#IELTS tasks from the internet. Part 1.

There are a lot of IELTS tasks from real exams on the internet -- and I use them extensively in my classes.

One important thing to understand about these tasks though, is that they contain mistakes. They are reported and reconstructed by test takers from memory after all.

When I see the mistakes, I don't clutch my pearls. I use my good judgment.

For example, in the attached picture, the task phrasing is clearly wrong -- the picture clearly does not show the process of making clothes. No biggie. Let's just trust our eyes more than random internet sources and write this in the intro: "The diagram shows the process of recycling plastic bottles in order to make new products."

In my opinion, the mistakes don't render the tasks useless. That said, we need to be alert and to learn to spot the mistakes.

Because if we only use the official IELTS books, we'll only have four tasks a year. And that's just a drop in the ocean.

See two process descriptions by me, as well as many other answers, in a pdf collection here:

https://t.me/irinalutsenko/551