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IELTS ACADEMIC. COMPLETE AUDIO COMPILATION. ALL MODULES.

Before we start. This track is built to be listened to, not read. Everything is written out in words, so nothing will be mispronounced. Where you hear the word repeat, say the line out loud. Where you hear a blank, finish the sentence yourself with something true. Different every time you listen.

There are eighteen tracks. Tracks two to six are Writing Task One. Tracks seven to ten are Writing Task Two. Tracks eleven to thirteen are Speaking. Track fourteen is Listening. Track fifteen is Reading. Track sixteen is grammar, and it is the most important one. Track seventeen is corrections to your own study materials. Track eighteen is exam day.

If you only have ten minutes, listen to track sixteen and track eighteen.

TRACK ONE. THE EXAM MAP.

Listening comes first. Four parts. Forty questions. Thirty minutes, plus about two minutes at the end to check. On the computer version there is no ten minute transfer window, so there is no risk of copying an answer across incorrectly. Your risk is elsewhere.

Reading. Three passages. Forty questions. Sixty minutes, with no extra time at the end. You read fast, so timing is not your problem. Question mechanics are.

Writing. Task One is a minimum of one hundred and fifty words in twenty minutes. Task Two is a minimum of two hundred and fifty words in forty minutes. Task Two carries twice the marks. On the computer version the word counter is on the screen at all times. Never estimate. Look at it.

Speaking. Part One runs four to five minutes. Part Two is one minute of preparation and two minutes of speaking. Part Three runs four to five minutes.

Your target is seven point five overall with nothing below seven. The average cannot rescue a weak band. That single fact should shape every choice you make in the room. You do not need a brilliant answer anywhere. You need no collapse anywhere.

Two failure modes have been documented in your practice. The first is clipping. You give one short sentence and stop, and the examiner has nothing to score. The second is drifting. You answer, and then keep going, and somewhere in the fourth sentence the tense slips, because you have left the frame the question set. Both come from the same missing skill. Not knowing what the correct length feels like in your own mouth. Everything in the speaking tracks is built around fixing that.

TRACK TWO. WRITING TASK ONE. THE FRAME.

Twenty minutes. Spend three minutes reading the chart and deciding how to group it. Fourteen minutes writing. Three minutes checking. The check reads for two things only. Agreement first. Tense second. Nothing else. A check that looks for everything finds nothing.

Aim for one hundred and seventy to one hundred and ninety words. The minimum is one hundred and fifty, and going under it is penalised directly.

Four paragraphs. The proportions are fixed.

Paragraph one. The introduction. What the graphic shows. No data at all. Paraphrase every part of the prompt. Copied wording is deducted from your word count and earns nothing for vocabulary.

Paragraph two. The overview. Two or three prominent features. No figures at all. This paragraph is where the examiner decides whether you can see a chart or only read one.

Paragraphs three and four. The body. Exact figures here, and only here.

Now the reporting verbs for the introduction. Repeat each one.

The chart illustrates. The diagram delineates. The graph depicts. The table compares. The diagram explains.

There is one transformation that lifts the introduction immediately. Instead of naming a category, describe it with the word how. Repeat.

The chart illustrates how many people used public transport. The graph depicts how much was spent on healthcare. The diagram explains how paper is recycled.

Again. How many. How much. How.

TRACK THREE. WRITING TASK ONE. GROUPING.

Grouping is the decision that sets your score. If you reach one hundred and ninety words with half the data still unmentioned, the grouping was wrong. It was not the writing.

If the chart has years on it, group by direction. What rose in one paragraph. What fell or fluctuated in the other.

If the chart has no time period, group by rank. The highest figures in one paragraph. The lowest, with the exceptions, in the other.

If it is a map, paragraph three is the earlier layout and paragraph four is the later one.

If it is a process, the overview states the number of stages, the starting point and the finishing point. Then split the sequence in half, and give one half to each body paragraph.

If it is a table, look at the headings. Years in the headings means you treat it as a dynamic chart. If everything moves the same way, group by scale. If there are no years, group by rank.

