 Price$400 |  Duration20 hours (over 10 weeks) |  DeliveryOnline |  Starts12 May 2025 |
About this course
IELTS for Graduates is a short course designed to develop your ability to succeed in IELTS. The course looks at all four skills, with emphasis on the Speaking and Writing elements of the test, including how they are structured and assessed. The course is aimed at boosting your knowledge of IELTS with a goal of improving your band scores.
This 20-hour course runs over ten weeks (2 hours per week) and classes are synchronously timetabled. You will be actively engaged in activities on a wide range of topics, reflecting the real diversity of IELTS topics. You will receive personalised feedback on your participation in these activities, which include:
- Practice Speaking and Writing tests
- Personalised advice on how to apply the assessment criteria
- In-depth focus on how to respond to various question types
What you will learn
You will gain a variety of analytical tools and techniques in order to assess and improve your own IELTS performance, including:
- approaching Speaking questions and prompts with improved confidence and an awareness of structure, content and pronunciation
- producing Writing responses using analytical techniques and with awareness of structure and conventions
- applying Listening techniques to identify general, specific and inferred information
- applying Reading techniques to identify general, specific and inferred information.
You will also learn how to read and decode IELTS assessment criteria, with a view to applying these criteria to your own performance.
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Lessons
- Course introduction and warmers
- Discussion and goal setting
- Refresher of task requirements
- Analysis of recorded authentic Speaking practice
- Overview of assessment criteria
- Analysis and practice of Writing question types
- Continued Writing practice
- Discussion and practice of Reading and Listening skills
- Close look at Speaking assessment
- Pronunciation helps and partner practice
- Analysis of model Part One response and practice writing
- Discussion of question types
- Brainstorming
- Practice with planning and making responses
- Reading practice : skimming/scanning and Matching Headings question type
- Listening practice : short answers and plan labelling
- Analysis of recorded authentic Speaking test
- Practice of each section
- Brief look at Writing assessment
- Writing error correction
- Part 1 writing
- Matching Features practice
- Scanning for detail and defining words from context
- Listening vocabulary: measurements, form and note completion
- Speaking vocabulary and structure
- Practice mock test
- Writing Task One: process
- Writing Task 2: complex sentences and practice
- Mock Speaking test with teacher
- Mock Writing test for assessment; partial mock Listening and Reading tests for marking
Meet your instructor
Kate Kruimink is an English Language Teacher with over a decade of experience teaching in Australia and New Zealand, including extensive experience in pronunciation.
She is an award-winning author with a particular interest in both the artistic and the practical communicative purposes of English.