An English-speaking friend has written to you to ask you how your IELTS studies are going. Write a letter telling your friend how you are preparing for the test. In your letter: say what progress you are making explain how you are preparing for the test say which section you are finding the most difficult You should write at least 150 words. You do NOT need to write any address. Begin your letter as follows:

Hi Terry, Nice of you to ask about my preparation for the IELTS exams. To be honest, it has been a long journey for me. If you ask me, I would say I am about 60 per cent ready. I have been able to master the speaking, writing and some of the listening parts;

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, I have not started with the reading part all. For my preparation routine, I have made it

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habit to make sure I attempt a listening and reading test in one day,

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writing and speaking at another day,

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way, I would be able to cover as many practice tests as possible and at the end of the day, I would go over the whole test and do my corrections. In all, I have been enjoying the prep, but the listening part has been quite challenging because you have to make sure that you are ticking your answers as the tape is playing, once you missed anything, you have to skip it or else you will miss all the other sections after. I guess will be fine at the end of it all. Thanks for checking up on me, I do really appreciate it a lot. Best wishes, Rotimi