IELTS listening skills -- Getting ready to listen -- Following a conversation -- Recognising paraphrase -- Places and directions -- Listening for actions and processes -- Attitude and opinion -- Following a lecture or talk -- Contrasting ideas -- IELTS reading skills -- Reading strategies -- Descriptive passages -- Understanding the main ideas -- Locating and matching information -- Discursive passages -- Multiple-choice questions -- Opinions and attitudes -- General training reading -- IELTS writing -- Academic writing task 1 - Describing a chart, table or graph -- Academic writing task 1 - Comparing and contrasting graphs and tables -- Academic writing task 1 - Describing diagrams -- Academic writing task 1 - Describing maps -- General training writing task 1 - A letter -- Writing task 2 - Getting ready to write -- Writing task 2 - Expressing your ideas clearly -- Writing task 2 - Checking and correcting -- IELTS speaking -- The speaking test - Part 1 -- Part 2 - Giving a talk -- Part 3 - Talking about abstract topics -- Checking, correcting and assessing -- Practice tests -- Recording scripts -- General training test -- Recording scripts -- Answer key -- Sample answer sheets.