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1. Cambridge IELTS
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2. Macmillan - Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking for IELTS
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3. High Impact IELTS
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4. Collins - Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking and Vocabulary for IELTS
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5. Focus on IELTS
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6. Сheck your vocabulary for IELTS (2001, 2012)
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7. Cambridge Vocabulary for IELTS
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8. Grammar for IELTS
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9. IELTS tips (highly recommended)
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10. Academic English
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11. VISUALS. Writing about graphs, tables and diagrams. (IELTS)
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12. Academic Writing Practice for IELTS
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13. IELTS writing task samples
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14. Academic Writing
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15. A set of sample essays on different topics
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16. Common mistakes IELTS
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17. Ready for IELTS (2015) https://vk.com/wall-28817335?q=ielts&w=wall-28817..

18. IELTS Testbuilder 1,2 https://vk.com/wall-28817335?q=ielts&w=wall-28817..

19.IELTS practice tests by Peter May
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20. Essential tests for IELTS Academic Module
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21. IELTS Vocabulary (Band Score 7-9)
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22. Barron's Essential words for IELTS
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23. IELTS for Academic Purposes
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24. IELTS Trainer
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25. Achieve IELTS
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26. Complete IELTS
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27. Objective IELTS (Advanced)
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28. Objective IELTS (Intermediate)
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29. IELTS Foundation
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30. Step Up to IELTS + Succeed in IELTS Speaking and Vocabulary + IELTS Speaking and Vocabulary
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31. IELTS Graduation
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32. Get Ready for IELTS (pre-intermediate)
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33. IELTS Resource pack + IELTS practice test plus + Kaplan IELTS + Official IELTS practice materials 2
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Kinds of Texts: Narrative Text

A narrative is a story. It can be factual or something imaginary and the events in the story are told in chronological order. There are always characters. Usually, there is one main character and some minor characters.

Types of narrative text:

There are many types of narrative. They can be imaginary, factual or a combination of both. They may include fairy stories, mysteries, science fiction, romances, horror stories, adventure stories, fables, myths and legends, historical narratives, ballads, slice of life, personal experience.

Features

• Characters with defined personalities/identities.
• Dialogue often included - tense may change to the present or the future.
• Descriptive language to create images in the reader's mind and enhance the story.

A narrative text constists of three main parts or often known as the generic structure:
1. Orientation
Here readers are introduced with the situation, the time, the place and the characters to help them understand the person and the events.

For examples:
A. The knights left their swords outside the door and came to the round table.

This must be a period in old history.

B. The men well armed arrived in jeeps to meet their commander.

This situation is in modern times. Most likely the men were a unit in an army.

2. Complication.
This part of the narrative tells us of an event involving the main character. Either the character goes against tradition or does something quite unexpected.

For example:
But one knight entered the room with his sword and kept the sword on the round table.

3. Resolution
Here the writer tells the readers how the complication is resolved.

For example:
An old knight sittingbeside the young knight with the sword said, " King Arthur has ordered that no knight must bear arms in the Great Hall. I suggest you go and leave the sword outside."

The young knight took hos sword and went outside and left the sword with his friend. King Arthur entering the Hall saw what happened and smiled at the young knight.

Note:

When there is plan for writing narrative texts, the focus should be on the following characteristics:

• Plot: What is going to happen?
• Setting: Where will the story take place? When will the story take place?
• Characterization: Who are the main characters? What do they look like?
• Structure: How will the story begin? What will be the problem? How is the problem going to be resolved?
• Theme: What is the theme / message the writer is attempting to communicate?

An example of a narrative text

Richard Mann's father is an architect and his mother is a dress designer. His mother had been a great influence in his life. From his young days his mother took him to and from school. She always told him that he had to go to a university. So Richard studied and passed all his exams. He got a place in Cambridge University. His mother selected a course in Computer Studies for him. She told him that the computer was going to be the most important equipment in business.

After one term, Richard was unhappy. He was doing badly. He dropped out and went to work with a gardener. He worked as a labourer, digging and planting.

Richard enjoyed watching the plants grow and do well. He decided that he was going to work with plants. He went back to the university and studied Agriculture Science. Today Richard Mann is a landscape gardener and a tree surgeon. He is doing a job that he loves. Not only does he design landscapes but he also works on the landscapes. He specialises in planting full grown trees.

Reference: wikipedia.com

Kinds of Texts: Advertisements

An advertisement, according to Wordweb is a public promotion of some product or service.

