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🔴 Live class dashboard (teacher)IELTS Speaking Part 1
Answer length and the Answer → Reason → Detail frame, tense-spotting, and a diagnostic with peer assessment.
IELTS Speaking Part 2
The cue card and long turn: trigger notes, the four-bullet walk, extension moves, and story grammar.
IELTS Listening Parts 1 & 2
Everyday/social listening: form & note completion, map/plan labelling, multiple choice & matching — with prediction and distractor-spotting.
IELTS Listening Parts 3 & 4
Academic listening: a multi-speaker discussion (Part 3) and a straight-through lecture (Part 4) — tracking who thinks what, opinion matching, note-form prediction, and following lecture signposts.
IELTS Reading 1 — Find It
The retrieval half of Reading: the paper's format, the 15-minute Passage 1 clock, paraphrase bridges, True/False/Not Given, Yes/No/Not Given, the completion family (notes, sentences, table, summary, diagram, flow-chart) and short answer questions.
IELTS Reading 2 — Work It Out
The reasoning half of Reading: Passages 2 and 3, main idea vs. detail, matching headings, matching information, matching features, sentence endings, multiple choice — and the writer's opinion again.
Complex Sentences
The sentence grammar behind band 7 in Writing and Speaking: clause counting, subordinators chosen by meaning, although vs despite / in spite of, relative clauses and which vs where, participle clauses, noun clauses, conditionals 0–3, and the four errors that cost the most marks.
IELTS Speaking Part 3
The abstract discussion: naming the four question types, the four-beat answer (Position → Reason → Example → So/But), hedging and generalising language, and keeping going on a topic you know nothing about or a view someone pushes back on.
IELTS Writing Task 2
The machinery every essay type shares: separating the statement from the instruction, the four marking criteria in plain language, the four-paragraph shape, bridges between paragraphs, planning before writing, the point-explain-example paragraph, and the 40-minute clock.
IELTS Opinion Essay
One question type asked three ways, taught through two model essays: the two-sentence introduction that states a clear position, the body paragraph pattern, the bridges between paragraphs, and the conclusion that says the same position again in different words.
IELTS Problem and Solution Essay
The two-question essay, taught through two model essays: telling a cause from a problem, developing two causes instead of listing four, and the matching test that makes every measure answer a cause the student has actually named.
IELTS Discuss Both Views Essay
The two-view essay in two halves. Part 1 builds the balanced essay with no opinion in it: giving a view its own developed paragraph even when it isn't yours. Part 2 adds 'and give your opinion' as three sentences layered onto that same essay, with the rule that the opinion must answer something the essay actually said.
IELTS Two-Part and Outweigh Essays
Three question types in three parts. Part 1 is the essay that asks two questions: count them, give each one its own middle paragraph, and turn from the first to the second with a bridge sentence. Part 2 is the essay that asks one question but wants a verdict, where the new work is weighing the two sides against each other instead of listing them. Part 3 is the twenty minutes that separates that prompt from the one which says 'discuss the advantages and disadvantages' and wants no verdict at all.
IELTS Writing Task 1: Line Graphs
Reading a line graph and writing the report it asks for: the language of rise, fall and no change, the point where two lines cross, and an overview that says what happened without listing every figure.
IELTS Writing Task 1: Bar Charts
A bar chart with a prediction: grouping the categories by trend, an overview that covers every category and every date, and the language of the future (is expected to, is forecast to have decreased by).
IELTS Writing Task 1: Pie Charts
Two pie charts: asking what the data was made for, an overview with no figures at all, choosing how to group the body paragraphs, and the language of shares (respectively, almost half, whilst, replaced as the second largest).