hey aubrey how are you i'm great how are you jessica i am so good because we got a very
cool email from a listener um guys we love our three keys ielts course you know we do
but we also know that this free podcast is helping thousands of you guys improve your ielts scores
and so we wanted to share the story of one listener who uh wrote to me last week saying how
this very podcast helped her get the ielts score she needed and then guys we are going to outline
three ways this podcast improves your ielts scores um so aubrey do you want to take a crack
at reading that email before you do that just take a crack at that's a great idiom i know i love that
iam take a crack at that which it's funny we wouldn't normally use this to talk about reading
an email right because it's not difficult for me to read this usually we use it more for something
that might be a little challenging right that's when i use it does it come together baseball
take a crack at a ball probably well i think like 90 of our idioms are come from baseball
um but yeah so to take a crack at guys that would be amazing for ielts uh speaking part one
if you're asked about something you want to try in the future maybe cooking something or a type
of sport or exercise or anything you want to try in the future you could be like you know what i
actually want to take a crack at cooking thai food like you could use it for anything you want to try
as if a question's a little bit tricky for you to say okay that's a tough question but i'll take a
crack at it and i love the answer right you could use that for now don't say this if they've asked
you like what do you eat for breakfast because it needs to be something that is a little harder to
answer that's such a good point because like i'll hear students using these fillers at completely
the wrong time like you just said right like what do you eat for breakfast every day and
they're like hmm that's an interesting question i've never thought about that before you're like
wait yes you have you've like literally thought about this almost every day because hopefully
you eat breakfast um so anyway guys we teach you a great vocabulary and we tell you when and how to
use it on the exam so that's just you know first off bonus of listening to this podcast before
your ielts exam and after i do hear from a lot of students that still listen to us after their test
anywho aubry can you read that email please yes the moment you've all been waiting for okay this
is mailing you all the way from columbia i felt i needed to write you a thank you email because
even though i did not take the three keys ielts program don't get me wrong i just didn't have
the money to pay for it over a three week period i did listen to so many of your podcast episodes
watched your youtube videos and spent tons of time reading your posts on the three keys website
trying to get prepared to take my very first ielts exam it was the academic version so i was pretty
scared i was not ready for it yeah and i love how she writes this with lots of a's and i can
proudly say i got an overall 7.5 that's amazing i cannot believe i got an 8.5 on listening and an 8
on speaking awesome sadly i got a 6.5 on writing i know i should have taken your course i love that
with a frowny face but i also got a 7.5 on reading anyway thanks so much for everything you
do listening to your advice helped me out quite a lot and i didn't feel lost that day you guys are
amazing i admire you and wish you the best ximena i love this email so beautiful i love it guys um
yeah so she she's obviously of a high level of english already right um and she
dedicated herself to listening to every one of our podcasts and she ended up getting a great score um
guys you can find out what score you would get for free from us we have a awesome little quiz for you
go to alliersenglish.com my score and you could take a quiz and find out what your estimated ielts
band score would be for free and get more free rese sources from us besides the podcast um so
allersenglish.com my score so let's talk about three ways this podcast helps you guys the same
way it helped i'm gonna say ximena i'm guessing i'm not sure how to pronounce her name but i'm
guessing ximena um so the first of course is speaking so like our listener said she got what
was it an eight on speaking that's amazing so aubrey how do we help students improve
their speaking score now first of all you'll hear natural english here right the chat we have at the
beginning always it's unscripted you guys we don't sound like robots we're not reading we're speaking
like natives do and like you should speak on test day right so you can hear native pronunciation
but not only that we we are teachers we are well qualified we use lots of interesting vocabulary
you'll hear lots of different ideas and of course model answers yeah guys to be honest i think doing
the the speaking model answer episodes are like some of our favorites um for aubry and i i think
we we love giving you model speaking answers and vocabulary episodes i think those are two of our
favorite uh topics on the show um so guys we have done over a thousand podcast episodes by now this
is episode 1167 so you guys can go back and listen to all of these episodes or just look for the
speaking model answer ones and you can get lots of benefit there um and uh yeah i mean this is
why it's important to listen to natural speakers like us and not just people teaching or not just
like a non-native teaching a class for example because guys you can't sound like a robot you
can't have like flat intonation you can't use boring average vocab that every other student
uses or you're not gonna get higher than a six on your speaking exam um i do see comments from
listeners sometimes and um some of our followers on youtube saying like you guys speak too fast um
this podcast is for intermediate and above students right and we also want to challenge
you guys because if you only listen to stuff that is slowed down you're not going to improve your
listening or your speaking right so we have to listen to natural speech um all right and
then the second way that we try to help you is in writing we've talked a lot about writing recently
because we do have an ielts writing only course um if this is your only issue maybe for ximena maybe
she could have taken advantage of this program if it were available um if this is your only problem
because even ximena's like yeah i should have taken your course you can get the writing only
course go to allersenglish.com writing only um so how do we help students with writing on this very
podcast yes right whenever we talk about writing guys jessica and i have a conversation before
where we're really thinking about what is it you need to know what will help you the most
what from the scoring system do you guys really need to be aware of we always want every one of
our episodes to be extremely valuable for you so we're giving you the insider advice you can't find
elsewhere we're always relating it to the scoring system we want you to understand how what we're
teaching you helps your score right your task response score your cohesion coherence score
these scores that are very difficult to improve on your own we're wanting to give you that advice
here exactly guys um so you know that i was a ielts examiner for 14 years and aubrey has
three keys certified so she's she might as well be an examiner you guys she knows everything i do
and so we give you all of the insider advice you need about the scoring system so most specifically
cohesion coherence and task achievement task response these are the two categories that are
the most difficult things to improve on your own and i'm pretty sure if ximena had had our course
guys she would have got a 7.5 on writing yeah um so listen to the writing episodes specifically for
the vocabulary you should use that is impressive or the correct tone vocabulary you should use in
your general training letters and we also give you a lot of ideas for different ielts topics
um we do a lot of sample brainstorms on the show and show you how specific you should get
and what kind of examples the examiner needs to see in your essays for a seven or higher so
all of this insider advice and model answers all on the show and then finally guys
the natural just easiest most obvious way that we help you increase your ielts scores is to improve
your listening comprehension right aubry i know ximena got an 8.5 on listening congratulations
i hope you're listening and you can hear this we're so excited for you and i'm not surprised
if you were listening to every one of our episodes and you know we're really focusing on improving
your vocabulary and and practicing you are going to score highly for listening that's
the best way that your score can be improved by listening to this podcast i want to make one note
especially looking at that writing that we can help you improve i'm not surprised that that
is the only score that was low because even though she's listening to all of our episodes and getting
all of this great insider advice if you don't have the templates the strategies essay feedback
it's just impossible to know what you were could score if you're doing all of this right
right that's the one that on your own is just really difficult to get a seven or higher but
these scores she got just from listening to our podcast from studying on her own such impressive
scores so great so awesome um so guys if you want to know if you would also get an overall eight
on ielts like ximena um oh no 7.5 sorry then take our free quiz it only takes about five minutes
guys go to all ears english dot com slash my score you can do this on your mobile phone you can do
this on your computer whatever device you have take our short quiz it's free and then you know
where you are at with ielts and we can help you improve that score so go to alliersenglish.com
my score all right awesome aubry this has been super fun i love getting these
messages from listeners i know email us guys you can email support alerseenglish.com we
really love getting emails like this we want to know how you're doing tell us your scores
share with us all right awesome aubry i'll see you tomorrow bye bye
you