Useful Websites for IELTS Teachers

Understanding the Test

Website Description

http://ieltsliz.com/ A practical website aimed at students that

contains many written and video lessons.
Liz’s accessible explanations to the various
parts of the test, wealth of example
questions, and insightful answers on the
forums are all valuable for helping new
teachers understand the test.

https://www.ieltsadvantage.com/ Contains detailed information about each

question type within each section, as well as
tips and examples to showcase what is being
discussed. Very clear and accessible format
and content with simple navigation.
 http://www.dcielts.com/ An experienced IELTS teacher’s blog who
shares their knowledge with both teachers
and students. The website is organized into
the four skills plus vocabulary and grammar
sections.

http://www.ieltsnetwork.com/ An open and free forum for people around

the world to post and share their thoughts
and experiences on the IELTS exam. Good
for finding very recent IELTS topics in writing
and speaking, as well as a potential place to
point your students for engaging outside of
class.

https:// One teacher’s useful list of IELTS websites,

reflectiveteachingreflectivelearning.com much like this one, that has links to articles
about specific aspects of each part of the
test.

http://www.ielts-simon.com/ Regularly adds new tips, tricks, and inside

understandings from an experienced former
IELTS instructor based in Manchester. These
“mini-lessons” can be searched for or
categorized by skill, which can be useful for
expanding or adding onto the coursebook
tips and tricks.

https://www.ielts.org/ These are the official pages of the

companies that own the IELTS: IDP, British
https://www.idp.com/global/ielts Council, and Cambridge English. They are
good sources for official information,
https://takeielts.britishcouncil.org/ statistics, practice tests and more.

http://www.cambridgeenglish.org/exams-and-
tests/ielts/

Practical Activities and Resources

Website Description

https://tefltastic.wordpress.com/ Alex Case’s materials blog contains

hundreds of lessons that he has created over
the years, curated into sections and tagged
so they are easy to search for. His activities
are not lesson plans, but premade resources
excellent for communicative language
practice of specific target language.

http://www.onestopenglish.com/exams/ielts/ OneStopEnglish is a popular website with

teachers for pre-made resources and lesson
plans for teachers to directly use in the class.
 This is their IELTS-specific section, which
has resources and ideas from a variety of
authors.

http://ted-ielts.com/ Many teachers are already using Ted Talks

in their classes to practice academic listening
by using authentic and engaging content.
This website has lesson plans, video tie-ins,
as well as more focused language lessons.

Practice Tests, Example Questions, and Models

Website Description

https://www.ieltsbuddy.com/IELTS-blog.html A valuable resource for almost encyclopedic

information about the test, as well as practice
tests, sample questions, vocabulary lists,
tips, forums, and more.

https://www.ielts-exam.net/practice_tests/ An extensive resource for practice tests and

example questions, which can be useful for
finding more materials when tackling specific
IELTS sections or task types.

https://www.ielts-mentor.com This sub-page of the ielts-mentor site

contains expansive transcripts of candidates’
answers to all parts of the IELTS Speaking
test, including what the questions were.
These transcripts can be very useful for
providing models for students to identify
positive and negative features.

https://ieltsonlinetests.com Contains a list of recent IELTS Speaking test

questions, organized by the month when they
were used. Students like to know that they
are using recent questions, even though
there are not large differences between
months or years.
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