You do not report every number. You report the significant ones. A report that lists everything is a transcription, and transcriptions do not score above six.

TRACK FOUR. WRITING TASK ONE. THE TENSE MAP.

This is the section that removes tense collapse from Task One completely, because it takes the decision away from you and gives it to the chart.

One. If all the dates have already passed, use past simple throughout the whole report.

Two. If the chart runs into the future, or is labelled as a projection, use future forms for those years only. Not for the rest.

Three. If there are no dates at all, use present simple.

Four. For maps, use past simple for the earlier map, and present perfect or present simple for the later one.

Five. For a process made by people, use present simple passive. Repeat. The leaves are dried. The pulp is filtered. The bottles are sorted and washed.

Six. For a natural process, use present simple active. Repeat. The larva hatches. The water evaporates. The plant matures.

Inside one report, the tense does not move unless the chart moves it. Say that again to yourself. Inside one report, the tense does not move unless the chart moves it.

TRACK FIVE. WRITING TASK ONE. NO SPECULATION.

In Task One you are a reporter, not an analyst. Before every sentence, ask two questions. Is this printed on the chart. And is it significant. If it is not printed, you are speculating. If it is printed but trivial, you are transcribing.

Listen to the failure.

Car usage increased because people had more disposable income.

Nothing on that chart said anything about income. That sentence costs you marks under Task Achievement, and it costs you the words as well.

Now the correct version. Repeat.

Car usage rose steadily, exceeding public transport by two thousand and ten.

Here is the practical test. If you have written the word because, read the sentence again.

Now the rescue lines. These are for when you are short of words and refuse to invent anything. Repeat each one.

The figure for the first category exceeded that of the second by twelve percentage points. This represents a net increase of thirty over the period. The gap between the two categories widened continuously after that point. With the notable exception of Japan, no country exceeded a tenth. The data reveal an inverse relationship between the two categories.

TRACK SIX. WRITING TASK ONE. THE VOCABULARY.

Movement upwards. Repeat. Climb. Rise. Increase. Expand. An upsurge. A jump. An expansion.

Movement downwards. Repeat. Decline. Dip. Contract. Plummet. Plunge. A slump. A drop. A contraction.

No movement. Repeat. Plateau. Level off. Hold steady. Stay constant. Fluctuate. A period of stability. Erratic movements.

Now the degree of change, in four bands. Large. Repeat. Marked. Sharp. Steep. Pronounced. And the adverbs. Markedly. Sharply. Steeply.

Noticeable. Repeat. Significant. Substantial. Considerable.

Slow. Repeat. Steady. Gradual. Incremental.

Small. Repeat. Slight. Marginal. Minor. Modest.

Now the most valuable habit in Task One vocabulary. Alternate between two shapes. Verb plus adverb, then adjective plus noun. Grammatical range has to be visible on the page, and this is the cheapest way to show it. Repeat both versions of each pair.

Expenditure climbed steadily. There was a steady climb in expenditure. Mobile usage rose markedly. The data reveal a marked rise in mobile usage. Attendance declined sharply. There was a sharp decline in attendance.

Comparison. Repeat.

The figure for the first was double that of the second. The first exceeded the second by a significant margin. The gap between the two widened. The gap between the two narrowed. The two figures were virtually identical. The first showed little difference from the second.

Fractions, with accuracy. Seventy five per cent is exactly three quarters. Seventy three per cent is nearly three quarters, or just under three quarters. Thirty three per cent is approximately one third, and never precisely one third. Ten per cent is a tenth, or one in ten. Four or five per cent is a tiny fraction, or a negligible minority. Give the figure first, and let the fraction support it. The fraction never replaces the number.

Pie charts have their own vocabulary, and using the wrong word is noticeable. Use these. Repeat. Proportion. Share. Ratio. Segments. Categories. A circular chart. Never say amount. Never say number. Never say parts.

Data referencing. Repeat. Respectively. The former. The latter.

Now the four prepositions, because these are where you lose small marks. Began at twenty per cent. Rising to fifty per cent. Dropped by fifteen per cent. With a rate of sixty per cent. Again. Began at. Rising to. Dropped by. With a rate of.

