IELTS Live - Understand Grammar for Band 9 Scores

and welcome to today's live ielts class my name is adrian and i'm streaming to you from beautiful victoria here on the west coast of canada i hope that everybody has had a great week and i hope that you are starting off your weekend healthy confident and happy welcome dave ludbeck marjona of jazz amman passang nice to see many of you joining in on this class in this class everyone uh we are focusing on grammar for the ielts and understanding grammar for those high high band scores so what you're actually doing with grammar to get into those high band categories hi rashika welcome everyone um so uh for lots more help with the academic ielts please visit aehelp.com and you can actually see the website here i'll show it to you this is for academic ielts um this uh blue background you click this big red button to join our premium ielts package uh there's lots there you'll have this my student account and i will actually show you where you can get a lot of grammar lessons and writing 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talk a little bit about grammar that's needed for band nine aisles okay so um first of all ielts and grammar um so ielts and grammar um ielts looks at uh three kind of points okay so three different kind of ideas to think about here when it comes to grammar okay number one ielts looks at your grammar complexity so your your kind of range of grammar and they actually call that your grammar range and they look at this in both your writing and in your speaking okay grammar range so grammar range means the diversity of grammar that you use in your writing and speaking of course uh based on that you will understand the listening and the reading sections as well so for band 8 and band nine you need to show that you can use different kinds of grammar like for example you can use present perfect okay uh what else what do you think students so for um band-aid band nine uh senor we're going to talk about speaking today we're going to talk about writing today in many ways because that's how we use grammar of course we show our grammar through speaking through writing so i'm going to show you that as well but um most of the time i'm going to show you no my eyes don't get tired looking up thanks for asking i use my head as well not just my eyes so present perfect what else what other kinds of grammar so what do you think what types of grammar so past perfect back here says okay past perfect yep um passive tense for read absolutely okay um active passive yeah what else progressive sure we need to know that as well uh we need to know modal verbs yeah and when you're talking about modal verbs think about adjective clauses okay you need to use lots of those all right um so yeah so those are definitely some of the grammar forms that you need to be able to produce uh during your speaking and uh writing absolutely okay now um in order to uh produce good grammar so okay again let's go back to this so i said ielts looks at three points when it comes to grammar okay um so firstly they look at your grammar range right so how dynamically how quickly you can use these different kinds of grammar yeah and you need to be able to produce complex and compound uh sentences okay we'll talk about those in a minute all right so bear with me you're going to really enjoy this lesson i promise even though people think grammar enjoy grammar or what um but no you can't enjoy grammar there's a trick to that okay and i'm going to show you how all right um so they look at grammar range okay and then they also look at uh grammar accuracy okay so it's great that you're using present perfect but all you are you using it correctly right so the correctness if you will of your grammar use okay um and then the third point that they're kind of paying attention to is natural grammar okay so are you using grammar uh similarly to a native speaker so sometimes students will just kind of use like present perfect or passive voice just to use it okay and it doesn't really make sense or it doesn't sound natural so when you think about grammar in the ielts think about grammar range okay think about grammar accuracy and think about using grammar in a natural way and you have to do all of these and you have to practice all of these okay so we're going to look at the correct steps for learning grammar okay now uh the correct steps for learning grammar is to think about grammar critically okay so i'm always emphasizing um the uh importance of critical thinking and yes i'm on valley conditional sentences and punctuation is also important in your grammar learning in your grammar journey so think about grammar so these are my big two big tips for you okay when you're learning grammar for the ielts um think about grammar critically that's number one okay and number two is start from the basics okay all right uh let me show you this okay so we're gonna have fun with grammar today so let's do this fun with grammar all right um so uh what is the most basic english sentence can anybody tell me that okay so when we talk about grammar um what is the most yes sonia very good so sonja is asking what does it mean thinking critically about grammar and i'm going to explain that sonia a very good question okay so i'll explain that in two seconds okay so what is the most yeah so sammy says simple present maybe that's the first grammar that you kind of learn okay first you learn vocabulary like hello good morning and then you learn simple present