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International English Language Test System

Course Outline for 5 Weeks Intensive IELTS Preparation Course

IELTS

Course Duration 5 weeks minimum

Hours per week 24 hours minimum

Timetable 3 times a week 9-12 & 1-5

Maximum Class 20
Size

Start Date First week of July

The aim of the course is to prepare students for taking the IELTS test by teaching
OBJECTIVES
strategies necessary for this exam. It also familiarizes students with the structure of the
test and what tasks they may be expected to complete.

OUTCOMES At the end of five weeks study of IELTS Intensive Preparation Course students should be
able to:

English Skills You will learn to

Extract information from and understand a variety of academic-style texts including

Reading magazine, newspaper and journal-type articles. Focus on speed reading, skimming and
scanning, sentence completion, yes/no/not given-type comprehension questions.

Write short academic-style essays, including describing data or processes and presenting
Writing
arguments coherently and cohesively.

Understand a variety of general and academic-type listening with native British,

Listening
Australian, Canadian and non-native accents.

Make contributions to discussions on a variety of concrete and more abstract topics.

Speaking
Fluency, accuracy, range and relevance are practiced.
 Review and practice all aspects of previously-learned grammar and any relevant new
Grammar
structures. Focus on modals of speculation.

Vocabulary Topics Science and Technology, Transport and Environment, Employment, Education, Health
Issues, Economic Issues, Media, Human Rights, Crime and Punishment.

Others EXAM FOCUS – practice on all aspects of IELTS exam.

Note: The listening and speaking sections are the same for the General and Academic modules.

Week 1 Course Content

Listening ➢ Anticipating the text –

 Using picture/graphic clues
 Predicting from questions
 Identifying how many speakers
 Identifying relationships between speakers
 Predicting language according to relationships/topics
 Identifying reason/purpose of conversation
Task: Identify the differences between spoken and written language

➢ Listening for Specific Information-

 Predicting the required words
 Identifying key words
 Identifying word classification
 Dates, times, numbers, names etc.
Task: Form filling

Reading ➢ Orientation to the Text

 Using the text to make predictions about content
 Headings, titles; bold, underlined, italic words etc
 Using pictures, graphics, tables, graphs etc
➢ Identifying genre
 Identifying the audience
 Understanding paragraphs
Task: Identify topic sentences

Writing ➢ Describing facts and figures-

 Bar and pie charts
 Tables
➢ Describing trends-
 Line graphs
 Examining axis

Speaking ➢ Introducing oneself-

 Focus on fluency
 Linking ideas
  Predicting topics/familiar situations
 Providing personal information
Task: Part 1 of speaking test

Week 2 Course Content

Listening ➢ Listening for detail

 Identifying key words
 Identifying when there is a need to listen
 Predicting possible context of the language
Task: multiple choice and pictures

➢ Listening for the main ideas

 Separating main ideas from supporting detail
 Identifying main ideas
 Recognizing introductory phrases
 Developing the main idea
Task: Multiple choice

Reading ➢ Scanning for specific information and details-

 Understanding the layout
 Getting an idea of where information might be
 Increasing reading speed
 Getting the gist
 Checking predictions
Task: Form filling and chart/table completion

Writing ➢ Summarizing data In a table-

 Selecting important information
 Comparing data
 Grouping information

➢ Describing a process-
 Cohesion
 Sequencing
 Essay structure

Speaking ➢ Planning a talk-

 Explaining how you feel or felt in the past
 Giving short answers to follow up questions
Task: Part 2 of speaking
Week 3 Course Content

Listening ➢ Interpreting meaning

 Understanding the speaker's attitudes
 Stress
 Interpreting intonation
 Prosodic features of speech including hesitations, repetitions, avoidance, tone, etc
Task: Test - multiple choice

➢ Identifying 'signposting' to aid understanding

 Comparisons
 Contrasts or opposites
 Examples
 Cause/effect, result
 Additional information
 Framework or stages of a talk
Task: note completion and labeling a diagram

Reading ➢ Identifying main ideas and supporting ideas-

 Topics - the main idea
 Paragraphs
 Topic sentences in paragraphs
 Differentiating between main idea and supporting comments

➢ Organization of paragraphs
 Locating specific information quickly
 Cohesion between and within paragraphs
 Paragraph headings
 Summarizing paragraphs
Task: multiple choice, note taking, matching paragraph headings

Writing ➢ Approaching the task-

 Understanding instructions
 Forming ideas
 Organizing ideas into paragraphs
 Structuring an argument

Speaking ➢ Planning the talk-

 Approaching the topic
 Expanding ideas
 Signposts and cohesion
 Fluency
 Developing the main idea through sub-topics
Task: Part 2 of speaking

Week 4 Course Content

Listening ➢ Completing Gap-fill question types
 Identifying specific information
 Predicting the type of word(s) required
 Using the other written information as an aid
 Selecting key words

➢ Completing short answer question types

 Analyzing the task
 Understanding requirements
 Note taking
 Summarizing
 Identifying key words
 Specifying the topic

Reading ➢ Understanding an argument

 Understanding the argument
 Making references
 Paraphrasing argument
 Separating fact and opinion

➢ Reading strategies - question types

 Short answer question types
 Sentence completion
 Completing a summary

Writing ➢ Presenting an argument-

 The introduction
 Expressing views
 Making concessions
 Refuting an argument
 The conclusion

Speaking ➢ Exploring the Theme

 Intonation
 Stress
 Prosodic features for "thinking time", hesitations
 Explaining how things work
 Expressing and justifying opinions
 Discussing advantages and disadvantages
Task: Part 3 of speaking

Week 5 Course Content

Listening ➢ Completing multiple choice question types

 Predicting text content
 Predicting possible answers
 Identifying obvious incorrect answers
 Identifying 'almost but not quite' correct answers
  Identifying key words/phrases

➢ Completing true/false question types

 Recognition of modifying words/phrases
 Unconditional or all-inclusive qualifying words
 Understanding instructions
 Identifying key words
 Identifying topic words

Reading ➢ Recognizing fact, opinion, claim, writer's attitude-

 Recognizing the language of fact, opinion, claim
 Differentiating meaning
 Deduction
 Inferring
 Evaluating Information
Task: Yes/No/ Not Given, Multiple choice

Writing ➢ Essay Writing

➢ Giving opinions
➢ Cause and effect

Speaking ➢ Exploring the Theme

 Fluency and cohesion
 Reasoned responses
 Justifying opinions
 Speculating
Task: Parts 2 and 3 of speaking

Prepared by: May M. Rodeo

MEER Educational and Training Center