Why do we need advertise our products or services?
1. Advertising drives economic growth.
2. Advertising helps people choose
3. Advertising allows some business models to function.
4. Advertising allows us to express ourself.
5. Advertising in some ways (oddly) is good for the environment
6. In some countries people like ads.

The language features of an advertisement:
1. Brief or concise
2. Clear
3. Othen use comparative and superlative constructions
4. Often use words of promise

Example

WHY WAIT FOR A BETTER JOB?

Get a great job now!

National Air
Is hiring full-time representatives for Sales & Reservations.
Talk to our employees and discover  why we're the best thing in the air.
Interviews on the spot! Bring your resume.

OPEN HOUSE
National Air Headquarters
Southeast Regional Airport
Thursday, June 15 7:30 p.m.

Taken from: Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris untuk SMA/MA Kelas X by Otong SDJ

Kinds of Texts - An Explanation Text

An explanation text is aimed to explain the processes it takes to form a natural, social, cultural or scientific phenomenon. It talks about how and why a phenomenon occurs. 

The generic structure of an explanation text:

1.      General/introductory statement: it introduces the phenomenon to be discussed to the readers.

2.      Sequence of explanation: It tells how and why the phenomenon happens.

3.      Closing: It includes the ending process of the phenomenon being explained.

The language features of an explanation text:

1.      Using simple present tense

2.      Using passive voice

3.      Using conjunctions: time and cause

4.      Using action verbs

Examples of an explanation text:

Tsunami

A general Statement:

A tsunami is a very large sea wave that is generated by a disturbance along the ocean floor. This disturbance can be an earthquake, a landslide, or a volcanic eruption. A tsunami is undetectable far out in the ocean, but once it reaches shallow water, this fast-traveling wave grows very large.

Explanation/Sequence of Processes:

Tsunamis occur when a major fault under the ocean floor suddenly slips. The displaced rock pushes water above it like a giant paddle, producing powerful water waves at the ocean surface. The ocean waves spread out from the vicinity of the earthquake source and move across the ocean until they reach the coastline, where their height increases as they reach the continental shelf, the part of the Earth’s crust that slopes, or rises, from the ocean floor up to the land.

Closing:

Tsunamis wash ashore with often disastrous effects such as severe flooding, loss of lives due to drowning, and damage to property.

How Earthquakes Happen

Earthquake is one of the most destroying natural disasters. Unluckily it often happens in several regions. Recently a horrible earthquake has shaken West Sumatra. It has brought great damages. Why did it occur? Do you know how an earthquake happens?

Earthquakes are usually caused when rock underground suddenly breaks along a fault. This sudden release of energy causes the seismic waves. It makes the ground shake. When two blocks of rock or two plates are rubbing against each other, they stick a little. They don’t just slide smoothly. The rocks are still pushing against each other, but not moving. After a while, the rocks break because of all the pressure that’s built up. When the rocks break, the earthquake occurs.

During the earthquake and afterward, the plates or blocks of rock start moving, and they continue to move until they get stuck again. The spot underground where the rock breaks is called the focus of the earthquake. The place right above the focus is called the epicenter of the earthquake.

Kinds of Texts - A Recount Text

Just like the meaning of the word ‘recount’, a recount text aims to tell an experience of a person or to tell the story of an event that happened in the past. So, a biography is a recount text because it tells the story of someone's life.

The aim of a recount text is to entertain or to inform the readers.

The generic structure of a recount text:

1.    Orientation: this part tells who are involved in the story. It tells where and when things/events happened. And the story is told by using the first person point of view.

2.      Events: this part tells what happened and in what sequence.

3.      Re-orientation:  this part tells how the story comes to an end.

The language features of a recount text:

1.      Using first persons: I or We

2.      Using past tenses: past simple, past continuous, past perfect, past future

3.      Using adverbs of sequence: then, before, after that, finally, at last

Examples of recount texts:

My first date

When I was in the first year of senior high school, I met this girl, named Lucy. She was an interesting girl and I had a crush on her. The first time we met, we were eating at our school’s cafeteria. She was sitting alone, So, I approached her and asked if I could sit beside her. After that first meeting, we often met and ate together at break times. One day, it was my birthday. I thought it would be the right moment to express my true feeling on her. So, I planned a small party for the two of us. I invited her to eat at a romantic restaurant. After some usual chit-chat while eating our dinner, under the ceiling of stars, I gathered all my courage and took out the bouquet of flowers I have prepared at home. I gave her the flowers and said that I loved her. She was surprised and did not say anything for some time. Fortunately, she finally said ‘I love you, too’. She smelled the flowers happily with her sweetest smile ever. That was my beautiful first date.

