The first stage: literacy stage
Take a general look at EG (IELTS official guide-the red one) to familiarize yourself with the examination process and rules.
Learn more about the exam by combining the IELTS literacy lecture in Netease classroom.
3. Talk casually, do a set of questions (you can choose on EG), experience the exam yourself, and calculate your own weight.
The second stage: preliminary preparation
At this point your level:
1. I have a certain understanding of IELTS and have done some questions, but that's all.
2. Brush the machine, there will be no summary and analysis afterwards, and I don't know how to improve it.
3. I haven't taken IELTS yet, I don't know where to go, and I am inexplicably panicked.
You need to master some preparation skills for different questions:
vocabulary
Because IELTS has no official thesaurus, there are many vocabulary books about IELTS on the market, but they are all similar.
By the way, IELTS's vocabulary is not as good as TOEFL's, and even not much worse than CET-4 and CET-6.
If the IELTS target score is 7, the corresponding vocabulary requirements are
1) Vocabulary required for reading (i.e. understanding), at least 7000.
2) Listening vocabulary (comprehension+spelling), about 5000.
3) The vocabulary required for speaking and writing (that is, being able to use+spelling/pronunciation) is 4000 ~ 5000.
Corresponding method:
1) Look at the vocabulary, use app (recommended to chop a hundred words), and remember the words scientifically.
2) Listening vocabulary, accumulated in the process of doing the problem, add all the words that can't be heard or written into the vocabulary, and then repeat step 1)
3) Oral and writing vocabulary, with the New Oriental Cambridge IELTS Vocabulary, pay attention to the specific usage of vocabulary.
aural comprehension
When practicing listening, many students often want to do several sets at once. This practice should be abandoned. Or, after listening, it is enough to know that you have made a few mistakes when you get the correct answer, which is also useless.
So, what should a complete listening practice look like?
1) It is recommended to use 1. Wang Lu IELTS corpus or 2.bbc application, exercise your ears with bbc news.
2) After the range of materials is narrowed, students will find that there are not many topics available for practice. At present, IELTS in Cambridge has1* *1volume, with 4 sets of listening comprehension per volume and 44 sets of1* *. I suggest that one set per day (at most two sets) is enough.
3) The time for practicing listening is fixed at 9- 10 (IELTS listening test time) every morning. Adapt your ears+brain to the test biological clock.
4) After each set is finished, mark the answers with wrong questions.
5) If the wrong questions are mainly specific questions, then erase the answers to these questions and do them again every few days.
6) If the wrong questions are concentrated in one section, repeat the section of intensive listening (see below for specific methods of intensive listening).
read
For China students, reading is the easiest part of the whole IELTS test, because IELTS reading mainly examines the extraction and summary of information, and does not involve crazy complicated logical reasoning (GRE, I'm not talking about you). Therefore, the two key points of practicing reading are: speed and passion!
Preferred key materials recommend me to predict your high score.
1) The choice of exercise questions is the same as listening. Find the Cambridge IELTS series, one set (three articles) every day.
2) Card time! Card time! Card time! The reading time is limited to 20 minutes.
3) The steps to do a reading are: read the title+picture+the first paragraph (get the title) read the title (get the key information of the title) and return to the original text to locate the title information (find the answer).
4) After answering the answer, remember to analyze the wrong questions and paragraphs with many mistakes, and read them intensively. Be sure to see the wrong part clearly.
spoken language
Students with a total IELTS score of 7, if they don't want to be dragged down by spoken English, must get 6 or above to be insured. According to this standard, there is only one key point in oral practice: imitation!
1) Search the spoken language question bank on the Internet and summarize it (91 English app and Station app are recommended, and the summary is relatively complete).
2) Practice a lot of output with foreign teachers (recommended? Jiuyi English app, a cost-effective one made by foreign teachers of IELTS speaking on the market, has a very unique teaching method of IELTS speaking, and the teaching materials of IELTS speaking are also unique. Spoken English is never read or listened to, and needs a lot of output.
3) Apply the answer structure of high-scoring examples, and try to accumulate and use some bright words and expressions in some examples.
4) If you think your vocabulary and grammar are ok, but your ideas are not new, you might as well watch more TED talk videos and accumulate ideas.
5) 1 and 3 parts, in which the former answers 2-4 sentences per question and the latter answers 4-6 sentences; The second part, 2 minutes.
writing
Writing, as the single item with the lowest average score of national candidates, naturally has its difficulties. Similarly, if you want to get a total score of 7, you must first set yourself a small goal: writing 6. In this way, the direction of our efforts is "routine".
1) Recommend "Teaching you IELTS Writing with Ancient Hands" as the main material for practice.
2) Usage of Gu:
A) Pick out the highlights from the high-scoring essays and conduct sentence-making training.
B) Improve writing grammar by combining grammar exercises in books.
C) When you get the topic, don't read the model essay first, write an outline by yourself (specific to each sub-argument), and then refer to the model essay to improve your article from the aspects of structure, argument and argumentation.
D) Students with high writing scores (above 7) should pay more attention to template removal, summarize various writing methods and show their writing style.
The third stage: the sprint stage.
By this time, you have completed most of the above, but the score is still not ideal. How to break the bottleneck and get the highest score?
1. Listening-intensive listening
If your wrong questions are mainly concentrated in one section, it means that you don't understand the text at all. Now, put aside the topic and focus on this part. You need:
1) Keep listening and write down the key words (information words). If you can't remember it once, listen to it twice. I can't stop listening anyway.
For example, this sentence: moving to rosewood has started a new life for this family.
When listening, write the words rosewood, family and new life, which is considered as customs clearance (usually nouns and verbs).
2) There are two kinds of words that you can't hear many times.
A) You don't know this word at all. Please enter it into the thesaurus.
B) You know this word, but you can't hear it because you read it continuously and weakly, so please read it several times after recording.
3) After listening carefully, I found that I understood it well, but I always made mistakes in the questions. At this time, you should compare the topic with the listening text to see if there are any synonymous substitutions.
2. Reading-extensive reading
Non-English majors will inevitably feel bored when reading English texts, which will lead to great resistance and negative emotions when reading IELTS, and the reading speed will naturally not be improved. Therefore, what this part of roast duck needs to do is to force itself to read some IELTS-style English texts extensively and get familiar with the writing format and language style of such articles after doing the questions at ordinary times. The purpose of this kind of reading is not to read word by word, but to understand the general idea and structure of the article.
Recommend the following English magazines (most sources of IELTS reading articles): National Geographic, Scientific American, New Scientist.
3. Oral writing-synonymous substitution
20 days before the oral exam, I practiced a lot of IELTS speaking question bank with foreign teachers. Synonymous substitution is the focus of the whole IELTS test. Here I mainly talk about how to use it in oral English and writing. Recommend visual thesaurus websites. If you enter a word, several synonyms will appear at the same time (each with a specific explanation and emotional color). Replacing words that often appear in spoken and written language with different or uncommon synonyms can effectively score.
Finally, good luck!