IELTS Preparation

Course details

IELTS Preparation: Semi-Intensive
Course Aims and Objectives
To develop students` levels of English in the areas of writing, reading, speaking and listening in order to assist them in achieving the best possible IELTS result.

Skills Covered
Writing
Punctuation
Sentence structure for description, cause and effect, chronology
Paragraph structure
Essay structure for opinions, comparison and contrast, arguments
Paraphrasing and summarizing
Understanding graphs and charts

Grammar
Future
Relative clauses
Reason/result
Conditionals
Modals
Passive voice

Reading and Listening
Skimming and scanning (reading only)
For details and for main ideas
For prediction
For inference - reading between lines
Vocabulary acquisition

Speaking
Expressing opinions, agreeing and disagreeing, expressing surprise and shock,
prioritizing, giving a two minute talk
Discussion techniques

IELTS Preparation
Practice IELTS questions
Mock test
Strategies and familiarization with IELTS exam format
Skills required for efficient reading, listening, writing and speaking

Evaluation
Regular assignments/tests and class participation will be assessed. A mock IELTS test will be held at the end of the course. A report and certificate will be issued at the completion of the course. The course will be based on weekly themes: space, environment, interpersonal intelligences, career, crime and punishment, globalization, alternative medicine, technology, computing, advertising.