Level B2 (approx. band 5.5-6.5) · Academic and General Training You read dozens of practice passages, check your answers and move on. All the good English in those passages disappears. Then, in Writing Task 2 or Speaking Part 3, you reach for words about work, technology or the environment and find only basic ones: "big problem", "very good", "make better". In this episode: • Why harvest from reading • What to harvest • How to record it • Using it in writing and speaking • Reading lab • Language bridge • Practice • Self-check questions with answers Key points: • Every passage you practise is also a free vocabulary lesson. • Harvest chunks, not single words. • Chunk, source sentence, topic, your own sentence. • Recycle each chunk in your own sentence within a week. 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.