Time expressions, so you do not repeat the years. Repeat each one.

At the onset of the period. In the initial year under review. Over the subsequent years. During the following decade. By the close of the period. Throughout the entire timeframe.

Connectors. To open the overview. Repeat. Overall. Broadly speaking. The most prominent trend to emerge is. A notable feature of the data is.

To switch topic. Repeat. In terms of. Regarding. Turning to the remaining categories.

To group or contrast. Repeat. Following a similar pattern. By contrast. Conversely. Whereas.

For an outlier. Repeat. A notable exception was. Standing out from the rest.

Now four overview formulas. One for each kind of chart. Repeat each in full.

For a dynamic chart. While category A rose steadily, category B registered a marked decline.

For fluctuation. Category A underwent significant fluctuations, whereas category B maintained a period of extended stability.

For a static chart. Category A stood out as the dominant category, conversely, category B constituted the smallest minority.

For messy data. The period was characterised by erratic fluctuations across all categories, though category A ultimately emerged as the highest.

Maps. Repeat. Extensive development. Comprehensive modernisation. At the expense of natural spaces. The residential zone. Erected. Demolished.

Processes made by people. Repeat. A multi staged process. A linear manufacturing sequence. Commencing with. Culminating in.

Natural processes. Repeat. Hatches. Emerges. Matures. Undergoes a transformation. Sheds. Evaporates. Condenses. Precipitates. Infiltrates. Runs off.

Now the banned list, because these are the words that make a strong report sound like a weak one. Do not write dramatic. Do not write striking. Do not write radical. Do not write rocket. Do not write soar. Do not write a complete collapse. Do not write reached its zenith. Do not write financial intake. Do not write disbursements for ordinary spending.

Use these instead. Repeat. Registered. Underwent. Recorded. Rose markedly. Climbed sharply. Peaked.

And one specific rule about the verb witness. Only a period of time or a place can witness something. The year two thousand and ten witnessed a drop. That is correct. Category B witnessed a decline. That is wrong. The same rule applies to the verb experienced.

TRACK SEVEN. WRITING TASK TWO. THE BUDGET AND THE REAL GAP.

Forty minutes. Five minutes planning. Thirty minutes writing. Five minutes checking. The minimum is two hundred and fifty words and your target is two hundred and seventy to two hundred and ninety. Below two hundred and fifty there is an automatic penalty under Task Response, however clean the grammar is. Do not overshoot either. Three hundred and fifty words is more surface for errors and no more marks.

Now the part you have never drilled deliberately, and the cheapest band available to you.

Task Achievement. Before you write anything, read the prompt and number the questions inside it. Then tick each number off in your plan. A discuss both views prompt answered with only one view caps at band five or six, no matter how good the English is. A two part question with one part missing does the same. This is not a language skill. It is a reading skill, and it is the one place where an excellent writer loses two bands in silence.

Say the instruction to yourself now. Number the questions. Tick them off in the plan.

TRACK EIGHT. WRITING TASK TWO. THE FIVE TYPES.

Type one. Opinion, whether it is worded as do you agree or as to what extent. The skeleton is a thesis with a clear position, then reason one with an example, then reason two with an example, or a concession followed by an assertion, then a conclusion. The main risk is an ambiguous position. Decide in the plan, not in the writing.

Type two. Discussion, which asks you to discuss both views and give your own opinion. The thesis is neutral. View A gets a full paragraph. View B gets a full paragraph. Your own opinion appears only in the conclusion (Note: It is also acceptable to fold your opinion into an evaluating sentence inside the body paragraphs, provided the two sides are discussed symmetrically).. The two views are presented symmetrically, with no evaluative adjective on either side. The main risks are answering only one view, and fusing both views into a single paragraph.

Type three. Advantages and disadvantages. Thesis, then the advantage with an example, then the disadvantage with an example, then a balanced conclusion. The main risk is the dangling participle, and there is a fix for that in the next track.

Type four. Problem and solution, or causes and solutions. Thesis, then the cause explained properly, then the solution with a named agent, then a conclusion. The main risk is the agentless solution. Something must be done is not a solution. Who must do it. Local governments. Employers. Schools. Name them.