right uh what is simple present uh author what i like an apple is actually non-accurate okay gusty says is subject plus verb plus object that's right so subject plus verb plus object thank you for teaching me everyone that's great um okay so subject plus verb plus object uh this is what grammar is okay this is what simple present is all right so thinking um critically about grammar okay the first idea here and many of you know this is think about the what okay all right so let's say um i have an example sentence here for you i study ielts very good all right so uh in this sentence and yes you should know english grammar even if you're a native speaker and it's shame on many english speakers native english speakers they don't know their grammar like this but they should they would be better for it okay so here i equals the subject study equals the verb in the simple form and then ielts equals the object right everybody's agreeing with me hopefully okay um so uh simple present subject verb object okay um now here's the next question and this is thinking critically okay maybe some of you know this because some of you are my students for a long time students please only use english in the chat okay jazz um use english okay all right um all right so um what's the next question here okay so if we're thinking critically about english grammar okay um then what's the next question so i understand the what now okay so what is simple present simple present is subject verb object this is what simple present is okay what's the next question that i should know okay mien says tenses or meaning usage all right mian you're guessing guessing and you finally guessed it right so good job uh mien it is usage right so why do we use it okay so why do we use a simple present uh in english it's a very good question okay so why we need this exactly gino so why do we need this so that's another big that's the second one of critical thinking so why do we use uh simple present and this is where a lot of teachers and a lot of students fail because they don't actually understand why we use certain types of grammar and students you might be thinking okay this is easy adrian were you talking about simple present but i'm going to get real fancy real soon with present perfect passive progressive all combining together so we need to start from the basics remember what i said that's very important start with the basics otherwise you will not understand it when it gets really complex okay so amman says to show habit yeah amman that's part of it absolutely okay um bakir says to talk about general actions yeah so the answer here it's kind of between that to indicate a general truth that is not dependent on time this is the most accurate answer and when it comes to answering the why question students accurate answers are key so to indicate a general truth that is not dependent on time okay so let me show you the example here okay so my example was i study ielts okay this means that i did it in the past i'm doing it now probably in the future as well okay it's just a general activity that i do okay so uh yeah i study aisles okay all right um so of course that also completes the how so what why and how are the three key parts of uh critically thinking about grammar okay now let's get more complex here and this i love teaching grammar to students because when they learn it through my method they really start to enjoy it and they really start to master not only english but communication as well so check it out we're gonna pick up some speed here so how um well here's a how okay so i uh teach ielts so the how is just simply an example when you think about the how that's when you're thinking about examples now example here is very simple because it's simple present okay um so let's uh do another type of grammar let's do this simple present progressive okay so what uh simple uh present progressive okay so uh students um this one here the what is um subject plus a verb be okay it's also often called the auxiliary verb be okay um and then plus uh and you can do this with me if you're faster show me okay so uh plus verb with ing plus the object okay so now here we're getting into uh present simple progressive or simple present progressive you'll hear these a little bit different um differently but that doesn't matter okay so this is what it is okay uh now um change this sentence for me into a simple present progressive so i study ielts okay uh that's simple present change it into a uh present progressive or present continuous sometimes you'll hear people say present continuous it's the same okay um so change that into present progressive meehan says i am studying ielts yeah sure um and uh when you're practicing students don't use contractions okay so uh gusty uh meen uh sammy just write it all out right so i am studying ielts okay um all right so now comes the interesting part okay um why so why do we use uh progressive or continuous continuous is the same so why do we use continuous why do we use um this form in english or in our speaking like i am studying ielts okay so ali says to show that it is in progress right now sure now some of you are saying in the moment but maybe not maybe okay let me show you something interesting so let's say i'm talking to my friend okay and my friend asks okay what are you doing these days and i answer okay so let's do this as me um okay um so uh here we go my friend is asking what are you doing these days okay um and uh uh i answer first like this oh these days