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You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. To make it more authentic, download the test and do it with pen and paper. Read the passage below and answer questions 1-10. What you need to know about Culture Shock Most people who move to a foreign country or culture may experience a period of time when they feel very homesick and have a lot of stress and difficulty functioning in the new culture. First of all, it’s important to know that culture shock is normal.
There are four general stages of cultural adjustment, and it is important that you are aware of these stages and can recognise which stage you are in and when so that you will understand why you feel the way you do and that any difficulties you are experiencing are temporary, a process you are going through rather than a constant situation. The first stage is usually referred to as the excitement stage or the ‘honeymoon’ stage. There is, in a sense, a fifth stage to this process. Skimming.pdf. Breaking News English. Breaking News English Home | Help This Site 1,000 Ideas e-Book Sean's 9 Other Sites Search For More Speed Reading Lessons.
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Cohesion: linking words and phrases. 1.33 Cohesion: linking words and phrases You can use words or short phrases which help to guide your reader through your writing, and to link sentences, paragraphs and sections both forwards and backwards.
Good use will make what you have written easy to follow; bad use might mean your style is disjointed, probably with too many short sentences, and consequently difficult to follow. Your mark could be affected either way. The best way to "get a feel" for these words is through your reading. Essay Map. 115004_General_Training_Writing_sample_scripts.pdf. 115030_General_Training_Writing_sample_task_-_Task_2.pdf. 115029_General_Training_Writing_sample_task_-_Task_1.pdf.
A for and against essay about the internet. Practise your use of formal and informal English with these quizzes. Try these quizzes to test your use of linking words for the FCE formal letter question. Writing a formal letter. A more formal email. An informal email. IELTS Listening test, part 4 - Free practice. BBC Radio 4 - The Film Programme, A tour of the British Isles in accents.
Dialect Blog. Sounds Familiar? What you can hear You can listen to 71 sound recordings and over 600 short audio clips chosen from two collections of the British Library Sound Archive: the Survey of English Dialects and the Millennium Memory Bank.
You’ll hear Londoners discussing marriage and working life, Welsh teenagers talking with pride about being bilingual and the Aristocracy chatting about country houses. You can explore the links between present-day Geordie and our Anglo-Saxon and Viking past or discover why Northern Irish accents are a rich blend of seventeenth century English and Scots.
You can study changes in pronunciation among the middle classes or find out how British Asians express their linguistic identity. IELTS Listening, How to say dates in English. Telling the time in English. Test Takers - Listening sample. IELTS Skills Testing and English coaching. INSTRUCTIONS: In this exercise you will get an opportunity to practise typing in numbers as you hear them dictated during a recorded lecture.
Start the recording below and fill in the spaces with the numbers as they are spoken in the gaps provided below. Only use numbers and common numbered formats. IELTS Practice Listening Exercise 12. IELTS Practice Listening Exercise 12. Topics. St George International. Podcast - VOA - Voice of America English News. ABC Services - Podcasts. Podcasting is a convenient way of automatically downloading audio or video files to your computer.
You can then play this audio or video on your computer or transfer the files to a portable MP3 or video player. 'Podcast' generally refers to audio. 'Video Podcast' (or 'Vodcast') refers to the distribution of video files in the same manner. Use the navigation to the left to browse all ABC podcasts, or check out the highlights below. For technical assistance and further information, visit the FAQs section. Featured Podcast Nerdzilla, Local Radio. Podcasts and Downloads. Professionals Podcasts.
Listen & Watch. Free IELTS Listening practice test to help pass the exam. The IELTS Listening test will take about 30 minutes, and you will have an extra 10 minutes to transfer your answers to the answer sheet.
The four parts of this practice Listening test are presented over four separate web pages. Make sure you move swiftly from one page to the next so that your practice is as realistic as possible. Download the question paper and blank answer sheet before you start, and write your answers on the question paper while you are listening. Use a pencil. Listen to the instructions for each section of the test carefully. There are 40 questions altogether. IELTS Mock Papers. Road to IELTS: IELTS preparation and practice. IELTS Speaking practice test 1. The Speaking test is 11-14 minutes long and is in three parts.
The Speaking test is the same for both IELTS Academic and IELTS General Training tests. How to practise This practice material is designed for two people working together. Find a study partner to help you practise. This might be a teacher or a friend. Take the three parts of this practice test one after another without a break to make your practice as realistic as possible. IELTS Interview Skills. Typical speaking tasks. Sentence stress. English is a stress-timed languageListeningListening activitiesSpeakingSpeaking activitiesConclusion English is a stress-timed language The English language is often referred to as stress-timed.
This means that stress in a spoken sentence occurs at regular intervals and the length it takes to say something depends on the number of stressed syllables rather than the number of syllables itself. Try saying or listening to the sentences below: The four sentences take the same length of time to say and you will notice the numbers are stressed and the unstressed words in between are said much more quickly in order to keep the rhythm of the language. Listening In a recent class I discussed with my students the reasons they found listening difficult in English. BBC Learning English - The Sounds of English. Pronunciation. TeachingEnglish. IELTS International English language test system. Read UK. Sign in. Quick grammar.