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978-1-107-62069-8 – The Official Cambridge Guide to IELTSPauline Cullen Amanda French and Vanessa Jakeman
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ContentsIntroduction

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IELTS Reading skills

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IELTS Summaryp7

1 Reading strategies

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IELTS Listening skills

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1 Getting ready to listen

1 Understanding the context
2 Using the correct spelling
3 Writing numbers

2 Following a conversation

1 Identifying the speakers
2 Identifying function
3 Understanding categories

3 Recognising paraphrase
1 Identifying distractors
2 Recognising paraphrase
3 Selecting from a list

4 Places and directions
1 Describing a place
2 Following directions
3 Labelling a map

5 Listening for actions and processes
1 Understanding mechanical parts
2 Describing an action or process
3 Describing a process

6 Attitude and opinion
1 Identifying attitudes and opinions
2 Persuading and suggesting
3 Reaching a decision

7 Following a lecture or talk1 Identifying main ideas
2 Understanding how ideas are connected
3 Understanding an explanation

8 Contrasting ideas
1 Signposting words
2 Comparing and contrasting ideas
3 Using notes to follow a talk© in this web service Cambridge University Press

1 Using the features of a Reading
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2 Skimming a passage and speed reading
3 Global understanding

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2 Descriptive passages

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3 Understanding the main ideas

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4 Locating and matching information

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5 Discursive passages

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6 Multiple-choice questions

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7 Opinions and attitudes

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8 General Training Reading

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1 Scanning for detail
2 Using words from the passage
3 Notes/flow-chart/diagram completion
1 Identifying the main idea
2 Understanding the main points
3 Identifying information in a passage
1 Identifying types of information
2 Locating and matching information
3 How ideas are connected

1 Discursive passages
2 Identifying theories and opinions
3 Matching features
1 Understanding longer pieces of text
2 Different types of multiple choice
3 Identifying a writer’s purpose
1 Argumentative texts
2 Identifying the writer’s views/claims
3 Identifying grammatical features
1 The General Training Reading paper
2 Dealing with multiple texts
3 Understanding work-related texts

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IELTS Writing
1 Academic Writing Task 1 –Describing a chart, table or graph
1 Understanding graphs, tables and charts
2 More complex charts
3 Improving your Task Achievement score

2 Academic Writing Task 1 – Comparing
and contrasting graphs and tables
1 Avoiding repetition
2 Comparing and contrasting data
3 Grammatical Accuracy – describing
numbers and figures accurately

3 Academic Writing Task 1 –Describing diagrams
1 Understanding a diagram
2 Describing a process – coherence
and cohesion
3 Lexical Resource – being accurate

4 Academic Writing Task 1 –Describing maps
1 Describing a map
2 Describing changes in a place
3 Grammatical Accuracy

5 General Training Writing Task 1 –A letter
1 Understanding the task
2 Improving your score
3 Checking and correcting

6 Writing Task 2 – Getting ready to write

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1 Understanding the task
2 Planning and organising your ideas
3 Getting started – writing anintroduction7 Writing Task 2 – Expressing yourideas clearly
1 Linking ideas – cohesion
2 Lexical Resource – avoiding repetition
3 Expressing a personal view

8 Writing Task 2 – Checking andcorrecting
1 Developing your ideas clearly
2 Grammatical Accuracy
3 Assessing your language

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IELTS Speaking
1 The Speaking Test – Part 1

1 Getting ready to speak
2 Part 1 – talking about familiar topics
3 Using the right tense – GrammaticalRange and Accuracy

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2 Part 2 – Giving a talk

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3 Part 3 – Talking about abstract topics

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1 Understanding the task
2 Improving Fluency and Coherence
3 Organising your notes and your talk
1 Talking about abstract topics
2 Agreeing and disagreeing
3 Improving your Lexical Resource score

4 Checking, correcting and assessing

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1 Dealing with problems
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3 Assessing yourself and improving
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Practice Tests
Practice Test 1
Practice Test 2
Practice Test 3
Practice Test 4
Practice Test 5
Practice Test 6Practice Test 7
General Training
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Practice Test 8
General Training Test

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Recording Scripts

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Answer Key

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Sample Answer Sheets

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