Thursday, May 3, 2007

Writing:

And now Writing module which that's somehow different for academic and general students.
Fot general candidates,we have two section.You have 20 minutes to write a letter for a person,company,... to describe a situation,ask a question or that sort of things.For the rest of exam,you have 40 minutes to prepare an essay about different topics and write your experiences and also your opinion about that.
On the contrary,for candidate students we have 20 minutes to describe a graph,picture,process,...
This is my experience:
Dear colleague your opinion is so important ,don't pay attention to another advices.Some people believe if you put your idea in this case you will lose your mark!
That's not truue.Moreover,you sould mention the most striking feature for each case.
Another section is about 40 minutes to write an essay about different topics which the difficulty of topics depends on your chance!
Note you should not start with sentences like: "dear lecturer I'm going to describe"
or something like this.
You should use linking words,observe punctuation marks such as coma,semicalon,...
and also you should have an organized paragraphs.
Section 1 with at least 150 words,and section two 250 words.Underlined essays will be penalized by examiners.
What can I add to this....mmm....presure inmy mind......aha!
Brain storm!
You should organize and nurture your mind to face with different kind of topics.
By write many essays,memorize some beautiful sentences & proverbs,...
Moreover,your handwriting should be clear & legible.
Over to you...comment me...
Nobody is perfect

Listening:

The native English speakers don't pay attention to this important skills;they think we can easily listen & analyze the monologues & dialogues.
Unfortunately this skill is difficult too.But different people have different idea I suppose.
To me you should be more careful and quick without having any stress.
A little carelessness causes bad results in this case.
In this skill you have 4 section with different accent andtopics.
Conversation tn may be dialogue or monologue.Undoubtedly monologues are much more faster & difficult rather than diologue which two or three individuals speak with each other,but don't misunderstand me sometimes some people debate with each other consecutively,and may be you become confuse.Some times you don't understand which one is which!
You should have practice enough ,watch BBC world,buy some useful cd,...
I had newly gone to the Enghelab square;haphazardly I saw a book about strategy of listening;I should catch some information about that.
Anyway,all in all,your ears should habbit to many words in English.Otherwise,you write wrong word in your answer sheet!Which the answer is HARBOUR,but you write HEYBOY!!!
Another important thing is misspelling.
If you do not know the correct form of for example SOUVENIR,you will lose mark.
In each section we have different type of question filing the lgaps,multiple choice,completion the tables,...
Formost & most importantof sections is fourth section.That's a fast monologue which is none stop only when the speakers swallow their water of mouth!!!
Amazing!
We have no choice but to practice more & more...
Good luck...

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Tutor:

Some of candidates preffer to spend some session with tutor to improve their skills.It charges them lots of money.
In Iran/Tehran for everysession to review skills or have some useful speaking practices is enought not anymore.
If you wanna have the telephone number of some tutors in Tehran I can help you;
contact me.Finally I should say you yourself session(about 1.5 hours) whether the teacher is amatuer or professional is about 30,000 tomans.

On one hand some people believe that's worth wile,and on the other hand some people like me think that's better you have self study!
It depends on you and the budget that you have devoted for that.
To me it's ridiciulous,only two or three can able to help yourself to improve your skills.
Then,don't relly on any things & also any person.
Trust me!

Reading:

Despite the existence of many different strategies in this module especially the methods that I have learnt in Jahad institute, I preferred have my own method!

This module is most difficult of IELTS skill, and unfortunately we have two limitation time & question.

In my opinion, best method to handle this problem is reading each paragraph, come to the question, and find the answers relevant to each of them.

That's it, because you have not extra time or example to find the stem of question or
Another strategy…"Time Flies"

Reading module has 3 sections. In each section we have 13-14 questions. questions contain different types such as matching,completion,summary completion, short answer,labling and alternatives(multiple choice).

It depends on your chance if you're expert to answer matching and you are unlucky candidate, your exam will not contain any matching question! Like mine!!!

First of all you should have a look to type of the questions in each section, then decide which section is suitable to answer.

Secondly, have a look to first question of each types in each section, memorize them and start to read first paragraph of each section.

