Academic Task 1 asks you to describe a chart, graph, table, map or process in about 150 words, in roughly 20 minutes. It’s worth less than Task 2, so the golden rule is simple: do…
You know the feeling. Someone asks you a simple question in English, and before you can answer, a whole machine starts running in your head: you build the sentence in your own language, translate it…
Have you ever understood every word in a textbook dialogue, then listened to two native speakers and felt completely lost — as if they were speaking a different language entirely? You’re not imagining it. In…
Imagine sending your boss a message that says “hey, gonna be late lol” — or writing to a close friend with “I am writing to inform you of my delayed arrival.” Both are technically correct…
The Integrated Writing task gives you a short reading passage, then a lecture on the same topic — and here’s the catch: the lecture almost always challenges the reading. Your job is not to give…
Task 2 is worth twice as much as Task 1, and it’s where most people lose the points that keep them stuck at 6.5. The frustrating part is that it’s rarely your English that’s the…
Every day you repeat what other people said — “She told me she was tired,” “He asked if I was coming.” In English, doing this involves a few systematic changes, and once you see the…
There’s a comforting fact that no one tells beginners early enough: you do not need a huge vocabulary to communicate well in English. You need the right vocabulary. And the right vocabulary is smaller than…
There’s a wall a lot of learners hit, and it’s almost always in the same place: band 6.5. You can communicate, you understand most of what you read and hear, and yet that 7 keeps…
If English grammar has a final boss, it might be phrasal verbs. They’re everywhere in real, natural English, they rarely mean what the individual words suggest, and there are thousands of them. The good news…