Type five. Two part questions, sometimes called direct questions. Thesis, then answer one, then answer two, then conclusion. The main risk is leaving one of the two questions unanswered.

TRACK NINE. WRITING TASK TWO. THE SIX STRUCTURES.

Use one or two of these per essay. Not six. A clean simple sentence outscores a broken complex one every time.

Structure one. Negative inversion. Listen, then repeat.

Not only does the current system pose a significant barrier, but it also deprives the economy of a skilled workforce.

The trap is inside it. After the auxiliary does, the verb goes back to its base form. Pose, not poses. Repeat the pattern. Not only does it pose. Not only do they sustain. Not only does exposure undermine.

Structure two. Concession, then assertion. Repeat.

While reducing local pollution yields tangible benefits, it is nonetheless true that climate change stems from processes no single government can resolve alone.

Again, just the hinge. While something is true, it is nonetheless true that.

Structure three. The participle clause. Repeat.

Granting workers direct control over their schedules, freelance arrangements allow individuals to structure their hours around personal needs.

The rule is that the subject of the main clause must be the one performing the participle. Here the arrangements do the granting, so it holds. When it does not hold, rewrite it as a because clause. Because the same workload is compressed into fewer days, service industries face considerable strain.

Structure four. The absent construction, for causes. Repeat.

Absent adequate investment in infrastructure, rapid urban growth has left transport networks unable to accommodate demand.

Structure five. The passive with a modal, for solutions. Repeat.

Substantial funding must be allocated to expanding public transit networks. Structured mental health screening must be integrated into standard school services.

Keep all three parts intact. The modal, the word be, and the participle. Must be allocated. Should be relaxed. Must be directed.

And one more, the cleft sentence, for two part questions. Repeat.

It is early exposure to sport during childhood that most strongly predicts an adult preference for physical activity. It is the availability of affordable facilities that most effectively encourages people to start.

TRACK TEN. WRITING TASK TWO. VOCABULARY AND REGISTER.

Verbs for argument. Repeat. Pose a barrier. Exacerbate inequality. Drive economic growth. Undermine. Erode. Compound. Outpace. Account for. Stem from. Give rise to.

Hedging, which is where band seven lives. Repeat. Largely. To a considerable extent. In most cases. It is nonetheless true that. Up to a point. Provided that.

Policy language. Repeat. Allocate funding. Impose a quota. Zoning reform. Subsidise. A regulatory framework. Paternalistic overreach. Personal autonomy. Public health outcomes.

Work and economy. Repeat. A skilled workforce. Financial precarity. Employee retention. Per hour productivity. A structural barrier. Career prospects.

Society and education. Repeat. Intrinsic motivation. Civic duty. A support network. Unstructured play. Specialised instruction. Foster empathy.

Environment. Repeat. Transnational in scope. Coordinated action. Single use packaging. Waste management infrastructure. A coastal region.

Your locked collocations. These are already yours. Say them once, quickly. Address the issue. Raise awareness. Draw a conclusion. Play a role. Have an impact on. Meet a requirement. Pose a threat. Strike a balance. Reach a compromise. Take responsibility for. Come to terms with. Set a precedent. Cast doubt on. Gain insight into. Face a challenge. Take a toll.

And the three verb patterns that catch Spanish speakers. Recommend, suggest and consider take the ing form and never the infinitive. Repeat. I would recommend introducing a quota. The report suggests limiting access. Tend, decide and want take to plus the base form. Repeat. Governments tend to prioritise growth.

Now examples. Keep them generic and defensible. In several European countries. Cities that have introduced congestion pricing. Countries with mandatory labelling. Those are safe and they earn full credit. Invented statistics and invented institutions earn nothing, and a figure that sounds wrong damages the whole essay.

Register. An essay cannot believe anything. Do not write this essay believes. Write this essay argues, or write I believe. Choose one spelling variety, British or American, and hold it for the whole exam. And never repeat your introduction word for word in the conclusion. Paraphrase it.

TRACK ELEVEN. SPEAKING PART ONE.

