How can I learn IELTS with zero foundation?

When you are familiar with the difficulty of IELTS, you will find that the joys and sorrows between people are not interlinked. Look at titles such as “IELTS 7 points are good” and “IELTS preparation is enough to read this article”. It looks like bullshit!

There are people who really have high scores, who are fine with you here in Versailles. On the contrary, people with low scores are more self-aware, so it’s not difficult for the remaining pile of yelling IELTS high scores all day long. If you have a hand, the average person is 7.0. I don’t need to say what the ingredients are, right?

I’m the one who came here, because everyone’s starting point is different, so I can’t give a very precise definition of difficulty, but one thing is for sure. The difficulty of levels 4 and 6 is not comparable to IELTS. One is written and the other is applied.

After spending two years with IELTS, the final landing score is as follows, just look at it.

I have applied for classes and taught myself. Based on my personal experience, let me give you some suggestions. I hope I can help you.

Reciting words is the starting point, but not the end

It is true that vocabulary is a compulsory subject for any English test, but memorizing vocabulary is boring and boring, and memorizing it on the APP is a little more interesting (although the efficiency is not very high), it is really tortured to memorize vocabulary books.

If you just remember the words blindly in the early stage, it is not only inefficient but also easy to give up. I even recommend that you move the time dedicated to memorizing vocabulary to after a meal, or when you are tired of learning to take out the app and go through the vocabulary several times.

The main source of vocabulary is the new words (especially in the questions and options) that appear in the articles or questions during the questioning process . These new words must be memorized and accumulated in the notebook.

This is equivalent to turning the passively absorbed words into actively accumulating words, and it is more targeted, and it will not feel too burdensome to memorize them separately.

Of course, there is a simpler and more rude way of memorizing words, that is to memorize the key vocabulary of each subject directly, but this method is not recommended, because it is too clever and the impression is not deep, and it is easy to forget if you remember, so I have all these vocabulary It is used to check for omissions in the final stage of preparation.

All in all, if you think of memorizing words as a separate task, the efficiency will be very low. This is originally the content of the usual accumulation. It is really not easy to force to memorize hundreds of words every day.

No matter how many points you want to test, make a plan first

IELTS Unlike forty-six all the problems are concentrated on a test paper, speaking of this nature is not subject to review reading and listening together, so prepare exam to develop a plan, to each according to need time to branch above is Very important.

The following is my own schedule, don’t follow the above, because it is based on my own situation and information.

In addition, I would like to give you another suggestion: do not divide the time evenly in the four subjects of listening, speaking, reading, writing, and writing! Although listening and reading are simple, but in terms of the number of questions, these two subjects will definitely take up most of the time, and speaking and writing are slightly more technical and practical, not just taking time to score points.

The rest of the details should be arranged according to personal habits because some people like to memorize vocabulary in the morning to practice listening, and some people like to recite vocabulary in the dead of night. This is actually not a big impact. It is not that the memory in the morning must be better than that in the evening. Okay.

that suit you, don’t follow blindly

Everyone knows that the official Cambridge IELTS test is a must, but it is obviously not enough to do the actual test. A copy of the original test looks so thick, in fact, there are only 4 sets of questions in it, and it will be completed quickly, and the older authentic test is not available. Too much reference value.

Therefore, there must be extra questions. As for how much you need, it depends on the situation. I recommend an extra book for each subject. The key is to thoroughly understand each book.

Because I have applied for training courses before and I bought several books with the teacher, but later I found that the difficulty was not suitable for me when I was studying on my own, so it is better to choose the book that suits your difficulty, slowly and gradually, not let it It is also easy to give up.

Based on my personal experience of brushing the questions, I will give you a brief summary.

Introductory class-suitable for students with poor basics]

Wang Lu’s corpus should be regarded as an entry-level textbook for IELTS listening. It is not difficult and suitable for students with average basics. But I have to say that it is indeed effective. I probably did it less than twice according to the online method. When I did the listening, the key points were heard naturally. It was amazing, so when I made this corpus, I felt even more boring. Persevere again. To learn a language is to repeat and form a conditioned reflex, and you will know what it means as soon as you hear it.

How to use the corpus specifically, I personally think that the most effective way to use it is:

Chapters 3, 4, 5, and 11 are more important. First of all, it takes two days for these chapters to listen to them all, then corrects them and calculate the correct rate of each chapter. This process, I am not exaggerating, it is particularly painful.

