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Expand your IELTS vocabulary – Travel & Holidays

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If you’ve been following our previous posts on expanding your IELTS vocabulary, then you know that creating vocabulary sets on common IELTS themes is an effective way to learn new words and phrases for your test. If you haven’t read the other posts yet, let me suggest taking a few extra minutes to read them first and get familiar with this useful approach to learning relevant vocabulary for your IELTS:

Post 1: Expanding your IELTS Vocabulary – Education

Post 2: Expanding your IELTS Vocabulary - Transportation

Post 3: Expanding your IELTS Vocabulary - Environment

In this post, we’ll be exploring the topic of travel and holidays. Once again, we’ll present you with important sub-topics for your vocabulary sets and suggested vocabulary items to get you started. However, this time we’ll begin by focusing on the words ‘travel’ and ‘holiday’ and their collocations, to make sure that you can use these important terms flexibly on your IELTS:

travel (noun)

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travel (verb)

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holiday (noun)

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holiday (verb)

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Vocabulary sets related to travel & holidays

Now that we have looked at using the words ‘travel’ and ‘holiday’ in a variety of contexts, it’s time to explore two relevant sub-topics that can also help you to talk or write about travel and holidays on your IELTS. Keep in mind that this common theme may come up in any of the three parts of the Speaking module of the test: from talking about your travel experiences, to describing your dream holiday, to discussing international travel in more depth. In addition, you may have to write about travel and holidays for Writing Task 2.

1. Tourism & holidays

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2. Holiday arrangements

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Finally, it's likely that you’ll need to also use vocabulary from other common IELTS themes when talking about travel and holidays. For example, you may need to use vocabulary related to transportation when talking about getting to and from a holiday destination. Or you may be asked to talk about the impact of travel and tourism on the environment, in which case you’ll be required to use words and phrases related to the environment. So make sure you focus not just on one or two common IELTS themes when working on expanding your vocabulary for the test, but on all of the topics presented to you on this blog.

Stay tuned for our next post on health!

By Andrea Castro

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