IELTS Nexus

Speaking

Speak with fluency and confidence

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Part 1–3 interview practice with cue cards, model responses, and pronunciation coaching.

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How to Study IELTS Speaking

The habits that turn a short, safe answer into a Band 7+ answer

55 min
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Lesson 1 · Home & Hometown

Part 1 — vocabulary, idioms, and fluency practice for describing where you live

60 min · 27 clipsAudio included
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Lesson 2 · Work, Study & Free Time

Part 1 — vocabulary, idioms, and fluency practice for daily life questions

60 min · 28 clipsAudio included
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Lesson 3 · Food, Travel & Hobbies

Part 1 & Part 2 — vocabulary, idioms, and your first extended monologue practice

70 min · 30 clipsAudio included
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Lesson 4 · Weather, Technology & TV

Part 1 & Part 2 — vocabulary, idioms, and tense-aware fluency practice

70 min · 32 clipsAudio included
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Lesson 5 · Describing People

Part 2 — vocabulary, structure, and shadow-reading practice for the cue card task

60 min · 20 clipsAudio included
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Lesson 6 · Describing Places

Part 2 — vocabulary, structure, and shadow-reading practice for the cue card task

60 min · 20 clipsAudio included
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Lesson 7 · Describing Events & Experiences

Part 2 — vocabulary, structure, and shadow-reading practice for narrative cue cards

60 min · 26 clipsAudio included
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Lesson 8 · Describing Objects & Possessions

Part 2 — vocabulary, structure, and shadow-reading practice for the cue card task

60 min · 25 clipsAudio included
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Lesson 9 · Education and Learning

Part 3 — opinion development, connectives, and abstract discussion

75 min · 22 clipsAudio included
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Lesson 10 · Environment and Society

Part 3 — comparatives, conditionals, and cause-effect language for abstract discussion

75 min · 24 clipsAudio included
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Lesson 11 · Technology and Culture

Part 3 — paraphrasing, advanced connectors, and balanced argumentation

75 min · 22 clipsAudio included
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Lesson 12 · Work, Ambitions, and Future

Part 3 — future tenses, modals, and speculative language for abstract discussion

75 min · 20 clipsAudio included
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Lesson 13 · Communication in the Digital Age

Interrupting politely · Clarifying ideas · Follow-up questions

105 min · 17 clipsAudio included
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Lesson 14 · Success and Happiness

Advanced comparatives · Hedging language · Evidence-based answers

95 min · 16 clipsAudio included
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Lesson 15 · Consumerism and Advertising

Persuasive language · Polite disagreement · Advertisement analysis

95 min · 16 clipsAudio included
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Lesson 16 · Health, Lifestyle, and Well-being

Advanced conditionals · Prescriptive recommendation language · Structured Problem-Solution-Evaluation delivery

95 min · 14 clipsAudio included
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Lesson 17 · Pronunciation for IELTS Speaking

Word & sentence stress · Intonation · Connected speech · Minimal pairs · Chunking

90 min · 13 clipsAudio included
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Lesson 18 · Fluency & Coherence Survival Skills

Buying thinking time · Self-correction · Paraphrasing · Asking for clarification

90 min · 13 clipsAudio included
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Lesson 19 · Escape the One-Sentence Answer

Four layers, three prompts, and the habit of not stopping too early

90 min · 16 clipsAudio included
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Lesson 20 · How Long Should This Answer Be?

Reading the question to know how much to say — and why more is not always better

90 min · 15 clipsAudio included
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Lesson 21 · See Both Sides

Conceding a point is how you make an opinion stronger — provided you come back

90 min · 16 clipsAudio included
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Lesson 22 · “It Depends” Is the Beginning

The most promising two words in Part 3, and the most wasted

90 min · 16 clipsAudio included
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Lesson 23 · Think in Consequences

The first effect is the one everybody names. The second is where the answer becomes yours.

90 min · 16 clipsAudio included
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Lesson 24 · Zoom In, Zoom Out

Part 1 asks about you. Part 3 asks about people. Most candidates answer both the same way.

90 min · 16 clipsAudio included
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Lesson 25 · The Time Machine

Moving an answer through time — and showing your whole grammar while you do it

90 min · 16 clipsAudio included
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Lesson 26 · Turn Vague into Specific

Specificity is not bigger words. It is smaller units.

90 min · 16 clipsAudio included
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Lesson 27 · One Experience, Ten Answers

You cannot prepare for every topic. You can prepare six experiences properly.

90 min · 15 clipsAudio included
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Lesson 28 · Make It Less Predictable

Not to impress the examiner — because a predictable answer can be given in memorised language, and an honest one cannot.

90 min · 16 clipsAudio included
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Lesson 29 · Answer Surgery

Taking a weak answer apart, naming what is wrong with it, and changing exactly one thing

90 min · 16 clipsAudio included
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Lesson 30 · Record, Mark, Retry

The practice routine that runs without a teacher — and the reason you should stop at take two

90 min · 16 clipsAudio included
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Lesson 31 · Filling Two Minutes

The long turn has its own failure — running dry at forty seconds — and its own cure

90 min · 16 clipsAudio included