Way #2 to Boost Your IELTS Band Score - Listening

Listening is considered the language skill you use the most. Active listening is a skill to hone for IELTS Excellence.

However, many IELTS candidates lose points not necessarily from misinterpreting the audio, but spelling!

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IELTS Listening and Spelling

If you get the correct answer, one of the biggest problems for candidates in the Listening Section is misspelling their answers.

Both British and US spelling conventions are accepted - like theatre or theater.

Be sure to choose one way of spelling and use it throughout your exam.

Spelling errors are heavily penalized on the exam.

Along with solid vocabulary, you need to be able to spell your words correctly as well.

Go check out this video of the Top 10 IELTS Spelling Mistakes.

One more thing…

Check out this video for more IELTS Listening tips.

Conclusion

IELTS Excellence continues right here on the blog.

Start preparing for the exam now so you’ll be ready to nab your high Band Score.

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Up Next: Way# 3: Your Reading Skills.

#IELTS Tips Kick-Off - Increase Your Test and #English Skills

Soon I am launching the e-Course, Wham Media's 42 Ways to Achieve IELTS Excellence for both General and Academic candidates.

The IELTS is the rival to the TOEFL iBT, the grand papa of English proficiency tests.

If you are currently studying or planning to present the IELTS this year, you will want to stay alert of the posts on this blog and businessenglishace.com in the coming three weeks.

IELTS Tips Series

Today, the IELTS Tips series kicks off. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday on businessenglishace.com - my home base blog - you can improve your English skills in general and IELTS skills in particular.

Here is the agenda for your first IELTS class over there:

Remember, the exam is half English and half IELTS skills.

So, each day of IELTS Tips gives you a mix of both. 

IELTS Grammar Question

How good is your English grammar?

Check out the IELTS Grammar Question - do you know the correct answer?

Read the article to verify your best guess!

So, as you can see, even if you're not presenting the IELTS, you can improve your English by following the series.

Conclusion

So, check out Day 1 of IELTS Tips.

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Stay tuned for more lessons to enhance your English fluency even for non-exam candioon

Enjoy the IELTS Tip series and good luck on the exam!

Follow 5 Criteria to Boost Your IELTS Writing Success

Students often request private classes to improve their English writing skills in preparation for the IELTS exam.

Unfortunately, writing is an often neglected skill in ESL curricula and classes around the world.

However, for the IELTS, you need to not only know how to write well, but the exact criteria the IELTS graders seek in order to maximize your writing score.

Plus, you need to mix in the features of your basic essay.

Together you will have the five criteria for IELTS Writing success. So, let’s get started!

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Powerful Paraphrasing - Improve your IELTS Writing, Speaking Scores

Do you need to improve your IELTS writing and speaking scores?

Then, learn how to unleash your paraphrasing power. Read on!

Today, in our continuing series on extra skills you need to maximize your IELTS score, you are going to take away how paraphrasing can help you on the IELTS exam.

In the two previous articles, you learned about how to summarize and how to take notes.

Paraphrasing, simply put, is restating an author’s text in your own words...

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English Expressions at a Restaurant - #video

When you eat out at your favorite restaurant the next time, practice your English!

Can you order from a menu in English?

Do you know how to talk to a server in English?

Watch the English video today for helpful expressions at the restaurant!

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Business English Ace - Confusing Word Pair - Penultimate vs. Ultimate

Business English Ace - Confusing Word Pair - Penultimate vs. Ultimate

Find out the difference between these two confusing words.

While they may look similar, discover the key difference by reading the presentation below.

Stop the confusion with this word pair now. Check out the presentation below.


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Confusing English Words - Penultimate - Ultimate from Hilda E. Colby

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7 Movies for Business Mavens

Movies are entertainment, but also can yield insights into their subject matter.

The business world is a popular topic in Hollywood productions where big deals, envy, power lunches, and strategy and tactics are an everyday affair.

The following seven movies include gripping drama, irreverent comedy and thought-provoking films that can inspire and motivate business professionals.

7 Movies for Business Mavens

1. The Godfather

Respect is paramount in business and so is following proper etiquette as the scene from The Godfather illustrates. The iconic Marlon Brando (The Godfather ) schools an uncouth acquaintance on these virtues.

2. Glengary Glenn Ross

Blake (Alec Baldwin) in Glengarry Glen Ross gives a lesson in marketing and the principle of “incentive.” If you don’t produce sales, you are out of a job. That is usually a strong reward to excite the sales staff.

3. Wall Street

Wall Street has its cast of strong-willed characters. From wolves of Wall Street to Gordon Gekko, Hollywood loves to perpetuate the stereotypical Alpha male spirit in the cradle of capitalism. Gordon’s immortal “greed is good speech” is a classic in cinema.

4. Disclosure

Office politics gets the best of  Meredith (Demi Moore) in Michael Crichton‘s  Disclosure. Tom Sanders (Michael Douglas) is sexually-harrassed by her. Oh, but she still has a plan to get ahead in the rough-and-tumble corporate world as the above scene shows.

5. Risky Business

Joel (Tom Cruise) learns the Risky Business  of an entrepreneur along with the economics of supply and demand all in a weekend when his parents go out of town. He learns fast and the real world education gets him into Princeton.

6. Jerry McGuire

The all important mission statement is where most businesses begin as we see sports agent Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) typing his own. Sports and business are so intertwined in many cases – the personalities, contracts, performance issues, and the winners and losers.

7. Trading Places

Trading Places  combines class warfare, greed, commodity exchange chicanery, and double dealing into a comedic romp with an all-star cast including Dan Akyroyd, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Ameci, and Ralph Bellamy.

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7 Movies for Business Mavens

Business #English Ace - Confusing Word Pair - Allusion vs. Illusion

Business English Ace - Confusing Word Pair - Allusion vs. Illusion

Find out the difference between this confusing pair of words.

While they sound the same, find out the key difference by reading the presentation below.

Stop the confusion with these two words now. Check out the presentation below.

Business English Ace Presentation 

Confusing English Words - Allusion - Illusion from Hilda E. Colby

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Business #English Ace #Video - Confusing Word Pair - Aid vs. Aide

Business #English Ace #Video - Confusing Word Pair - Aid vs. Aide

Our Confusing English Video of the Week concerns the pair - Aid and Aide.

Do you know how to use them correctly?

Watch the video below to check yourself. Their meanings may surprise you!

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Business #English Ace #Video - Confusing Word Pair - Precede vs. Proceed

Do you confuse precede and proceed in English?

Don't worry. You are not alone. 

Native English speakers often have to consult a dictionary to tell these two terms apart.  

However, today, you get a video to show you the difference!

Watch the video below to learn the difference between precede and proceed and how to use them correctly in both speech and writing.

By the way, if you need help to sort out the difference between these English word pairs, check out my eBook - Top 65 Commonly Confused English Word Pairs. Thanks!

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