Pre-intermediate A2+ Get Ready for ielts

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I'm going to eat in traditional restaurants.
4
We're going to visit historical sites.
5
We're not going to learn a new sport.
6
We're going to go sightseeing.
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Listen again to the sentences in Exercise 11 and repeat. Practise using the / a / sound and
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using correct sentence stress.
Exam tip
/a/ 
is a very common and important sound in English. Practise using 
/a/ 
to improve your 
English pronunciation.
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Get Ready for IELTS: Speaking

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Unit 9
Part 2: Skills development
Exam information
The Speaking test assesses your ability to use a range of relevant vocabulary to talk 
about the different IELTS topics.
Part 1
1
Match the topics 1 -8 to the groups of words a-h.
1
Family
a
characters, dramatic, plots, series, soap operas
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Free tim e activities
b
accommodation, busy, gallery, skyscraper, traditional food
3
Special occasions
c
colleague, office, part-time, salary, volunteer
4
Cities
d
business studies, grades, literature, medicine, university
5
TV and radio
e
boring, chatting online, doing nothing, meeting friends,
programmes
prefer
6
The weather
f
costume, dance, make, parade, presents
7
Studying
9
bossy, funny, husband, look like, parents
8
Work
h
autumn, monsoon, November, season, snowy
2
Look at the topics in Exercise 1 again. Choose three topics. Can you say all the words
correctly? Can you use each word in a sentence? If not, go back to the relevant unit and