lessons for ielts - speaking

Lessons For IELTS - Speaking Welcome to this New Oriental IELTS preparation course and the Speaking Book in particular. IELTS, the International English language Testing System, is one of the world's most popular English language tests for entry into university or higher education where English is the language of communication. In other words, it is your academic passport! You may find that speaking is one of the more difficult modules in IELTS because you have to listen, process the language, read the questions, and write the answers all at the same time. You will practise a lot of these in this book. This book is designed to help you to prepare for the test in a systematic way. You will learn a lot of useful vocabulary, and you will learn how to predict and speak for different kinds of information. The exercises have been worked out for your extensive practice, and useful tips have been provided in the hope that you will be able to answer different kinds of question in the Speaking test. You will also further develop your speaking skills listening to dialogues and monologues spoken with a variety of accents on topics that typically occur in the IELTS Speaking test.