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I hope Ryan won't mind us promoting our new service offering IELTS-style speaking tests online, with verbal and written feedback and detailed advice on how to maximise the candidate's performance in the Speaking exam. Full details are here: http://www.beaconenglish.com/practice-for-your-speaking-tes...

We have a growing collection of model answers for recent task 2 Academic questions here: http://www.beaconenglish.com/category/model-answers/ If you are a candidate, of course it is not a good idea to simply memorise model answers as your writing will be off-topic. However, it is very useful to anal...

New IELTS reading & writing worksheet on the topic of "Studying at an Overseas University":

http://www.beaconenglish.com/studying-a ... niversity/

This is particularly useful as a lesson plan for teachers as it makes extensive use of group and pair work.

New IELTS reading worksheet on the subject of Travelling the Mekong

http://www.beaconenglish.com/mekong/

Suitable for classroom use and self-study.

New reading / integrated skills worksheet on the topic of Open Learning:

http://www.beaconenglish.com/open-learning-worksheet/

We hope you find it useful.

New Task 2 model answer on the following recent IELTS question: Most successful companies use advertising to increase sales. What are the main things that make an advertisement successful? Are advertisements a good thing or a bad thing for society? http://www.beaconenglish.com/most-successful-compan...

New reading / integrated skills IELTS worksheet on Beacon English:

Inventions and Transport

http://www.beaconenglish.com/inventions ... worksheet/

Very suitable for self-study as well as classroom use.

Thanks

Rick

A new interactive quiz on the topic of Inventions and Transport is here: http://www.beaconenglish.com/inventions-and-transport-interactive-quiz/ The questions are based on IELTS reading tasks (matching headings and multiple choice) and the quiz is timed to help with exam practice. The reading passag...

Here is the permalink to interactive IELTS reading quizzes on beaconenglish:

http://www.beaconenglish.com/category/interactive-quiz/

There are five quizzes so far, modelled on IELTS-format questions. We will be uploading more soon.

Thanks

Rick

Here is a link to the reading activities on our site:

http://www.beaconenglish.com/category/reading/

Hope this helps!

This is the link for Task 2 Model Answers on our site: http://www.beaconenglish.com/category/model-answers/ While we make no claims about what might be in future tests, all the questions we answer have appeared in recent IELTS tests. We do not suggest you memorise the answers- there are far too many...

New integrated-skills worksheets are below:

A Shortage of Teachers:

http://www.beaconenglish.com/a-shortage ... worksheet/

Skin Cancer: Dangers of the Sun

http://www.beaconenglish.com/dangers-sun-worksheet/

Any feedback is much appreciated.

Rick Beacon

Your support is much appreciated- thanks!

This is the permalink for free integrated-skills IELTS worksheets, based around reading passages:

http://www.beaconenglish.com/category/worksheets/

Most are suitable for self-study. All are suitable for classroom use by teachers.

Thanks

Rick

New IELTS reading worksheet and answer key on the topic of London Markets now on the site:

http://www.beaconenglish.com/london-markets-worksheet/

This is suitable for classroom use by teachers and also self-study for students.

Thanks

Rick

Beacon English will soon launch an IELTS essay checking service, providing proofreading, error correction, expected grading and detailed advice on improving your writing. As we are currently deciding how to best do this, we are offering this service FREE for a limited number of students. All you nee...

Beacon English will soon launch an IELTS essay checking service, providing proofreading, error correction, expected grading and detailed advice on improving your writing. As we are currently deciding how to best do this, we are offering this service FREE for a limited number of students. All you nee...

Beacon English will soon launch an IELTS essay checking service, providing proofreading, error correction, expected grading and detailed advice on improving your writing. As we are currently deciding how to best do this, we are offering this service FREE for a limited number of students. All you nee...

New worksheet now on the site, covering reading and speaking on the subject of ecotourism.

Suitable for study groups and classroom use.

http://www.beaconenglish.com/ecotourists-worksheet/

We are uploading integrated-skills IELTS worksheets on a weekly basis. These are aimed at IELTS teachers for classroom use: http://www.beaconenglish.com/category/teaching-materials/ We are creating interactive quizzes based around the reading passages here: http://www.beaconenglish.com/category/quiz...

Strategies- an Action Plan for the Task 2 Writing

http://www.beaconenglish.com/writing-action-plan/

New Task 2 Academic Writing model answer (300 words) on the following question: The advantages brought about by the spread of English as a ‘global language’ will continue to outweigh the disadvantages. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion? http://www.beaconenglish.com/task-2-eng...

New integrated-skills IELTS worksheet on the subject of Culture Shock. This is particularly useful for group study / classroom use as it has speaking activities together with reading:

http://www.beaconenglish.com/culture-shock-worksheet/

Just to follow up on the last point: Essays are marked on Task Response (Task 2) or Task Achievement (Task 1), Coherence and Cohesion, Lexical Resource (your range of vocabulary) and Grammatical Range and Accuracy. These bands are equally-weighted for each task, so you need to work on each of these ...

Neena, could you put up a sample of your writing? Without this, it's not clear exactly what mistakes you are making.

But basically, 'I' is subject, 'me' is object:

e.g. 'I like you', 'you like me'

However, in academic writing, it is best to avoid 1st person entirely.