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IELTS: 너무너무 실제적인 가이드북. 이 책 한 권이면 완성! 심지어 무료!

(gguro) — Tue, 6 Feb 2018 10:57:58 +0900

IELTS: 너무너무 실제적인 가이드북. 이 책 한 권이면 완성! 심지어 무료!

불과 얼마전까지 IELTS 때문에 두통에 시달렸던 저를 구해준 고마운 책이 있었습니다. 동네 도서관에서 우연히 만난 책이었지요 (관련글). Mike Wattie라는 사람이 쓴 책인데, 저자에게 직접 물어보고 싶은 것이 있어서 이메일을 주고 받은 적이 있었습니다 (관련글). 이후 얼마 뒤 무사히 IELTS each 7.0을 달성할 수 있었습니다 (관련글). 제 최종점수는 Listening 8.5, Reading 8.0, Writing 7.0, Speaking 8.0, Overall 8.0 이었습니다.

그 책에 대해서 썼던 글:

(1) IELTS Writing Task 2 by Mike Wattie: A very practical guide book

(2) IELTS Writing Task 2: A template for an opinion essay

(3) IELTS Writing Task 2: A template for a both sides and opinion essay

이제 IELTS에 대한 글을 꾸로네에 쓰는 일은 없을 것 같았는데, 어제 그 책 저자로부터 이메일을 한 통 받았습니다.

IELTS 책 저자인 Mike Wattie 로부터 받은 이메일.

자기가 IELTS test 책을 하나 썼는데, 그걸 시험 준비하는 사람들에게 공유해달라는 내용입니다. 책은 첨부파일로 들어 있었고요.

당연히 공유해야죠. 저도 큰 도움을 받았으니까요. 그래서 이렇게 올립니다. 그냥 여기서 받으시면 됩니다. 무료입니다.
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표지에 본인 사진이 있네요. ^^

제가 예전에 도움 받았던 그 책의 확장 완성판이네요. 저는 Writing에 가장 큰 도움을 받았고요, Speaking도 조금 도움을 받았습니다. 여기 책에 있는 내용만 정확히 이해해도 IELTS 7.0을 달성하실 수 있을 거에요. 이 책의 가장 큰 장점은, 애매하게 두리뭉실하게 말하지 않는다는 겁니다. 꼭 해야되는 게 뭔지, 중요한 게 뭔지, 어떻게 하면 점수를 받을 수 있는지 직접적이고 노골적으로 알려줍니다. ^^ 네, 꼭 한국의 입시학원처럼요.

저자의 사이트에 찾아가면 다른 자료들과 영상들도 있습니다.
링크: http://www.ieltsanswers.com/

개인적인 경험을 바탕으로 소개하는 거고요, 저자로 부터 받은 거 없습니다. ^^;;;

아이엘츠 시험 준비하시는 모든 분들 화이팅!

2018년 2월 6일
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아이엘츠 마지막 포스팅, My IELTS final record. 모든 영역에서 7.0 이상 받기

IELTS Writing Task 2 by Mike Wattie: A very practical guide book

IELTS Writing Task 2: A template for an opinion essay

IELTS Writing Task 2: A template for a both sides and opinion essay

IELTS writing practice, General Training Module, Task 1 & 2 (15 July 2016)

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IELTS: My test records (7 times)

[Book] A Game of Thrones (2): Quotes (progress 47%)

(gguro) — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 10:46:53 +0900

[Book] A Game of Thrones (2): Quotes (progress 47%)

Title: A Game of Thrones

Author: George R R Martin

I watched the series up to somewhere around Season 6. Then I decided rather to read the book instead of watching it. Here are some book quotes at the point of progress of 47% of the first book. It will be a long way to go, and I am not sure I will even finish the whole series.

Quotes

"So the slaver has become a spy," Ned said with distaste. He handed the letter back. "I would rather he become a corpse."

"Varys tells me that spies are more useful than corpses," Robert said. "Jorah aside, what do you make of his report?"

"Daenerys Targaryen has wed some Dothraki horselord. What of it? Shall we send her a wedding gift?"

This time, Ned resolved to keep his temper. "Your Grace, the girl is scarcely more than a child. You are no Tywin Lannister, to slaughter innocents." It was said that Rhaegar's little girl had gried as they dragged her from beneath her bed to face the swords. The boy had been no more than a babe in arms, yet Lord Tywin's soldiers had torn him from his mother's breast and dashed his head against a wall.

"And how long will this one remain an innocent?" Robert's mouth grew hard. "This child will soon enough spread her legs and start breeding more dragonspawn to plague me."

