This podcast will help you to familiarise yourself with the IELTS, focusing on speaking and writing. It will help you to improve your performance by providing useful advice, tips, and strategies taken from real life IELTS classes. My name is Jamie, I'm a former IELTS examiner. I was a specialist IELTS teacher at the British Council, helping numerous students get their required band scores. I was then an academic English tutor for King's College London and UCL. I have completed a masters' level qualification from the University of Cambridge (DELTA) with a specialism in IELTS writing.