10 IELTS Myths – Part 1
Stay Tuned for the next part! IELTS is easily the most popular English proficiency test. It’s robust structure, and integrity is making it a valuable language assessment tool. Familiarity bree...
Twenty Academic Expressions – Vocabulary Resource
Here are 20 expressions that you will need to understand and use to get a high score in any English exam!...
Top 10 Commonly Used Idioms – June 2019
This is going to be an article that we are going to come back to once every two months are so. In this series, we will be looking at idioms that have appeared in newspapers and articles. This means tw...
Their | There | They’re
We at First Academy have the fortune of learning on the job. As teachers of English, we are naturally among the first to encounter the most common mistakes people make and encounter them on a regular ...
Clauses
If you want to read better, you will absolutely need to understand how a sentence works. This will allow us to break a sentence down into easily understandable pieces. Each of these bite-sized pieces ...
Eight (8) High Scoring Sentence Structures
This quiz offers you the sentence structures that can give you a great score in English exams. Go take a look at the 8 high scoring sentence structures....
Clauses 2
Continuing from Part 1 of the article on clauses: Let us now look at complex sentences. A complex sentence is one that has a Main (or independent) clause (an independent clause is something that can f...
Vocabulary Resource for IELTS | PTE
All of us want to be (not always openly) Sashi Tharoor. He is has become the god of all memes language. This post is dedicated to all those who want to dazzle the examiner using big words....
Spelling is hard – IELTS and PTE
Spelling mistakes are penalised in every language test. And English makes it particularly difficult for us to know spelling. Here is the true litmus test....
Life is Hard – So is Reading Comprehension
We get it. Life is hard. but then, the same could be said of reading comprhension. It does not matter which reading comprehension you are talking about. It could be PTE, IELTS, GRE, or even the French...
Paraphrase – Understanding – ????
The test is in 4 Parts. Answer the questions as you listen. Fill in the answers in the blanks below!Audio : https://firstacademy.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Paraphrase-Listening.mp3?_=1The full PD...
Understanding Reading Texts
Reading in the IELTS, GRE, PTE, OET, TOEFL tests is not about reading aloud but being able to understand the texts. Sometimes understanding texts can be difficult due to unfamiliar words or challengin...