i study ielts i'll even make a little bit more natural free oh these days i study isles or i can say it like this way oh these days i'm studying ielts which one's correct okay so which one of these two is correct the answer it's a tricky one it's both okay yeah very good ali so ali kazari says both are correct okay so both of these are correct so what's the difference then okay so what's the difference what's the difference and this is where we're gonna get into some magic of communication and understanding aisles okay technically both of these are correct so in conversation neither of these would sound strange or incorrect okay so both of these okay all right um so what's the difference there we go um all right yeah very good rajvir i can tell that you are you're probably using our course because you've given the right answer and rajvir says one is giving a still image and the other one is telling a progression like kind of like a video exactly okay so i study ielts gives a still image in the mind of the listener or reader if you're writing okay i am studying ielts gives a moving image in the mind of the listener okay so that's a big difference think about communication in terms of pictures versus videos okay this is one big tip for today okay the reason why is because um the uh communication or the understanding of humans is primarily visually based that's one of the big reasons a lot of you are here because you like watching videos so it's more exciting to learn from a teacher like me presenting you with a moving video than just opening up a book and looking at a picture on a page okay so uh in grammar we have this ability to control our communication with images like i study ielts to i'm studying ielts okay so even though this isn't always conscious in our minds our minds are very quick and very proficient at categorizing pictures versus video okay and we have this ability in the grammar all right so um you want to control that okay and you need to choose grammar to control that okay so if i want my friend to think about me like i'm a video that i'm always studying ielts i'm putting a lot of effort into it then i will say these days i'm studying aisles it's a video okay if i want my friend to just kind of get a general idea of one of the activities that i do then i will use the present perfect oh these days i study ielts it's not something i do all the time every day but it's one of the activities that i do does that make sense for everybody so does it make sense that when you use the progressive form then you are uh continuously doing this now that also will explain the use of that auxiliary verb be okay all right does everybody understand this so uh when we use the uh be verb here let me show you this one let me just indicate that with red a lot of times um people get really confused by this because in english it's kind of unique right they're like why are you always saying m and r and is like what's the reason for that okay so the be verb emphasizes the form of the grammar and the existence of the subject in that form okay so in this case uh we're talking about the video the continuous action of the subject which is me doing this action and the m is emphasizing that this isn't something that i'm just like sometimes doing here and there like uh i study alts but it's something that i'm really working on i'm studying ielts i'm continuously doing it it's like a movie not like a picture on instagram right so that's what you have to think about okay now let's get a bit more fancy okay so uh we're going to get into uh some more complex forms of grammar okay uh let's uh up the ante here so let's go to present perfect all right so and this is kind of unique to english right so let's get fancy and we're going to get real fancy by the end of it here so let's do present perfect i know everybody loves present perfect so the first question with present perfect is what is present perfect okay um actually you know what before we do present perfect because someone you're like oh what is present perfect means is it subject plus auxiliary verb has or have plus the past participle of the verb plus the object yeah sure but you know what actually i'm gonna jump back one we'll do present perfect in a minute let's let's get a little less fancy before that let's go passive versus active okay so let's go passive form of grammar okay and there's a reason why i want to show you passive before we do present perfect i'm going to explain that very very clearly here okay so um what is the uh grammar form of passive okay so give me the grammar form of passive and i can tell a lot of you are practicing this okay so what's the what is it okay so what is it how do you make uh the passive form okay how do you do that all right let's see if anybody knows okay so uh gaming says i don't know um sonia says passive form is more fancy muxlisa says its object is are verb and by yeah okay so it's object plus b let's do this in another line okay so object plus auxiliary verb be okay plus a verb in the past participle okay plus a second object okay plus so this is where we're getting a bit more fancy plus by subject okay um the object sometimes here we also call the second subject okay and i'll explain that in a moment so you don't get confused there are some confusing uh ways that grammars explain because there are multiple ways to uh say that okay all right um so here we have object or subject and then we have the auxiliary verb be the past participle verb the second object and