Simone Braverman - IELTS Success Formula General: The Complete Practical Guide to a Top IELTS Score

IELTS SUCCESS FORMULA GENERAL THE COMPLETE PRACTICAL GUIDE TO A TOP IELTS SCORE Stephen Slater & Simone Braverman One Sided Paper Centre for English Language in the University of South Australia www.IELTS-Blog.com/IELTS-Success-Formula www.IELTSonTrack.com Published by One Sided Paper 4, Chalk Place, Torrens Park South Australia, 5062 Centre for English Language in the University of South Australia UniSA, City West campus Adelaide, South Australia, 5000 Information on this title: www.ielts-blog.com/ielts-success-formula, www.ieltsontrack.com Copyright Slater, Braverman 2015 First published 2015 Unless otherwise indicated, all materials on these pages are copyrighted by the authors. All rights reserved. No part of this book (including text, images, audio or video content) may be used for any purpose other than non-commercial personal study use. Therefore, unauthorised reproduction, photocopying, recording, modification, storage in a retrieval system or retransmission, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical or otherwise, is strictly prohibited without prior written permission from the authors. Users are not permitted to mount this file on any network servers. Slater, S. Slater, S.

Braverman All rights reserved Web: www.ielts-blog.com www.ieltsontrack.com ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThe authors hereby acknowledge the following for their contributions to this book: Neville Clark at Disk-Edits Pty Ltd. for audio recording and mastering. Donna Millen for permission to use recorded extracts from IELTS on Track Listening tests. Derek Murphy for cover design assistance. Sally Collyns, Tanya Dahlenburg, Dr Ashish Davda, Sarah Divine, Georgina Hafteh Peter Hanna and Keith Smith, for voice recordings. IELTS-Blog.com members, but particularly Dharmen, Diana, Eveline, Hemanth, Hon, Irina, Juliana, Lili, Nga, Paramjit, Princess, Rae, Raza, Rodney, Shahin, Shyam, Simone, Tina, Venkatesh, Viet for participation in the trialling of the Listening and Reading test material.

Alex Braverman for assistance with proofreading and graphic design. iStockPhoto for licensing of the image appearing on the front cover (iStockphoto.com/SimoneBraverman). Australian Geographic for permission to use the article To dam or not to dam, originally published online at http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/ on 21 January 2011. Other texts were freshly written to test parameters drawing on and integrating information from a wide variety of written sources. While every effort has been made to contact copyright holders it has not been possible to identify all sources of the material used. iii Copyright S. Slater, S. Slater, S.

Braverman All rights reserved Web: www.ielts-blog.com www.ieltsontrack.com INTRODUCTION A big HELLO to you from your team of authors, Stephen and Simone. We are glad you have chosen IELTS SUCCESS FORMULA for your exam preparation. They say everything happens for a reason, and perhaps the reason youre reading this book is that you need a high IELTSscore and you want to be confident about how to achieve it for yourself or how to help yourstudents to achieve an above-average IELTS score. Many books have been written about IELTS preparation. What makes this one different? As you will have noticed, this book is called IELTS Success Formula. Thats exactly what you should expect to find here step by step, friendly guidance on how to overcome yourdifficulties and achieve a high score in the IELTS test. This book wastes no time and immediately shows you the important aspects requiring attention during your exam preparation.

The tips, advice and examples here will help you understand the difference between a lower score response and a higher score response, and you will learn efficient ways of dealing with test tasks to give more accurate answers, faster. HOW TO USE THIS BOOKThis book was designed to suit busy test takers as well as people who can devote severalweeks to IELTS preparation. Here are two possible test preparation plans:PLAN A: CRASH-COURSE PREPARATION (for candidates who are short of time)STEP 1. Read through the Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking lessons while making notes. Pay special attention to secrets and tips on impressing your assessor and achieving a higher score. STEP 2. Do the full practice test included in this book. STEP 3. Analyse your performance: write a brief summary on what you were good at, not so good at, and what to improve. STEP 3. Analyse your performance: write a brief summary on what you were good at, not so good at, and what to improve.

Check your answers against the correct ones in the book and try to understand why you were wrong and why the answers in the book are correct. Then go over our tips once more on the skills you need to improve. STEP 4. With any time left before your exam, locate and work through the relevant Fitness Activities to improve your performance in the skills that you found difficult in the practice test. IELTS Writing Doctor can help you cover the gaps in your use of grammar and vocabulary, and the rated writing samples and the recorded IELTS-style interview give you insights into how you can get a higher score in writing and speaking. Slater, S. Slater, S.

Braverman All rights reserved Web: www.ielts-blog.com www.ieltsontrack.com PLAN B: COMPREHENSIVE PREPARATION(for candidates who have more time, orfor teachers/students working with our book on IELTS preparation courses)STEP 1. Work systematically through the lesson for each IELTS subtest with its detailed descriptions, extensive Q/A, and secrets of impressing an assessor and raising your score. As you read through each lesson chapter carefully, note any information, strategies, tips or advice that are new to you. Underline or highlight the ones that apply to you. STEP 2. After finishing the lesson for every skill (Listening, Reading, Writing, Speaking),work through its fitness activities and then check your answers. Analyse any incorrect answers, and try to understand why you were wrong, and why the answer in the book is correct.

UNDERSTANDING tasks and mistakes is central to improvement. Note: if you need some help with your use of grammar or ideas for vocabulary, visit our IELTS Writing Doctor and Top Score Vocabulary in the Writing and Speaking chapters. For a deeper understanding of how to improve your score in writing or speaking, check out the rated writing samples and the recorded IELTS-style interview with a detailed analysis of the speakers performance. STEP 3. Take the Full practice test. You should work through the test under strict test conditions and in the correct order (L > R > W > S ) observing correct timings for each subtest. Put into practice as many relevant techniques and insights as possible from each of the four skills chapters you have systematically worked through.

When you have completed the full test, you can check your answers. For the Writing and Speaking test youll need either to self assess by rating your level in comparison with those in our Writing and Speaking Resource sections, or ask a teacher to give you a rating. STEP 4. Analyse your test performance and re-test later.A vital, final stage in our SUCCESS FORMULA is to analyse and evaluate your exit testperformance carefully in each of the four subtests and to write brief notes on what you were good at, not so good at, and what to improve. UNDERSTANDINGyour performance deeplyIS MUCH BETTER THAN JUST DOING one, new test after another. Slater, S. Slater, S.

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