What next?
You’ve only completed a third of the course, so don’t worry if you haven’t improved all aspects of your English. There is plenty of time to learn more and practise the skills and tasks that you find difficult. Here are some things that you should do now. Decide which you’d like to do first. Number them.
Find as many opportunities to speak English as possible. If you have friends or relatives who speak good English, practise with them. Practise with other students in your class when you have a break or after the lesson. Practise talking about typical IELTS exam topics. If you know anyone who has taken the IELTS exam, ask them what the examiner talked about and what questions he or she had to answer.
If you find the Listening test difficult, ask to borrow CDs and listen outside school. Listen to English that is at your level to give you confidence, but also listen to English that is more challenging so that your ability develops. Listen to extracts which have a tapescript, so that after you listen, you can read and check what you didn’t understand and why you didn’t understand it. When you listen, try to identify key words and phrases that you don’t know. Then check them in a dictionary or in the tapescript.
Read as much as you can. Borrow books and read articles in magazines and newspapers. Read any information related to your studies or your job that you’re sent or that you find in documents. Read texts that challenge you, but not texts that are so difficult that you don’t enjoy them. When you read, notice how the text is organized. Look at how the paragraphs facilitate the reading process and how words and phrases are used to introduce and summarize ideas. Get used to reading without a dictionary so that you can guess the meaning of new words and phrases in context.
You should learn vocabulary that is important to you so that you can talk about yourself and your interests, but also the typical vocabulary that you know occurs frequently in the IELTS Academic exam. Note down new vocabulary and make sure you revise it. Make sure that you learn phrases, fixed expressions and idioms as well as single words, and focus on words you know used in new ways as well as words that are completely new to you.
Think about which aspects of your writing you most need to improve and concentrate on those. You will probably not have time to keep writing whole reports and compositions, so practise writing short extracts that focus on specific elements of written language. Practise introducing the theme of a report or introducing and concluding an argument. Practise organizing and linking ideas within an extract or whole composition. Practise writing more complex sentences that will improve your grammatical accuracy, spelling and punctuation. Do the tasks in the Course Book and Workbook and ask your teacher to give you more writing tasks if you need more practice. Make a list of typical topics for Writing Task 2 and start thinking about what you would say about them.
Go on to the next section of the Course Book. Make sure you practise all aspects of your English, but focus on what you are having problems with. Don’t worry if you don’t make progress in all areas at the same time. Remember, it is much easier to learn English if you enjoy it!
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