Gold Coast IELTS Podcast
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Welcome to the Gold Coast IELTS podcast. This podcast is specifically for my students living on the Gold Coast and anywhere else in the world. This is where you can find the best IELTS writing preparation tips on the web. If you have any questions, please drop me a line. Expect one or two new podcasts every week. Enjoy! Also, please visit the website at:www.goldcoastielts.comI have podcasts, a blog, and all the Cambridge IELTS exams with all listening MP3s (Cambridge IELTS Academic 5-14).
Episodes
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32. IELTS Task 2 : "Using adverbs in task 2"
www.goldcoastielts.com www.g.page/gcielts Welcome to Gold Coast IELTS in Southport and online! OK guys so adverbs are those words that (often but not always) end in –ly. They give us extra information about verbs, adjectives or other adverbs. Adverbs are the word that tell us how (manner), where...
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31. IELTS Task 1 : "Talking about the future with future perfect continuous tense"
www.goldcoastielts.com www.g.page/gcielts Today let’s take a look at the future perfect continuous tense and how it can be effectively used in the IELTS exam to explain what will be happening at a particular point in time in the future. Firstly, how do we make the future perfect continuous tense?...
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30. IELTS Task 1 and 2 : "Future predictions with 'will' and 'going to'
www.goldcoastielts.com www.g.page/gcielts There is no doubt that in IELTS we need to be able to describe what has happened and what is happening, but we also need to be able to make predictions for the future, and we can use ‘will’, ‘going to’, and a combination of other words to do this. 1.…
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29. IELTS Task 1 : "Past simple, past perfect, and past perfect continuous in IELTS task 1"
www.goldcoastielts.com www.g.page/gcielts The past simple, past perfect, and past perfect continuous tenses are great to use in IELTS. We can use them to compare actions that happened in the past and show the examiner how deep our knowledge of time is. Firstly let’s look at the past perfect…
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28. IELTS Task 1 : "Using the present tenses in the IELTS exam"
www.goldcoastielts.com www.g.page/gcielts Present tenses are used a lot in the IELTS exam, especially in the task 1 task. The two kinds of present tense verb in English are present simple and present continuous, and both of them have different functions (ways and times to be used). Lets look at...
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27. IELTS Task 1 : "Using countable and uncountable nouns"
www.goldcoastielts.com www.g/page/gcielts Countable and uncountable nouns is a subject that many learners, even very advanced learners, have a lot of trouble with. In this podcast, we will look at quantity expressions that we can use with these types of nouns. I think everyone listening to this...
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26. IELTS Tasks 1 and 2: "Using noun phrases"
www.goldcoastielts.com www.g.page/gcielts Noun phrases are the building blocks of any language. They can refer to ideas, things, situations or just about anything else that you can imagine. There will be at least one noun in every sentence that you make, so we need to be able to make really great...
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25. IELTS Task 1 : "Using the simple past and present perfect"
www.goldcoastielts.com [email protected] Time is a tricky thing to get right, and the way you describe it in a task 1 shows how accurate your language is. IELTS task 1 charts usually show information for the past that often continues to the present time. This is a perfect opportunity for…
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24. IELTS Task 1 : "Using nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs"
www.goldcoastielts.com www.g.page/gcielts Today let’s do a quick podcast and learn a great technique that not many people know about. It’s a simple language variation technique that is especially useful when describing IELTS task 1 charts. One thing that IELTS examiners HATE is language…
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23. IELTS Task 1 : "Using comparative language in a task 1"
www.goldcoastielts.com www.g.page/gcielts In the IELTS task 1 many people describe the details of the charts quite well, but the forget to make adequate comparisons. There are many ways of comparing in English, the most common being to use adjectives, comparative adjective adjectives, and...
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22. IELTS Task 2: "Using referencing language for cohesion and coherence"
www.goldcoastielts.com www.g.page/gcielts Another skill that is going to help us get a high score on the cohesion and coherence part of the IELTS test is making good use of referencing, which means words like pronouns and determiners. These words can replace nouns or noun phrases. The main...
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21. IELTS Task 1 : "Using sequencing connectors and relative clauses in a task 1 process essay"
Last time we looked at how to use the passive voice in an IELTS task 1 process essay. Let’s keep going with this idea and check out the last two things we need to use to make a really GREAT written process essay. So the three things we will use to make our process essay are going to be: 1.…
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20. IELTS Task 1 : "Using the passive in a process essay"
There are many ways to use the passive voice in the English language. Firstly, let’s take a look at the different forms of the passive, then we can look at its uses. There are 14 different ways to use the passive in English. Here they are for everyone’s benefit: 1. Present simple:The union is…
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19. IELTS Task 2: "How to write a 3-sentence conclusion"
www.goldcoastielts.com www.g.page/gcielts So today guys lets look at how to write the conclusion of an IELTS task 2. A lot of IELTS students get confused at this part and try to rewrite and come up with new ideas. Effectively they are wasting time that they should be spending in the body section...
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18. IELTS Task 1 and 2: "Discourse connectors - PART 2"
www.goldcoastielts.com www.g.page/gcielts 4. Exemplification/Restatement Exemplification connectors clarify preceding information. These connectors may introduce examples or an expansion. The most common exemplification connectors are for example and for instance. Restatement connectors give…
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17. IELTS Task 1 and 2: "Discourse connectors - PART 1"
www.goldcoastielts.com www.g.page/gcielts Let’s talk about cohesion and coherence today. I wrote a blog about this topic, which explained what you should do to get a high CC score. In this podcast I will try to explain this topic in more detail, with examples of good IELTS task 1 and task 2...
