IELTS To Success (Ebook & Audio)[Academic]

Aug 13, 2021

IELTS To Success is a comprehensive resource that provides proven strategies and practice tests for students who wish to clear the IELTS exams. All the four modules of IELTS for Academic have been extensively covered in this book and the author has left no stone unturned to cover all the aspects of the exam.

IELTS To Success covers the IELTS Academic level. If you are a novice seeking help with the IELTS exam, the introduction to this book lays a firm ground for beginners, providing you with the much-needed guidance to get started. One gets an easy explanation of the break-up of all the IELTS exam sections.

Skills and Strategies Section

This section focuses on the key skills that are required to crack the IELTS exam. For instance, Skimming and Scanning are two of the most important skills that can help one IELTS score high in the Reading module of the IELTS exam and this section provides a detailed explanation for them respectively. This section will also familiarize you with the instructions and tasks given in the actual IELTS tests. For example, the IELTS Writing module for the Academic level consists of 2 writing tasks. The book explains comprehensively about them in a manner as the Writing module is not more than 60 minutes. The first writing task should be completed with at least 150 words and the test takers have to summarize or explain a graph, table, chart, or diagram. The second task which is an essay must be completed with at least 250 words.

One can easily hear the IELTS Listening Tasks given in this section with the help of audio cassettes accompanying the book. One can either buy the book along with the cassettes or the cassettes only that are available as a separate item.

IELTS Speaking Section

This section further focuses on the IELTS Speaking module. The Speaking test comprises a face-to-face interview where the examiner can either ask short questions or long one requiring the test takers to be speaking at length on a particular topic. Though the range of IELTS speaking topics can be extremely wide and covering all the speaking topics is virtually impossible for any book, it still covers a few of the most common topics commonly asked during the interview. The topics for the IELTS speaking module are usually structured in topic groups. A group can have questions related to a particular topic. Some of the group topics with questions are given below :

Topic: Museums and Art Galleries

Do you like visiting museums or art galleries?
Tell something about your last visit to any of the museums or art galleries.
Do you have any paintings on the wall of your house?

Topic: Spending Time with Friends

How much time do you spend with your friends?
What do you do when you meet your friends?
Are there any favorite hangouts where you meet your friends?

Questions have also been provided with some sample answers so that one can develop more insight into the quality of the answers one is supposed to give to the IELTS examiner. Following is an example of the questions with suggested answers :

Ques: Can I know your full name?

Ans: Yes, my name is Megha Sharma. But my friends call me “dimple” due to the dimples on my cheeks.

Ques: Where are you from?

Ans: I’m from Delhi which is quite popular as the capital of India. It’s a big city with lots of historical structures. The weather is mostly tolerable throughout the year, except in May, June, July when it’s extremely hot.

Ques: Do you like eating a cake? How often do you eat it?

Ans: I am not very fond of cakes, however, I eat them occasionally as a part of my evening snacks. I like eating Indian sweets and tend to have some mostly after lunch or dinner. Lately, I’ve become a little conscious towards sweet food items as it causes weight gain.

Ques: Do you like watching comedy shows?

Ans: Yes. Watching comedy shows is my favorite pastime. Whenever I am stressed or in a bad mood, I tend to watch them as it helps me distract and feel relaxed.

Ques: Do you feel uncomfortable talking about your habits and lifestyles at length?

Ans: Though the general perception might be, that one should not share their habits and lifestyle openly, I believe that most of us have a common set of habits and lifestyles. And, sharing them with someone, can help us bond with them well. It also makes one seem to be an open-minded person.

IELTS Listening, Reading and Writing

The sections next to Skills and Strategies consist of practice question papers with IELTS Listening, IELTS Reading, and Writing modules. One can find three complete Practice Listening papers that can be done with the accompanying audio given in the audio cassettes. Further, six practice Reading and Writing papers have also been provided to help test takers understand the type of questions asked in the modules.

In the end, the appendix contains the answers for the Listening and Writing papers. The script for the audio is also given at the end in the appendix.

Conclusion

The IELTS To Success eBook with audio for Academic level is a comprehensive compilation of IELTS Academic exams for Listening, Reading, Speaking, and Writing modules. Test takers who are on the lookout for a mock guide that can help them score well in the IELTS exam need not look further as this eBook with audio will not only help develop key skills, but it will also make one familiar with the IELTS tasks.