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IELTS Academic — Vocabulary, Grammar & Task Language

Academic vocabulary, collocations, task language and grammar for the IELTS Academic test — Writing Task 1 and 2, Speaking, and the accuracy problems that most often trip candidates up.

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Academic Word List — High-Frequency Words
The academic vocabulary that appears again and again in IELTS Reading passages and that examiners expect to see used accurately in Writing.
MCQ: 20
Fill-in: 15
Flashcards: 24
Pair match: 22
81 total questions
Collocations for Strong Lexical Resource
Words that natural English puts together. Lexical resource is one of the four public assessment criteria, and collocation errors are what make otherwise strong vocabulary sound wrong.
MCQ: 10
Fill-in: 8
Flashcards: 12
Pair match: 12
42 total questions
Writing Task 1 — Describing Trends, Charts and Processes
The language of the Academic Task 1 report: movement verbs, the overview, comparison, and the passive voice used for process diagrams.
MCQ: 10
Fill-in: 8
Flashcards: 12
Pair match: 12
Locked · 42 questions inside
Writing Task 2 — Essay Structure and Argument Connectors
How the Task 2 essay is put together — question types, thesis and topic sentences, linking devices, and the hedging language of careful academic argument.
MCQ: 20
Fill-in: 15
Flashcards: 24
Pair match: 22
Locked · 81 questions inside
Speaking Parts 1–3 — Fluency and Natural Phrases
The three-part Speaking interview and the phrases that buy thinking time, extend an answer, and keep you sounding natural rather than rehearsed.
MCQ: 10
Fill-in: 8
Flashcards: 12
Pair match: 12
Locked · 42 questions inside
Accuracy — Grammar Errors That Cost Marks
Grammatical range and accuracy is one of the four public criteria. These are the mistakes that appear most often in otherwise competent IELTS answers.
MCQ: 10
Fill-in: 8
Flashcards: 12
Pair match: 12
Locked · 42 questions inside
Listening — Signposting Language and Distractor Traps
The four parts of the Listening test, the signposts that tell you where you are in the recording, and the traps — corrections, plausible alternatives, word limits and sound-alike numbers — that cost marks.
MCQ: 10
Fill-in: 8
Flashcards: 12
Pair match: 12
Locked · 42 questions inside
Reading — Question Types, Paraphrase and Skimming
The Academic Reading paper: what TRUE/FALSE/NOT GIVEN really asks, how headings differ from matching information, and the paraphrase recognition that most of the test actually rests on.
MCQ: 10
Fill-in: 8
Flashcards: 12
Pair match: 12
Locked · 42 questions inside
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