IELTS Practice Activities

Oh no! I’ve made lots of spelling mistakes in my IELTS essay. In fact, I’ve made so many spelling mistakes, my band score for Lexical … Read more

Are you having problems with phrasal verbs? You are not alone! Here are some exercises to help you learn and use some common phrasal verbs. … Read more

You often have to describe obligations and choices / options in IELTS Writing Task 2 or in IELTS Writing Task 1 letters (in the General … Read more

Many words in English need to change their form depending on whether they are being used as verbs, nouns, adjectives or adverbs. e.g. verbs change … Read more

One of the most common tasks in IELTS Writing Task 1 is to describe a map. It’s important to know how to use vocabulary to describe … Read more

In this vocabulary activity, you need to complete some short paragraphs which describe how different devices work. These texts are similar to those you might … Read more

When writing, we often want to focus our reader’s attention on an idea. To do this, you can use a variety of adverbs called focusing … Read more

In both IELTS Writing Task 1 and IELTS Writing Task 2, you often have to contrast and make comparisons between different things. For example, in … Read more

Here is another essay sorting activity. Try to put the chunks of text into the correct order. If you find this difficult, read my full … Read more

Here is a fill in the blanks activity based on one of my IELTS Model Essays, which responds to this task: Some people say that … Read more

Complete my essay by dragging the missing words and phrases into the blank spaces. This will help you to recognise common collocations, an important skill … Read more

One common IELTS vocabulary problem is confusing one word with another word. This may be for several reasons. For example: the words look almost the … Read more

It is important to write an IELTS essay that has a logical sequence. This means that sentences are in a particular order, so they gradually … Read more

It’s important to grow your IELTS Vocabulary. This will help you in all 4 parts of the IELTS Test When you write essays for the … Read more

It’s very easy to make spelling mistakes! When you write, you have to think about explaining your ideas clearly, as well as how to link … Read more

To get a high band score in IELTS Writing and IELTS Speaking, it’s important to use cohesive devices appropriately and correctly. In this activity, you … Read more

Here’s another IELTS listening practice activity, this time based around a TED-Ed animated video. This video describes the effect of the collision between the North and … Read more

I’m going to make a series of IELTS listening activities based around popular TED Talks. TED Talks are short talks (around 15 minutes long) based … Read more