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Free early access to the Band 7+ trainer. Tell us about your IELTS goals — it takes a minute and unlocks the app straight away.

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Before your first lesson, tell me where you are right now. This shapes every piece of feedback I give — the language, the drills, the strictness of the marking.

1. Your current IELTS speaking band 2. Your target band 3. Time until your exam 4. What's hardest for you right now? 5. Where are you from? (used to build culturally relevant examples)

What do you want to train?

Image Flashcards & Scene Describer FREE

Learn the words with picture flashcards, then describe real photo & video scenes out loud and get instant band-scored feedback. 50+ topics — 3 free to play right now.

Everything you need to hit your band, organised by skill. Tap any card to train it.

🎯Start here

Check your speaking level FREE

Take the speaking check and get your IELTS band across all four criteria, plus the one thing holding your score back. Optional — do it any time to track your progress.

Today's Plan & My Progress NEW

Your 15-minute daily plan focused on your weakest skill, plus your band trend over time, your four criteria, what you've practised, and a review list of your actual mistakes. Start here each day.

🎓Full course

Band 6→7 Course NEW

Your structured 36-week pathway — one topic per week through all four skills (Listening, Reading, Speaking, Writing) plus concept, logic, grammar, fluency and vocabulary. Run the full week, or pick one part a day. Week 1 is ready.

🗣️Speaking

P1

Part 1 — Vocabulary & Paraphrasing

Short, succinct, high-fluency answers on the most common questions. Upgrade your plain words to Band 7 vocabulary.

P2

Part 2 — Cue Card Practice

Full 1-2 minute monologues on real exam cue cards. Get marked against the official descriptors with the seven Band-7 skills diagnosed.

P3

Part 3 — Discussion & Abstract Reasoning

Train formal, two-sided argument. The hardest part of the exam — where Band 7+ is really won.

Part 1 Show Room NEW

Part 1 is predictable — so show off. Pick your personality path for each common topic (big city or village? spice lover or sweet tooth?), learn its Band 7 idioms & collocations, then Rubik's-cube them through changing grammar until they're flexible.

Part 2 Story Studio NEW

10 story skeletons — sentence frames that carry your fluency, cohesion and grammar range — plus the storytelling shapes (hero & struggle, before/after) that make any 2-minute answer worth listening to. Practise live against the timer.

Part 3 Logic Lab NEW

Learn the shape of formal ideas (idea → reason → consequences → solution), train the consequence grammar (could/would/lead to/ought to + power verbs), discover what YOU believe on the big topics — and how to beat the other side's argument.

Mock Speaking Test — AI Examiner NEW

A full, real-style speaking test with an AI examiner. It asks Part 1, 2 and 3, listens, follows up naturally — then gives you a band across all four criteria with specific feedback. The closest thing to the real exam, any time you want it.

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Pronunciation Trainer SOON

Drill tricky sounds, word stress and intonation with instant feedback. Tap to join the early-access waitlist.

✍️Writing

Writing — Task 1 Report Builder NEW

Academic Task 1 from zero: read the visual, write the overview (the brain), trend grammar, comparison language and grouping — same learn → choose → spell → build → pattern-test loop. Beginner → Intermediate → Advanced.

Writing — Task 2 Essay Builder NEW

From scratch to a full Task 2 essay — Academic or General Training. Learn each skill, choose the right option, then write it from memory before the next unlocks. Practice Arena with real questions + 4 mastery targets per essay, Lexical Polish, and real teacher marking in 2 hours. Beginner → Intermediate → Advanced.

📖Reading

IELTS Reading Test NEW

A full 60-minute Reading test — 3 passages, 40 questions (True/False/Not Given, one-word answers, multiple choice) — auto-marked to an instant score and your Reading band.

🎧Listening & Translation

IELTS Listening Test NEW

A full 40-question Listening test with a real exam recording. Type your answers and get an instant score out of 40 and your Listening band. In China? Switch the video to the Bilibili source.

Translation & Listening Trainer

See a sentence in your language, type it in English — or listen and type what you hear. 10 at a time, A1–C2, in your own language. Trains reading, listening and translation.

🧱Grammar

Foundations Lab — Error Eliminator NEW

Kill the fossilised Band 4–5 habits: "yesterday I go", "he go", "three book", "I am student", "there have many people", "I very like". 16 patterns — see WHY your brain does it (Mandarin transfer), then spot → fix → transform → trigger each one until it's gone. Daily Eliminator targets your weakest patterns.

📚Vocabulary

Adjective & Sayings Trainer

50 plain → Band 7+ adjective upgrades, plus native idioms and sayings. Trigger-trainer, blanks, recall mode.

Paraphrase Trainer

Rewrite the examiner's prompt with Band 7+ phrasing. Three levels — Beginner → Intermediate → Advanced.

Clusterbombs — Lexical Depth NEW

Ideas and structure sorted but vocabulary repeating? Build a dense cluster of upgraded language around one human experience (Knowledge & Learning to start), drill your recall, then "detonate" as many phrases as you can into a real answer. This is how Lexical Resource climbs.

📝Full mock exam

Full IELTS Mock Exam NEW

A complete timed mock across all four skills — Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking — that gives you a band level for each section plus an overall band and CEFR. Listening, Reading and Speaking are scored instantly; Writing is marked by your teacher within 2 hours.

🏆Community

Leaderboard & prizes

Climb the streak and most-improved boards. Top 3 each month win 65% / 35% off Smooth English courses. Pick your character and compete.

Community & Wins Wall NEW

Post your result and get cheered on, share the exact questions you were asked, swap tips and ask the community anything. You're all chasing the same band — do it together.

Part 1 — Pick a topic

Each topic walks you through the most common exam questions with Band 5 → Band 7 vocabulary upgrades and paraphrases.

Part 2 — Pick a topic

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Transcript

Your answer will appear here as you speak…

Your examiner is marking your answer against the official band descriptors…