IELTS Speaking Practice
At iPass we offer free IELTS practice podcasts and videos available to all iPass members – Free and Course Extra – to help you with your IELTS interview.
Each recording is a mock IELTS speaking test conducted by a native English teacher, and together they show a variety of candidates from different nationalities and with different levels of English.
If you are a Course Extra Member you also have exclusive access to our online Speaking Modules with supporting exercises.
Each Speaking Module gives you:
- interview transcripts
- expert analysis of the interviews and 'Top Tips' to help you improve your overall performance
- comprehensive exercises with answers, based on the transcripts, which have a clear language focus designed to improve your general fluency and grammatical accuracy; essential factors of a successful speaking test.
View a free sample of an iPass speaking module.
| Vidcasts | Speaking Module | Exam Focus | Language Analysis |
| Cynthia | 1 |
• Describing where you live (Part 1) • Giving relevant responses (Part 2) • Giving more than one example (Part 3) |
• Narrative fillers |
| Zara | 2 |
• Giving extra information • Using a conversational style |
• Relative clauses • Adverbial phrases |
| Pedro | 3 |
• Brainstorming questions • Giving examples • Giving opinions & reasons |
• Using linkers • Language of opinion |
| Helia | 4 |
• describing studies and professions • techniques for improving fluency • identifying question words • giving examples |
• prepositions • linking words • subordinate clauses • avoiding repetition • using a variety of tenses |
| Podcast | Speaking Module | Exam Focus | Language Analysis |
| Ana and Maria [click on name to listen to podcast] |
5 [click on number to access exercises] |
• open & closed questions • brainstorming ideas • giving reasons & examples |
• using a variety of tenses • adverbs of degree • future expressions |
| Yuko | 6 |
• techniques to improve fluency • varying your sentence structure |
• switching tenses effectively • 3rd conditional |
| Bo | 7 |
• repairing communication breakdowns • giving examples • avoiding repetition |
• articles • singular/plural agreement • defining relative clauses • comparatives |
| Oscar | 8 |
• Word formations • Translation errors • Filler expressions |
• Verb patterns • Irregular verbs • Pronouns |