then by subject okay i will give you an example here so i am uh driven to uh school okay so this is the example i am driven to school each morning maybe each day okay so i am driven to school we have the uh second object or uh the sorry the object or the second subject here we have the b verb and then we have the past participle driven and we have the object or the second object school so i am driven to school now i can finish this sentence by saying by my mother okay but it's not necessary so by my mother is not necessary for this sentence i can simply just say i am driven to school by my mother is also called something else okay so it's also called something else in grammar does anybody know what that's called so my mother in this case okay that subject okay so it's often not called the subject so oftentimes they'll say that you are the subject or the second subject is the subject it's the doer of the action regime yep or it's often known as that's right regvir it's the agent of the action okay sometimes they say the doer but it's more accurate to say the agent of the action okay so my mother is the agent of the action because she's the one driving right not me i'm just sitting in the car okay so i am driven to school by my mother it's the agent of the action okay all right um so why do we use this okay so this is the why question okay so here we have now the why question why do we do this so why do we use passive form or when do we use it you can say okay so when do we use this kind of language like i am driven to school by my mother okay because i could write this sentence okay i could write an active sentence my mother drives me to school okay this is the same as i am driven to school by my mother okay they're both the same they basically have the same meaning but there's a very important difference okay and it's this why question um where the magic happens okay all right so okay rajvir says uh this is to emphasize mourinho says you want to point out the main object yeah so morna and rajvir have the same um idea so number one and number two okay so in number one let's do it like this so number one my mother is emphasized the agent right she's the agent okay versus in number two i am emphasized okay okay uh the object or the second subject right is emphasized so depending on who i'm really talking about and who i'm really emphasizing decides whether i'm using the active voice in this case or if i'm using the passive voice okay so here's the difference in the question who drives you to school answer my mother drives me to school okay um versus number two how do you get to school each day i'm driven by my mom okay does everybody see the difference here okay so whether you're using the passive or the active depends on um who you're emphasizing you're emphasizing your mother doing the action or you're emphasizing yourself and what's happening to you if you look at question one who drives you to school the emphasis here is on who who is it it's my mother okay that makes sense right um and here it's how do you so there's not a who it's how do you get to school okay i am and the m is helping to emphasize uh driven by my mom so this is the example and you have to know the reason that you're using a kind of grammar in your writing or in your speaking in the ielts to make it better communication does that make sense everybody so does it make sense now there is another reason okay so this is uh kind of i guess you could say reason a okay here we have reason a okay and there is another reason okay there's a reason b as well so there is a reason b okay and it looks like many of you are picking this up so you're like yeah i got it i know what's going on now all right um and there's another reason that we use the passive can anybody tell me what another reason might be that we use the passive so first reason was to emphasize either the doer or the agent of the action or the second subject of the action in this case me um there is another reason that we use the passive voice or the passive grammar uh form um why yeah exactly semgee says when we don't know the agent right sometimes we don't know who's doing the action we just know the action is being done right so the second reason is we use passive and this is the easy one because you don't really have to think about it you either know the agent or you don't know the agent we use passive voice when we do not know the agent of the action okay so for example my ielts exam is uh being uh conducted um this weekend by who i don't know some person right some administrator so by who i don't know by some person that i don't know i'm going to meet them on the weekend right my ielts exam is being conducted on the weekend um okay is being conducted this weekend now this sentence is a little bit trickier okay all right um why what is this sentence what does this sentence have uh that uh my previous uh passive doesn't have so this sentence i'm going to keep getting more and more complex with the grammar here students so you're gonna see that it gets really fancy here in a moment so what's going on here so this sentence is a little bit different than my previous yeah very good ali and gaming says that this is because i've added the progressive so here i've combined the above sentence combines a passive with progressive form okay so here you notice that is being okay so we need two b verbs the second one showing that it's a continuous form so if i go back to uh what is um the grammar here right so what is uh passive right