How to prepare for IELTS?

Few people will remind you,

What kind of practice is not desirable.

Today, we will take an inventory for you.

Common misunderstandings in IELTS preparation.

Don't use these practices again,

What a waste of your precious time!

Myth 1: All new words encountered in reading should be recorded and used in writing and speaking!

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At first glance, this practice is to study hard and make progress every day, but it is very risky. IELTS is an exam based on application and communication. Because words of different difficulty are suitable for different situations, IELTS has different levels of mastery of these words.

Many new words encountered in reading roast duck are long and difficult words in academic articles, which are not suitable for daily oral occasions. If you insist on using them, the effect will be as unnatural as talking with your friends in ancient Chinese. In writing, roast duck really needs to take care of the diversity of words, but it also needs to express clearly as the main purpose. Many students try to piece together sentences in order to use long and difficult words, which affects the logic of the article and is not worth the loss.

How should I recite words?

We need to be able to "understand" and "understand" long and difficult words in reading and listening.

Professional vocabulary sounds difficult, and it can be responded in time once the audio is played. Try to identify difficult words in reading, that is, Chinese that can reflect the word within 3-5 seconds. However, these long and difficult words usually have the same root, so I suggest you classify associative memories.

In writing and speaking, the advice to everyone is "use as much as you have mastered"

There is no need to recite some particularly difficult words. If you don't have a large vocabulary, such as speaking on scientific topics, you need to accumulate some nouns or concepts, such as "smart phone" or "environmental protection". In the process of preparing for the exam, it is more than enough to organize and combine vocabulary and phrase expressions through the continuous accumulation and creation of their own material library.

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Memorizing on demand and using it frequently can at least improve the efficiency of memorizing words by half.

Myth # 2: Break your mouth just to keep up with Fu Juan's speaking speed and English accent.

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Many roast ducks spend their time imitating accents, speeding up and reciting long-winded templates. Then I must regret to inform you that you have gone astray! The ultimate goal of IELTS test is to test the real communication and expression ability. Don't be superstitious about accent and speed of speech. As a globally recognized language test, IELTS can tolerate all kinds of accents as long as its meaning is clear.

But pronunciation is really a big score point of IELTS speaking. What does this mean? The evaluation of pronunciation mainly focuses on the following aspects:

There is no shortcut to this. You need to look at phonetic symbols or listen to demonstration pronunciation to get the correct pronunciation of words. After accumulating a certain amount, you will master a general rule about the pronunciation of different letters and letter combinations.

A group of words that usually appear at the same root. For example (capital part is stressed syllable):

picture

take a photograph

Photographic

Also from the word photo, the stress is completely different.

Sometimes different accents can lead to completely different meanings. For example, preSENT means a gift, which is a noun, while pREsent means a show and demonstration, which is a verb.

You usually need to stress nouns, verbs and adjectives in meaningful sentences, so that the listener can understand you quickly.

Why are examiners more and more able to identify students who recite templates? Because when reciting a long passage, our intonation is flat (try to recite a three-character sutra), just like a robot, we naturally communicate because the speaker's mentality is different, or he asks questions, or he is sure, or he is surprised, and his intonation is diverse.

We need to break sentences reasonably and breathe completely before and after. For example, before and after the guide to conjunctions and clauses, foreigners in American dramas often add a um before and after these words ... native English speakers also need to catch their breath and think about how to express the next meaning!

I like reading this book because the characters in it remind me of my own children.

When students have to face differences or failures, if they make the wrong choice, they tend to double.

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Oral communication doesn't need anything too fancy, as long as the pronunciation is accurate and the meaning is clear.

Myth # 3: There is a spring of ideas, and the pen is full of wind. I can't stop writing.

Perhaps because of the inertia of Chinese writing thinking, many friends habitually pile up all kinds of gorgeous words at the beginning of the article, or because they are too obsessed with the format and sentence patterns in "templates" and "model essays", and ignore the actual requirements and writing logic in the exam questions.

IELTS writing pays attention to certain formats and norms, and the coherence and cohesion in the grading standards clarify the connection between writing logic and paragraphs.

Due to the differences in thinking patterns, you will find that most articles written by foreigners are concise and clear. Generally, after reading the first paragraph, you will know the central idea he probably wants to express, and even understand the organizational structure of the full text. So a brief introduction of 30 to 40 words at the beginning is enough. At the beginning of each paragraph, summarize the central idea of the paragraph in one sentence, and then expand the argument with your own natural writing style and give examples.

Develop good habits when practicing at ordinary times, spend 5 minutes reading the topic requirements and grasp what the "writing task" is. Before writing, you should plan your writing ideas and take some time to set up the structure of the article: form the most important three or four points, and then arrange the order-what to write/discuss first, what to write/discuss later ... and what words or phrases to use to connect the points, so that you won't be confused when you finish writing.

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Answer the questions accurately and the logic of the article should be clear.

Finally, I want to tell you that keeping a down-to-earth attitude and improving your English ability is the key to achieving ideal results in the IELTS test.

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