IELTS vocabulary is extremely important if you want to score high in lexical resource.
And perhaps it's probably the easiest and fastest area to improve especially if you're
using IELTS topic-specific vocabulary and collocations.
Which is exactly what we're going to look at in this video.
Let's go.
How to get and use IELTS vocabulary and improve your writing to score high in lexical resource.
So like I said before: Collocations, Topic-specific vocabulary.
There's 4 sections to this video.
The first part, we'll briefly look at what a high-scoring essay needs.
Then the different types of collocations you can use and the collocations available for
certain topics
and how to use that topic-specific vocabulary.
Then at the end of the video you'll be able to see a massive list of topic-specific vocabulary
and the collocations. Okay?
And you'll be able to use them in your essay today.
I promise you.
Now the basic conditions of a very good IELTS essay task to fulfill include covering all
the task requirements
and equally addressing all aspects of the question.
Secondly, the ideas have to be organized into coherent arguments revolving around an interesting
topic sentence
and of course coherently built items.
Thirdly, the complex sentence should be balanced with the use of simple ones.
And should be able to show a mastery of range of grammatical structures.
And then secondly, you should have a wide range of lexical structures. Okay?
And this includes the collocations and the topic-specific vocabulary.
Now for lexical proficiency, knowing English collocations is a must because your ideas
are going to sound more natural and the essay is going to flow easier. Okay?
It's going to flow because it's easier to read.
Because the reader is half-expecting the second part of the collocation.
Okay? Now then...
I'll just briefly explain what a collocation is.
These collocations, when you've got one word which has a higher frequency of being paired
with another word.
So it's more likely we're going to have "global warming" than global bottles (for example).
Now we're going to quickly classify the different types of collocations and then we'll share
a fantastic list for you.
So grab a pen, write these ones down that I tell you. Because writing them down will...
And then you can review them tomorrow and it'll help you to remember them. Okay?
Rather than just hearing them and forgetting about it.
Okay? Let's go... First one.
Adverb + Adjective:
"Completely satisfied"
"Highly skilled" or even better, "A highly skilled worker."
Now how much better does that sound compared to just "A worker?" I'll tell you: A million
times better.
Now the next one...
Adjective + Noun:
"Excruciating pain"
"Emotional support"
"Package holiday"
"Natural habitat"
Compare these two sentences, alright?
"Children need help for the people around them, to help them cope in difficult situations."
Compare that with:
"Children need emotional support from people around them, to cope with difficult situations."
So obviously, the second one sounds much better (we got the collocation there).
Now another type...
Noun + Noun:
"A leaf of grass"
"Work posture"
So we could say:
"The way you sit can deeply impact your health."
Or we could say:
"Work posture can deeply impact your health."
Obviously, the second one is better.
Noun + Verb:
"Prices soar"
"Lines drawn"
"Policy expires"
We could say:
"Prices of things increase and the economy is in decline."
Or we could say:
"Prices soar and the economy is in decline."
Obviously, second one is better.
Verb + Noun:
"To commit suicide"
"To carry out survey"
"To adopt a habit"
"To apologize profusely"
Now there are also some grammatical collocations where a verb or adjective must be followed
by a particular preposition (or a noun), or a particular form of the verb.
These are important. In fact, correct grammar is absolute king regarding essay writing.
Because if your grammar is in a mess, then it's even... Well, it doesn't really matter
if you've answered the task response or you've...
Yeah, it doesn't really matter if you've answered the task response if the examiner can't understand.
Okay?
So now, we're going to go deep into the lists for the actual topics.
For each of the topics (IELTS vocabulary topics) and we're going to use those in actual, sort
of like, an IELTS environment. Okay?
And trust me. This path will be very useful for you. Okay? Let's have a look.
In this video, we've got a massive list of collocations. And even better is organized
under the IELTS topics. Alright?
But the main problem here is that we may be challenged on how to use these and how to
incorporate them.
I'll just give you a quick example. Alright?
Have a look at the first sentence:
"Because of all the differences between humans in a big city like London, people suggested
teaching people about it."
Well, what's wrong with this?
Well firstly, there are hardly (or there are no) collocations in there.
What could be one of the collocations we could squeeze into the sentence?
Well look, "Because of all the differences between humans"
"Differences between humans"
Any word in that list?
"Ethnic diversity"
We could have used "ethnic diversity."
And while we're on the subject of improving the sentence, have a look...
We've got "... big city like London"
Is there another way we could say "big city?"
Well, we could say "metropolitan city."
Sounds much better than the basic word "big."
And of course get rid of the repetition. Okay? We've got it twice there. It's absolutely
unnecessary.
So the transformation would be:
"Because of ethnic diversity in a large metropolitan city such as London, experts (instead of people)
suggested educational campaigns."
"Educational campaigns" another collocation, instead of "teaching people about it." Okay?
So there's a few different...
This is one way we can use vocabulary to improve our essays. Go through. And if you've got
basic words like "big" substitute it for "large" or something a little bit more sophisticated.
Try to eliminate some of the repetition (people, people).
And try and change it to something more specific (in this case, "experts"). We could also say
"analysts." We could also say "population experts" or "demographical experts" or something
like that, "society experts..." whatever. Okay?
And another collocation in there. "Educational campaigns" instead of "People teaching about
it."
So here...
Now, how would we learn a list like this?
Well, here's some guidance for you:
Avoid memorizing. Avoid memorizing the whole list.
That's not going to be that helpful for you. Okay?
I mean, you can review them, keep them fresh in your mind. That will help but don't sort
of like try and constantly, constantly memorize the whole list of all of them that we've got
in this PDF.
What you could do is remember them in context. Okay?
That would mean write down the whole sentence that you find them in.
Or just review with them. And then doing lots of reading.
And when you identify one that you've seen before in one of these lists, highlight it
and write down the sentence. Okay?
Very beneficial way of doing it.
And third way, experiment.
Just do trial and error. Write out a few sentences, try and incorporate it in your writing, and
then get your writing reviewed and you can get some feedback and start improving.
There's no quicker way to improve, trust me.
So have a look at these lists.
Another resource is if you sign up at ieltspodcast.com you'll get a big PDF (when you sign up on
the welcome page).
And in that PDF you've got lots of TED Talks which have been reviewed and some of the collocations
have been taken out of the TED Talk and listed.
So not only can you identify them but if you watch the whole talk you can hear them actually
used in context.
This is quite valuable exercise 'cause not only are you gonna improve your listening,
your reading, and your vocabulary, but you're going to get them in the context.
And then this makes it a lot easier when it comes to using them yourself.
You're going to reduce the chances of making a mistake. You're gonna reduce those chances
considerably.
Because you've already heard them in like... You've already heard them in their like natural
setting.
And this form in the list, it's not really like a natural setting.
There's a natural sense of writing. I'm sure you'll understand it.
So if you want all this list, and if you want the massive PDF, with all of these in and
the topics with the TED Talks and the collocations,
go to ieltspodcast.com and sign up.
We've got lots of these. These are extremely useful. I hope you can use these.
Aright, all the best.
And good luck in your exam.
And remember, if you do want your essays checked, go over to ieltspodcast.com and there you'll
see a massive resource. Okay?
I'm sorry, not "massive resource" there you'll see all the prices, the services, and the
slightly different than normal essay checks. It's much better. Okay? So much more enjoyable
than some.
Okay. Thanks for watching.
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