Barron Publishing is one of the major publishers with many books for IELTS preparation. Barron’s Essential Words for the IELTS is the most mentioned book, which is highly appreciated by many experts, helping new learners to improve vocabulary for common topics mentioned in the IELTS’s test.
1. Information
Sách Essential Words for the IELTS là một cuốn sách giúp thí sinh nâng cao vốn từ vựng cho kì thi IELTS. Sách phù hợp cho các bạn mới bắt đầu học và ôn luyện.
2. What do books give you?
Essential Words for the IELTS includes more than 600 words and vocabulary commonly found in the IELTS test, divided into common topics such as: nature and the environment, leisure activities and hobbies, the arts and culture, transportation, health, etc.
In addition, the book also includes tips to help you remember words more easily.
3. How to use the book
After learning vocabulary, the book has exercises with answers to help readers practice and remember words longer. If you have trouble in remembering words, use this exercise.
This book helps learners to become familiar with some words that often appear in the IELTS Reading and Listening tests. As learners’ vocabulary improves, speaking and writing skills will also develop. This part of the book will introduce learners to about 600 useful words for all 4 skills in the IELTS test.
4. Advantages of this book.
- Content, diverse topics, including 10 articles with 10 different academic topics.
- Each lesson is divided into 3 parts, each part includes 20 vocabulary words and exercises. Exercises in each section include all 4 skills Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing.
- And there will be an extra note section so that learners can add some vocabulary in addition to the words introduced before.
- Besides introducing vocabulary, the author also focuses on the word form and some in-depth knowledge (such as prefix, suffix…) and skills in using dictionary.
- There are Script and Key sections so that learners can learn by themselves more effectively.
5. Disadvantages of this book.
- Missing illustrations
- The writing test is not for IELTS
- The content of each lesson is relatively long, learners are easily frustrated
6. In conclusion:
- This book is for 6.0+ learners who want to improve their vocabulary and IELTS score
- The book is well designed for self-study purposes, learners will have a very good vocabulary after completing all the content of the book.
- I highly recommend you to use this book to learn vocabulary.
- Books can be found on e-commerce sites and at major bookstores.