Two sentences. Sometimes three. Thirty to forty five words. Answer, then reason, then one concrete detail. Then stop. Never a third reason. If the examiner interrupts you, that is not a failure, that means your answer was long enough.

Opening frames. Never repeat the question back. Never begin with a bare yes or no. Take the frame and finish it yourself.

Agreement. Repeat, then finish each one with something true. Without a doubt. I certainly do. Absolutely, yes. Very much so.

Disagreement. Repeat. Not really, no. Honestly, not much. I would say the opposite, actually. Not particularly, no.

Middle ground, which buys you time and sounds advanced. Repeat. It really depends. I have mixed feelings about that. I am somewhere in the middle on this one. It varies quite a lot, actually.

And for a topic you have no opinion about, because you will get one. Do not invent enthusiasm. Repeat. Not particularly, no. I have never really given it much thought. To be honest, it is not something I think about. I do not have strong feelings either way, though I suppose.

Now the echo drill, which is the cheapest tense insurance in the whole exam. The auxiliary in the question tells you the tense. Echo it back and the tense locks itself. Repeat.

Do you enjoy it. I do, yes. Did you enjoy it as a child. I did, yes. Have you ever tried it. I have, yes. Are you planning to. I am, yes. Is it common where you live. It is, yes. Was it different before. It was, yes.

The one that catches you is would. Would you like to learn another instrument. The answer begins with I would. Not I like. Repeat. I would, yes. I would, yes.

And the singular subjects that Part One is built from. Keep the s audible. Repeat.

Traffic is heavy in the mornings. The weather is unpredictable here. Public transport has improved a lot. Technology has changed the way we work. Music helps me concentrate. My work involves a lot of reading. The city offers plenty of options. Air quality varies by season.

Again, with a connector attached, because that is the real shape of a Part One answer.

Traffic is heavy in the mornings, mainly because everyone commutes at once. Music helps me concentrate, especially when the work is repetitive. Public transport has improved a lot, although in practice it is still crowded.

TRACK TWELVE. SPEAKING PART TWO.

One minute to prepare. Two minutes to speak. Then one short follow up question, sometimes none. Answer that in a single sentence and do not restart.

The preparation minute. Do not write sentences, because you will read them aloud and it will sound recited. Write four things only. A time anchor. A place. Three nouns. One feeling word for the ending. That is the whole plan.

Pick the first idea that arrives. Not the best one. The first one. Every second spent choosing is a second not spent planning.

The spine never changes, whatever the card says. Past, then present, then future. Roughly forty five seconds of background and story. Roughly forty five seconds of detail and the present. Roughly thirty seconds of reflection.

The hook. Never read the card aloud. Repeat these, then finish each one.

When I saw this, the first thing that came to mind was. There were a few things I could have picked, but I have decided on. To be honest, I had not thought about this in years, but.

Use contractions. Listen to the difference. I would like to talk about. I would like. I would. Again with the contraction. I would like to talk about becomes I would like to talk about, spoken as I would. Then I am going to tell you about becomes I am going to. Keep them short in the mouth.

One past perfect sentence, early. One, not five. Repeat.

I was nervous, because I had never done anything like that before. It felt strange, because I had not been there in years. It mattered a great deal, because I had waited a long time for it.

One scene setting sentence, past continuous into past simple. This is the most natural sounding sentence in English storytelling. Repeat.

I was presenting a case when he stopped me halfway through. We were walking through the park when it started to rain. Everyone was still talking when the lights went out.

Now the part where your tense slips. You start in the past and by the third sentence you have drifted into the present. Listen to the chain, and repeat it. Every verb is past.

I arrived late, the room was already full, and I had to stand at the back. Nobody knew what to do, so we waited, and eventually someone made a decision. It was completely unplanned, it went badly at first, and then it turned into something good.

You stay in the past until a marker moves you out. Nothing else moves you out.

The first gear change, into the present. Say the marker, then switch. Repeat.

Fast forward to today, and I still think about it. These days, my perspective is completely different. Looking at it now, I understand why it mattered.

The second gear change, into the future. Repeat.

