Looking for feedback for my IELTS Writing Task 1 Academic resources! **Free IELTS Writing Task 1 exercises and writing feedback - continue reading to find out more!** -- Hey there, I've been making writing exercises to help students write excellent Writing Task 1 answers for IELTS Academic. The goal of these exercises is to help students make their own sentences using the target language (see below for examples). I'm looking for students, or teachers, to try using my worksheet and give me feedback on them so I can improve them and make them more useful! If you are interested, please send me a message and I will send you the worksheet. The worksheet is free and I will also give you feedback on your answers! Here is an example part of one of my worksheets: ************************************************ Describing changes (Verb + adverb & Adjective + noun) Verb + adverb = The amount of CO2 emissions rose significantly in the UK to 20 metric tonnes in 1997. Adjective + noun : = 3 types of sentences A) There was a significant rise in the amount of CO2 emissions in the UK in 1997 to 20 metric tonnes. B) A considerable increase in the number of nurses was witnessed over the period. C) The number of nurses experienced a considerable increase over the period. -- Exercise 1: Paraphrase the following verb + adverb sentences into adjective + noun sentences. One has been done for you. Include 3 sentences that use type A), 3 x type B), 3 x type C) - see above 1. The amount of renewable energy produced increased gradually in Germany in 2012. There was a gradual increase in the amount of renewable energy produced in Germany in 2012. 2. The volume of international trade fell sharply in China in 2020. ... ************************************************

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Learning languages is challenging but practice makes perfect. Here are six ways to improve both your speaking and listening skills in English.

What's your ideal kind of feedback?

Hi everyone! 

I'm curious about what you language learners think about this. 

What kind of feedback do you prefer?

1) Do you prefer your teacher to interrupt you when you make a mistake or tell you after you've finished talking?

2) Do you want your teacher to tell you how to correct your mistakes or improve your speaking? Or do you want them to encourage and guide you to do it by yourself?

3) Do you want your teacher to tell you about every mistake you make or just the most serious ones?

I'm asking this because according English teacher training, it depends on what part of the speaking should be improved.

If the student's fluency and confidence is poor, then it's better to give feedback afterwards and only give feedback about some specific language or most serious mistakes. Otherwise, telling the student about all of their mistakes and interrupting them will hurt their confidence and make them less fluent. 

If, on the other hand, a student is making a lot of mistakes then it's better to tell them more of their mistakes and possibly interrupt them. 

And EVERY time, the teacher should guide the student to correct themselves rather than just tell them the answer. 

What do you think? I agree with many parts of this though often in my experience of teaching private students, I get the feeling they think I'm wasting their time if I don't tell them what the correct answers are. I've also found that a lot of students want to know about all the mistakes they make - no matter how unimportant. 

What do you think about my profile picture?

Hi, 

A bit of a self-centred question.

I recently revised my entire profile and I changed my profile picture to the current one.

What do you think? Is it good? Attractive?

I'm unsure if I should replace it with a photo of me smiling instead. What do you think?

:P - thanks everyone! 

* by the way ... I think some people may have misunderstood my meaning in this post. When I wrote 'is my photo attractive?' - I didn't mean handsome - I meant the literal meaning of the word i.e. - will it attract people to click on my profile and read more. 

Sorry for the confusion :/ - this post is turning into an embarrassment :P