Then all you have to do is to remember the words you wrote wrong, and then follow the following order, and do it a second time:

Day 1: Pre-test of chapters 3, 4, 5 + chapter s1 ;

Day 2: 3.1-3.5+ Chapter 11 s2 ;

Day 3: 3.5- 3.9+ Chapter 11 s3 ;

The fourth day: 4.1 -4.4 + 11 chapter s4 ;

The fifth day: 5.1-5.6 ;

Sixth day: 5.7-5.12 ;

(Liu Hongbo IELTS Reading Scriptures General Outline + Reading Scriptures 5+ Reading Vocabulary 7-day Edition + 539 test points)

There are many skills and question types to explain in the general outline of the scriptures. First look at the general outline of the scriptures. After learning, start to do scripture 5 and apply what you have learned.

I did these together with the real questions in the early stage because I think it is not enough to do the real questions. I will choose one or two more from this material. Because the book is basically explained in accordance with the method + exercise mode, so the difficulty is relatively low, it is very suitable for students with a bad foundation and can learn a lot of tips for doing reading.

IELTS writing + opinion library

“Hands-on Series” is a writing tutorial that is friendly to Xiaobai by just hearing the name. There are many authentic expressions, and it is a sample essay written in the thinking of foreigners. The sample essay in this book must be careful and recognized. Seriously buckle it again. It is strongly recommended to mark the original text directly so that it is more convenient and not easy to forget when you read it later.

In addition to words, it is more important to look at the structure and examples. The viewpoint library is a treasure trove to enrich your examples. Like me, I usually don’t want to read the news, read books, and I have very little ink in my stomach. I can’t give examples because the opinion library saved me. 46 topics and hundreds of examples are definitely enough!

Spoken language agreement package

My spoken English was not good before, and I didn’t expect to get 7 points, to tell the truth. A large part of the credit is due to the examiner who happened to pick a topic in the “Spoken Language Consensus Package” during the exam, and this topic happened to be me. A very impressive article.

Therefore, students who are not very good at oral English are still recommended to prepare the materials in advance.

I customized the package for one month before the exam. My preparation cycle was too long, and there were two seasons of changing questions. If I had to prepare myself, I would score several times, so I basically improved my oral English in the early stage. Ability, and then after the formal registration, use the oral agreement package to accumulate.

People who came over told everyone that any high-scoring material is not as good as the oral answers that I have experienced personally, so remember. So here is a strong Amway wave of agreeable packages. Although they are purchased materials, they are all customized by foreign teachers based on my own experience.

The oral language subjects almost only used it plus some practical short sentences accumulated by watching Yang Shuai’s public account and got a good score of 7 points.

In addition, I recommend software for memorizing spoken language materials- one note. You can also add audio to it, record your own voice, listen to it repeatedly, and you can clearly know where you don’t speak well. To practice oral English is to keep speaking and listening to yourself to make better progress!

Advanced class-suitable for students with a certain foundation ]

The difficulty of “Nine Points” is relatively high in both listening and reading series, and there is a chance that you will encounter the original questions in the test. If you have a good foundation, you can directly use “Nine Points” and the real questions. Change to practice.

However, the listening experience of Jiu Fenren is not as good as the reading series, and although the articles of Jiu Fen Ren are quite good, the questions and answers are not 100% accurate, so Xiaobai still does not recommend nine points.

Simon’s writing is very useful whether it is a class or a book of ideas. The disadvantage is that it is not easy to understand, and Simon’s class is also in English, so Simon can write directly on station B.

Comparing with Gu Jiabei’s writing, Simon’s article has a clear point of view, and it is gradually expanded logically. In addition, Simon’s thinking is very foreign, and every link of the logical chain is explained clearly, and the expression is not big or difficult. Sentence.

And Gu Jiabei used a lot of words, this is worth learning, but a closer look reveals that his logic jumps a lot. That is to say, a simple causal relationship, Chinese people will feel that it does not need to be explained and can be obtained directly, but foreigners must explain it.

The above is just an introduction and advanced summary for everyone based on the materials I have used. There are many other materials I have not used before and I will not comment on them. However, these books should have a relatively high rate of appearance on the market and are relatively reliable. Before you buy, you must come according to your own situation.

OK, let’s share here, some tips on exam preparation, I hope to help you, as for why I didn’t share my method, because everyone’s practice habits are different, so my method may not be suitable for you. The method that really suits you is always summarized in the process of doing the questions by yourself!