I'll never forget the first time I travelled. It was 11 years ago when I was 12 years old. My travel destination was Ankara whic is the capital of Turkey. I stayed there about a week. It was really brilliant to be in Turkey and met new people. I also liked eating turkish delights. It was a great opportunity for me to get excellent experiences there. During the trip, I visited local museums, mosques. I specially enjoyed being "Anit Kabir" museum where is dedicated to Ataturk. I knew new friends from Ukrain and Cyprus at the hotel I stayed.
2016/02/27
My first trip (Pre-Intermediate)
I'll never forget the first time I travelled. It was 11 years ago when I was 12 years old. My travel destination was Ankara whic is the capital of Turkey. I stayed there about a week. It was really brilliant to be in Turkey and met new people. I also liked eating turkish delights. It was a great opportunity for me to get excellent experiences there. During the trip, I visited local museums, mosques. I specially enjoyed being "Anit Kabir" museum where is dedicated to Ataturk. I knew new friends from Ukrain and Cyprus at the hotel I stayed.
2016/01/03
Speaking Part 1 (The Weekends)
The speaking part 1 questions below are from Cambridge IELTS 10. I have tried to answer them shortly and clearly. I think it will be useful for them. You are also free to write your answers on comments.
How do you usually spend your weekends? - Actually, I meet with my friends at weekends and we usually go to the cinema. Specially, we enjoy watching comedy movies. Sometimes I prefer staying at home to going outside. I spend my time on reading books at home, because of my curiosity about literature.
Which is your favourite part of the weekend? - Watching movies at the cinema is the best part of my weekend. Because I really enjoy doing this. Another reason is I would like to say that I have had strong desire to be a movie star since my childhood.
Do you think your weekends are long enough? - I suppose, it is enough for me to wind down after a hardweek at work. Generally, I can make time to spend with my friends and family. In my opinion, if you manage your time frugally, it gives you opportunity to have enough time doing anything you want.
How important do you think it is to have free time at the weekends? - It is fact that after a hardweek at work or university people always feel so tired. As a result, they need to charge their battery and I believe that leisure time is singificiantly necessary to relax or rest. It also gives a feeling of hardworking when it comes to Mondays.
How do you usually spend your weekends? - Actually, I meet with my friends at weekends and we usually go to the cinema. Specially, we enjoy watching comedy movies. Sometimes I prefer staying at home to going outside. I spend my time on reading books at home, because of my curiosity about literature.
Which is your favourite part of the weekend? - Watching movies at the cinema is the best part of my weekend. Because I really enjoy doing this. Another reason is I would like to say that I have had strong desire to be a movie star since my childhood.
Do you think your weekends are long enough? - I suppose, it is enough for me to wind down after a hardweek at work. Generally, I can make time to spend with my friends and family. In my opinion, if you manage your time frugally, it gives you opportunity to have enough time doing anything you want.
How important do you think it is to have free time at the weekends? - It is fact that after a hardweek at work or university people always feel so tired. As a result, they need to charge their battery and I believe that leisure time is singificiantly necessary to relax or rest. It also gives a feeling of hardworking when it comes to Mondays.
2016/01/01
Useful Phrases Part 5.
I have noted these phrases from Listening Practise Test 3 on Cambridge IELTS 8 book. It would be useful to improve your speaking skills. After reading phrases, try to do the listening test below. I have found it a little bit difficult, as a result marked 32 correctly from 40 questions.
2015/12/31
Useful Phrases Part 4.
These phrases were taken from the reading passages of test 4 on Cambridge IELTS 9 book.
- to turn attention to smth
- a method of teaching based on experimental demonstrations
- to raise funds for research on smth.
- a decisive contribution to the success of smth.
- emprical investigations
- play an important part in defining smth.
- economical activities
- seasonal agriculture
2015/12/30
Cambridge 8, Test 1, Writing Task 1.
It is my IELTS essay for a writing task 1 on Cambridge 8 IELTS book.
The provided chart illustrates the percentages of the three principal reasons which impact badly on productivity of arable land. The table demonstrates how much amount of land in North America, Europe and Oceania was degraded by these effects during the 1990s.
It is clear that over grasing affects on agricultural fields rather than other causes do. Overall, Europe saw the highest harm among three regions.
35% of the total amount of land is made useless by feeding domestic animals. There is no a sharp distinction between the figures for impacts of deforestration and cultivation. Deforestration take up 30% of the total percentages, while cultivation causes 28% of all degradations. The figures for other reasons are 7%.
9.8% of European fields was unproductive by deforestation, while the figures for this category were 1.7% for Oceania and 0.2% for North America in 1990s. 7.7% of arable areas in Europe and 3.3% of North America's lost their effectiveness by cultivating. Grazing activity had 1.5% of impact on North America, when 11,3% of areas in Oceania and 5.5% of Europe's felt into disuse by grazing.
2015/12/29
Cambridge 8, Test 2, Writing Task 2.
It is my example answer for Writing Task 2 on Cambridge 8 IELTS book.
"Nowadays the way many people interact with each other has changed because of technology.
In what ways has technology affected the types of relationships people make?
Has this become a positive or negative development?"
My example answer:
It is widely accepted that technology has a direct impact on modern life. Although it has changed positively the ways of connections between people, I believe there are some drawbacks in using of some technological innovations.
In fact, it is impossible to think of our daily life without mobile phones or internet. If people connected each others with mails, pigeon-post or herald in the remote past, nowadays they use electron mails or fax machines for same purpose. Teachers send reports to parents about their children's activities at school. In addition, video messaging is becoming common for business meetings.
There are some reasons why I think that technoogy affected us favourably. The main reason is that it gives us instant access to connect people without depending on distances. I want to give example from my own experience. When I was studying abroad, sometimes I felt homesick. Then I talked with my family on the Internet by using Video Calls programme, so it gave me a feeling of happiness. Another reson is that people can keep in touch with relatives by email or some messenger services and they can also share their pictures or video messages on social websites with their friends.
In my opinion, technology has some negative effects us. Firstly, it builts a barrier for people's relationships between in their real life and social life. Therefore, they tend to limit keep in touch by mobile phones or online. Secondly, our communicative habitats are changed by technology. For instance, before people discussed about something by meeting at public places like restaurants, cafes, book clubs, but now there are lots of forum websites and they usually debate on the Internet.
In conclusion, I support that technology makes easier our relationship with others in spite of some negative fedbacks.
"Nowadays the way many people interact with each other has changed because of technology.
In what ways has technology affected the types of relationships people make?
Has this become a positive or negative development?"
My example answer:
It is widely accepted that technology has a direct impact on modern life. Although it has changed positively the ways of connections between people, I believe there are some drawbacks in using of some technological innovations.
In fact, it is impossible to think of our daily life without mobile phones or internet. If people connected each others with mails, pigeon-post or herald in the remote past, nowadays they use electron mails or fax machines for same purpose. Teachers send reports to parents about their children's activities at school. In addition, video messaging is becoming common for business meetings.
There are some reasons why I think that technoogy affected us favourably. The main reason is that it gives us instant access to connect people without depending on distances. I want to give example from my own experience. When I was studying abroad, sometimes I felt homesick. Then I talked with my family on the Internet by using Video Calls programme, so it gave me a feeling of happiness. Another reson is that people can keep in touch with relatives by email or some messenger services and they can also share their pictures or video messages on social websites with their friends.
In my opinion, technology has some negative effects us. Firstly, it builts a barrier for people's relationships between in their real life and social life. Therefore, they tend to limit keep in touch by mobile phones or online. Secondly, our communicative habitats are changed by technology. For instance, before people discussed about something by meeting at public places like restaurants, cafes, book clubs, but now there are lots of forum websites and they usually debate on the Internet.
In conclusion, I support that technology makes easier our relationship with others in spite of some negative fedbacks.
2015/12/28
Useful phrases Part 3.
I have noted these phrases from the passages of test 2-3 on Cambridge IELTS 10 book.
- a fundamental goal of education
- to limit the development of curiosity
- a high level of motivation
- have a strong desire to do smth.
- time seems to be a vital factor in smth.
- in search of smth.
- necessary for his survival
- economic gain
- to travel for pleasure
- recorded history
- to play a vital role in development of smth.
- oral history and traditions
2015/12/27
Useful Phrases Part 2.
I have noted these phrases from the passages of test 4 on Cambridge IELTS 8 book.
- residental homes
- habitual behaviour
- open to experiencing negative emotions
- to help you realise full potential
- to cultivate opmtimistic behaviour
- favourable outcomes
- to be passionate about
- to be (un)willing to accept the negative feelings
- to take a break
- a risky situation
- to mitigate the danger
- to unable to return
- to pose a puzzle
- to lost the ability (of) to
2015/12/26
Useful Phrases Part 1.
I always note useful phrases, while I am reading on passages from Cambridge IELTS books. Now I want to share with you my notes from the reading passages of test 2 on Cambridge IELTS 8 Book. You can use these phrases for both speaking exams and writing task 2 topics.
- tension interactions between ...
- minimise waste
- climatic shifts
- to be at the mercy of smth
- dazzling opportunism
- periods of droughts
- a vital commodity
- animal fodder
- a vast migration from ...
- to evoke strong emotional responses
- grimace with disgust
- emotional or social bonding
- to struggle to express our experience
2015/12/16
Cambridge 10, Test 1, Speaking Part 2
The Speaking Part 2 below from Cambridge IELTS book 10.
Describe someone you know who does something well:
who this person is
how you know this person
what they do well
and explain why you think this person is so good at doing this.
That is my example answer for this topic:
I want to talk about a man whose name is Mahammad and my close friend. I have knew him since 2010 because of being my groupmate at same university we've been studying. I can say that he is very sophisticated and having big heart about charity. He always tend to attend at events which is organised to help people in need for food, clothing, money or other things. I remember that the fair arranged in one of the most popular shopping centre in Baku was dedicated to collect money for children who suffer from leukemia. We saled some second hand books given us by our friends and relatives and at the ends of fair we've already earned about 600 dollars. It raised our happines about this event. Mahammad invariably efforts to be a part of such charity activites. In my opinion, such his attempts is very appreciable. Mahammad has organizer, comunicative skills about social activites and He've got a lot of useful experiences at voluntary works. In my opinion all these abilities help him to participate well at charity organizations.
Describe someone you know who does something well:
who this person is
how you know this person
what they do well
and explain why you think this person is so good at doing this.
That is my example answer for this topic:
I want to talk about a man whose name is Mahammad and my close friend. I have knew him since 2010 because of being my groupmate at same university we've been studying. I can say that he is very sophisticated and having big heart about charity. He always tend to attend at events which is organised to help people in need for food, clothing, money or other things. I remember that the fair arranged in one of the most popular shopping centre in Baku was dedicated to collect money for children who suffer from leukemia. We saled some second hand books given us by our friends and relatives and at the ends of fair we've already earned about 600 dollars. It raised our happines about this event. Mahammad invariably efforts to be a part of such charity activites. In my opinion, such his attempts is very appreciable. Mahammad has organizer, comunicative skills about social activites and He've got a lot of useful experiences at voluntary works. In my opinion all these abilities help him to participate well at charity organizations.
Useful phrases from text:
having big heart about charity
to help people in need for ...
to raise our happines about ...
comunicative skills about ...
to participate well at charity organizations
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