so passive progressive present passive progressive uh you kind of have the same thing here so you have subject plus auxiliary verb be and then here you have another plus auxiliary verb be with ing plus right that's because uh the second auxiliary verb this is showing the continuous here so now i have a passive sentence that's emphasizing um the subject or the second subject and it's emphasizing the video or the continuous nature so if we have this sentence again let me show you my ielts exam is being conducted this weekend my ielts exam is being emphasized okay this is the emphasis and this is a video in the audience mind okay so it's being done continuously so we visualize lots of students doing the ielts exam on the weekend but we don't see the people who are actually controlling the exam does that make sense okay all right on maul that would not be a correct sentence okay um yeah so georgian changed the previous sentence and said okay well we can do that in the previous one we can change it so remember this previous sentence here my mother drives me to school so we can change that one as well and we can change it in this way the um i am being driven uh to uh school by my mother so now we see my mother continuously driving honking her horn she's like me me me and she's pushing the gas turning at the red light okay so she is continuously driving she's putting in a lot of effort um she is in this video and i'm just sitting there reading my notes or playing with the stereo right so i am being driven to school by my mother so we see this continuous action of us so gaming says it's kind of like fast and furious right exactly so let's go back to the top of this lesson where i said that we have these topics okay so what's the grammar that's needed for band nine you need to understand grammar range so you need to understand present perfect you need to understand the passive tense you need to understand the progressive tense what we're working on right now of course students i can't teach you all the grammar in this one class but i will teach you how to get a good idea of this okay and then um you have to have um the uh practice right so um let's see where do i think i erase that one but you have to have a practice okay so you have to practice grammar and i'm going to show you how to do this okay so to get a band 8 or 9 on ielts you have to practice your grammar and i would almost say daily okay so here is how okay start with a simple sentence okay so our simple sentence can be something like um my mother drives to school okay so start really really simple okay and then change it okay change it to progressive right my mother is driving to school okay and then change it to passive i am driven to school by my mother okay you might need to add some pieces here and there um and then uh change it to present perfect passive okay can anybody do that can somebody change um this sentence i am driven to school by my mother can you change it to present perfect passive okay can anybody do that for me okay and now i'll show you so we're gonna get really fancy here okay yeah simga says i have been driven to school by my mother very good very nice mien okay very nice son yeah very nice sammy i have been driven to school by my mother let's get even more fancy let's go change it to change to present uh perfect progressive passive okay can anybody help me with this one so changing it to present perfect progressive passive okay so and we're gonna we're gonna get really fancy here okay this is one where even native speakers are like what we have that grammar because we don't use this level of grammar too much but it is a correct form of grammar that we're uh going to produce here let's see who can come up with it i don't see any correct ones there okay elysian very nice alicia and says i have been being driven to school by my mom so you still need the past participle okay so i have been being driven to school by my mother now if you heard a native speaker say this they'd say i've been being driven but we don't use this often so you don't hear this often now at high levels of writing or in high levels of literature you will see this okay but you don't see it much all right there's a reason for that okay it's because we don't usually express concepts or ideas uh that are this complex okay let me explain to you what this this actually means so so this is telling your reader or your listener that you are continuously over time as a moving image are driven to school and this will likely continue into the future and this is a reoccurring action okay so um this gets really fancy everyone and i don't expect you to know or use this level of grammar for ielts and the ielts examiners don't either so kind of ielts stops here at d okay so this is your ielts level here but it's fun to know this level for sure in english and once you know level d you can naturally move to level d as well so ielts needs this for band nine uh e is a bit too much for ielts but if you get into really high levels of literature in english then you know yeah you can get to this level here all right um so when we use the present perfect we use it for various reasons to show repetition over time to show experience uh achievement and so on in this case it's the repetition because my mother repeatedly drives me to school right now it's also in the continuous form being driven so it indicates that my mother's always repeatedly doing this video it's like replaying this video of my mom driving me to school over