IELTSTutors | All Free Exercises and Lessons
This page contains links to all the free IELTS and Academic English lessons on this site. Each lesson contains interactive exercises that provide instant online feedback so that you can quickly develop your language skills.
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Writing Task 2
Task Examples
View our example essay tasks with suggestions to help you write your essay.
Band Descriptors
How do examiners judge your essay to be very good or very weak? Find out with these lessons.
Essay Structure
These lessons will teach you how to structure your essay into organised paragraphs.
Essay Types
These lessons will explore the different essay types that you find in the IELTS test.
Essay Organisation
These lessons will show you how you can use thesis statements and topic sentences to improve the organisation of your essays.
Essay Language
These lessons will give you the important ideas and language that you need to know to express your ideas clearly.
Linking Ideas
These lessons will provide you with practice to link your ideas and make your arguments flow naturally.
Writing Task 1 | Academic
Tips
These lessons can be applied to many different tasks.
Tables
Check out our Tables series of lessons here.
Bar Charts
Learn the IELTSTutors way to describe bar charts.
Line Graphs
Follow the order of these line graph lessons.
Pie Charts
Complete our 3 pie chart lessons.
Maps
Follow our Maps lessons in this order.
Processes
Find out how to describe process diagrams here.
Writing Task 1 | General
Letter Writing
Improve your success at letter writing by completing these lessons.
Speaking
Part 1
Part 1 is a five minute conversation on general topics.
Part 2
Part 2 is a two minute talk on a specific topic.
Part 3
Part 3 is a five minute discussion on topics connect to part 2.
Reading
Tips
Follow the lessons below to know more about the reading test and to improve your reading skills.
Question Types
This series gives you practice at answering the different question types you find in the IELTS test.
Complete Reading test
This is a complete test from the IELTS British Council website.
Listening
The Test
Go through our test to find out how to answer the different IELTS listening test question types.
The Audio Guide
This is taken from the IELTS British Council website. We have added an audio guide and answer explanations.
Grammar
Key Grammar
These lessons aim to improve your fundamental English grammar knowledge.
Gerund or Infinitive
These classes will help you understand when it is correct to use a gerund (verb+ing) and when you should use an infinitive (verb 1).
Comparatives and Superlatives
Learn the grammar for comparatives and superlatives here.
Complex Noun Phrases
If you hope to get a band 7, understanding noun phrases will give you a big boost. Learn more with the lessons here.
Band 7 Grammar | Clauses
A clause is a group of words that typically contains a verb phrase. Students aiming for band 7 will find it easier if they have a good understanding of clauses. To help you, we have built these series of clause lessons.
Band 7 Grammar | Clauses 2
Learn all about relative clauses here.
Band 7 Grammar | Clauses 2
Our final clauses series looks at participle clauses.
Vocabulary
Key Vocabulary
These lessons are designed to help you with many aspects of the IELTS test.
Essential Collocations
Collocations are words that are often found together, with no particular rules to join them. Below are the most common collocations that you need to know.
Academic Vocabulary
Our Academic Vocabulary lessons will teach you how to expand your vocabulary by identifying meaning, grammar and collocation of new words in texts.
Vocabulary in Context
These lessons build on our Academic Vocabulary Series by giving you more practice learning words based on their context.
Academic Collocations
These are more advanced collocations for use in academic contexts.
Big Quizzes
These are 10 question quizzes that test a range of your language abilities.
