Simon’s Advice on Speaking Part 1

But here's the main piece of advice: practise!
Make yourself a collection of IELTS speaking questions (from this site or from the Cambridge books), 
and practise answering them without hesitating. 
And don't just practise this once. Go through your list of questions many times (every day if 
necessary), and you'll find that you gradually improve, both in terms of the quality of your answers 
and in terms of fluency and lack of hesitation. Maybe you could even record yourself, perhaps once a 
week, so that you can analyse your own performance. 
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Friday, November 10, 2017 
IELTS Speaking Part 1: 'rain' topic 
Here are some part 1 questions that a student sent me. I haven't seen this topic before, so it's a good 
one for us to practise. 

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1) Do you like rain? Why / why not? 
2) Do you think that rain affects people's mood? 
3) Does it often rain where you live? 
4) Have you ever been caught in the rain without a coat or umbrella? 
Can you give a short, simple, direct answer with a reason for each question, without making any 
mistakes? 
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Saturday, November 11, 2017 
IELTS Grammar: 'rain' topic mistakes 
The following sentences were written by students below yesterday's lesson. Can you correct or 
improve them? 
1. Yes, I like when it rains. Because it makes the weather awesome. 
2. People say environment affects mood and I am with this. 
3. After few seconds it started raining and I was beaten heavily. 
4. Taichung, my city only rain in summer. 
5. I don't like the rainy day, when it is dropping on my face, let me feel sticky. 
6. I've got caught in the rain several times so far as I got nothing to cover me at that time.