Don’t like textbooks? Newspapers too difficult?

Then read stories for adults learning English.

You can get stories from famous movies and books in easy English, from beginner to advanced level. These books are called graded readers. You can usually find them at your local library.

You can also use things like graded readers and magazines in lessons with your teacher.

Happy reading!

Today I want to introduce New Year’s resolutions. These are promises people make to themselves at the start of a new year. For example, “I’ll lose weight” or “I’ll study harder”.

What’s your New Year’s resolution? If it’s to improve your English, contact us and we’ll do our best to help you.

1. General background statement
2. Sentence(s) narrowing towards your thesis statement
3. Thesis statement

An introduction starts quite general and then get more specific.

In an IELTS essay, the length is short. So 1, 2 and 3 can be one to two sentences each.

Here’s an example introduction from www.ielts-blog.com for the topic “As computers are being used more and more in education, there will be soon no role for teachers in the classroom.”:

There have been immense advances in technology in most aspects of people’s lives, especially in the field of education. Nowadays, an increasing number of students rely on computers for research and to produce a perfect paper for school purposes. Others have decided to leave the original way of learning and to get knowledge through online schools. These changes in the learning process have brought a special concern regarding the possible decrease of importance of teachers in the classroom.

Notice how the 1, 2, 3 pattern is followed exactly.

If you have any questions, post a comment below and I’ll do my best to answer!

So, you should say “I am interested in the television program,” or “The television program is interesting.”

Stress monsters pronunciation game

Instructions:
1. Move with the arrow keys
2. Shoot the strong syllable with the space bar

Learning word stress and sentence stress helps your pronunciation even more than learning sounds.

You can get it cheaply from Amazon.com.

Cambridge Grammar for IELTS Student’s Book with Answers and Audio CD (Cambridge Grammar for First Certificate, IELTS, PET)