring Writing and Speaking answers have been analysed to determine what vocabulary was used and how.
Take this course to significantly improve your overall score in the Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking modules, in both the Academic and General Training IELTS.
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Learn about a) what vocabulary you'll be studying in this section and b) which vocabulary-building technique you'll be learning and why it's useful.
Study, practice and use all the relevant IELTS vocabulary relating to the theme of Relationships, Family and Early Learning
Learn what collocations are and why there are essential to language learning.
Practice doing Part One of the IELTS listening exam.
Repeat the Show Your Progress task(s) to maintain your motivation levels, get feedback from other students, and assist other students.
Learn about a) what vocabulary you'll be studying in this section and b) which vocabulary-building technique you'll be learning and why it's useful.
Study, practice and use all the relevant IELTS vocabulary relating to the theme of The Body and the Mind.
Learn how to make the most of completely free online monolingual dictionaries.
Repeat the Show Your Progress task(s) to maintain your motivation levels, get feedback from other students, and assist other students.
Learn about a) what vocabulary you'll be studying in this section and b) which vocabulary-building technique you'll be learning and why it's useful.
Study, practice and use all the relevant IELTS vocabulary relating to the theme of Diet, Health and Exercise.
Learn how to use some excellent free online thesauruses to improve your vocabulary.
Practice doing an IELTS Academic reading task.
Repeat the Show Your Progress task(s) to maintain your motivation levels, get feedback from other students, and assist other students.
Learn about a) what vocabulary you'll be studying in this section and b) which vocabulary-building technique you'll be learning and why it's useful.
You will study, practice and use all the relevant IELTS vocabulary relating to the theme of Life and Leisure.
Learn the best way to record new vocabulary so that you can remember it and use it appropriately.
Practice doing Part Two of the IELTS listening exam.
Repeat the Show Your Progress task(s) to maintain your motivation levels, get feedback from other students, and assist other students.
Learn about a) what vocabulary you'll be studying in this section and b) which vocabulary-building technique you'll be learning and why it's useful.
Study, practice and use all the relevant IELTS vocabulary relating to the theme of Study, Education and Research.
Learn how to read the phonemic script to help you to improve your English pronunciation.
Practice doing an IELTS General Training reading (Section Two task).
Repeat the Show Your Progress task(s) to maintain your motivation levels, get feedback from other students, and assist other students.
Learn about a) what vocabulary you'll be studying in this section and b) which vocabulary-building technique you'll be learning and why it's useful.
Study, practice and use all the relevant IELTS vocabulary relating to the theme of Effective Communication, Language and Linguistics.
Learn how to use Google's speech-to-text to improve your spoken fluency and accuracy.
Practice doing an IELTS Academic reading task.
Repeat the Show Your Progress task(s) to maintain your motivation levels, get feedback from other students, and assist other students.
Learn about a) what vocabulary you'll be studying in this section and b) which vocabulary-building technique you'll be learning and why it's useful.
Study, practice and use all the relevant IELTS vocabulary relating to the theme of Travel and Tourism.
Learn how to create online activities to help you to remember new words and why teaching others new words can help you to remember them.
Practice doing Section One of an IELTS General Training reading.
Repeat the Show Your Progress task(s) to maintain your motivation levels, get feedback from other students, and assist other students.
Learn about a) what vocabulary you'll be studying in this section and b) which vocabulary-building technique you'll be learning and why it's useful.
Study, practice and use all the relevant IELTS vocabulary relating to the theme of History and Time.
Learn how to organise your new vocabulary into lexical sets to help you remember them better.
Practice doing Section One of an IELTS listening.
Repeat the Show Your Progress task(s) to maintain your motivation levels, get feedback from other students, and assist other students.
Learn about a) what vocabulary you'll be studying in this section and b) which vocabulary-building technique you'll be learning and why it's useful.
Study, practice and use all the relevant IELTS vocabulary relating to the theme of Animals, Plants and Farming.
You will learn which resources are reliable for good translations, but you will also learn in what situations translating can hinder [=make it difficult for something to succeed] your language learning.
Practice doing an IELTS Academic reading task.
Repeat the Show Your Progress task(s) to maintain your motivation levels, get feedback from other students, and assist other students.
Learn about a) what vocabulary you'll be studying in this section and b) which vocabulary-building technique you'll be learning and why it's useful.
Study, practice and use all the relevant IELTS vocabulary relating to the theme of The Planets and Space.
What are word families and lexical derivatives, and how can I use them to expand my vocabulary?
Practice doing and Section Three of an IELTS listening exam.
Repeat the Show Your Progress task(s) to maintain your motivation levels, get feedback from other students, and assist other students.
Learn about a) what vocabulary you'll be studying in this section and b) which vocabulary-building technique you'll be learning and why it's useful.
Study, practice and use all the relevant IELTS vocabulary relating to the theme of Design and Innovation.
Learn about the more advanced features of freely-available online dictionaries that will help you to expand your vocabulary.
Practice doing an IELTS Academic reading task.
Repeat the Show Your Progress task(s) to maintain your motivation levels, get feedback from other students, and assist other students.
Learn about a) what vocabulary you'll be studying in this section and b) which vocabulary-building technique you'll be learning and why it's useful.
Study, practice and use all the relevant IELTS vocabulary relating to the theme of Computers and Technology.
Improve your speaking and listening skills by becoming aware of and using weak forms in English.
Repeat the Show Your Progress task(s) to maintain your motivation levels, get feedback from other students, and assist other students.
Learn about a) what vocabulary you'll be studying in this section and b) which vocabulary-building technique you'll be learning and why it's useful.
Study, practice and use all the relevant IELTS vocabulary relating to the theme of Globalisation and Trends.
Learn how to use AnkiDroid which uses an algorithm to tell you which words you need to revise.
Repeat the Show Your Progress task(s) to maintain your motivation levels, get feedback from other students, and assist other students.
Learn about a) what vocabulary you'll be studying in this section and b) which vocabulary-building technique you'll be learning and why it's useful.
Study, practice and use all the relevant IELTS vocabulary relating to the theme of Urbanisation and City Life.
Improve your speaking and listening skills by being aware of and using connected speech in English.
Practice doing an IELTS Academic reading task.
Repeat the Show Your Progress task(s) to maintain your motivation levels, get feedback from other students, and assist other students.
Learn about a) what vocabulary you'll be studying in this section and b) which vocabulary-building technique you'll be learning and why it's useful.
Study, practice and use all the relevant IELTS vocabulary relating to the theme of The Environment, Climate Change and Pollution.
Learn how to take advantage of the speech-to-text feature on YouTube to improve your speaking.
Repeat the Show Your Progress task(s) to maintain your motivation levels, get feedback from other students, and assist other students.