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English for Migrants

Tuesday, 13 January, 2015

IELTS - Why is it important?

Almost every migrant has to face this IELTS word in order to travel overseas to study, to find a job or to settle. It is important and can also be very scary. In this lesson you find out what IELTS is, the various parts of IELTS, how you are marked, and what you need to do to get high band scores on the subtests and the overall test. IELTS can be fun but you need to firstly know what it is all about.

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