On April 28, 2024, New Oriental Online held the press conference of "Cambridge IELTS Question Collection 19" (hereinafter referred to as "Sword 19") and the interpretation of the 2024 IELTS test trend. At the meeting, He Gang, the 20th anniversary meritorious figure of New Oriental, Wang Yuou, the speaker of New Oriental IELTS Reading, Wang Dan, the speaker of New Oriental Listening with a full score, and Lu Bowen, the deputy director of IELTS of New Oriental Shanghai International Education University and the official certified teacher of Cambridge IELTS, comprehensively interpreted "Sword 19" from the four aspects of listening, reading, writing and speaking, and combined with rich teaching experience and the changing trend of the "Cambridge IELTS Real Question Collection" series, they conducted a comprehensive analysis of the preparation direction of the IELTS test in 2024.
In-depth analysis of listening, speaking, reading and writing, and all-round interpretation of test question changes
For the listening part, Wang Dan believes that the question type of Sword 19 is basically stable, and compared with Sword 18, the most obvious question type is still that Part 1 and Part 4 are mainly filled in the blanks, and Part 2 and Part 3 are mainly multiple-choice, pairing, and picture questions. In the listening scene of Sword 19, the life category mainly focuses on daily life, job hunting, business management and tourism; The academic category mainly focuses on topics such as subject research and the built environment. The speed of speech in the accent remains normal or even slow, and some words have tongue curls, a large number of swallows, and conjunctions.
For the reading part, Wang Yuou believes that Sword 19 still continues to have the characteristics of fill-in-the-blank questions, true/false questions and matching questions. Sword 19 and Sword 17 do not appear in the LOH question type, but Wang Yuou also explained that the lack of LOH is just an "illusion", according to the 2024 IELTS Reading Machine Classic, the frequency of LOH question type in P2 is relatively stable, and students still need to strengthen practice for this question type. From the perspective of the distribution of question types in each set of questions, fill-in-the-blank questions and true/false questions are still the mainstream question types in P1, and most of the question types in P2 are paragraph information/feature matching, LOH and fill-in-the-blank questions (summary/complete sentence fill-in-the-blank questions). In P3, judgment and multiple-choice questions are more mainstream, and sentence matching questions are regressed.
Wang Yuou suggested that students should conduct a reading review, analyze the causes of mistakes with the help of translation exercises, revise answers, and accumulate meanings to replace, etc., and pay attention to improving their language skills.
For the writing part, He Gang said at the press conference that a major change in "Sword 19" is that the examiner's sample essay has been cancelled, which is composed entirely of the candidate's essay and the examiner's comments, among which the results of Sample answers also cover all score segments as much as possible. The examiner's comments in the Sword 19 Writing section are very detailed, with a maximum of 315 words for the Essay Examiner for the Small Essay and 306 words for the Examiner for the Big Essay, and each comment provides a detailed analysis to help candidates prepare for IELTS writing in a more targeted manner.
The largest proportion of small essays is the histogram, followed by the curve chart, and the largest proportion of the large essay question types are bilateral discussion and agree or dismiss questions. If you want to really get a high score in the IELTS test, He Gang still recommends that you prepare carefully for each type of question type and be confident.
For the speaking part, Lu Bowen concluded that the IELTS speaking questions in Sword 19 have the following trends, although P1 is a "new question" in speaking, it still does not exceed the original framework, and P1 topics may also appear in P2/P3. The topics in the P2 part are more conventional and not too biased, but the questions in the P3 part are more abstract, and candidates need to learn to use the topic vocabulary. Judging from the last 4 oral question changes, 43% of the new P1 questions and 57% of the old questions are P1. P2 questions accounted for 47% of the new questions, and 53% of the old questions. However, the proportion of new questions is only about 10%, which also shows that New Oriental has a reserve for nearly 90% of oral questions.
New Oriental exclusively introduces "Sword 19", which is expected to be released in June 2024
Cambridge Assessment and Assessment, the author of IELTS questions, and Cambridge University Press, the official publisher of IELTS, have been providing authoritative official preparation materials for IELTS candidates around the world.
The Cambridge IELTS Exam Question Collection series is known as the vane guiding the IELTS test and a must-have book for IELTS test candidates.
"Sword 19", which is exclusively introduced by New Oriental, is expected to be the first to be launched in China in June, and New Oriental Online will have the exclusive right to use the electronic version of "Sword 19" (including academic and training) in China.
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New Oriental Online IELTS test business brings together first-line New Oriental teachers from all over the country, most of whom hold Cambridge related teacher qualification certificates, such as TKT, CELTA, DELTA, etc.
In terms of teacher selection and recruitment, New Oriental Online has been strictly screening and training all teachers in terms of IELTS scores and teaching qualifications. In terms of teaching and research, there are also core teaching and R&D personnel, including foreign experts who have served as IELTS examiners for many years and team members who have received professional training and certification from EMD (English Material Development).
Cambridge University Examination and Assessment Institute, Cambridge University Press and New Oriental signed an exclusive strategic cooperation agreement to maintain the exclusive strategic partnership between the two parties. This cooperation continues the in-depth cooperation between the two parties in curriculum research and development, teacher training, etc., and New Oriental Online has the exclusive right to use the electronic version of "Cambridge IELTS Past Papers 5" to "Cambridge IELTS Past Papers 20" (including academic and training) in China. New Oriental Online will use this authorized content for various forms of applications, including various online exercises, mobile applications, WeChat mini programs, online courses, online IELTS mock tests, etc., to fully escort IELTS test candidates.
Continue to upgrade the product system, and has been officially recognized by IELTS
For a long time, New Oriental Online has established close cooperation with IELTS officials, introduced professional teaching materials, and provided comprehensive and practical test training and ability improvement services for Chinese test takers according to their learning habits and ability characteristics.
In 2024, the British Council, the organizer of the IELTS test, announced that New Oriental Online won the title of "Platinum Partner", the highest level of the "IELTS Partner Program", for its outstanding performance in the field of IELTS education. This is also the official recognition of New Oriental Online again.
In the future, New Oriental Online will continue to share the new trend of examinations, vigorously invest in teaching and research, and create high-quality teaching products and services for the whole chain of in-depth learning, so as to help more students exercise their learning thinking and improve their abilities.