Level B1 (approx. band 4-5) · Academic and General Training Many learners study long word lists. On Monday they learn fifty new words. By Friday they remember five. In this episode: • Frequency: learn the common words first • Word families: one root, many jobs • The vocabulary notebook • Spaced review and learning in phrases • Model • Language bridge • Practice • Self-check questions with answers Key points: • learn frequent, useful words before rare, impressive ones. • learn the whole family, then check which form fits the sentence. • a good entry has the family, a simple meaning, a phrase, your own sentence, the stress and a date. • review with growing gaps, and learn the phrase, not the single word. 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.