"I will kill every Targaryen I can get my hands on, until they are as dead as their dragons, and then I will piss on their graves."

Robert snorted. The anger was leaving him as suddenly as it had come. "This Khal Drogo is said to have a hundred thousand men in his horde. What would Jon say to that?"

"He would say that even a million Dothraki are no threat to the realm, so long as they remain on the other side of the narrow sea," Ned reply calmly. "The barbarians have no ships. They hate and fear the open sea."

Joffrey reflected a moment. "We could go riding."

"Oh, I love riding," Sansa said.

"I won't hurt him ... much," Prince Joffrey told Arya, never taking his eyes off the butcher's boy.

His shirt was soaked in blood. Arya said, "She didn't hurt you ... much." She picked up Lion's Tooth where it had fallen, and stood over him, holding the sword with both hands.

She blinked at her sister, then at the young prince. "I don't know,'" she said tearfully, looking as though she wanted to bolt. "I don't remember. Everything happened so fast, I didn't see ..."

"You rotten!" Arya shrieked. She flew at her sister like an arrow, knocking Sansa down to the ground, pummeling her. "Liar, liar, liar, liar."

"Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?" he heard his own voice saying, small and far away.

And his father's voice replied to him. "That is the only time a man can be brave."

10.

"His name is Summer," he said.

11.

He was still screaming. "You do not command the dragon. Do you understand? I am the Lord of the Seven Kingdoms, I will not hear orders from some horselord's slut, do you hear me?" His hand went under her vest, his fingers digging painfully into her breast. "Do you hear me?"

12.

Dany rode clse beside him. "Still," she said, "the common people are waiting for him. Magister Illyrio says they are sewing dragon banners and praying for Viserys to return from across the narrow sea to free them."

"The common people pray for rain, healthy children, and a summer that never ends," Ser Jorah told her. "It is no matter to them if the high lords play their game of thrones, so long as they are left in peace." He gave a shrug. "They never are."

Dany rode along quietly for a time, working his words like a puzzle box.

13.

"My brother will never take back the Seven Kingdoms," Dany said. She had known that for a long time, she realized. She had known it all her life. Only she had never let herself say the words, even in a whisper, but now she said them for Jorah Mormont and all the world to hear.

14.

Robb Stark seemed puzzled. "Is this some trap, Lannister? What's Bran to you? Why should you want to help him?"

"Your brother Jon asked it of me. And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things." Tyrion Lannister placed a hand over his heart and grinned.

15.

"He was going to be a knight," Arya was saying now. "A knight of the Kingsguard. Can he still be a night?"

"No," Ned said. He saw no use in lying to her. "Yet someday he may be the lord of a great holdfast and sit on the king's council. He might raise castles like Brandon the Builder, or sail a ship across the Sunset sea, or enter your mother's Faith and become the High Septon." But he will never run beside his wolf again, he thought with a sadness too deep for words, or lie with a woman, or hold his own son in his arm.

Arya cocked her head to one side. "Can I be a king's councillor and build castles and become the High Septon?"

"You," Ned said, kissing her lightly on the brow, "will marry a king and rule his castle, and your sons will be knights and princes and lords and, yes, perhaps even a High Septon."

Arya screwed up her face. "No," she said, "that's Sansa." She folded up her right leg and resumed her balancing. Ned sighed and left her there.

16.

"Lord Petyr," Ned called after him. "I ... am grateful for your help. Perhaps I was wrong to distrust you."

Littlefinger fingered his small pointed beard. "You are slow to learn, Lord Eddard. Distrusting me was the wisest thing you've done since you climbed down off your horse."

17.

"A very bad man," Lysa told him as she covered herself, "but Mother won't let him harm my little baby."

"Make him fly," Robert said eagerly.

Lysa stroked her son's hair. "Perhaps we will," she murmured. "Perhaps that is just what we will do."

18.

"Your business," he said lightly, "or Robert's? They say the Hand dreams the king's dreams, speaks with the king's voice, and rules with the king's sword. Does that also mean you fuck with the king's --"

"Lord Baelish," Ned interrupted, "you presume too much. I am not ungrateful for your help. It might have taken us years to find this brothel without you. That does not mean I intend to endure your mockery. And I am no longer the King's Hand."

19.

