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IELTS 2 Review (Spring Festival 2019)

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This page simply lists links to the material we have covered in class since October. Your Spring Festival mission is to review the material and engage in online discussion with your classmates according to the following rules: If nobody has yet left a comment expressing your opinion, then write your opinion. Reply to another student’s … Read more

What’s wrong with the “formulaic template approach”?

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This is my criticism of what I call the “formulaic template approach”. This is the approach typically used in IELTS training centres across China where the student is taught to memorise a template consisting of numerous generic sentences or partial sentences so that all they need to do is paraphrase the prompt a few times … Read more

Discussion Forum – Trump 1

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During the summer of 2018, students in my IELTS 2 class were asked to read articles on topics in the English language news and recommend ones that they found interesting to other students for class discussion. The results of that homework informed us that US politics and the environment are the most popular choices so … Read more