Category: Hobbies
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Lesson 151: Drawing🎨
This week’s lesson pushes you to train to speak about a common hobby: drawing. As you will hear in the sample, the candidate isn’t super enthusiastic about drawing, and they skillfully use language choices to express this. Step 1: Tune in to this week’s podcast episode (audio and video version available below). Part 1 Questions Do…
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Lesson 143: Video games🎮
A candidate reported being asked about ‘video games’ in a recent IELTS Speaking exam. This week, you will practise speaking about this topic. Step 1: Listen to the full sample. At this stage of the lesson, try to listen only and avoid referring to the transcript. Step 2: Listen to this week’s podcast episode and…
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Episode 127: An impactful book you read📕
This week you are tasked with describing a book that you read that impacted you in some way. This is an IELTS Speaking Part 2 challenge, so you will be training to speak on your own for one to two minutes. Here is the cue card used in this lesson: Describe a book that had…
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Lesson 123: Meeting new people and making friends🫂
‘People’ is a very common general topic on the IELTS, and this week you will train to speak more clearly about it. This is a IELTS Speaking Part 1 exercise. Step 1: Listen to the full model. (By the way, if you didn’t know, all of these exercises are scripted at the band 9 level…
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Lesson 122: Board games and society🃏
This is a lesson that trains you for Part 3 of the exam. In this lesson, you will examine the subject of ‘board games’ from a functional point of view. Part 1: Listen to the sample. There may be new words or phrases in this model, so try listening several times before consulting the below…
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Lesson 121: A memorable game🎲
This week’s lesson is for Part 2 of the IELTS Speaking exam. It examines the topic of a game that is memorable for you. Here is the cue card that is used: Describe a tabletop game or other game you have played. You should say:What the game wasWho you played it withWhere and when you…
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Lesson 105: A daily routine🤞
This week, you will train to respond to the following cue card: Describe a daily routine in your life. You should say:-what you do-when you started doing it-why you do this routine-and explain whether you will change it in the future and why Step 1: Listen to the full sample. Step 2: Complete this week’s…
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Lesson 97: A leisure activity you did when you were young🏓
This week, you will use the speech shadowing process to talk about a leisure activity you did when you were young. Here is the cue card used in today’s training: Describe a leisure activity that you did when you were young. You should say: -what it was -where you did it -who you did it…
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Lesson 82: Leisure time and books📚
This week’s exercise looks at a Part 1 response. Step 1: Listen to this week’s sample response. Step 2: Tune in to this week’s podcast episode. Step 3: Work through the full exercise. Step 4: Read through the below transcript and note the new language you came across this week. Step 5: Engage this week’s…