FREE IELTS PRACTICE
An Internet Hotlist on USEFUL IELTS PRACTICE
created by Tom Johnson
ABU DHABI MEN'S COLLEGE
Introduction | IELTS READING TESTS | IELTS LISTENING TESTS | WRITING PRACTICE & TESTS |
GRAMMAR | SPEAKING | VOCABULARY & SPELLING
Introduction
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Click on the links below to get online help with your reading, writing, listening and speaking practice for
the IELTS ACADEMIC EXAM. You can also practice your vocabulary and grammar and do online
practice IELTS tests
The Internet Resources
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CALIFORNIA DISTANCE LEARNING PROJECT - Read a newspaper story, learn the new
vocabulary in the story, test you've learnt the new words. Do matching exercises, multiple-choice
based on the stories.
FREE DOWNLOADABLE IELTS PDF FILES FREE IELTS PRACTICE TEST - Need to sign in but free
SAMPLE IELTS TEST PAPERS THE IELTS TEST- INFORMATION & PRACTICE - Everything you need to know about IELTS
plus academic word lists, grammar, pronunciation, spelling and much more
VERB TENSES - ONLINE TUTORIAL - Interactive exercises reviewing verb tenses
IELTS READING TESTS
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IELTS ACADEMIC READING PRACTICE - Complete test, marked online
IELTS READING TESTS - Timed & non-timed reading practice, automatically marked
MORE TIMED READING EXERCISES - Timed and non-timed options, automatically corrected,
see audio script, see correct answers
TIMED READING EXERCISES -
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IELTS LISTENING TESTS
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IELTS LISTENING TEST- FREE SOFTWARE - Timed test. Each question is automatically
corrected. See the correct answers. See the audio script. Review your answers at the end
LISTENING TESTS - Tests broken into the four parts and two complete tests
MORE TIMED LISTENING PRACTICE TIMED LISTENING PRACTICE -
WRITING PRACTICE & TESTS
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IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING: PARTS I & II IELTS PRACTICE TESTS - SENTENCE COMPLETION - Five reading comprehension tests and
five sentence-completion tests.
ONLINE WRITING EXERCISES - Exercises on argument / opinion and compare / contrast
essays,paragraph writing and word formation
STUDENTS' IELTS ESSAY SAMPLES AT DIFFERENT BANDS ¡V TASK II TOPICS WRITING TASK ONE - GRAPHS & CHARTS - Learn about different charts, practice getting
information from charts, learn the difference between static and dynamic charts, review verb
tenses used to describe charts etc.
GRAMMAR
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CAN YOU NAME THE VERB TENSES? PART 1 - Flash cards, tests and scatter game based on
these verb tenses: PRESENT SIMPLE, PAST SIMPLE, PRESENT CONTINUOUS, PAST
CONTINUOUS, PRESENT SIMPLE PASSIVE, PAST SIMPLE PASSIVE, PRESENT PERFECT
SIMPLE & CONTINUOUS
ENGLISH GRAMMAR - Comprehensive, most categories explained and tested
GRAMMAR EXERCISES - Grammar exercises: Present, Past, Future, regular and irregular
verbs, transitive and intransitive verbs, singular and plural subjects, conditionals, subjunctive
forms, active & passive and more
GRAMMAR MOVIES - Learn the rules for verb tenses, past, future, modal verbs, gerunds,
infinitives, conditionals, reported speech, ability, comparisons.
MOST VERB TENSES - Most verb tenses, exercises & rules explained with diagrams
NETGRAMMAR - Rules explained and exercises for verb tenses, passive voice, sentence
structure, conditional sentences, reported speech, determiners and adjectives and more.
VERB TENSES AND THEIR USES - PART I - Match the Verb tenses, e.g. Present Perfect
Simple, with sentences describing how they are used.
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SPEAKING
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DISCUSSION TOPICS - Good for opinion / argument essay - Animal welfare, The Arts, Cultural
differences, Education etc. vocabulary exercises, dictation, discussion questions & crosswords
IELTS SPEAKING PRACTICE - RECORD YOUR VOICE INTERACTIVE PHONEMIC CHART - Click on the phonemic letters to hear their sounds.
INTERACTIVE PRONUNCIATION EXERCISES - Lessons on English phonemes, identifying
vowels and consonants from phonemic alphabet
PHONEMIC CHART - Click on the phonemic letters to hear their sounds
VOCABULARY & SPELLING
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23 VOCABULARY FIELDS - Describing personalities, entertainment, education,
telecommunications, jobs, e-commerce, internet, ordering in a restaurant and more
ACADEMIC WORD LISTS: 10 WORD GROUPS, TESTS FOR EACH GROUP ACADEMIC WORDS LISTED BY TOPIC - Read the words in context in sentences. Do Gap-fill
exercises on them.
COMMON VOCABULARY TOPICS - Vocabulary topics: buildings, clothes, food and drink,
entertainment, education, technology and communication
GRAPHS AND CHARTS - Words used to describe graphs and charts which will be useful for the
IELTS WRITING EXAM PART 1 ESSAY.
HANGMAN, WORD SEARCH, JUMBLE, DISCOVER THE WORD - Play word games using
words in different vocabulary areas: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, LINGUISTICS, MUSIC,
BIOLOGY etc.
PROPORTIONAL NUMBERS - IELTS WRITING TEST PART I - These words are numbers
describing proportion, i.e. how much something is a part of something bigger,e.g. A HALF,
THREE QUARTERS, 1 IN 5, ONE FIFTH etc.
SPELLING CITY - MAKE YOUR OWN SPELLING TESTS - Type in your own word list, test
yourself on the new words, play different games with those words like 'Hangmouse.'
THE ACADEMIC WORD LIST - The Academic Word List contains words which occur frequently
in a range of academic subjects, e.g. history, psychology, sociology, etc. The list is divided into 10
sublists. Sublist 1 consists of the 60 most common words in the AWL. Sublist 2 contains the next
most frequently used words and so on.
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