Month: July 2015

IELTS Essay # Work Related

IELTS is a test of English. Often while writing essays people forget this, and start focusing on ideas instead of English. It is good that you have great idea, but the point is how clearly you explain the idea.
Given below are some of the IELTS essay questions related to work that came recently in the exam.

  1. First impression is the last impression. Some people believe that if you give a good interview, chances are high that you may get selected for the job.
    To what extent do you agree or disagree?
    SAMPLE ANSWER

  2. There are people of the opinion that to secure a good job it is important to attend a university while others believe that it is better if you develop the soft skills and have an experience.
    Discuss both the sides and give your opinion.
    SAMPLE ANSWER

  3. Job satisfaction is considered as a luxury for the people living in developing countries.
    What do you think are the reasons behind it?
    Do you think job satisfaction is important?

  4. Job satisfaction is important if you want to excel in it.
    Do you think young people should look for job satisfaction before taking the job or you think salary is more important?

  5. Famous personalities like actors and sports men often get high salary. There are people of the opinion that a person’s salary must be based on their contribution to the society.
    To what extent do you agree or disagree?

  6. Part time jobs are often encouraged by the leaders of the market. They believe it is a good way to utilize the free time and expand your horizon.
    What are the advantages and disadvantages of children doing part time?

  7. Some people believe that main reason behind choosing a job must be the money, because money is the only thing that can provide security to their family.
    Do you think money is an important factor?
    What are the factors according to you that must be taken into consideration?

  8. There are people of the opinion that the employers should provide a supportive and pleasant work environment while others believe that it is better to provide the employees with facilities and incentives.
    What is your opinion?

  9. People in modern days are driven by promotions. They are working hard to get promotions.
    Why do you think people are driven by promotions?
    What other factors do you think make people work hard?

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Expressions For Test

Expressions For Test #
While studying abroad you have to constantly give exams or test or quizzes. Even if you don’t, tests are something you have to give. You could be either in your college or university or high school. Given below are seven expressions that are used to describe anything related to test? It could be either how you gave the test or the result of the test.

PROCRASTINATE
Sentence-: Internet has become one of the ways of procrastinating things by most of the people.
Meaning-: If you procrastinate something you postpone it i.e. you decide to do it later after finishing something off. For e.g if you have an exam and you keep on postponing its preparations for other things, you are procrastinating it.
PULL AN ALL NIGHTER
Sentence-: I pulled an all-nighter yesterday because I had a test today.
Meaning-: It means you do not sleep the whole night doing something. This usually happens if you procrastinate it for a long time.
CRAM
Sentence-: I had to cram the entire syllabus in a week.
Meaning-: If you study a lot of stuff in a very short time, you cram it. It means putting a lot of information in a short span of time.
BURN THE MIDNIGHT OIL
Sentence-: I think I need to burn the midnight oil to complete my project.
Meaning-: It is similar to an all-nighter. It means you stayed up all night. This expression came of in the ancient time, when people used the oil lamps to lighten there houses up after the dark.
FLUNK
SENTENCE-: I flunked the exam of german again. I guess there is something I am missing on.
MEANING-: it is a synonym of fail.It usually means you got a F grade.
PASS WITH FLYING COLORS
Sentence-: I wish all of you pass with flying colors in your IELTS test.
Meaning-: it means you did great on your test. May be you got the highest or among the highest.
KILLED AN EXAM
Sentence-: when I asked him how he did, he said, “ I killed the exam”.
Meaning-: It means you have aced the exam.
PASS BY THE SKIN OF MY TEETH
Sentence-: I did not flunked, I passed the exam by the skin of my teeth.
Meaning-: It means you have just passed the exam. For example-: if the passing marks are 50 you just got 51.

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Basic Grammar

Grammar forms the basis of any language. To learn a language the first step is to learn the grammar.
For today let us look into the four components of grammar

  1. Noun
  2. Verb
  3. Adjective
  4. Adverb

WHAT ARE THEY??

NOUN
A noun is a person, place, thing or an idea. The noun which names a particular person, place , thing or idea is a proper noun. For example. Carlos, anmol, eram, delhi, Canada, god, congress party. The noun which refers to general person, place, thing or idea are common nouns. Like, horse, humans etc.
VERB
Verb is an action word. It is used to describe an action. This action may or may not be visible to others. For eg. Run, jog, dance are actions that are visible, but think is not visible to others. But since you are doing it, it is a verb.
ADVERB
An adverb describes the verb. It simply tells how an action is taking place. For eg. I run fast. Here fast is an adverb, because it tells how the action is taking place.
ADJECTIVE
An adjective describes noun. It could be the color, the size, shape or anything associated with noun. For example-: I have a black cat. The laptop is the slimmest.
Here black and slimmest are adjectives.


Exercise-:
Find out in the following sentence, whether the word emphasized is an adverb/noun/verb/adjective.

  1. You better eat your APPLE
  2. Bolt runs faster than any human.
  3. You are an intelligent girl.
  4. He quietly did his work and left.
  5. My mother served us tea in the morning.
  6. The poor girl went from here and there asking for money.
  7. The children enjoyed dancing in the rain.
  8. America is colder than India.
  9. The honest boy returned my phone.
  10. Mrs. Katal, the principal wrote a note in my diary.

ANSWERS

  1. Noun
  2. Verb
  3. Adverb
  4. Adjective
  5. Adverb
  6. Verb
  7. Adjective
  8. Noun
  9. Adjective
  10. Adjective
  11. Verb

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IELTS Sample Answer # Graph wheat exports

The graph below shows the wheat exports in three countries during the year 1985-1990 in millions of tonnes.

Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

wheat exports in 1985-1990

wheat exports in 1985-1990

Sample Answer

The graph shows the variation in the amount of wheat exported in three countries over a period of five years i.e. 1985-1990.

Initially, in the year 1985, there wasn’t a major difference in the exports among the three countries, with Australia having 15 million tonnes wheat exported, while Canada and European Community exported approximately 18 and 20 million tonnes respectively.

For the next four years i.e 1986 to 1989, Canada experienced its highest wheat export in the year 1988 at 25 million tonnes and lowest peak of overseas sales when it dropped down to 15 million tonnes in 1989. During this period, Australia witnessed a gradual decrease from 15 million tonnes to 10 million tonnes. However, in contrast, European Community after hitting its lowest point in 1986 saw an increase in the amount of wheat brought to Europe in 1987 which remained constant until 1988.

Finally, in the year 1990, Canada and European Community exported 12 million tonnes of grain marking a gradual increase in their wheat trade. On the other hand, figures remained constant for Australia.

Overall, Australia observed a decline in its wheat export while the European Community witnessed an opposite trend. In contrast, there were major fluctuations in the wheat export in Canada.

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