Simon’s Advice on Speaking Part 1

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Friday, February 20, 2015 
IELTS Speaking Part 1: 'collecting' topic 
Try preparing some short, easy answers to the following questions: 
1) Have you ever collected anything as a hobby? (What?) 
2) What kinds of thing do people often like collecting? 
3) Why do you think people collect certain objects? 
4) Is there anything that you would like to collect in the future? 
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Saturday, February 21, 2015 
IELTS Grammar: correct the mistakes 

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Here are some sentences that people wrote below yesterday's speaking lesson (about 'collecting'). 
Can you find and correct the mistakes? 
1) There are a lot of things that people often are collect. 
2) I think people often go to gather small things such as stamps. 
2) Whenever I went in a vacation, I used this opportunity to buy another object. 
3) Let me think, may be valuable watches which their prices increase by time. 
5) People collecting things for many reasons for example they do it as a hobby. 
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ANSWERS FROM SIMON:
First, here are the problems in each sentence: 
1) "people are collect" is wrong. This is not a passive, so we need to delete the word "are". 
2) "Gather" is not appropriate - it doesn't have the same meaning as "collect" in this context. 
3) We don't say "go in a vacation". 
4) A few problems: First, this is not a proper sentence. Second, "may be" should be one word in this 
case. Third, "which their prices increase" is wrong. Fourth, we don't say "by time". 
5) "People collecting" is wrong, and "for example" is used wrongly.