Dear Jenny Bedwell & Nigel Haines
This month, i did my third time IETLS test, and I at last got my satisfacory score.
Thank you for ipass and all member of its team.
I feel this site helped me a lot with my Writing.
There are plenty of excellent Writing materials. After I take the practise of Writing on this site, I got IELTS score of Writing above 6 twice. I do want to recommend this site on the sites of my country.
I finished IETLS though, I will go on paying attention to this site. I want to keep learning and using English in the rest of my life. The new blog articles are brilliant!
During the IETLS preparation. I collected my own English lexical fund. I am going to share them here.
Hope it will help others.
About Writing task 1:
1. UP:
* verb. rise, increase, go up (to), double, triple, quadruple, climb (to), rocket, boom (to), expand, augment, ascend, grow, soar, surge, creep up, accelerate, hit [a record high, an apex ], gain [5 per cent], jump by [num] to [num]
* noun. a rise, an increase, growth, an upward trend, a boom, an upsurge, a creeping up, a record high plateau crest
* adv. slightly, gently, steadily, weakly, slowly, moderately, dramatically, strongly, steeply, sharply, rapidly, considerably, significantly, substantially, tremendously,exponentially,gradually, constantly, continually, minimally, maximally, evenly, linearly
* phrases. shake off a mood of despondency
1. DOWN:
* verb. fall (to), decrease (to), decline (to), drop (to), dive, go down (to), halve, plummet, slump (to), reduce (to), sink, descend, plunge, subside, ebb, creep down, slide
* noun. a decrease, a decline, a fall, a drop, a downward trend, a slump, a reduction, a plummeting, a slump, a reducing, a sinking, a recession trough
* adv. slightly, gently, steadily, weakly, slowly, moderately, dramatically, strongly, steeply, sharply, rapidly, considerably, significantly, substantially, tremendously,exponentially,gradually, constantly, continually, minimally, maximally, evenly, linearly
* phrases. fall to ones lowest level, suffer ones biggest(worst) [drop, percentage loss]
1. LEVEL:
* verb. level (off/out) (at), did not change, remain stable (at), remain steady (at), stay constant (at), maintain the same level, even out, reach a plateau(an apex), stood at, bottom out
* noun. A leveling out, No change
* adv. firmly, unstably
1. WAVE:
* verb. fluctuate, reverse, swing, bounce back, rally, retrieve
* none. a fluctuation, a reverse, a swing, volatility
* adv. gently, fiercely
* phrase. remain volatile
About Writing or Speaking:
* Sayings
You can’t direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails.
Avail: (W,S) Problem + Solution(Recommendation)
The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
—Aristotle
Avail: (W,S) Individual VS. Community(preferred)
To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
—Isaac Newton
Avail: (W,S) To controvert sth.(lack foresight)
One doesn’t discover new lands without losing sight of the shore.
—Andre Gide
Avail: (W,S) Go abroad, Immigrate, Change(preferred) VS. Stay
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
—Chinese Saying
Avail: (W,S) Individual(preferred) VS. Community
It is from their foes, not their friends that cities learn the lesson of building high walls.
Generalized Version:
It is from ___, not ___ that ___ learn the lesson of ___.
Avail: (W,S) Experience and where leaned it
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.
—Sir Francis
Avail: (W) Abstract
(S) Hobbies, Reading
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
—Benjamin Franklin
Generalized Version:
___ that would give up ___ to gain ___ will deserve neither and lose both.
Avail: (W) Controvert sth.(lack foresight)
If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both.
—American Saying
Avail: (W,S) Controvert sth.(Greedy, Perfectionism)
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Avail: (W) Knowledge VS. Experience(preferred), Education
(S) Education
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Generalized Version:
___ knows __ have achieved perfection not when ___, but when ___.
Avail: (W) Controvert sth.(misunderstood by public)
There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.
Avail: (W) Knowledge(preferred) VS. Experience
(S) Education
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
Avail: (W,S) Protection of environment
The wisest men follow their own direction.
Generalized Version:
The wisest men follow ___.
Avail: (W,S) Recommend sth.(Independence)
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, but the one most responsive to change.
—Darwin
Generalized Version:
It is not the ___ that survive, but the __.
Avail: (W,S) Abstract, Science; Change(preferred) VS. Settle
Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.
Generalized Version:
___ have the power to both destroy and heal. (When ___, they can change our world).
Avail: (W,S) neutral opinion towards sth.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Avail: (W,S) Experience > Knowledge
The early bird catches the worm.
Avail: (W,S) Early > Late
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
Avail: (W,S) Follow customs of foreigners
