The practice bank.

Organised the way coaching is organised.

Not by unit number: by chapter, by framework, by test part, and by first language.

A general-purpose practice book gives every candidate the same prompts. Coaching never does, because the question that is straightforward for a Spanish speaker is the question that exposes the article gap for a Mandarin speaker, and the prompt that surfaces a past-tense issue for a Vietnamese candidate barely registers for an Arabic speaker. The prompts in this bank are tagged by language background so you can drill the obstacles your first language actually creates, not a generic average of everyone's.

The bank pairs deliberately with official material: use Cambridge IELTS 18, 19 and 20 for full timed rehearsal, and these pages for the targeted work between mocks. The chapter cross-references in The Proper English Grammar Guide to IELTS Speaking point at both.

Seven banks, one per chapter.

Each drill page is the companion to a chapter of the book, with L1 focus sets on every one.

Examiner strategy (Chapter 2) · fluency and coherence (Chapter 3) · lexical resource (Chapter 5) · framework drills (Chapter 7) · vocabulary tiers (Chapter 9) · ceiling breaking (Chapter 11) · mock tests (Chapter 15). The bank index puts all of it on one page, and the homework cadence supplies the daily, weekly and eight-week rhythm to run it on. The AI prompt library holds the numbered prompt sets the book’s appendices route you to, with the seven-day calendars by language family. The book’s audio companions live here too: Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7 and Chapter 15 recordings, one page per chapter.

The print holds the strategy. These pages hold the dates.

Test mechanics change faster than any book can reprint. Four pages here are reviewed against the IELTS partners’ own information and updated when anything moves.

The IELTS test format in 2026 – the computer switch, where paper survives, and the three ways Speaking is delivered. One Skill Retake – the 60-day rules and when retaking a single skill is the right call. Retake strategy – what to change before a second attempt, because unchanged preparation produces an unchanged score. Video Call Speaking – what to expect when the examiner is on a screen.

Free, no account, built for IELTS.

Everything here runs in the browser and costs nothing.

The grammar game drills the structures that decide the grammar band, adaptively, with over a thousand questions. The listening tests play recorded audio with per-line replay. The writing checker reads an essay against the band descriptors. There are reading passages with full answer keys, thirty vocabulary banks with drills, and the rest of the free tools in one place.

Using the AI prompts from the book.

Any current assistant runs the practice prompts well on its free tier. One way in: copy, personalise, paste.

The prompts live in the AI prompt library, organised into the numbered sets the book’s appendices refer to, with a copy button on every one. Copy a prompt, replace [YOUR L1] with your first language, paste it into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini and press enter – the assistant takes the coach role and the drill starts. You do not need a paid plan for any of this.

For recording and reviewing your own speaking: every phone has a voice recorder, and a free transcription tool (Otter’s free tier, or Google Docs voice typing playing your recording near the microphone) turns a two-minute answer into a transcript you can mark up. Tally your errors by category, and let the biggest tally choose next week’s practice. One rule: never re-record because you made errors. The errors are the data.

If the AI’s feedback ever seems wrong, it sometimes is: trust it when it explains why with reference to your first language and stays consistent across similar errors; verify it against a grammar reference when it contradicts itself or feels random.

Where this bank comes from.

The bank is the companion site for my IELTS Speaking books.

A Range of Structures for IELTS Speaking is free as a PDF and available as a paperback on Amazon: the grammatical structures a strong Speaking performance draws on, one pattern at a time. The Proper English Grammar Guide to IELTS Speaking, the full method – diagnosis, the four criteria, response frameworks, first-language interference, test-day execution – is out now in paperback and Kindle, and every link printed in it resolves to a page here. There is also a free study guide in exchange for an email address.