Your English-speaking friend who lives in your town has asked for youradvice about learning a new sport.Write an email to your friend. In your email:* recommend a new sport that would be suitable for your friend to learn* explain how your friend could learn this sport* suggest that you both learn this sport together Dear … Read more
Model answers for Cambridge IELTS Book 17 Task 2 Essays General Test. Learn from my model answers so that you can get the score you need. Written by Mike Wattie, ex-IELTS examiner and author. Engaging a personalised instructor for exercise instead of participating in organised sport or fitness is becoming increasingly common in various nations. … Read more
Book 17 IELTS past test papers for the Academic test. These are real test papers that allow you to experience a real version of the IELTS test, prepare for it, and get an idea of your band score. Resources for Book 17 For the writing academic test questions: reports and essays. Speaking test: See my list of speaking questions … Read more
It is important for people to take risks, both in their professional lives and their personal lives.Do you think the advantages of taking risks outweigh the disadvantages? MAIN IDEAS + create opportunities [prospects] + build resilience – Danger [hazard] MODEL ANSWER Risk-taking can be critical for people’s working and private lives. I believe the merits … Read more
The maps below show an industrial area in the town of Norbiton, and planned future development of the site. COLLEAGUES ANSWER Note: I think this answer by my colleague is much better than the one I wrote below. I think the reason why is that it is better to structure this task by map and … Read more
This course is best suited to students who need quick feedback on their IELTS writing tasks. It is ideal for students who need to quickly raise their score by half a band. If you need to increase your score by more than half a band you might be interested in my other online IELTS courses: … Read more
A course to learn about all the different types of essays and reports or letters in the IELTS test and how to write them. Length: 7 lessons of 90 minutesContents: In each lesson, the student will be given instructions by the teacher regarding aspects of the writing test and given homework tasks to practice writing … Read more
The maps below show how the town of Harborne changes from 1936 to 2007. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. The illustrations reveal changes that occurred in the township of Harborne from 1936 to 2007. Overall, the town became a much larger residential area … Read more
About Mike
I’m Mike Wattie from Australia. I have been teaching IELTS for over 20 years in Asia and Australia.
I have written IELTS books and this enables me to be an effective tutor. This is because I understand the main problems that students have taking the test and also the ways to overcome them.
Maybe you would like me to teach you the necessary skills and strategies to pass your test.
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