Common Mistakes & Band Boosters

All levels50 minIELTS Test PreparationLesson 5 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: identify the five mistakes that drag answers towards Band 6 — fillers, repetition, tense slips, vagueness, memorisation — and fix each one live, with a two-band contrast to show the gap.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Your mistakes, on the record

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Common Mistakes to Avoid

    Read a 290-word text about Common Mistakes to Avoid

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Band Booster Vocabulary

    6 items

  3. Reading10 min

    Reading: The same answer, two bands apart

    Read a 278-word text about The same answer, two bands apart

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Fix These Common Errors

    Error-correction exercise, 6 items

  5. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: the clean retake

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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