The girl had been so young Ned had not dared to ask her age. No doubt she'd been a virgin; the better brothels could always find a virgin, if the purse was fat enough. She had light red hair and a powdering of freckles across the bridge of her nose, and when she slipped free a breast to give her nipple to the babe, he saw that her bosom was freckled as well. "I named her Barra," she said as the child nursed. "She looks so like him, does she not, milord? She has his nose, and his hair ..."

20.

Ser Jorah grunted. "Yes, Khaleesi, but ... the Dothraki look on these things differently than we do in the west. I have told him as much, as Illyrio told him, but your brother does not listen. The horselords are no traders. Viserys thinks he sold you, and now he wants his price. Yet Khal Drogo would say he had you as a gift. He will give Viserys a gift in return, yes ... in his own time. You do not demand a gift, not of a khal. You do not demand anything of a khal."

21.

In some khalasars, Jhiqui said, the bloodriders shared the khal's wine, his tent, and even his wives, though never his horses. A man's mount was his own.

Daenerys was glad that Khal Drogo did not hold to those ancient ways. She should not have liked being shared.

The first quotes are listed here: [Book] A Game of Thrones (1): Quotes (progress 14%)

20 Nov. 2017

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[Book] A Game of Thrones (1): Quotes (progress 14%)

(gguro) — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 10:14:17 +0900

[Book] A Game of Thrones (1): Quotes (progress 14%)

Title: A Game of Thrones

Author: George R R Martin

I watched the series up to somewhere around Season 6. Then I decided rather to read the book instead of watching it. Here are some book quotes at the point of progress of 14% of the first book. It will be a long way to go, and I am not sure I will even finish the whole series.

Quotes

"Lord Stark," Jon said. It was trange to hear him call Father that, so formal. Bran looked at him with desperate hope. "There are five pups," he told Father. "Three male, two female."

"What of it, Jon?"

"You have five trueborn children," Jon said. "Three sons, two daughters. The direwolf is the sigil of your House. Your children were meant to have these pups, my lord."

Bran saw his father's face change, saw the other men exchange glances. He loved Jon with all his heart at that moment. Even at seven, Bran understood what his brother had done. The count had come right only because Jon had omitted himself. He had included the girls, included even Rickon, the baby, but not the bastard who bore the surname Snow, the name that custom decreed be given to all those in the north unlucky enough to be born with no name of their own.

"An albino," Theon Greyjoy said with wry amusement. "This one will die even faster than the others."

Jon Snow gave his father's ward a long, chilling look. "I think not, Greyjoy," he said. "This one belongs to me."

All but the Starks. Winter is coming, said the Stark words. Not for the first time, she reflected on what a strange people these northerners were.

"Where the king goes, the realm follows," she said.

"I do," he said sharply. "We go home with an army, sweet sister. With Khal Drogo's army, that is how we go home. And if you must wed him and bed him for that, you will." He smiled at her. "I'd let his whole khalasar fuck you if need be, sweet sister, all forty thousand men, and their horses too if that was what it took to get my army. Be grateful it is only Drogo. In time you may even learn to like him. Now dry your eyes. Illyrio is bringing him over, and he will not see you crying."

"And the girls, Ned!" he exclaimed, his eyes sparkling. "I swear, women lose all modesty in the heat. They swim naked in the river, right beneath the castle. Even in the streets, it's too damn hot for wool or fur, so they go around in these short gowns, sil if they have the silver and cotton if not, but it's all the same when they start sweating and the cloth sticks to their skin, they might as well be naked." The king laughed happily.

"Let me give you some counsel, bastard," Lannister said. "Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you."

Jon was in no mood for anyone's counsel. "What do you know about being a bastard?"

"All dwarfs are bastards in their father's eyes."

"What of Jon Snow, my lord?" Maester Luwin asked.

Catelyn tensed at the mention of the name. Ned felt the anger in her, and pulled away.

He did more than that. The Starks were not like other men. Ned brought his bastard home with him, and called him "son" for all the north to see. When the wars were over at last, and Catelyn rode to Winterfell, Jon and his wet nurse had already taken up residence.

That cut deep. Ned would not speak of the mother, not so much as a word, but a castle has no secrets, and Catelyn heard her maids repeating tales they heard from the lips of her husband's soldiers.

10.

It had taken her a fortnight to marshal her courage, but finally, in bed one night, Catelyn had asked her husband the truth of it, asked him to his face.

That was the only time in all their years that Ned had ever frightened her. "Never ask me about Jon," he said, cold as ice. "He is my blood, and that is all you need to know. And now I will learn where you heard that name, my lady." She had pledged to obey; she told him; and from that day on, the whispering had stopped, and Ashara Dayne's name was never heard in Winterfell again.

