IELTS Training: Intermediate

Description

IELTS Training: Intermediate

• This course is designed for students who want to take the IELTS Academic exam.
• It is designed for students with a current IELTS Academic exam level of less than 5.0-5.5 who want to obtain a higher score.
• This course covers the 4 skills: Listening, Reading, Speaking, Writing.
• This IELTS training course can be used across a range of devices (mobile and computer), allowing for seamless study anywhere anytime.

Modules

This course covers the 4 skills required for the IELTS Academic exam: Listening, Reading, Speaking, Writing.
There are a total of 60 lessons (15 lessons for each skill).

IELTS Listening & Reading

• 30 lessons at covering Academic IELTS Listening and Reading
• Language focus sections to increase knowledge of IELTS-related vocabulary
• Structured listening and reading practice with all IELTS-related question types
• Animated tutorials and skill summaries to help learners understand the exam format and develop their test-taking strategies
• Built in review of test-taking strategies to maximize practice and build confidence

IELTS Skill Areas for Listening and Reading:

• Working with tables and flow charts; Scanning and Skimming; Identifying main ideas; Understanding opinion; Interpreting numbers and data; Following an argument; Prediction; Identifying feelings and attitudes

IELTS Speaking

• 15 lessons covering Academic IELTS Speaking
• Unscripted, realistic IELTS Speaking interviews with non-native speakers as core input
• Short lectures that focus on the key sections of the speaking exam
• Focused practice sections for pronunciation with record and play back functionality
• Speaking tasks with record and play back functionality, and full annotated model answers for comparison

Skill Areas for Speaking:

• Giving opinions, reasons and examples; Signposting; Dealing with complex questions; Clarifying; Avoiding repetition; Correcting a mistake; Giving yourself time to think; Preparing a talk; Agreeing and disagreeing; Generalizing

IELTS Writing

• 15 lessons covering Academic IELTS Writing
• Animated tutorials and skill summaries to help learners understand the exam format and task-types for writing
• Language focus sections to increase knowledge of IELTS-related vocabulary, and grammatical structures that will improve both range and accuracy
• Structured writing skills practice sections that ensure students know how to meet the criteria of the tasks, and help them produce clear and coherent pieces of writing
• Clear writing models, with explanations included in every lesson as part of skills practice, or the testing cycle

Skill Areas for Writing:

• Organizing ideas; Structuring writing (Introductions, Overviews, Main Paragraphs); Sentence structure; Showing contrast; Linking information; Avoiding repetition; Checking your work

Assignments/Tests

Students are required to pass 60 lessons to complete this course. Listening and Reading lessons have built-in short tests. For Speaking and Writing, students are presented with model answers to check themselves. Tutors are not provided to correct writing and speaking.

What will I learn?

Students will improve their IELTS exams skills, including all 4 language skills (listening, reading, speaking, writing), test-taking strategies and vocabulary.