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2021-10-29 07:30:43 Notes for pronunciation

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"Sentence stress" is the stress on one particular word (or more than one word) in a sentence. I have noticed that, for Chinese people, most errors in sentence stress are simply errors when speaking noun+ noun or adjective +noun combinations. One of the two words in these combinations is stressed more than the other. Probably this situation is the same for all learners of English, not just Chinese people. Another common sentence stress error among Chinese people is to stress the last word in a sentence when that word is a pronoun that is not stressed by a native English speaker. For example, "He gave it to me ", if spoken with the stress on the word "me" means that he gave it to me, not someone else. This is a situation of contrast. But if there is no contrast meant, the word "gave" would be the word that is stressed in that sentence.
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"Word stress" is the stress on one particular syllable in a multi-syllable word.
"Intonation" is the rise or fall in the tone of an utterance. This is closely related to sentence stress but is not always the same. Different nationalities of English speakers tend to have a few differences in their use of intonation.

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2021-10-28 10:44:01 Notes for Vocabulary

"Idiomatic usage" refers mostly to phrasal verbs and other examples of idiomatic language, not proverbs or slang.
"Style" refers to the formality of the language, usually the formality of the vocabulary.
"Collocation" refers to commonly used word combinations. For example, in English we say, "heavy rain" but, "strong wind".

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2021-10-27 14:45:43 Notes for the Detailed Speaking Band Score Descriptors @MyIELTS_Channel I have taken the public version of the Band Descriptors, as well as the version that examiners are given, and added my personal interpretations of what these descriptors mean. (The public… Open / Comment

2021-10-27 14:42:11 Notes for the Detailed Speaking Band Score Descriptors

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I have taken the public version of the Band Descriptors, as well as the version that examiners are given, and added my personal interpretations of what these descriptors mean. (The public version is about 95% the same as the examiners' version.) I have also used the knowledge that I gained from the examiner training, which mostly consisted of studying representative examples of different Band levels in tape recordings and/or videos.
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Most current or former examiners would agree with most of what I have written for this detailed description of the band descriptors but there might be some specific points where we disagree slightly. For example, there might be some disagreement on the specific grammar points that I have listed for Band 5 and Band 6, which are mostly my personal interpretation of what these two Bands represent. As well as that, there might be slight disagreement about the numbers I use for the number of grammar errors. However, when the different points or items are averaged out, most examiners would agree with my descriptions here.

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2021-10-27 10:16:47 Nodir is probably one of the most talented students I have ever taught. Today he got the result he completely deserved with a perfect 7.0 in writing.

A 7.5 is an excellent score considering Nodir is just 16 years old.

I DO NOT SAY HE ACHIEVED THIS SCORE IN LIKE 40 DAYS OR IN 2 MONTHS. HE ATTENDED MY LESSONS FOR 10 MONTHS. AND YES IT TOOK HIM 10 MONTHS TO 'JUMP' FROM PRE-INTERMEDIATE TO 7.5 IN IELTS.

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