IELTS 40 Hours for Intermediate to Advanced

Listening skills – 10 hours

1.Getting ready to listen

• Understanding the context
• Using the correct spelling
• Writing numbers

2.Following a conversation

• Identifying the speakers
• Identifying function
• Understanding categories

3.Recognising paraphrase

• Identifying distractors
• Recognising paraphrase
• Selecting from a list

4.Places and directions

• Describing a place
• Following directions
• Labelling a map

5. Listening for actions and processes

• Understanding mechanical parts
• Describing an action or process
• Describing a process

6. Attitude and opinion

• Identifying attitudes and opinions
• Persuading and suggesting
• Reaching a decision

7. Following a lecture or talk

• Identifying main ideas
• Understanding how ideas are connected
• Understanding an explanation

8. Contrasting ideas

• Signposting words
• Comparing and contrasting ideas
• Using notes to follow a talk

Reading skills – 10 hours

1. Reading strategies

• Using the features of a Reading passage
• Skimming a passage and speed reading
• Global understanding

2. Descriptive passages

• Scanning for detail
• Using words from the passage
• Notes/flow-chart/diagram completion

3. Understanding the main ideas

• Identifying the main idea
• Understanding the main points
• Identifying information in a passage

4. Locating and matching information

• Identifying types of information
• Locating and matching information
• How ideas are connected

5. Discursive passages

• Discursive passages
• Identifying theories and opinions
• Matching features

6. Multiple-choice questions

• Understanding longer pieces of text
• Different types of multiple choice
• Identifying a writer’s purpose

7. Opinions and attitudes

• Argumentative texts
• Identifying the writer’s views/claims
• Identifying grammatical features

8. General Training Reading

• The General Training Reading paper
• Dealing with multiple texts
• Understanding work-related texts

Writing skills – 10 hours

1. Academic Writing Task I – Describing a chart, table or graph

• Understanding graphs, tables and charts
• More complex charts
• Improving your Task Achievement score

2. Academic Writing Task 1 – Comparing and contrasting graphs andtables

• Avoiding repetition
• Comparing and contrasting data
• Grammatical Accuracy – describing numbers and figures accurately

3. Academic Writing Task 1 – Describing diagrams

• Understanding a diagram
• Describing a process – coherence and cohesion
• Lexical Resource – being accurate

4. Academic Writing Task I Describing maps

• Describing a map
• Describing changes in a place
• Grammatical Accuracy

5. General Training Writing Task 1 – A letter

• Understanding the task
• Improving your score
• Checking and correcting

6.Writing Task 2 – Getting ready to write

• Understanding the task
• Planning and organising your ideas
• Getting started – writing an introduction

7. Writing Task 2 – Expressing your ideas clearly

• Linking ideas – cohesion
• Lexical Resource – avoiding repetition
• Expressing a personal view

8. Writing Task 2 – Checking and correcting

• Developing your ideas clearly
• Grammatical Accuracy
• Assessing your language

Speaking skills – 10 hours

1. The Speaking Test – Part I

• Getting ready to speak
• Part 1 -talking about familiar topics
• Using the right tense – Grammatical Range and Accuracy

2. Part 2 – Giving a talk

• Understanding the task
• Improving Fluency and Coherence
• Organising your notes and your talk

3. Part 3 – Talking about abstract topics

• Talking about abstract topics
• Agreeing and disagreeing
• Improving your Lexical Resource score

4. