Grammar for ielts fiona Aish & Jo Tomlinson ■L& 11

Exam practice: Listening - completing a table
Exam tip: 
When com pleting a table, look at the headings in the table to try to predict 
what inform ation you are looking for. The num bers on the answ er spaces w ill te ll you 
what order the inform ation w ill be presented in.
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Listen to three students talking about th e ir essays and com plete the table. 
WRITE NO MORE
V
 
THAN THREE WORDS AND/OR A NUMBER 
fo r each answer:
Andrew
Penny
Terry
TOPIC
Interesting subject 
choice
Should have made it 
m ore 1
Agrppq w ith 2
WORK FOCUS
Difficult tn find 3
Concentrated on
N n t A
on f u tu r e
ISSUES
on statistics
plate m ovement
predictions
RESEARCH
FINDINGS
Earthquakes could have 
been predicted
The Earth is 
5
Needs to refocus
The planet 
5 7
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14 Globalization
C o n d itio n a ls
Conditional stru ctu re s are used to ta lk about conditions and results. The condition is som ething 
that m ust happen firs t in order fo r som ething else to happen as a result o r consequence.
Gram mar tip: 
Conditional stru ctu re s are usually presented as types (zero, first, second, 
third, mixed] using specific structures. It is im po rta n t to rem em ber th a t these specific 
s tru ctu re s are a general guide and that different tenses can be used in the condition 
clause. There are also alternatives to 
w ill/w ould
in the result clause.
Zero conditional 
is used to ta lk about factual or true inform ation. We can use /Tor 
when
to 
introduce the condition.
Nowadays when we com m unicate across cultures, we usually use English.