Going forward, I intend to do it again. Thinking about the future, I hope to repeat it. I imagine I will remember it for a long time.

Reflection at the end, without the third conditional. Under time pressure that structure has three separate places to break, and a broken complex structure scores lower than a clean simple one. Use these instead. Repeat.

I would never have expected that. I would not have chosen it myself. Until then, I had never really understood it. Looking back, it mattered far more than I realised at the time. If I had more time now, I would do it more often.

If a third conditional arrives on its own, fluently, let it. Do not go looking for it.

Time buyers instead of silence. Repeat. The thing is. What really stands out in my memory is. As you can probably imagine. I have to admit. I mean. Actually.

And if you finish early, you do not stop, you extend. Four openings. Repeat.

Looking back, the biggest thing I took from it was. It is quite different from how things were before. The same thing happened to a friend of mine, actually. It could easily have gone the other way.

Last thing for Part Two. If you know nothing about the topic, remember that every card contains a person, a place, an object or an event. Describe that. Spend the first half on the human element and the rest on how it made you feel. You are assessed on your English, not on your knowledge.

TRACK THIRTEEN. SPEAKING PART THREE.

Four to five sentences. One hundred to one hundred and thirty words. Forty five to fifty five seconds. Four moves, always in the same order.

Move one. Assertion. One sentence, with a position, no preamble. Move two. Mechanism. The why. This is the move that separates six from seven. Move three. Evidence. A country, an industry, an institution. Move four. Concession. Name the limit, and stop there. The concession is your exit. It hands the turn back to the examiner and it makes you sound balanced at the same time.

Listen to a complete one.

I would say the main pressure is financial rather than cultural. Housing costs in large cities have risen much faster than salaries, so people delay decisions they would otherwise make earlier. You see that clearly in places like Mexico City, where young professionals stay with their families for much longer than the previous generation did. Having said that, it obviously depends a great deal on the profession.

Now the crucial rule for you. Personal opinion, impersonal evidence. Your clinical knowledge is a genuine advantage, but only with the pronoun removed. Listen to the wrong version and the right version.

Wrong. When I supervise residents, what I find is that they know more than they say.

Right. When clinical supervisors design evaluation criteria for trainees, the difficulty is usually that anxiety suppresses the reasoning the trainee already has.

Same expertise. Correct register. Far more specific than any general candidate can produce. Repeat the shape. When professionals in a field do something, the difficulty is usually that.

If the topic is unfamiliar, you do not need an opinion. You need a lens. There are three. The first is three perspectives. The individual, the economy, and society or the environment. The second is institutions against individuals. Who holds the power and who bears the cost. The third is your own professional generalisation, with the pronoun stripped out.

The phrase bank. Repeat each group.

To assert. I would say. My sense is that. The main thing is probably that. Broadly speaking. For mechanism. Mainly because. The main driver is probably. What tends to happen is that. Which in turn means that. For evidence. For instance. In a lot of countries. You see that in. A good example would be. To exit. Having said that. Then again. That said. Though obviously that only applies to. To hedge a prediction. It is likely that. We will probably see. I suspect. If that continues, then. To buy two seconds. That is a difficult one. Hmm, it depends what you mean by.

Four emergency protocols. Repeat each opening.

If you know nothing. To be honest, this is not something I have thought about much, but if I had to guess. If yes and no both feel wrong. It really depends. If it is this, then, whereas if it is that. If the question is too broad. I cannot speak for everywhere, but at least in Mexico. If the question is abstract. That depends what we mean by success. If we take it to mean.

And when the examiner pushes back and says some people would say the opposite, that is a probe and a good sign. Concede the specific point and hold the general one. Repeat.

That is fair, and in that particular case it probably does hold. What I would say though is that in most cases the stronger factor is still the other one.

Finally, the phrases that must never appear in speech, because they belong to writing and they sound recited. Do not say I am of the firm conviction that. Do not say it is abundantly clear to me that. Do not say a critical analysis of this trend reveals. Do not say without a shadow of a doubt. And do not say firstly, furthermore, moreover, or in conclusion.

