Hi Everyone,
Here is this week's mini newsletter for the IELTS group.
Welcome!
Welcome to all the new members of this group and congratulations for being here! Everybody in the group is working towards IELTS and I am here to support you and give you the help and advice you need to achieve your IELTS goal.
Our group has now grown to 130!! This is fantastic and I am really excited about working with you all and helping you to get IELTS SUCCESS.
One of the benefits from this group is this weekly newsletter which gives you tips and ideas for things you can do here on Gapfillers and also any events or programmes that are being organised for IELTS and which will be of value to you.
Free Gapfillers Skype call
Have you booked this with me yet? You should have received emails to remind you. This is an opportunity for you to speak to me for 20 minutes and tell me about your IELTS goal. I'd like to find out about any language challenges you are facing currently and which parts of the test you may be having problems with.
If you haven't booked this yet and would like to do it then just email me with your Skype name berni.wall@language-tuition.co.uk
Once you give me your Skype name then I'll give you some times and you should choose a good time for you. After that is fixed, then make sure you are online and I'll ping you to check you are ready.
Don't worry about speaking, I have over 30 years of experience as an English language teacher and I will help you if you are worried about using your English.
This is a golden opportunity to get some practice so just email me! berni.wall@language-tuition.co.uk
Practising Speaking
There are opportunities for you to connect with each other in this group via Member Home - check this out. If you want to find other IELTS people to speak to then go to Member Home, choose 'Networks', choose 'IELTS Group' and send a message to the group asking people to share Skype names with you.
Thank you to Atif who replied to Ayesha's message about being an 'IELTS speaking buddy' I hope that you have managed to meet up.
Hooking up with other members of this group is one great way to get extra speaking. I already know some of you are doing this and would encourage everybody to try and find 'speaking buddies' here on Gapfillers.
You can also send individual messages in Member Home. (the whole list of members comes up, but it is in alphabetical order so you should be able to find who your are looking for. If you stay in the IELTS group network then you will see just the members of this group)
Checking messages in Member Home
Don't forget to check into Member Home to see if there are any messages for you. I usually leave a message there with a link to this mini newsletter just in case any of you missed it.
Next Free Webinar
This will be on the speaking part of the test.
In this webinar you will learn how to make sure that you optimise your speaking to get band 7+ and I will give you some tips and suggestions on how to prepare for this test.
Remember that the speaking and writing parts of the test are completely in YOUR control and so the better prepared you are for these two parts the better your score will be.
I am very eager to share the information I have with you all so I hope that you can make it to this webinar.
It takes place on Monday December 12th at 16.00 UK time.
If you would like to attend the webinar it's free but I need to send you an invitation so please contact me and tell me.
Don't forget to check The World of IELTS for any IELTS updates
That's all for this week. I hope you will find this little digest of information useful.
If you need any help with anything just send a message via Contact Us in the Gapfillers site or directly to me berni.wall@language-tuition.co.uk
Until next week,
Berni
