Improve Your IELTS
Product ID: 79414036
About The Book Written by Sam McCarter and Norman Whitby, Improve your IELTS Skills is a complete preparation guide for achieving a higher score in the written examination of IELTS. Step-by-step guidance focuses on students between bands 4.5 and 7.5. The book has a total of three preparation courses - Academic Reading, Academic Writing and Listening and Speaking. These are essential for developing language and skill techniques for better performance in the IELTS examination. The three separate books when used together incorporate as a complete, detailed guide. They can also be used to target a particular skill set or be used as a separate supplement to consult other coursebooks. Improve Your IELTS: Writing Skills focuses mainly on vocabulary and sentence structures. It contains a variety of drills to practice the skills needed in the writing part of the IELTS examination. Separate exercises for different skills have been provided, primarily in 10 task 1 and 10 task practice questions. For example, task 1 comprises of - comparing information, describing changes and understanding trends, etc. Task 2 contains - planning essays, linking phrases and developing opinions, etc. Overall, there are 10 topic based units that are ideal for self study. Improve your IELTS: Writing Skills was published on 15 December, 2006, from Macmillan Education and is available in paperback. Review: A Valuable Skill - Sam McCarter's book is textbookish and basically teaches to approach writing skills for English language tests. I bought the books for its pedagogical material, not for learning the skills. I have another one by McCarter, A Book on Writing, which is excellent. If English is your second language, and if you are going to write any English test, this and other book by McCarter will help you. Review: Timely delivered with good quality book but I was looking for the IELTS ... - Timely delivered with good quality book but I was looking for the IELTS general test writing but in this book, it mainly focus on the academic writing.
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| Customer Reviews | 3.8 out of 5 stars 69 Reviews |
N**T
A Valuable Skill
Sam McCarter's book is textbookish and basically teaches to approach writing skills for English language tests. I bought the books for its pedagogical material, not for learning the skills. I have another one by McCarter, A Book on Writing, which is excellent. If English is your second language, and if you are going to write any English test, this and other book by McCarter will help you.
A**R
Timely delivered with good quality book but I was looking for the IELTS ...
Timely delivered with good quality book but I was looking for the IELTS general test writing but in this book, it mainly focus on the academic writing.
S**A
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R**A
Confused book
Not good as I was expected
S**H
Two Stars
It was ok
A**R
Best Book for Writing Skills
The absolute best book for self-study. step-by-step guidance ideal for self-study, technique boxes to reinforce how to approach key tasks used in the IELTS exam and practice tests at the end of every unit. Excellent
A**R
Five Stars
No product offers as structured an approach towards improvement as this one.
S**N
Useful only for academics
Good one for academic writing task 1 only.
J**Y
Very helpful!
I was recommended this book by a friend and thought it would cost an arm and leg in the US. so I opted for a second hand version. I cannot fault the service as it was delivered when they said it would be and it is in very good shape in fact I dont think there are any marks on it at all. Very impressed!
C**I
Improve your IELTS Witing Skills
Buon testo di lingua inglese aggiornato, pratico e di veste grafica gradevole, contenuto nel prezzo utile per la preparazione ad esami
C**I
Great seller, Great Price
Great seller, Great Price Delivered time 11.11.2016
も**お
英語読めるけど書けない、そんな人向けの良書
とりあえずUnit１が終わりましたのでそこまでの感想を。 某社レベルチェックテストでライティングがひどいと言われこの本を手にとったのですが、 ライティングで良いスコアをとるために必要なスキルをゼロから学ぶにはすごく良い本です。 特筆すべきはそのタスクの楽しさです。 日本語のIELTS対策本だと「○○では△△が使えます」で終わってしまいますが、 この本では「○○は下のどのグラフで使われるでしょう？」のような発問形式で、 答えを自分で模索しながら、表現を覚えていくことができます。 例えばUnit1のTask1では様々な形をしたグラフが用意されていて、 fluctuate wildly、rise sharply、trend is up/downward、level off などに当てはまるグラフを探しながら、表現を覚えていくことができます。 Unit1のTask2では、Linking Phraseを前後の文脈から判断して当てはめる練習をします。 ( ) for employers to encourage workers to relax. であれば I think the most obvios solution isが入る！のような感じです。 １点減点した理由としては、他の方が書いているように確かに6.0〜8.0の答案が用意されていますが、 １つのTaskに１つの答案しかない、つまり、「こう書いたら6.0で、こうしたら7.0ですよ」ではなく、 「こう書いたら6.0になります」という書き方をされている点です。 なので「なぜこれが6.0なのか」が書いてある点は評価できますが、 自分の答案と模範解答を見比べてよりよいものを完成させていく、という使い方は難しいです。 ただ日本語でタスク達成型の教材がないので、この本はかなりオススメです。 独学でゼロに近い状態から学習を始めたい方には手放しでおすすめできる良書です。
S**O
Good book
Very helpful
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