Learning Easy English

Before placing you in a class we ask you to complete our online English language placement test. The test opens in a new window, is multiple choice, has 40 questions and should take around 20 minutes.  Test your level About the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages At IH London, we base our classing on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) to differentiate levels of ability for the English language.  To ensure that you are placed in a class with other students of a similar English ability, we sub-divide the CEFR levels. Our experience is that students learn more quickly and more efficiently if placed in a class with other students of  a similar English level; no one is left behind and no one is held back.

What do you need to think about before you start writing an IELTS essay? The answer will depend on you slightly and the essay question a bit, but here are some things for you to consider. Points to note are there are several different things here – “planning” is not a simple thing you’ll need time to do all of this a lot of these points involve thinking – the best thinking often takes a little time if you don’t do any of these things before you write – then you’ll need to do them as you write. That’s normally much harder and often takes longer General strategy Know what you are going to think about before you start writing and know how long you’ll spend on it. The time you use here you’ll save later by not needing to stop and think so much as you write. Understand the question The first thing that everyone – absolutely everyone – should do is spend time reading  and understanding  the question.A lot of essays go wrong because they either fail to ans...

In this section you can do practice tests for all groups of the academic word list. The Academic Word List (AWL) was developed by Averil Coxhead at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. The list contains 570 word families which were selected because they appear with great frequency in a broad range of academic texts. The list does not include words that are in the most frequent 2000 words of English (the General Service List), thus making it specific to academic contexts. The AWL was primarily made so that it could be used by teachers as part of a programme preparing learners for tertiary level study or used by students working alone to learn the words most needed to study at colleges and universities. The 570 words are divided into 10 Groups. The Groups are ordered such that the words in the first Group are the most frequent words and those in the last Group are the least frequent. Group 1 Practice test sec...

The Academic Reading test is 60 minutes long. There are 3 sections. The total text length is 2,150-2,750 words.  Each section contains one long text. Texts are authentic and are taken from books, journals, magazines and newspapers.  They have been written for a non-specialist audience and are on academic topics of general interest. Texts are appropriate, and accessible, to test-takers entering undergraduate or  postgraduate courses, or seeking professional registration. Texts range from descriptive and factual to the discursive and analytical. Texts may contain non-verbal materials, such as diagrams, graphs or illustrations. If texts contain technical terms, a simple glossary is provided. Question types A variety of questions is used, chosen from the following types: multiple choice, identifying information,  identifying writer’s views/claims, matching information, matching headings, matching features,  matching sentence endings, s...

In the listening section of the IELTS test, you can come across thousands of words from different topics. Here is a list of commonly-used words in the IELTS listening test that you should keep in mind to avoid losing valuable marks . Days of the week:  Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday,Sunday, weekdays, weekend Months of the year:  January, February, March, April, May, June, July August, September, October, November, December Hobbies:  gardening, stamp collection, orienteering, caving, spelunking, scuba-diving, snorkeling, skateboarding, bowls, archery, ice skating, darts, golf, billiards, photography, painting, embroidery, climbing, chess, parachute, pottery, woodcarving. Subjects:  science, politics, architecture, law, geography, history, biology, archaeology, literature, statistics, mathematics, performing arts, visual arts, logic, physics, psychology, anthropology, economics, philosophy,  chemistry, humanities,...