11.

"Why aren't you down in the yard?" Arya asked him.

He gave a half-smile. "Bastards are not allowed to damage young princes," he said. "Any bruises they take in the practice yard must come from trueborn swords."

"Oh." Arya felt abashed. She should have realized. For the second time today, Arya reflected that life was not fair.

She watched her little brother whack at Tommen. "I could do just as good as Bran," she said. "He's only seven. I'm nine."

Jon looked her over with all fourteen-year-old wisdom. "You're too skinny," he said. He took her arm to feel her muscle. Then he sighed and shook his head. "I doubt you could even lift a longsword, little sister, never mind swing one."

12.

"A wolf with a fish in its mouth?" It made her laugh. "That would look silly. Beside, if a girl can't fight, why should she have a coat of arms?"

Jon shrugged. "Girls get the arms but not the swords. Bastards get the swords but not the arms. I did not make the rules, little sister."

13.

Bran looked in the window.

Inside the room, a man and a woman were wrestling. They were both naked. Bran could not tell who they were. The man's back was to him, and his body screened the woman from view as he pushed her up against a wall.

There were soft, wet sounds. Bran realized they were kissing. He watched, wide-eyed and frightened, his breath tight in his throat. The man had a hand down between her legs, and he must have been hurting her there, because the woman started to moan, low in her throat. "Stop it," she said, "stop it, stop it. Oh, please ..." But her voice was low and weak, and she did not push him away. Her hands buried themselves in his hair, his tangled golden hair, and pulled his face down to her breast.

14.

He gave Bran a shove.

15.

"Like Ice," she said. She looked at the blade in her hand. "Does this have a name? Oh, tell me."

"Can't you guess?" Jon teased. "Your very favorite thing."

Arya seemed puzzled at first. Then it came to her. She was that quick. They said it together:

"Needle!"

16.

He stopped then, and drew her down onto his lap. Dany was flushed and breathless, her heart fluttering in her chest. He cupped her face in his huge hands and she looked into his eyes. "No?" he said, and she knew it was a question.

She took his hand and moved it down to the wetness between her thighs. "Yes," she whispered as she put his finger inside her.

31 Oct. 2017

gguro

[Book] The Best of Adam Sharp (by Graeme Simsion): Couldn't finish it.

(gguro) — Thu, 5 Oct 2017 08:28:17 +0900

[Book] The Best of Adam Sharp (by Graeme Simsion): Couldn't finish it.

I couldn't finish it. This is a new book by Graeme Simsion who wrote The Rosie Project and The Rosie Effect. I love The Rosie Project and I like The Rosie Effect. So I chose this one but I just couldn't finish it.

It is quite different from the Rosies. And the characters in the story are kind of too ordinary.

It's a love story of a computer nerd who plays piano as well as a professional. And he fell in love with a beautiful actress. They had a good time but she married someone else. Actually she was married already. Then they met again 20 years later.

If you tap your toe, the rhythm stays in your foot; tap your heel and you feel it through your body. #AdamSharp pic.twitter.com/pueXC0PYVS
— 용섭 (@gguro) 2017년 9월 25일

5 Oct 2017

gguro

My other book reviews:

[Book] The Rosie project (by Graeme Simsion): Extraordinary love story

[Book] The Rosie Effect (by Graemie Simsion): Still hilarious

(gguro) — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 11:02:22 +0900

[Book] The Rosie Effect (by Graemie Simsion): Still hilarious

Title: The Rosie Project

Author: Graemie Simsion

As I deeply enjoyed the first book of the sequel (duology? bilogy? dilogy?), I naturally continued reading the second one. This is not as extraordinary as the first one, but I could still enjoy and it is still hilarious.

The first book is how Don met Rosie and became a partner while the second is what is happening when Rosie comes into his life. It's basically a story of having a baby which is apparently less interesting than finding a lover to many readers. And I am one of them.

Another thing is, this is happening more in New York than in Melbourne where the first story was happening. And I prefer Melbourne just because it's where I am.

I'm reading his another book called 'The Best of Adam Sharp.' I definitely like his way of writing and it's great to have him in Melbourne.

29 September 2017

gguro

My other book reviews:

[Book] The Rosie project (by Graeme Simsion): Extraordinary love story

[Book] Before I go to sleep (by S.J. Watson): New beginning everyday

[Book] The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood: Slow story

[Book] 1. Me Before You, 2. Hope Farm, 3. The Little Paris Bookshop - Reviews

[Book] The adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson: What is identity?