IELTS Day
IELTS, the International English Language Testing System. I am in this system from today on. I paid 280$ application fee and I was assigned to the exam on 18th April. It is time to study again. I got opportunity to experience this pre-exam thrill once again : ) Time to study. I bought one of ielts books developing listening skills because that is the part – I think – most difficult for me –to hear. Christina says that I should rather wash my ear well with proper thing than buying an expensive text book : ) but I believe that it was a good purchase. Candidates are tested in listening, reading, writing and speaking. I heard that it may take all day.
To make a good use of the day I went to close-by Macquarie library. I took pile of books to my table. I managed to read only two chapters of one of them –but very good one. Not about listening but “On writing well” by William Zinsser. I realized that as a beginner I shouldn’t have problems with good writing. I don't express a large enough vocabulary to form pompous phrases - which is good. That skill is in posession of politicians (whose talks are usually hard to decode in any language). Instead of saying “at the present moment we are anticipating experiencing considerable precipitation” I would simply say “It is raining now : )
To make a good use of the day I went to close-by Macquarie library. I took pile of books to my table. I managed to read only two chapters of one of them –but very good one. Not about listening but “On writing well” by William Zinsser. I realized that as a beginner I shouldn’t have problems with good writing. I don't express a large enough vocabulary to form pompous phrases - which is good. That skill is in posession of politicians (whose talks are usually hard to decode in any language). Instead of saying “at the present moment we are anticipating experiencing considerable precipitation” I would simply say “It is raining now : )
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