IELTS
An expert in the world of IELTS
READ: it helps with ESSAY IDEAS as well as VOCABULARY
British Council IELTS pages
http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/ielts
Free practice tests
http://takeielts.britishcouncil.org/prepare-test/free-practice-tests
How to prepare for IELTS
http://takeielts.britishcouncil.org/prepare-test/how-prepare-ielts-test Free practice tests
http://takeielts.britishcouncil.org/prepare-test/free-practice-tests
Cambridge - what to expect on exam day
Watch a general-interest programme for 'light relief' and to extend your vocabulary
And don't forget to review your grammar, if you have weaknesses. Your main class teacher should tell you what these are, but verb tenses and forming proper sentences are good places to start.
The main tenses in English
It's not enough to know how to form the tenses - you need to know when to use them. This website gives good summaries of their use.
English for Academic Purposes
Improving accuracy in academic writing - very high level English
The accuracy section of this website has several interactive
exercises
Writing Guide - University of Reading
https://www.reading.ac.uk/web/FILES/sta/A5_Academic_writing_3_Writing_style_and_proofreading.pdf
Listening to academic English
Interactive
listening comprehension and note taking – gap fills – often key words
Manchester Phrasebank
Useful phrases you can copy and
adapt for your own academic writing - just add your own ideas (content words). They are common phrases so you
don’t need to worry about plagiarism...
Listening to academic English - BBC Learning English
A
series of 12 programmes, which are useful listening practice in
themselves, but which also contain good advice for prospective students
University of Reading lectures
Several academic lectures on different subjects with
tasks (questions), answers (key) and transcripts - again good practice mixed with advice
More universities offering open courses
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/ Open University (UK) - famously clear and well-organised courseshttp://www.extension.harvard.edu/open-learning-initiative Harvard
http://oyc.yale.edu/ Yale
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
https://www.coursera.org/ international universities online video courses
Google Scholar - search within academic works
http://scholar.google.co.uk/
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