IELTS stands for International English Language Testing System You will have IELTS test if you want to go to the foreign universities IELTS has four parts They are Listening Reading Writing and SpeakingTo start with we will prepare for listening Maybe we will buy some IELTS Listening tapes in the bookstores Then we need to train our Listening skills for two weeks During these days listening to the tapes is the most important If we can listen 150 words per minute we will be successfulNext let us see the Reading In three weeks we should read three passages of IELTS every day We had better train the skill of the fast reading when we do the exercises Our aim is that we can read 70 words per minuteThen we will talk about the Writing We should learn some important skills in the IELTS Writing books first After that we may practise writing some essays with some modelsThe last one is the Speaking It will need very long exercise Every day we should try to talk in English with friends and the foreign teachers Finally we will find that speaking English is as easy as speaking Chinese