Hi everyone, let’s talk a bit about an interesting task at Duolingo English Test called “Read Aloud a Sentence”. As I can see through these months and years of tutoring students for Duolingo, this tasks is usually postponed to some other propitious times:)) – and eventually, people do not get…
Category: Writing for IELTS, Duolingo, TOEFL, PTE
PTE – Pearson Test of English – Image Description – What is it?
Hi everyone, Pearson Test of English has got a very interesting task – Image Description. Usually the images are graphs and tables. You have 25 seconds to look at the image and conjure up a strategy to deal with it, and then you have to speak for 40 seconds. Something…
PTE Pearson Test of English Scoring System in Simple Words
Hi everyone, if you are new to PTE (Pearson Test of English), I think it will be of some interest for you to learn the overall structure and approaches to PTE scoring system. To put it in simple words, you can get from 10 to 90 points for PTE. If…
Writing for Duolingo, IELTS, TOEFL, PTE – Structure of Paragraph!
Hi everyone, in this brief article let us discuss the most reliable and productive structure of a paragraph in your essay for practically each test of English… As a tutor, I often see how students write their paragraphs haphazardly, without any structure at all. This is not a great issue…
Main Principles of Academic Writing for Duolingo, IELTS, TOEFL, PTE…
Hello everyone, I just want to remind ourselves of those basic principles of writing your essays at any English test – the recommendations are the same mostly… Of course, the very degree of “academicity” varies from test to test, and still, if you do not know which style to stick…