Ulug'bek Umidjonov | 9.0

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🎞 WATCHING MATERIAL FOR 2025

A surefire way to up your English skills and, by extension, your IELTS score is to immerse yourself in content that the English-speaking folk themselves regularly engage with. Not those modified and scripted videos for ESL learners such as 6-minute English or Ted-Ed. But the real deal. So, with the new year just knocking on our doors, let me bestow upon you a gift that promises to be a game changer in your exam prep. The list below features some of the best video sources you can ever get your hands on. I've scoured the whole of YouTube for these channels, so make good use of them.

LastWeekTonight – when academic meets comedic
Big Think – big ideas through the lense of experts
The Well – a spin-off of Big Think, where professors sit down for a lengthy lecture
BBC Ideas – the only BBC content worth watching
Veritasium – a simple man with thirst for science
Cleo Abram – an Internet sensation with amazing delivery
First We Feast – best interview host and best English
Kurzgesagt – finely animated educational videos
penguinz0 – weird reaction videos featuring out-of-this-world English
Great Big Story – an unlimited source of ideas and language
Vsauce – a seemingly eccentric beardy guy who questions everything

There are, of course, countless other sources you can follow, but these are my personal favorites. Instead of watching the videos for fun, be sure to squeeze as much language and ideas out of them as you possibly can. This is how I recommend you study:

1️⃣ WATCH AND PAUSE – it is essential that you make an effort to understand what you listen to. This is, after all, how you improve your listening comprehension.

2️⃣ NOTE-TAKING – make notes of any nice language and ideas that come your way, even if you know them.

3️⃣ RECYCLE – to put the new words and ideas you've just learned into practice, you should try summarizing the content, either written or spoken. This ensures language activation, as hopeless as you might feel at first.

@ulugbekumidjonov

As trite as reflection posts are at this point, here I am typing away at my keyboard ever so hurriedly, mulling over the many ways this post could be written. Yet I will keep things short and sweet, with the bulk of my message centering on gratitude:

To my mom, for being the most supportive and understanding mother in the whole wide world; To my first English teachers, from Faxriddin Topilov to Baxtiyor To'xtaboyev, for laying the ground for what is now the finest feat of achievement – Band 9. To Diyorbek Hayitmurodov, my colleague, mentor, and so many other things, for showing his unwavering support from day 1, pyschologically and otherwise. To everyone else who has cheered me on for the past year and beyond! Thank you! Couldn't have done it without you.

To say that Band 9.0 was my sole focus in 2024 is a gross understatment. Not a day went by that I didn't dream of finally getting my hands on it – not for the reasons you might have in mind, though. In any case, I am grateful I've come this far, and with this band 9.0 under my belt, I hope to benefit even more students and teachers for many more years to come!

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