They almost gave me a stroke. 🫦

1. Exposure to authentic spoken English

Hey, we gotta admit that many textbook idioms are perfectly correct, but they rarely appear as frequently in natural conversation as IELTS books might lead you to believe, such as 'over the moon' / 'night owl' / 'early bird'. Such chunks, when used in the speaking test, make you look awkward, as native speakers or non-native speaking examiners are already proficient at differentiating whose English is authentic or not. I admit that I used 'night owl' / 'early bird' or 'over the moon', which did not really help me.

2. Activation

What changed this has to do with my free time to watch movies and, most importantly, podcasts. I am not going to say: go watch Hormozi or an influencer. I usually watch podcasts hosting an athlete Larry Wheels or an actor Christian Bale or Joey Schweitzer ( I don't really admire these people, nor do I emulate their actions but language). This is because they have not built fame around podcasts but what they have done. The word choice among them is so precise that I feel like a beginner language learner.

I have been jotting down the chunks they use and trying to use them whenever I happen to take a speaking mock test. Look at the process: exposure / trial / activation. I can really feel that sting of progress moving with me in my spoken English. Although most people around me don't use English as much as I do, I am blessed to have a selected few to actually discuss really challenging topics.

3. Truth

I have been doubling down on this IELTS and English thing for the past 2 years now, and the progress in it has never been linear as IELTS gurus tell to their subscribers. Speaking and Writing are both productive skills, which take quite an obscene amount of time until activated.

#speaking

Below is an example: 👇

❌️️️️ - do this and get a good score in speaking
✔️ - learn these 10 C2 phrases

• telegram learning is crazy 😂

It’s raining but you’re not married.

Cry and sleep 😴😂

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55 x ‘⚡️’ for me to share three reading passages I got in my last exam

Cool Task 1 structure ✔️

Normal: only 11% of students chose biology as their primary subject in 2025, and this percentage then increased slightly to 15%.

Cool: only 11% of students chose bilogy as their primary subject in 2025, a figure that then increased slightly to 15%.

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Cool Task 2 structure ✔️

Normal: even though this issue is challenging to tackle, governmental actions can still address it.

Cool: this issue, however challenging, can still be addressed by governmental actions.

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What have I done in the last two months to change my writing style ? ✔️

What did it take me for my essays to be precise ? ✔️

Tools I used during the process ✔️

How’s the quality 👀

Now that I got the device to deliver some really good lessons, I am thinking of a Writing Task 2 course.

Price: Completely free

Are you in ? ⚡️

Free but invaluable ⚡️

When should we start ? 👀

7 high-value lessons + 7 premium accounts ?

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