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16. IELTS Task 2 : "7 connecting phrases to use"
Web: goldcoastielts.com Instagram: goldcoast_ielts OK guys so I don’t have a lot of time today. Corona virus seems to have made me more busy than usual even. Today let’s focus on some different ways to make topic sentences. The way we will do this is by expanding the connecting phrase from last...
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15. IELTS Task 2 : "Writing a 3-part body topic sentence"
Web: www.goldcoastielts.com Instagram: goldcoast_ielts All body paragraphs will need to have a very clear topic sentence in the sentence initial (S1) position. The purpose of the topic sentence in an IELTS task 2 body paragraph is to introduce the topic, link the paragraph forwards or backwards…
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14. IELTS Task 2 : "Analysing a task 2 question into 3 parts"
Instagram: goldcoast_ielts Web: www.goldcoastielts.com In today’s podcast let’s take a step back. We probably should have done this a few weeks ago so I have to apologise about that. Today, let’s look at how to properly analyse task 2 essay questions. So basically every task 2 essay question will...
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13. IELTS Task 2 : "Write a 4-sentence body paragraph"
Instagram: goldcoast_ielts Web: www.goldcoastielts.com www.g.page/gcielts As I promised you all in podcast 12, today we can look at another, alternative way to write a fairly simple IELTS task 2 body or 90 words. Today’s body will have only four sentences, so we need to make each sentence go for...
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12. IELTS Task 2 : "Write a 5-sentence IELTS body paragraph"
Instagram: goldcoast_ielts Web: goldcoastielts.com OK guys we are back, and today we are going to do something amazing. We will use the plan from podcast 11 to write a 90-word body paragraph. As you can probably imagine, there are different ways to write a body paragraph. What we will try and do...
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11. IELTS Task 2 : "Using a brainstorm to write a plan"
Instagram: goldcoast_ielts Web: goldcoastielts.com Last time we looked at how to brainstorm ideas for the body paragraphs of a task 2. In today’s podcast, we will see how to progress to the next step, which is to turn the brainstorm into a plan. The body plan is what we will use to write our...
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10. IELTS Task 2 : "Brainstorming using IDEAS"
Instagram: goldcoast_ielts Web: goldcoastielts.com In podcasts 8 and 9 we learnt how to write a nice introduction without doing too much work. Now we need to sit back and take a break because we need to do some serious thinking now. After finishing the introduction, the next stage is to do a…
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9. IELTS Task 2 : "Introduction thesis statement"
Instagram: goldcoast_ielts Web: goldcoastielts.com In podcast 8 we learnt how to write the first sentence of our task 2 introduction. This is known as the “background statement” and its purpose was to contextualise the essay in the real world. Today let’s move on to the second sentence of our…
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8. IELTS Task 2 : "Introduction background statement"
Instagram: goldcoast_ielts Web: goldcoastielts.com OK so today guys we are going to check out how to write the introduction sentence 1 of our task 2. This is a very, very important sentence because it is going to set the whole tone of our beautiful IELTS task 2. Today let’s keep it pretty easy…
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7. IELTS Task 1 : "Map summary section"
Instagram: goldcoast_ielts Web: goldcoastielts.com In this podcast let’s check out how to create the final part of our task 1 – the summary section. Note that we call this a summary and not a conclusion because conclusion is strictly reserved for the final paragraph of a task 2. Ideally, we want…
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6. IELTS Task 1 : "Line chart details section"
Instagram: goldcoast_ielts Web: goldcoastielts.com Today let’s take another look at a different kind of task 1 body section and do a line chart. This will be a bit different from the map in the last podcast because we can try to use some more comparative language here. Some language we could use…
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5. IELTS Task 1 : "Map details section"
Instagram: goldcoast_ielts Web: goldcoastielts.com Today we’ll move on from the first sentence of the task 1 body and find out how to continue writing the “details” part of the body. Before writing this section we really need to take a close look at the chart and find about three detailed pieces…
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4. IELTS Task 1 : "Body paragraph sentence 1"
Instagram: goldcoast_ielts Web: goldcoastielts.com Welcome back! Today we’ll look at how to make the first sentence of the body paragraph for our task 1. Lets call this sentence the S1. This sentence will describe one key detail of the chart. In the chart below, it would probably be the line for...
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3. IELTS Task 1 : "Introduction sentence 2"
Instagram: goldcoast_ielts Web: goldcoastielts.com Welcome back! In the first two podcasts we looked at how to make the first sentence of our introduction, which was basically a cleverly worded paraphrase of the chart title. Today we’ll look at how to make the second sentence of our introduction,...
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2. IELTS Task 1 : "Introduction sentence 1 part 2"
Instagram: goldcoast_ielts Web: goldcoastielts.com Last time we looked at how to write the first sentence of our task 1 introduction. Today, lets expand on that theme and practice doing this a bit more. Lets imagine we have three different task 1 titles, and that we have to write three different...
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1. IELTS Task 1 : "Introduction sentence 1 part 1"
Instagram: goldcoast_ielts Web: goldcoastielts.com Do you ever get that feeling you just don’t know how to start a task one? Don’t worry, we’re here to help you. A good IELTS task one intro only needs 2 sentences. That’s right, just two. Let’s call them S1 and S2. The good news is, each of them…
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Welcome to the Gold Coast IELTS podcast. This podcast is specifically for my students living on the Gold Coast and anywhere else in the world. This is where you can find the best IELTS writing preparation tips on the web. If you have any questions, please drop me a line. Expect one or two new podcasts every week. Enjoy! Also, please visit the website at:www.goldcoastielts.comI have podcasts, a blog, and all the Cambridge IELTS exams with all listening MP3s (Cambridge IELTS Academic 5-14).
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