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True, False or Not Given? The question the passage never answers
Most marks lost on this question type come from one habit: answering from what you know instead of from what the text says. Here is how to break it.
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All four IELTS skills, CEFR Multilevel and three languages: what's new at EngProgress
Speaking and Listening have joined Writing and Reading, Multilevel candidates have a track of their own, and the site now speaks Uzbek, English and Russian.
IELTS2 min read
The one-minute plan: how to keep talking for two minutes in Speaking Part 2
You get a cue card, a pencil and sixty seconds. What you write in that minute decides whether you run out of things to say.
Stories2 min read
Eight everyday English words with surprising pasts
A little mouse under your skin, a ball of thread in a labyrinth, forty days waiting off the coast of Venice. The stories behind common words make them easier to remember.
IELTS2 min read
How to plan an IELTS Task 2 essay in five minutes
Five minutes of planning feels like time you cannot spare. It is the best-spent five minutes of the Writing test — here is what to do with them.
English2 min read
Why English spelling is so strange — and why it is not your fault
Knight, island, debt, colonel. English spelling looks random because much of it records how the language sounded centuries ago. The history makes it easier to learn.
IELTS2 min read
One Skill Retake: when resitting a single IELTS skill makes sense
Missed your target in just one skill? You may not need to sit the whole test again. What One Skill Retake is, and how to decide whether to use it.
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