4.6.
Suggested, further reading
Most book stories stock a wide variety of IELTS books of varying quality.
If you have read this book, then you will have noticed that it is very language
orientated and does not offer many ideas and content for topics and questions. As I have
stated many times, content is really not very important in the speaking test; however, if you
find it difficult to think of ideas and content, then there are
a number of books which can
help you. I would recommend that you combine the ideas and content of those books with
the language structures presented throughout this book.
Your best strategy for further improvement is to focus on two key aspects of the
marking system: vocabulary and grammar.
If you want to buy a vocabulary book, I would strongly recommend that you choose
one that organises the words by topic. In this way you can study the topics that are IELTS-
related and ignore those which do not appear in the test. A good example is: English
Vocabulary Organiser by Chris Gough (available in China).
In addition, I would suggest learning more idioms and phrasals verbs (especially if
you want to score 7 or higher).
In the same series as the above tittle:
English Idioms organiser by Jonathan Wright available in China).
Phrasal Verbs organiser by John Flower (available in China).
To improve your overall grammer performance I would recommend the following two
titles:
English Grammar in Use by Raymond Murphy (available in China);
Advanced Grammar in Use by Martin Hewings (available in China).
