Ielts
Ielts
Ielts
Although you will not receive a predicted band score, you will be given feedback throughout the course on
your speaking and writing skills, as well as your performance in reading and listening tasks. There are
writing assignments throughout the course, and speaking, reading and listening mock tests towards the
end of the course.
Each lesson is devoted to one of the four papers in the examination and trains participants in application of
the appropriate sub-skills and exam techniques:
• Speaking
• Listening
• Reading
• Writing
The tables below detail the content and learning aims of each lesson.
Reading A range of topics, Titles and sub-headings • Form an overview of the text
Academic including:
Words with similar meanings • Summarise the writer’s main
• Air travel purpose
• Pearls
• Underwater sounds • Identify the topic of a paragraph
• Online shopping
• Wind farming • Complete a sentence or
• Insects statement correctly
• Magazine
advertising • Answer YES, NO and NOT GIVEN,
or TRUE, FALSE and NOT GIVEN
• Biodiversity
to a series of statements
Writing Anything that might be Using appropriate • Identify and interpret the key
Academic shown on a bar chart, for vocabulary to describe information from a range of
training example: trends and figures: visual stimuli
• sales figures • decline
• surveys • rocket • Write an overview based on the
• visitor numbers • plummet visual information or data
• soar
Common Task 2 topics • remain steady • State my position on a topic
are: clearly and coherently
• employment
• travel • Provide both sides of an
• the environment argument
• the elderly
• Provide solutions to a problem
• crime
outlined in a task.
• health
• education
A letter – which may be Using appropriate opening • ensure the aim is clear
Writing formal, neutral, or and closing greetings • cover all task points
General informal
training Selecting a suitable
Common Task 2 topics register • state position clearly and
are: coherently on a topic
• family
• society • provide both sides of an argument
• television
• the environment
• communication • provide solutions to a problem
• travel outlined in the task
• education