Level B2 (approx. band 5.5-6.5) · Academic and General Training Technology questions are everywhere in IELTS: in Speaking Part 1 about phones and the internet, in Part 2 about a useful device, and in Task 2 about artificial intelligence, children's screen time or the reliability of online news. Learners often repeat "technology is very useful" and "people use phones too much". This episode gives you precise words for devices, media and science, the collocations that go with them, idea banks for common questions, and the word stress that makes these long words clear. In this episode: • Technology and devices • Media and news • Science and innovation • Idea banks and speaking • Model • Language bridge • Practice • Self-check questions with answers Key points: • technology in a general sense takes no article, and rely on and depend on take on. • news is uncountable; use a piece of news or a news story. • we invent machines but discover things that already exist. • for each technology idea, give one benefit and one drawback. IELTS Complete Course: a self-study podcast from A1 to C2 for Academic and General Training. Listen, pause and answer, then take the 52-question quiz. Audio voiced with AI from an original script by Dr. Rashmi R Nair. Independent course, not affiliated with the IELTS test owners.