Note that you have not extra time to transfer your answer to the answer sheet.
In this occasion, opposite of Listening module, you should enter your answers to the answer to the answer sheet, mere you diagnose the correct answer.

You know!but this method is the best.The text is too difficult especially for academic candidates.You have no choice but to follow this!

Don't have fear,just practice …

"Practice makes perfect"

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

One of examples of Speaking module:

Examiner: E ,Candidate: C

E-Hello,how's your life?
C-hi,thank you,same as usual !
C-Wow!tape recorder!
E-Don't worry,just for listen what you are going to say after interview!
C-But I'm nit Sue Chon Hong the murderer of 32 innocent students!!!
E-Ha ha ha ha…!
C-Oh I'm kidding.
E-I see.
E-All right,please tell me your ful name.
C-My name is Hassan Aghaei Baradaran.
E-Ok,please speak about your home…
C-Of course ,that's situated in dead end alley;it has 3 flour ,we have our furniture.moreover my Mom has decorated it with artificial flowers…two another floors are full of beetles!
E-what about your dream house?
C-To be honest with you I wanna a cottage in the middle of jungle
Like Robin Hood!Also I wanna a river bank near this house & a foot bridge overit because it encourages me to dive in to the river!
E-what's your favorite sport?
C-Of course body building.I always go to the sport saloon to do it.
But some purson like champions put on tight shirts to show their body;
I myself only for keeping my body fit do that.
E-what do you think about another sport?
C-Yeah!and sometimes I prefer to go to the park for running.
E-what's your opinion about sport?
C-I think by doing sport all of your stress & anxiety will tend to fade
Away.
E- Now I'm going to give you a topic,you have 1 minute to prepare yourself and you should speak about 2 or 3 minutes on it.
Here is a pen & paper.
C-OK,…Ladies & Gentleman..!
E-Oh!You don't wanna think about it?!That's enough?
C-Of course!
E-Ok,Go on…
C-I'm going to speak about study abroad as one of my goal to catch success.That's not my utopia,but that's one of my ambition that I think by passing IELTS exam,I can fulfil all of my expectations.
After then I wanna work for big company such as Infenion Co.
After then I wanna have a big store where produces many kind of electronic keyboards. Because I'm a musician.
And also for doing this important goal I should have enough money…
To spend there…
E-Do you have any friends there that is a successful person?
C- Yeah! Of course Mohammadreza Afshin one of friend of mine is in Canada & now he is riding a roaring trade!
E-Wow!
E-what's the role of parents to upbring & help them to catch their goals?
C-When their Childs are little buy register them in many useful classes and also persuade them to blossom their talents they can do this.
E-And what about the role of teacher at class?
C- By offer their experiences & persuade them by new method of education.
E- which range of age is suitable for catch our goals.
C- Undoubtedly between 20 & 30;because you're young & your mind is fresh, but different people have different idea I suppose.
E-thank you for participate in this occasion & good luck
C-My pleasure, thank you.
C-have a nice day.
E-And you too. bye.
C-Bye.

Monday, April 30, 2007

Speaking Module

Every strange place will make you panicky,and also it will be like a nightmare!
Specially when you wanna take Speaking module.
Don't worry,just keep smile at every one and don't fidget!

That's it...

If you have taken it in British Council,you should be there 20 minutes before your interview starts.It depends on your chance;if you're lucky candidate whether you're General or Academic,you will have expert examiner,other wise you face an uncertain future!
A monster!

I Just kidding you...
You can easilly able to solve your problems if you are cool;then,don't have any stress when you enter in to this environment.
The guards will inspect you like a detectives which accuse a murderer!then a man like Zorro
follow you for having good times terntil you arrive near the main building.
Thereafter,you can start your exam.

Under exam condition:

- be relax & also careful
- don't mention to the tape recorderwhich is for assess your skill
- tell a joke or word in jest to show your ability!don't have any fear just try it

I'm sure you will give good score...

Bookstore

I don't wanna prescript you,but that is better you buy all of your books from
Jungle Publication
situated in East part of Enghelab Sq. of Tehran in Bazarcheh Ketab.
Unfortunately some profeteer bookshoppers charge you alot of money;
then,save your money by going to this store.

You will find all of your need there with discount.