and over and over again that started at some time in the past it happens today and it will continue to happen in the future and i'm in the focus so it's not my mom here that we're focusing on it's me the person that's being driven to school does everybody clearly understand that so there's several points being emphasized by this very complex sentence i have been being driven to school by my mother firstly i'm being emphasized as this is happening to me it's starting at some point in the past it's a repetitive action and each of these actions is like a short video of my mom getting me to school it's like a video in a loop that's right rajvir does everybody get that okay yeah so it's quite complex okay now um what i can do is i can do combination sentences and this is where we get into the world of compound sentences okay so i have been being driven to school by my mother ever since i broke my leg uh playing football which in my case was actually floor hockey so let's make it real for me um so but my mother didn't drive me to school because i was already graduated at that time but that's okay so this is your combination sentence i have been being driven to school by my mother ever since i broke my leg playing floor hockey so this would be considered your highest level of sentence composition okay you've got present perfect passive progressive and here the emphasis is on me because it's me that broke my leg so i'm combining this with a subordinating conjunction of time ever since okay so you could also consider it a cause and effect in this case as well okay all right um so students that's kind of grammar and that's how you build up grammar so again my two key points here right what are they who remembers my two main points about grammar starting um at the beginning of this class so i said you have to do this with grammar and you have to do this with grammar so uh what are they so what do you need to do with grammar when you're studying with when you're studying grammar what was my uh first point okay what was it okay lee quang says start from the basics was one and nickhame un says think critically was number two yeah absolutely so those were my two big points right so uh these were my two big points here let me re-highlight these we'll make that one red this time so think critically about grammar think about the what why how and start from the basic and build it up okay that's what you need to do with the grammar um let me show you here let me see if i've got a minute for this and i can hop over here to our website okay and show you where all of you can practice this for free so this is absolutely free so this is our website here this is at ahelp.com this is gltshelp.com and you can try our website for free by clicking this green try demo button and then when you're in the website you're going to have this full online academic ielts course okay let me make this a little bit bigger so you can see that let's make sure it's still on the page for you okay so see this full online academic outs course you will find this in your general ielts as well okay and then if you go to the very very very end you have this bonus writing and grammar so click on that bonus writing and grammar and up will pop the lesson for the bonus writing and grammar wait for it to load it's a pretty big course make sure you're using wi-fi okay and then you're gonna have this writing course here and let's get to the grammar here okay and then you're going to see that here are what we talked about in this class so subject verb object john walks to school okay time of the action it's still or moving and it's active or passive and then you're going to get into the verb forms and it's going to get you into changing time okay and then these combinations of grammar um here we go let's let me show you these so grammar combos so here you have present and moving continuous perfect i have been studying astronomy past passive and perfect i had been promoted at my work okay so these grammar combos so try these out on the website and the website will really walk you through this lesson with lots and lots of examples and explanations for what why and how of grammar and it's absolutely free that's the good news the writing so this writing course it's included in the free version of our course as well okay so again to use the free version of our course just click that green button on aehealth.com or glthelp.com it's this try demo button here okay and just click that and you're good to go click on the course click on the writing course and then check out the grammar lessons all right um so that's it for today's grammar lesson giving you a quick snapshot of grammar and understanding for a band nine for the ielts i hope that everybody enjoyed this grammar lesson for ielts and i hope that you all continue to study grammar and enjoy grammar uh to improve your communication so again uh the websites aehelp.com for academic ielts and for general ielts it's giles help.com that's it for now tomorrow i will be back with speaking part two and speaking part three when we will actually be using our advanced grammar so practice until then and hopefully i will see all of you back in class thank you carolina for moderating this chat thank you everyone for joining us lee dean i'm glad that you enjoyed the class that's fantastic much love to all of you wherever you are in this beautiful world i'm adrienne and i'm signing out from victoria for now bye everyone

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