TRACK FOURTEEN. LISTENING.

Your comprehension is solid. Three specific things are not.

One. Connected speech. Linking and reductions. Five minutes of blind dictation a day, focused on rhythm only. Not articulation.

Two. Speaker self correction used as a distractor. You will hear something like, it is at three, no sorry, four. The answer is always the second one. Every time you hear a speaker correct themselves, that is the examiner testing you, not the speaker being natural.

Three. Instruction compliance. One word means one word. No more than two words and a number allows the number. One extra word scores zero, even when the meaning is perfect. Count the words before you type them.

TRACK FIFTEEN. READING.

Timing is not your risk. Question mechanics are, and almost all of your errors come from one question type. So label every mistake you make from now on with one of these five names.

Absolute. The passage says some, or often. The statement says all, or always. That is false.

Inverted. The statement reverses the direction or the cause. That is false.

Partial. Half of the statement matches and half does not. One mismatch makes the whole statement false.

Inference. The statement is plausible, and you can build a chain of reasoning to it, but the passage does not say it. That is not given.

And the fifth, explicit not given. The topic simply never appears.

Hold this distinction in one sentence. False means the text contradicts it. Not given means the text is silent. If you need two steps of reasoning to reach it, it is not given.

For matching headings, the correct heading describes what the paragraph does, not the word that repeats inside it. The repeated vocabulary is the distractor and it was put there deliberately. Ask what the paragraph does. Defines. Contrasts. Gives evidence. Qualifies. Concludes.

TRACK SIXTEEN. GRAMMAR. THE ONE THAT MATTERS.

This is the highest value instruction in everything you have prepared. A deliberate half second pause before every third person statement.

The s does not disappear because you do not know the rule. It disappears when speech is fast, tired and cognitively loaded, which is the exact state of an exam room, and the exact state of a clinical handoff. You cannot fix that with knowledge. You fix it with a pause.

Now the subjects that cause it. These are abstract singular subjects, and each one puts a plural noun right next to the verb to induce the error. Correct forms only. Repeat.

Access to healthcare determines long term outcomes. Migration drives most of that change. The cost of housing shapes where people settle. Automation replaces routine work first. Technology changes the way we work. The number of jobs falls every year. Evidence suggests the opposite. Research shows a consistent pattern. The process involves a fair amount of patience. Each of those decisions matters more than it seems.

Again, just the verbs, with the s audible. It determines. It drives. It shapes. It replaces. It changes. It falls. It suggests. It shows. It involves. It matters.

And singular people. He remembers. She agrees. My colleague works longer hours. My supervisor expects a lot. Everyone knows that.

Now tense collapse, and the fix is structural, not a matter of memory. Put the past in the mechanism sentence and the present in the evidence sentence, and let the shape of the paragraph carry the tense instead of your attention.

There is one legitimate exception, already settled. A permanent trait inside a past narrative stays in the present. I saw him yesterday, and he is always so stubborn. Permanent conditions stay present. Completed events stay past.

The three minute written check, in order. One, agreement, especially with the words evidence, research, data, trust, and the number of. Two, tense. Did it move without the chart or the prompt moving it. Three, the small set. This and these. The base form after a modal. A and an. Amount for uncountable and number for countable. And comparatives. More expensive, never more cheaper. Four, prepositions. Five, false friends. Six, fixed collocations.

Prepositions that catch you. Repeat. Different from. Arrive at a point. Arrive in a city. Based on. Depend on. Consist of. Discuss something, with no about. Catch up on sleep.

False friends. Listen and repeat the correct English word only.

Actually does not mean actualmente. The word you want is currently. Realise does not mean realizar. The word you want is carry out. Assist does not mean asistir. The word you want is attend. Sensible in English means sensato. For the emotional sense, the word is sensitive. Career does not mean carrera in the sense of a degree. The word you want is degree. Success does not mean suceso. The word you want is event. Large does not mean largo. The word you want is long. Discuss does not mean discutir. If people are arguing, the word is argue. Eventually does not mean eventualmente. The word you want is possibly. Contest does not mean contestar. The word you want is answer. Idiom does not mean idioma. The word you want is language.

