In this episode I talk through an idea I’ve been developing from my LinkedIn posts and from work with my Chinese IELTS students — the examiner’s eye. Lots of candidates can name the four IELTS writing criteria, but very few actually understand what they mean and how an examiner applys them. That gap explains a lot of 5.5–6.0 scores. So listen and hear how to close that gap...

I look at:
why template-heavy IELTS training produces flat, predictable essays
why “I know the criteria” is not the same as “I can apply the criteria”
how examiner perspective is formed over time and volume
how AI can be used to rehearse different band levels of the same task
This one is more theory than technique — it’s about thinking like an examiner before you start writing.

Read the companion article on LinkedIn below....
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/examiners-eye-rethinking-ielts-writing-through-reflection-dean-fudlf

Kev's English Podcast

KEP 42: The Examiner’s Eye – Seeing IELTS the Way Examiners Do

社交牛逼症 (shè jiāo niú bī zhèng) usually is shorted as 社牛 (shè niú): 社交能力非常强的人，像一头在社交场合“横冲直撞”的牛。
(Translation: "Social bull," meaning someone with strong social skills who navigates social situations boldly and confidently.)

Learn Chinese with Hot Topics

社交牛逼症 (shè jiāo niú bī zhèng)

Bu bölümde bilmeniz gereken kelimeler şunlar:

Avrupa Futbol Şampiyonası 
Bilgi edinmek
Belirlemek
Nefesini tutmak / heyecanlanmak
Sona ermek
Ev sahibi
Ülkeler bazında
Yer almak
Mücadeleye çıkmak
Boy göstermek
Katılım başarısı göstermek
Lider bitirmek 
A Milli Futbol Takımı / Ay yıldızlılar / Türk Milli Takımı
Teknik Direktör / Hoca
Mücadele etmek
Öne çıkmak

IMPROVE YOUR TURKISH PRONUNCIATION BY STORIES AND NEWS

BÖLÜM 8: EURO 2024 HEYECANI ALMANYA'DA BAŞLIYOR (A2+)

For beginner level learners✨　
わたしのいろいろなはなし　Extra special edition 　

「ぼうねんかいを しています」year-end party

▶ぼうねんかい year-end party
▶「ことしのかんじ」は　なんですか。Let’s talk about the Kanji character that symbolizes your life in 2022!!

2) 日曜日（にちようび）「日（にち）」、試験（しけん）の「試（し）」[5：52]


Extra special edition ぼうねんかいを　しています　Year-end party
1)[6：02]戦争（せんそう）・挑戦（ちょうせん）「戦（せん）」、病気（びょうき）「病（びょう）」
2)[5：52]日曜日（にちようび）「日（にち）」、試験（しけん）の「試（し）」
3)[9：19]困（こま）る「困（こん）」、好き嫌い「嫌（いや）」、「愛（あい）」
4)[5：37]順調（じゅんちょう）「順（じゅん）」　
5)[7：37]散歩（さんぽ）「散（さん）」散（ち）らかる、呪術廻戦（じゅじゅつかいせん）「呪（じゅ）」

Japanese! わたしの いろいろな はなし

ぼうねんかいを しています (2)

*ZOMBIES in High school??*
Now K-zombies are sweeping across the whole world!
Netflix Original TV series “지금 우리 학교는(All of us are dead)” is now streaming. 
K-Zombies once took over KTX train and Chosun Dynasty. 
And now, they became Students from today’s high school!!

Why are People crazy about K-zombies? 
I am going to deal with the reason and History of K-Zombies. 
Stay tuned or you would meet them out of nowhere!


그거 봤어? Did you watch it?

11. All about K-Zombies (한국 좀비의 모든 것)

【北海道Hokkaido生活】
3月29日火曜日　天気/はれ　気温/3℃

・映画「ドライブ・マイ・カー」がアカデミー賞受賞
・ロケ地のひとつが、赤平市（あかびらし）
・ほかのロケ地は、東京・広島・韓国
・村上春樹（むらかみはるき）さんの小説から

［単語］
アカデミー賞/あかでみーしょう…どれが１番良い映画か決める。毎年アメリカで開かれる。Academy Award
受賞/じゅしょう…受け取ること。もらうこと。 winning (a prize)
ロケ地/ろけち…映画を作った場所
韓国/かんこく…日本のとなりの国 South Korea
小説家/しょうせつか...小説を書く人 novelist

『ドライブ・マイ・カー』
https://dmc.bitters.co.jp



北海道Hokkaido生活 for Japanese learners

〈#26〉3月29日火曜日　映画『ドライブ・マイ・カー Drive My Car』アカデミー賞受賞

This audio is about a student's presentation on the origins of unicorns.

Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Unicorns

Life's too short to read the small print, right? The small print, sometimes called the "fine print" is the name for the terms and conditions you find on websites, contracts and other documents.

The size of the text is often a little smaller and there can be quite a lot of it. For these reasons, some of us don't read it all — even though we know it can be very important.

A company from the UK decided to test how many people really do read the small print.

The company, called Tax Policy Associates, hid a little surprise in the privacy policy on its website, offering to send a nice bottle of wine to anyone who read it.

It was the idea of company founder Dan Neidle. He wrote in the policy: "We will send a bottle of good wine to the first person to read this."

The policy was posted online in February, but the company was only contacted about the wine in May!

He told the BBC that it was a "childish protest" because "all businesses have to have a privacy policy" even though no one reads them.

Neidle added: "Every tiny coffee shop has to have a privacy policy on their website, it's crazy."

He said that the person who found the sentence about the wine had been writing their own privacy policy, and they were looking for examples.

That lucky person was sent a bottle of French red wine and the sentence offering the free wine has now been taken out of the policy!



Company Hides Offer of Free Wine in 'Small Print'

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OsufLxIuRWamSRu0Sc3BRzGSX8IHzMEs/view?usp=drivesdk

I thought suspension bridges were the ones which parted in the middle. I was wrong...Those are "bascule" bridges