Kristin Espinar - IELTS Writing and Speaking Skills: Get a 7+ Band Score (Activate Your IELTS Book 1)

Get a 7+ Band Score

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Kristin Espinar

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IELTS Writing and Speaking Skills by Kristin Espinar
Copyright 2019 Kristin Espinar

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ISBN-13: 978-0-578-50112-3

DEDICATION

To my two darling boys, Oliver and Sebastian,

May you one day realize that you can achieve everything you always wanted to.

Love,
Mama

A SPECIAL THANK YOU

I would like to acknowledge the following people who have chosen to support me in my launch and success of this book. Firstly, to my husband for helping me find the time to write this book and giving me his expert design advice. Secondly, for the group of family and friends that helped me spread the word about this book and supported me with all the activities surrounding it.

Pablo Espinar, Clemencia Plitt, Antonio Espinar, Veronica Miranda, Carlota Gil, Edwin Betancour, Romulo Delgado, Monika Lopez, Karina Norton, Christina Brzustoski, Nadia Allouh, Latisha Castillo, Lisa Play, Karolina Wyrzykowska, Marcia Sousa, Miguel Pazos

Thank you to Natalie Jennings of @jenningsphoto on IG for the beautiful headshots.

A Special Shout Out

I want to give a special thanks to three of my superstar students who either follow my podcast, join my events, take classes with me, or all three! Thanks for your enthusiastic support of my project and Im so excited to have you on my team!!

Jijo Joseph

Muslimbek Yuldoshev

Indranil Saha

A SPECIAL GIFT FOR YOU

Firstly, I wanted to say thank you for purchasing this book. I hope that it serves as a helpful source of information, a convenient reference for you, and helps to give you insight on how to prepare for the IELTS exam. One thing that you will need for this book is something called the IELTS Vocabulary Notebook. This is something that I created in order to help all my students build a strong vocabulary and have a resource they can use for doing IELTS writing and speaking tasks. You can download the resource with the link below.

IELTS VOCABULARY NOTEBOOK

If you are unable to access it, please send me an email at: activateyourielts@gmail.com. I would like to hear from you anyway! If you do decide to write please tell me a little bit about yourself. You can tell me how long you have been studying English if you have taken the IELTS exam before, when you are planning to take it, and what particular struggles you are having. I may be able to point out a few more resources for you. Anyway thank you again and I look forward to hearing from you!

HOW TO USE THIS BOOK

This book was designed directly from my IELTS Writing and Speaking Video Course. The chapters and the organization of the book follow the course structure, but it also has added tips and advice. I decided to add these extra bits of information because I saw so many of my students making the same mistakes with their writing, speaking, and grammar, that I wanted to put everything in one place to use as a reference.

So this book was written as a guide to developing your IELTS writing and speaking skills as well as a reference resource for common mistakes in those areas as well.

Throughout the book you will see there are writing and speaking tasks that you can use to practice and develop your skills. You will also see buttons like the button below. You can click these buttons and they will take you to extra resources for the course.

In addition to this book, I also wrote a workbook that goes in conjunction with this book. The workbook includes 10 essential IELTS vocabulary lists, vocabulary lists related to other types of vocabulary like transition words, academic vocabulary, verbs to use with gerunds and infinitives, etc. It also contains worksheets, grammar checklists, writing prompts, speaking prompts, and IELTS speaking samples, IELTS writing samples.

This workbook serves as a fantastic companion to this ebook if you want a more practical resource for practicing your IELTS writing and speaking skills. You can read more about it and how to get it with the link below.

Lastly, I want to say good luck! This is something you can do. Students often feel frustrated or lost, but I am here to help. I created this book with you in mind, and I wanted to create a guide to help you get through this preparation process so that you would not feel alone and so that you would get the clear process that you need in order to get the IELTS 7+ band score that you want and deserve. Now lets get started!

IELTS WORKBOOK

Hello! My name is Kristin Espinar. I train IELTS students who struggle to develop the IELTS writing and IELTS speaking skills they need to get a 7+ band score. I help them get higher band scores while making it feel easy and fun.

Ive got a masters degree in Applied Linguistics, 13 years of ESL and exam preparation experience, I am a certified IELTS instructor, and now a published author! I also run a weekly podcast called Activate Your IELTS: Be Determined and I regularly serve over 9000 people with tips and advice for preparing for the IELTS exam.

When Im not writing, teaching, and creating online IELTS courses, I like to spend time with my family going to parks and natural areas in Florida. I also love traveling around the world, some of my favorite countries have been Indonesia and Colombia.

If you are dying to know more, here are a few things you dont know about me.

Fun Fact 1. Ive eaten frog legs.

Fun Fact 2. Ive travelled to 23 different countries.

Fun Fact 3: I lived abroad for 7 years.

Find out more here!

Many students struggle with these areas of the exam for a variety of reasons: lack of feedback, lack of practice time, lack of knowledge about what to do or how to do it.

O ne of the reasons that I originally designed my IELTS writing and speaking lvideo course is that I saw students were having the most problems in developing their productive skills. Productive skills are writing and speaking skills and I call them productive skills because you actually need to produce something.

When taking an official English exam, it is certainly difficult to do the listening and reading part but the benefit is that you dont have to produce anything. In my opinion, it makes these parts of the exam a little bit easier to prepare for.