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All About Entrepreneur Melanie Perkins and Canva

These sentences are all taken from a biography about Melanie Perkins, the founder of Canva.

Listen and then write from dictation, paying attention to the tenses (past and present) and their pronunciation.

Useful words: Perth, Sydney, Silicon Valley, come up with an idea.

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More about Tech Entrepreneur Melanie Perkins & Canva

Listen to an interview with Melanie

Self-study

Listen to this interview and write down all the new words you hear and check their meaning.

IELTS Speaking. In section 2 you may be asked to talk about a business person, a leader, or a person you admire from your country. Who will you talk about?

Choose a person (like Melanie Perkins) and research information and vocabulary that you could use in your monologue.

Then imagine the Part 3 questions the examiner could ask about that person (or similar people).

Write a biography guide: