Vocabulary practice

Some word pairs are simply what native speakers say.

A phrasal verb is a verb plus a small word that changes its meaning completely.

One root gives you four or five words.

The difference between band 6 and band 7 writing is often just verb choice.

IELTS Task 1 is almost entirely this vocabulary.

These pairs look or sound alike but mean different things.

Linking words are marked on whether they express the right relationship, not on how many you use.

Describing people comes up in almost every speaking test.

Hedging softens a claim so it matches the strength of your evidence.

Task 1 writing lives on this vocabulary.

Adjectives, like verbs, pair with a fixed preposition rather than a logical one.

Casual and formal English often express the same idea with different words.

Education comes up constantly in speaking and writing tasks.

Environmental topics appear regularly in Writing Task 2 and speaking.

Speaking tests reward a range of opinion phrases, not just repeated "I think".

Technology topics reward precise verbs for change and precise nouns for devices, rather than the vague "stuff" and "things" that flatten a Task 2 essay.

Task 2 essays need precise verbs for how one thing leads to another.

Reading and Listening test whether you can match an everyday word in the question to its academic equivalent in the passage.