Friday, February 22, 2008

IELTS PREPARATION

Hi! This is SAJI ABRAHAM, and today I am talking to you about IELTS examination and preparation.

Before we can go to IELTS, we must know what English is. Or better, we should have a very proper understanding of the two aspects of English Language (any language in that case). A language has two sides. We can think of it as a coin. You see a coin is valuable only when it has both sides printed properly. The same way, English mastery becomes possible only when you have achieved proficiency in both sides of the language, the spoken side and the written side.

But the first ability you should develop is the spoken one. Because you know a child usually learns to speak first and then after years only he begins to learn to write. But in our case, we were taught to write English first, and actually we never thought of the spoken aspect of the language or we always tried to speak English exactly the same way that we write it and there is no wonder why we never achieved proficiency and fluency in the language.

So now I think I can introduce you to IELTS, because we now know it is the ability to speak that should come first and not the ability to write. And you also know that written and spoken English are not the same and not to be confused with. To be clear, if you try to speak in the written way, your English will sound artificial and idiotic.

Now I must tell you what natural talk comes out in. It comes out in idea units and an idea unit is a group of words. And here lies the exact problem why we find it difficult to speak English. Yes, we need proper programs to use these words in a particular order so that we make the desired meaning and impact from our sentences. We need to learn GRAMMAR properly to start speaking in English, since we were not lucky enough to start our talking with English as our Mother tongue or even frequently used language in our homes. So we need to go against the common conception that to speak English we need no grammar and we can simply pass IELTS by mugging up essays and certain commonly taught phrases.

Your first step towards obtaining a high band in IELTS should be to learn grammar thoroughly and then only take the tailor made coaching given by different agencies for IELTS. English language is comparatively easy and actually in my English Language Training Classes all it takes is explaining about 30 rules!

Yes, with just 30 rules you can confidently start using and generating good English. I mean it! You should be able to generate as much English sentences as you need as and when you need it and this is what an examiner is looking in you.

Is there any wonder you feel absolutely confident about your performance and when the result comes you are nowhere near your expected band! The examiner detected the artificial reproduction of sentences and he decided to make you undertake more study of English. This is what is going on happening around us, and after a few attempts we feel let down and we altogether drop the program of appearing ever for IELTS. But what we should have realized was this that we were lacking in basic grammatical knowledge and we actually had no strong foundation of the language.

So what can we do about it? We can do many things, and the first thing is to join an institute or personal coaching centre to get familiarized with English Grammar. I think now many placement agencies are offering such services and you can find one in New Friends Colony if that is near to you. The name is Modi Educare Pvt. Ltd. Other details you can get from Modi Healthcare placements Pvt. Ltd. New Friends Colony. (You should make proper enquiries before joining any such institutes as this is just information only)

The other option is to join my English Classes being offered from my own home and it is at GTB Enclave, Delhi-110093.

The next option is to ask me for an email tutorial, if you have an internet connection at home. Yes, you can really learn to use English as your mother tongue within a few months of time with my system. If interested you can always contact me on my email or telephone number, which are as follows;

Email: therightinformation@gmail.com and our telephone numbers are: o11-22110173 and 9958250569.

So I end this session stressing the need for equipping yourself with good and powerful grammar, and wishing you all the very best in your efforts to clear your IELTS with very good scores.

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