Study Plan for IELTS Speaking

To make a super simple study plan for IELTS Speaking, you need to decide,

1. What you need to improve

2. How you will do that

3. When

Here is a very simple example

This needs just under 2 hours of study / practice a day.

Improve fluency (TOTAL 25 minutes a day)

Have a weekly conversation class (speaking partner, teacher, friend)

Listen to some simple audios everyday.

Practice repeating key phrases 10 minutes a day

Try responding 10 minutes a day

Work on shadowing 5 minutes a day

2. Improve vocabulary range (TOTAL 40 minutes a day)

Choose a theme each week.

Listen to 30 minutes of a podcast twice a week (on that theme).

Listen for gist (to extend passive vocabulary)

Spend 10 minutes watching some videos (on the same theme) everyday.

Watch again and make notes of new vocabulary for 20 minutes

Make a note of phrases, not single words.
Instead of writing word lists, record phrases that you can listen to many times.
Listen when walking, in your commute, when at home cooking…
Repeat the phrases, and practice making up sentences to practice them

Study vocabulary from your course book for 10 minutes everyday.

Read, listen and note useful vocabulary
Note phrases, not single words.

3. Improve grammatical accuracy (TOTAL 40 minutes a day)

Use your course book 15 minutes everyday, focusing on grammar.

For 15 minutes everyday, watch the same videos as above again (on the same theme), but focus on grammar.

Spend 10 minutes analysing transcripts /subtitles and underline grammar structures.

Remember, to make your study plan for IELTS speaking effective, you should KISS

Keep It Super Simple!

Keith O'Hare

Trinity Dip TESOL, MSc Digital Education (UK). Helping more than 40,000 students worldwide with my online courses. A lover of languages, teaching and lasagna!

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9 thoughts on “Study Plan for IELTS Speaking”

Kanwal Shah
July 13, 2020 at 7:09 am

Extremely effective and affordable study plan. One never feels boredom while following that. Stay blessed Kieth for all you untiring efforts.

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Sufiya ibraheem
October 7, 2019 at 9:49 pm

Please add me in group where I can learn speaking because my speaking is not too good for IELTS

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1. keithohare
  October 20, 2019 at 7:26 pm
  
  You can come and join the Facebook Group – this is not a speaking practice group, but more about learning and sharing ideas with each other. Search for ‘Keith’s IELTS Mastermind Community’ on Facebook.
  
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  1. Kanwal Shah
    July 13, 2020 at 12:15 am
    
    That’s fantastic guys!!!!
    Kieth has no parallel. His teaching strategies are extremely productive and fun beyond limits. He is gifted with talent and a great sense of humour. I’d say, he is the ever best coach for ielts speaking.
    
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    1. keithohare
      July 13, 2020 at 12:42 pm
      
      Thanks for your comments Kanwal Shah – really appreciated!
      
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      1. Sevda
        December 2, 2020 at 7:28 am
        
        Hi keith,
        I am so greatful to join your academy group in youtube. Thanks alot for amazing explanations and trainings.I am so into have more connections and interviews on your youtube cannel with you.
        And i have a question.
        May you tell a website to find collocations and phrases to have self practice of speaking?
        I am not good at english.sorry if l have made mistakes.
      2. Keith O'Hare
        December 3, 2020 at 5:59 pm
        
        Hi Sevda,
        Thanks for the comments – so pleased the videos help.
        For collocations I recommend this tool http://www.ozdic.com
        and this one is good for interesting and useful phrases – https://phrases.org.uk
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