Improve your IELTS Vocabulary for Speaking - Keith Speaking Academy
What’s more, the one area where you can make the biggest and fastest improvement in your speaking, is vocabulary… …if you study it correctly! You have 2 kinds of vocabulary. You need to extend both of these in order to improve your vocabulary for IELTS speaking. Let’s look first how to extend passive vocabulary. It’s simple, practice passive skills (reading and listening). Now, let’s look at how to activate your vocabulary (i.e. move it from passive to active). There are only 2 ways to do this, speaking and writing; this is why they are called the active skills! Remember, just because you can write a word, doesn’t mean you can speak it. You need to practice both skills. Here are some ideas; TIP Remember, in the exam, you will probably use language at level somewhat lower than what you can in everyday conversation. This is what the pressure does to you, and everyone. So, you need your speaking to be at IELTS 7.5, in order to perform at IELTS 7 level in the exam. One of my favourite too
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