I was a hero

That afternoon, there were three of us. We were playing in the neighborhood like usual. Feeling rather bored doing the same things again and again, one of my friends invited us to go for a swim. So, we all ran happily to a little pond not far from my house. My friends and I jumped into the pond and swam. I was not very good then but I was OK. After swimming for a while, we thought we needed more excitement. So, we decided to play a chasing game in the pond. It was my turn to chase my friends when suddenly I heard a ‘Boom!’ in the water. It turned up that someone had jumped into the water to join us. It was great I thought. But, I felt strange with this guy. He was flapping here and there like he was unable to swim. “Oh my God!”, I talked to myself. He was actually drowning. I, immediately, swam close to him and pushed him to the side of the pond. After two or three pushes, he was already at the shallow part. Then, I grabbed him and lifted him up, just to make sure he did not drink more of the pond water. He looked shocked but he was OK. This boy, he was a friend, but apparently he thought the pond was not deep so he just jumped in although he knew he could not swim. Thank God everything was alright. And, I felt like I was a bit of a hero.

Kinds of Texts - A Descriptive Text

Have you read story books or novels? I believe you have, at least once in your life. Now, try to remember. How did you feel when you were reading? Did you feel as if you were there witnessing the events? Could you see the places, the situations, and the characters described in your mind? And the answer is ‘Yes’. It’s because that’s the function of a descriptive text.

A descriptive text is a text that invites you to see the picture of the person, the place or the thing being described. So, the best example of a descriptive text is a storybook or a novel.

The generic structure of a descriptive text consists of two parts:

      1. Identification: identifying the object to be described

      2. Description: words used to define or to describe an object, usually by using adjectives and adverbs.

The language features of a descriptive text are:

      1.       Using adjectives and adverbs to describe an object

      2.       Using comparison words: like (He was lying helplessly, like a dead body)

      3.       Using simple present tense

      4.       Employing the reader’s five senses (how something feels, smells, looks, sounds, and tastes)

Examples of descriptive texts:

The morning air was crisp and sharp as Sean walked down the road.

The pavement was slippery and cold beneath his feet, like a slimy, wet fish.

The sunset filled the entire sky with the deep color of rubies, setting the clouds ablaze.

Examples of descriptive paragraphs:

Gregory

by Barbara Carter

Gregory is my beautiful gray Persian cat. He walks with pride and grace, performing a dance of disdain as he slowly lifts and lowers each paw with the delicacy of a ballet dancer. His pride, however, does not extend to his appearance, for he spends most of his time indoors watching television and growing fat. He enjoys TV commercials, especially those for Meow Mix and 9 Lives. His familiarity with cat food commercials has led him to reject generic brands of cat food in favor of only the most expensive brands. Gregory is as finicky about visitors as he is about what he eats, befriending some and repelling others. He may snuggle up against your ankle, begging to be petted, or he may imitate a skunk and stain your favorite trousers. Gregory does not do this to establish his territory, as many cat experts think, but to humiliate me because he is jealous of my friends. After my guests have fled, I look at the old fleabag snoozing and smiling to himself in front of the television set, and I have to forgive him for his obnoxious, but endearing, habits.

A Friendly Clown

On one corner of my dresser sits a smiling toy clown on a tiny unicycle--a gift I received last Christmas from a close friend. The clown's short yellow hair, made of yarn, covers its ears but is parted above the eyes. The blue eyes are outlined in black with thin, dark lashes flowing from the brows. It has cherry-red cheeks, nose, and lips, and its broad grin disappears into the wide, white ruffle around its neck. The clown wears a fluffy, two-tone nylon costume. The left side of the outfit is light blue, and the right side is red. The two colors merge in a dark line that runs down the center of the small outfit. Surrounding its ankles and disguising its long black shoes are big pink bows. The white spokes on the wheels of the unicycle gather in the center and expand to the black tire so that the wheel somewhat resembles the inner half of a grapefruit. The clown and unicycle together stand about a foot high. As a cherished gift from my good friend Tran, this colorful figure greets me with a smile every time I enter my room.

In this excerpt from Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier, notice the writer’s choice of adjectives, adverbs, and verbs. 

“It was a cold grey day in late November. The weather had changed overnight, when a backing wind brought a granite sky and a drizzling rain with it, and although it was now only a little after two o'clock in the afternoon the pallor of a winter evening seemed to have closed upon the hills, cloaking them in mist.”

You can see that the writer had to carefully choose his words so that the reader could almost see and feel the weather that was occurring.