Ways to Build IELTS Vocabulary

ELTS vocabulary building is the most basic job before your IELTS test, if you are going to hunt high score. Students usually ask the same question: What tips can help us save time and effort, and improve the efficiency of vocabulary building. It isn't a simple job to master IELTS vocabulary in a short time. Here we share 20 tips with you, read them carefully, and follow them as possible. Your IELTS words will be improved quickly.




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1. Keep going. Even if only ten new words a day, if you never stop, it is a great asset. It is the most critical point in all tips.

2. Review on the second and third day for each new word before you forget it. Looking for the right software to help you manage your reviewing.

3. Do not following alphabet order like A-Z, start from S and T. These words are more frequent in test. It works for those who are in a very narrow time frame.

4. Repetition is more important than learning. Rather than to spend ten minutes a word, you should review ten times, each one minute. It means you shouldn't know everything of a word, only get its common definitions.

5. Write and read, don't just see it when reviewing. Your mouth and ear are part of you, and they also can help you familiarize new words.

6. Never give up. Everyone once forgets words, more or less. Just study it again, review in narrow frequency. You may use vocabulary cards to revisit known words and restart forgotten words.

7. Divide vocabulary to common words and positive words; reading vocabulary belongs to the former category, and you know them is enough; the latter group probably will be used in writing and speaking, you have to write and speak them. You may need a tutor or reference book to categorize the vocabulary.

8. Use of learning tools, like 4000 IELTS Words in 90 Days in this site. The proper tool saves you lots of time. We believe the right tools are essential as same as right tutor in IELTS vocabulary building.

9. Learn new words in TV, news, ads, and any daily readings that IELTS exam materials are likely from.

10. Put new words in examples or contexts to memorize. Don't try to memorize any dictionary, it's hard and tedious job. Even if you did it, you still need extra effort to learn how to use these words.

11. For a listening test, you should summarize the scenes, such as: rent category, banking, and so on, to prepare vocabulary. The listening words are usually more straightforward than in reading materials, but you need to get them quickly by ear. It is why we group them by scenes.

12. To remember listening vocabulary, you must listen and say, listen and write, but cannot listen and watch. When the eyes and ears work at the same time, the eyes have priority, and no practice for ears.

13. In the writing test, you have to pay attention to the diversity of expression. Don't use a word repeatedly; instead, replace with its synonyms. Keep an eye on synonyms when studying new words.

14. In the writing test, you shouldn't pursuit difficult words; for a seven mark essay, difficult words appear 7-10 is sufficient. You have to know if a word is common or difficult.

15. The accuracy of writing vocabulary is critical. If you are unsure, it is better not use that word. Or say, only choose words that you have full confidence in writing.

16. Accumulation of necessary conjunctions, showing logical and structured in speaking and writing. These words are not many and not hard. However, they play a vital part in writing. Never ignore them.

17. For the speaking test, you should prepare vocabulary by topic category. For various topics, the related words are separate.

18. At least you have to prepare speaking words for four categories: people, events, places, and objects. For each category, you may divide into some sub-groups.

19. The core of study speaking and writing vocabulary is how to use word of it, not how many you know. So practices, both speaking and writing, are a fundamental way of speaking and writing vocabulary building.

20. You cannot prepare speaking words in mind; you must say them in loud and fluent English. Use your mouth, not only eye, to develop speaking vocabulary.