When preparing for the IELTS test many students try to find shortcuts to help them. Many of these are a terrible way to learn English. You need to have a strong basis of General English before you even consider taking the IELTS test. However, shortcuts, if used correctly, can help us create a structure to […]
Introduction Do people consume a lot of sugar in your country? Is this a problem? What can be done about it? Sugar Is Killing Me! In the last few years, scientists have discovered the devastating effect that sugar is having on people’s lives. What was considered before to be an essential ingredient as part of
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Do you know how to talk about your hometown? What can you say about where you live? How can you describe the town you live in? This is a very common question in the IELTS test. It could appear in part one of the IELTS speaking test, it could also come up in part two
The Bank Job Updated July 2026 Joe, Colin, and Jason have done this a hundred times before — walk in, mask on, gun raised, out with the cash before anyone can react. It’s practised. It’s routine. It’s supposed to be easy. But this time, something is different. As Joe watches the frightened people on the
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How do you describe your best friend in English? You’ve known this person for so long but when someone asks you — maybe the IELTS examiner — you don’t know where to begin. It seems like an impossible task. But in fact, it is a very simple thing to do. As with anything else you
Updated: August 2026 Blind Rabbit Jackson Craig has two weeks, an editor out of patience, and a legend that keeps slipping through his fingers. Somewhere in New Orleans, they say, an old bluesman named Blind Rabbit Jackson can still be found — if you know where to look, and if he wants to be found
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The Egg Updated August 2026 Ten-year-old Jake finds a large blue egg in the trees on the edge of town and takes it straight home — already dreaming about the money he’ll make charging his classmates to look at it. But as the egg begins to move, crack, and glow gold from within, Jake starts
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Introduction What is an extreme sport? Are there any extreme sports in your country? What do people think of them? Do you think extreme sports should be banned? Why/why not? Extreme Sports? Extreme Insanity! There was a time when extreme sports meant skiing or surfing. Maybe mountain climbing or white-water rafting. But by today’s standards,
Describing a person in English is a common task to talk about. In the IELTS test, the examiner might ask you to describe a family member or a friend. You might have to describe a colleague or a neighbour. ESL students seem to get stuck at this fairly simple thing to talk about. So I
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Students fall into two distinct categories when it comes to reading in English. They either love it or they hate it. I had students who always had their head in a book. Students that carried around great tomes of novels, history, law, economics and anything else that got their interest. I also had students that