IELTS can't get high marks in one day. Students who study IELTS on a zero basis should pay attention to the following four aspects:
1. learning motivation. If you are interested and purposeful, you will naturally learn quickly, otherwise you will be slow. There is a zero-based student who used to teach English at school, but never attended English classes. Later, his parents wanted to send him abroad before studying IELTS. This zero-based student who has resistance to English needs a long study time, because his learning stage is one more than that of most zero-based candidates: cultivating interest in learning English.
It's time to study IELTS. For example, some zero-based candidates usually go to work and attend classes, and they can only study on weekends. The progress is definitely slow. Therefore, for different zero-based candidates at different times, candidates must make special arrangements for their own time to maximize the efficiency of allocating study time.
3. Professional IELTS teachers and suitable courses. If there is a professional IELTS teacher around, the progress of zero-based candidates will advance by leaps and bounds, and they can take fewer detours in their studies.
4. Confidence in winning. Many zero-based candidates find themselves lacking in confidence at first. They always find English difficult, with so many words and grammar, unable to speak, nonstandard pronunciation and so on. In fact, these are not problems. Students need not be afraid of IELTS, but should regard it as a part of their daily life.
There are still three misunderstandings to be avoided in zero-based IELTS, and students must pay attention to them:
First, the beginning of the dead pick grammar
Grammar is very important, but the essence of language is communication. Deep communication requires reading and writing skills, and broader and direct communication requires listening and speaking. Grammatical branches are very detailed. For students with zero foundation in IELTS, it is enough to master the basic tenses and sentence patterns in IELTS basic grammar to avoid too much entanglement. Because there is not a lot of vocabulary and reading, talking about grammar is like castles in the air, and you can't understand the flexibility of grammar. It will also consume unnecessary energy and time and kill the confidence in the IELTS test.
Second, the back machine and template are opportunistic.
Taking shortcuts is anyone's most intuitive idea, so many machine classics and templates are popular. At the beginning, we understood that the IELTS scoring standard is tightening now, and the template risk is only high or not. Especially for people with poor foundation, memorizing templates will only make things worse. Students with good foundation will use templates to personalize and form icing on the cake.
Third, use the standard of 100% to ask yourself to recite words.
Our teacher has seen many such students in the process of tutoring. On the first day, I often recite words, and on the second day, I check the results of the previous day. If there are misspelled words, he will go back and study again. It is true that this study is very solid, but time waits for no one and the learning progress is very slow. Moreover, when the word memory entered Grade Three, Grade Four, or even longer, these students found that there were many forgotten words, so they had a fear-I can't even remember the words, can I still take the IELTS test?
Remind zero-based candidates who have such an idea: forgetting is normal, and even the best schoolmaster will forget sometimes. Many people will check Ebbinghaus's memory curve, hoping to strengthen word cognition according to the law of forgetting, but it is still illegal. What is the purpose of memorizing words-that is, you have a thesaurus when you use it. But if you don't use it, memorizing more words is just throwing a bunch of useless bricks in your head.
Therefore, the most effective way for zero-based students to recite words is not to test their vocabulary mastery in isolation after memorizing, but to make sentences and speak as much as possible to ensure at least 40 minutes of listening every day. After a month's listening and speaking training and the accumulation of basic reading, they can respond more quickly and sensitively to grammar and vocabulary when they study IELTS in the second month, and can also promote effective and correct use.