And self correction. If you catch a mistake, repair it once, out loud, briefly, and move on. Repeat. Sorry, took, not take. Actually, it was the year before. Or rather. What I mean is.

Do not repair the repair. Do not apologise twice. A clean repair is rewarded by the descriptors. The loop is what costs you fluency marks.

TRACK SEVENTEEN. CORRECTIONS TO YOUR OWN MATERIALS.

These are real errors inside the files you have been studying from. Reproducing them would cost you marks, so hold these corrections above what the files say.

First and most expensive. The six model essays in your Task Two audio bank state their own word counts. Two hundred and fifty two. Two hundred and twenty eight. Two hundred and thirteen. Two hundred and eleven. Two hundred and twenty. Two hundred and eleven. Five of the six are below the two hundred and fifty word minimum. The closing note in that file says to add ten or fifteen words. That is wrong. Depending on the essay, each of them needs somewhere between twenty and eighty more words, and your exam target is two hundred and seventy to two hundred and ninety.

Second. Two of your guides contradict each other. The bank of sixty model reports opens forty of them with the phrase looking from an overall perspective, it is readily apparent that. Your complete Task One guide bans that family of openings as overblown. Use overall, or broadly speaking, or the most prominent trend to emerge is.

Third. Essay three in the audio bank, on compulsory community service, puts both views into a single body paragraph. In a discussion essay each view needs its own paragraph. Fusing them costs you under coherence and cohesion even when the content is perfectly symmetric.

Fourth, the factual breaks in the report bank. In report one, Canada is described as finishing at sixty five per cent and at precisely seventy per cent in the same text. The sixty five belongs to Germany. In report ten, the soup figures are reversed. It should be fifty servings in winter and twenty five in summer. In report twelve, the claim that housing was higher than food in all countries is false for Japan, where food was twenty two per cent and housing twenty one. In report twenty three, a figure is described as rising from twelve million to ten million, which is impossible, and the word English should be British. In report thirty nine, agriculture is counted twice, and the second one should be services. Report forty two copies the prompt word for word and skips the first two stages of the process. Report fifty eight says the twenty five metre pool both remains unchanged and has been enlarged to fifty metres.

Fifth, in the essay bank, several examples are invented and should not be reused. There is no University of Australia, and the commonly cited figure for emissions from animal agriculture is around fourteen or fifteen per cent, not thirty five. There is no fighter named Jon John. Omegle was an anonymous chat site, not a dating platform, and it no longer exists. The claim that the vast majority of people in care homes have no children is false. And the phrase this essay believes should be this essay argues.

Sixth, a small reconciliation in the speaking tracks. One track says never more than three sentences in Part One and another asks for answer, reason and detail. Both mean the same thing. Two to three sentences, thirty to forty five words. And the phrase without a doubt is perfectly acceptable when spoken. It is without a shadow of a doubt that belongs to writing.

TRACK EIGHTEEN. EXAM DAY.

The last forty eight hours. Nothing new. Re listen to track sixteen and this one. No full mock the night before. Seven hours of sleep. Two alarms.

Anxiety is not a mood problem here, it is a mechanical one. Stress measurably reduces working memory, and reduced working memory is the exact condition under which the s drops. So treat it mechanically. Before each module, sixty seconds of extended exhalation. In for four, out for six or eight. One rehearsed sentence you say to yourself before you start. And in Speaking, two seconds of silence before your first answer buy you more than starting quickly.

In the room. For Writing, consider doing Task Two first, because it carries twice the marks and it should get your freshest attention. The word counter is on the screen. Use it. Keep three minutes at the end of each task for the two item check, agreement then tense.

For Speaking, you may ask for one repetition. Sorry, could you repeat that. Once. One repair per error, never two.

For Listening, the second number after a self correction. Count your words before typing.

And the closing summary. Say these three lines with the recording.

Task One describes and never explains, and the chart chooses the tense. Task Two is lost by not answering every part of the prompt and by falling under two hundred and fifty words, not by vocabulary. Speaking is won through calibrated length, and half a second before every third person verb.

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