网友：有了半分制之后，这对大多数考生来说是好事还是坏事？
David：This development is good for candidates - you can get an extra .5 - which you could not get before!
网友：问您能不能谈一下雅思写作的第一篇文章改成图片题之后，有什么变化？还有评分标准？
David：Writing Task has NOT changed. It can be a graph, table, chart, process, procedure or a thing - which you have to descibe.
The criteria have not and will not change - they are the same -
1. Task Response - did you answer the question as fully as possible
2. Cohesion and Coherence - did you organise you answer - at the essay level and at the sentence level
3. Lexical resource - is your vocabulary sufficient to be able to answer the question well and accurately
4. Grammatical Resource - do you have a range of sentences (Simple, Compound and Complex) and a range of grammatical structures (Active/Passive, Cause/Result, Conditional, Modals etc)
网友：去澳大利亚留学，应该看专业排名还是看综合排名？
David：You should try to find out as much information as possible about the universities which have the degree you are interested in and then make a list of facilities, adcvantages and disadvantages - and work out which is the best university for you and your study needs.
网友：希望您能帮我们推荐一些备战雅思考试的书籍和资料？（剑１－５以外的书）
David：INSEARCH UTS has just published the MOST comprehensive set of IELTS preparation course books IN THE WORLD - with QingHua University Press. The two books of Practice Tests have been available for some time. The new books - one on Listening and Speaking Skills and Strategies, and the other on Reading and Writing Skills and Strategies will be available shortly.You can also access our brilliant on-line program for FREE - at:
www.australianetwork.com/studyenglish
All the materials and activities in the two Skills and Strategies book are cross-referenced with this on-line program.
You might also like to enrol in a good IELTS preparation program - with for example EIC - which has 6 offices and schools in China - Beijing, Changsha, Jinan, Shenzhen, Guangzhou.
网友：In writing part,should you try our best to write long stentence ,including kind of clausees? in preparation period,how often do we need to write a composition? for example, during 5 days ,i should finish one ,or 3 days? i have applied for the test in july 22,2007.
David：You need to write a variety of sentence types - Simple, Compound and complex - and a range of complex sentences, using Subordinating Conjunctions, Relative Pronouns and maybe if you are clever enough (!!!!) Participles.
