IELTS Vocabulary: 3 Easy ways to get the vocabulary you need

IELTS Resources: Free IELTS Ebook: https://www.ieltspodcast.com/sign IELTS Essay Correction: https://www.ieltspodcast.com/essay-correction/ IELTS Online Course: https://www.SentenceGuide.com IELTS Vocabulary: Three easy ways to get the vocabulary you need to pass IELTS. Okay, in this video we're going to look at lexical resource and let’s look at techniques to get that lexical resource and it's important to get it because it’s 25% of your score. And it’ll also tell you a very funny way to get vocabulary that you'll definitely enjoy. But before that, I want to tell you about just one thing that what to do if your neighbor owes you $500 or 500 pounds and won't give it back to you. It’s quite funny but first let's jump into this, into the vocabulary. So there's different ways of getting it. One of the good ways is the Academic Word List. This will help you use the vocabulary you need to get your writing into an academic style. Now, personally I find this list a little bit stale, a little bit boring because it’s just a list of words. I think the best way would be to to identify in that list maybe look at the top 20 or top 30 groups of words. There are the top three groups of words because those are the most frequent ones used in academic literature. And then what you can do is go to Google, okay, and put into Google crime PDF or global warming PDF and get it and you can see here that it's ac.uk. That means it's like academic writing which is exactly the style you want. What you can do is just go through it. This is just right at the beginning and you can see the whole sentence here and this is the style we’re wanting to write into. We’re wanting to emulate or copy. And we can say or we can just take this sentence and say, “A robust finding is that criminal activity is negatively associated with high levels of education.” And so here we could just say, “Global warming” and change the vocabulary, yeah. Or here we could say, “positively associated” and we could say, “with high levels of employment, high levels of pollution.” Can you see what I mean here? We’re building our sense of structures and we're building our vocabulary and this is a very quick way to improve. But it's also -- and this is very critical, it's written in the academic style of English that you want. And as you can see, London School of Economics and Political Science. This is not any blog writing that we’re going to be copying. This is solid academic writing. And you'll get this just by using ‘.ac.uk’ and that will help you get your academic writing. And like I said six sentences, change vocabulary; practice with this, get some feedback. If you want some feedback on your essays, you can check out sentenceguide.com or you can go to ieltswritingtasks.net. Both of those places offer robust essay checking. Let’s carry on. So you can create work from this. This is really easy as well and it's a fast way and it's a smart way as well to boost your vocabulary because if you know the formula, let me just jump straight into it. So go to Google again and let's put verb, adverb, adjective lists. Then go do an image search. Now, if we know the roots, for example, decide and then we know the formula for changing it into the adjective, into the adverb, into the noun, we've expanded our vocabulary considerably. Now, there's two ways of doing this. One, memorization which is painful, not painful but it's boring, I think. But the best way is to learn the formulas. And so, for example, in some of these words depending on the origin, we can put ‘ive’ and get the adjective. On some of them we can put ‘able’ on the end probably if it's from French a French [line 00:04:16] whatever. Now, we can get the adjective. So this is a really fun way to boost your vocabulary. Now, while I've got this in front of me, I'll just share another way. And that's if we learn the prefixes and suffixes. For example, if we put ‘un’ at the beginning then we can have uncreative and then just by learning that one prefix, we've got uncreatively. We’ve boosted our vocabulary. If we say indecisive, we've got the opposite. Indecisively, indecision, maybe we could say that; indifference, indifferentiate -- I don't think – indifferent, indifferently. So some of these times you don’t. So some it's completely justifiable. Some of these, it's more difficult, but what I want to say is that it's just a very quick and easy way to boost your vocabulary. Subscribe to my Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/IELTSPodcastBW?sub_confirmation=1 Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/IELTSPodcastcom-340400232667909/ Twitter https://twitter.com/ieltspodcast Google + https://plus.google.com/103841070232388314306/ Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/IELTSPodcastBW Linkedin https://uk.linkedin.com/in/benworthingtonielts Slideshare https://www.slideshare.net/IELTSPodcast Online IELTS course: http://www.SentenceGuide.com/