Basic Training for IELTS Writing Success

Author: The IELTS R&D Team of New Oriental Education & Technology Group
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: On the journey of life, people always hope for more choices and more opportunities to change their fate, making their lives richer and more colorful. After 2000, Chinese students had more options. With China's development, some families became wealthier and could afford to study abroad on their own. While the United States stubbornly believed that Chinese students were too poor to pay tuition fees, their neighboring countries like the UK, Australia, and others, like hunting dogs, keenly sniffed out the passion of Chinese students for studying abroad and the business opportunities within it, beginning to admit large numbers of Chinese students to study in their countries. Faced with the sudden emergence of numerous choices, Chinese students were overwhelmed and flocked to study abroad. The IELTS, the language proficiency test corresponding to TOEFL for Commonwealth countries, became another important exam that Chinese students had to take for studying abroad. When Americans were satisfied with their own established standards and insisted that TOEFL was the best language testing system in the world, IELTS took a more practical direction, emphasizing the importance of students' listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in language testing. When Americans realized their mistakes and began to reform the TOEFL exam, tens of thousands of Chinese students had already gone to study in Commonwealth countries. We hope that Chinese students do not lose themselves in their choices and do not choose for the sake of choosing. New Oriental is also working hard for an ideal that it cannot let go of—that is to help Chinese students on their journey, becoming stepping stones or accelerators to overcome life's obstacles. The publication of this IELTS book is a small testament to our efforts. Perhaps it may not be the best IELTS book, but it has been poured into by the entire heart of New Oriental IELTS teachers, incorporating nearly a decade of teaching experience. These efforts and experiences can be read between the lines of the entire book.