Welcome to my new venture, long overdue, my native english podcast. This is a bit of an experiment for today, I talk about a few things, what I am doing, what films I have been watching recently, etc...in future, I will have a transcript for every episode, I am working on that at the moment. [...]
Welcome to my blog….
Hello and welcome to my website. This is where I will be blogging about writing for the IELTS/OET/TOEFL/PTE etc exams, and anything else I feel like regarding academic writing and English in general. As you will see, several of the posts have a video embedded in them, you can find these on my YouTube channel [...]
Join my new, free, online speaking group!..
If this doesn't apply to you or you are not interested then feel free to ignore it. One of the main issues my students face is the lack of speaking practice as most of you don't live in an English environment. As you know, I have recommended to some of you, the italki community page [...]
101 IELTS Essay Introductions Reviewed with Samples
Hello, just in case you haven't seen or were not aware of this playlist, let me introduce it to you. For the past year, I was inviting members of my IELTS Telegram group (https://t.me/ielts9progroup )to submit introductions to IELTS esay tasks for me to comment on. The series eventually reached 101, that's over 1,000 intros [...]
New OET Letter Correction Videos
Hello again, it's been a while since I made a post but as you know I am very busy with students nowadays and have little time for writing blog posts. In fact, I barely have time for making videos either but I have managed to make a few more letter corrections since my last post. [...]
Recent letter reviews for OET Write Now Telegram Group
Hello, it's been a while since my last post, but you know, Christmas etc. Anyway, to remedy this I have some recent letter correction videos which were previously unlisted on my channel but now are available for you to see. These have been posted in my Telegram group, OET Write Now (link here)and are from [...]
Real Student IELTS Essay Review and Scoring.
In this video, I reviewed and scored a student essay sent to me in my Telegram group, IELTS9PRO, (link below). As you will see, I went through it and made comments and corrections then scored it according to the official writing criteria. So, if you want to see just what the examiners do when they [...]
Mrs Santini: Corrected Letters for OET Write Now.
Another video correction for you today, this was posted in the group a while back but I have just got round to posting it today. I hope you find it useful and don#t forget to join our Telegram group at the link below to have your letters included. https://t.me/OETWriteNow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahfcWambEBo&feature=youtu.be
Carol Potter: Corrected Letters for OET Write Now
Another video in our letter review series, hope you find it useful. You can join my Telegram group for OET writing skills at the link below, https://t.me/OETWriteNow You can write a letter for the assigned task, ask qs, and if you share and comment on our Instagram, you can have your letter reviewed in this [...]
Rosemary McQueen: Corrected Letters for OET Write Now
Sorry for the delay, it's been a few weeks since my last OET video but here it is, number four in our series. What we do is this, we post a task in the Telegram group (link below), and invite you to write a letter for it. We choose all the letters whose authors have [...]
Sentences you should really avoid in IELTS essay writing.
In my post for today I want to go through some phrases which I keep seeing day after day in many of your essay introductions and which you really need to stop writing. These phrases and sentences are considered to be memorised and are not counted by the examiner, and will affect your task response [...]
IELTS Live Class: Speaking Part 2, the Topic Card: Technique and Strategy.
This is a recording of the second free, live class I held a week ago for IELTS Speaking, part 2, the topic card. Some of my students from IELTS9PRO were invited to join in to discuss strategy and techniques for part 2 of the speaking test, and to get some practice and feedback. This is [...]
