Linking Words and Vocabulary for IELTS WRITING AND SPEAKING

Connectors and Linking words are mainly used in IELTS writing and IELTS speaking to keep the content in flow. And if, these linking words are used accurately that improves cohesion/coherence of your writing and speaking. But you should use it very carefully. Many candidates are making mistake by using similar looking connectors at wrong place and loses bands. And sometimes it has been seen that candidate put some connector which goes with the sentence and miss out on putting in the perfect one. So if you understand the below given table of linking words and use it relevantly it will help improving your coherence of your IELTS writing task 2.

Use as many of the following words and make your essay or speech coherent.By the way, you do not have to use all or most of them. You may end up using 10-20 relevant words for the situation.  

For the words, which you do not know the meaning of  OR how to use it in the sentence,search it on the Google it will provide you with the meaning and it's use by giving more than one sentences of the same words.

Vocabulary/lexical resources:

Vocabulary plays a major role after you are well versed with structure of IELTS writing tasks. Because the vocabulary is something which can express your writing precisely and relevantly. And it will add more stars to your structure.

But the question is how to build up the vocabulary??

Answer: everyday out of your readings get 3-8 words (as per your convenience) and get its meaning and example sentence from dictionary or you can find it on google. Then note those words somewhere in your notebook you use for IELTS preparation.

Like this:

Deterrent => A thing that discourages or is intended to discourage someone from doing something Sentence=> cameras are a major deterrent to crime.

You can use this web site to research on words : http://www.reference.com/

Then keep referring this list of words after some span of time because after some days you would have forgotten some words. And to build up the vocabulary remembering only word and its meaning is not enough you also have to understand how to use that word in writing so that the sentence construction will not go wrong.