All About Entrepreneur Melanie Perkins and Canva

SKILLS

• PTE Academic write from dictation
• IELTS Academic and General Speaking
• revising past verb tenses
• listening for details
• expanding ideas

These sentences are all taken from a biography about Melanie Perkins, the founder of Canva.

Listen and then write from dictation, pay attention to the tenses (past and present) and their pronunciation.

Useful words: Perth, Sydney, Silicon valley, come up with an idea.

Grab a pen, and lets get started!

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More about Tech Entrepreneur Melanie Perkins & Canva

Listen to an interview with Melanie

Self-study

Listen to this interview and write down all the new words you hear and check their meaning.

IELTS Speaking. In section 2 you may be asked to write about A Business person, A Leader, or A Person you Admire from your Country. Who will you talk about? Choose a person, like Melanie Perkins, and research information and vocabulary that you could use in your monologue.

Then think about part 3 and imagine the questions the examiner could ask you about that person or similar people.

Find a native speaker and tell them about this person. A high score in IELTS feels like a real life conversation. An IELTS test should NOT be a series of questions and answers but a natural conversation. (**Accept in India where the test is conducted quite differently by local examiners as question and answers. Native speaking countries are looking for spontaneous and natural conversation).

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