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Idiomatic Expressions – An accident waiting to happen

Idiomatic expressions, IELTS Speaking, Part three

This is a potentially harmful situation that could have been foreseen and thus avoided. Here is an example of it in use in an IELTS Speaking part three response Examiner: What problems can people have on holiday in a foreign country? Candidate: Many big cities that...

Idiomatic Expressions – Across the board

Idiomatic expressions, IELTS Speaking

A useful idiom you can drop into your speaking test, or indeed in the written one, is Across the Board.  Meaning: applying to everyone affecting all in an organisation or institution  involving everyone or everything For example: I’m sure that in my country...

Idiomatic expressions – Sitting on the fence

Idiomatic expressions, IELTS Speaking

Here’s another useful idiom which you can naturally introduce into your IELTS speaking test which will help to ensure you score highly for lexical resource. If you are asked about your opinion on something and you don’t have a strong viewpoint or you are simply...

Idiomatic expressions – Rule of Thumb

Idiomatic expressions, IELTS Speaking

I was recently asked by a student how appropriate it was to include idiomatic expressions in an academic writing essay. It’s certainly a good plan to use them in your speaking test – assuming you know how to use them accurately! Make absolutely sure that you...

Idiomatic expressions – Getting cold feet

Idiomatic expressions, IELTS Speaking

Here’s another idiomatic expression to help boost your lexical resource score. If you get cold feet about something, it means that you become to fearful or anxious about doing something that you had previously planned or said that you would do. It’s often used in...

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