Band 7 IELTS lessons for speaking and writing with online tutors
If you are you stuck at band 6 or 6.5 in the IELTS writing or speaking test, our expert IELTS teachers can help you.
🧑Start with a free 30 minute trial lesson
How do the IELTS band 7 writing lessons work?
How do the IELTS band 7 writing lessons work?
During the free trial lesson the teacher will look at one of your past essays and try to understand your weaknesses. Different students have different problems. However, these are the 7 most common problems our teachers see:
1️⃣ A lack of appropriate ideas
2️⃣ Grammatical mistakes
3️⃣ Lack of grammatical variety
4️⃣ Redundancy (saying things that do not need to be stated)
5️⃣ Question type misidentification
6️⃣ Lack of essay cohesion (flow)
7️⃣ Lack of topic related vocabulary
Once the teacher knows what you need to work on, they will prepare a course for your needs. Have a look at the steps below.
Step 1
The teacher sends you homework before the lesson
Your teacher will email you homework for the first lesson which will have exercises for your weaknesses and a related task 2 question.
✅ The focus is on ideas, grammar and vocab for band 7
Step 2
Complete the exercises and write the task 2 essay
Practice the exercises and become familiar with the topic ideas, suitable vocabulary and grammatical structures. Then write the task 2 essay and email it to the tutor before the lesson.
✉️ Email your task 2 essay to the teacher
Step 3
Book the 1 hour online lesson
Arrange and confirm your time with your IELTS tutor and then meet them on Microsoft Teams, Whatsapp, Google Meet, or traditional telephone lessons (The teacher will call your phone).
⏲️ Book the lesson with the tutor
Step 4
Have the lesson with the teacher
During the online lesson, the teacher will give you a link to Google docs and you will both look at your IELTS essay and the teacher will discuss your weak areas and help you understand why you got the score you received.
The next important step is the teacher will show you what would have been needed to obatain a band 7 score.
IELTS Speaking
Lots of practice - Lots of feedback
You will practice all parts of the speaking test, but the main focus will be on part 2 and 3.
The teacher will emphasise speaking questions you have been working in the exercises and homework given to you.
For example, if you are working on ‘the advantages and disadvantages of living in urban areas’ then the teacher might ask you:
“In your experience, what are some of the drawbacks of living in a big city?”
“Tell me about a time when you were stuck in heavy congestion?”
“Why do some people think it’s advantageous to buy a yearly rail or bus ticket?”
Our method is to get you to broaden your learning so that you do not learn things in isolation. You will feel confident to naturally apply the things you learn in all parts of the IELTS test and your daily life.
Our course contains over 140 IELTS writing questions in these topics:
