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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  

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Maria

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• 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