Think about how you can utilize idioms to make your essay and speaking more interesting. Even if you have learned what an idiom is it remains essential to be careful with its use. Each idiom can nonetheless be damaging for your IELTS band score if it is not used appropriately and effectively used.
When choosing a good idiom, it is imperative to accurately know its meaning. More importantly, selectthe ones that are correct for the context. In the Academic Writing task, it would be unwise to use informal idioms such as those in the category of “daily-life idioms”. Another point to take into account is the theme or topic question being answered. What idea would you like to stress or highlight? It is only when you can inject an idiom properly into a particular part of your speech or the essay that idioms should be employed.
Use of these well-chosen idioms is another vital factor. The answer goes back to a test of straightforwardness and genuineness. Use an idiom to expand upon an idea as opposed to complicating it, or worse, making it more vague. Also, be natural, and don’t use a range of idioms as if the task is to show off how many idioms you know. Remember, a natural conversation isn’t really scripted.
To go with these recommendations on correctly using idioms, the following are an array of idioms which you can use in a number of topics in the IELTS Speaking and IELTS Writing tasks. Notice that they all fall under the same category which is of “ambition and determination”. You can use them to respond to the personal questions in IELTS Speaking part 1, the two-minute talk in IELTS Speaking part 2, and the discussion in IELTS Speaking part 3. Then finally, you can include them in creating an opinion essay ( IELTS Writing task 2) as well. So, try using idioms as you talk about ambition and your dreams: Blood, sweat and tears;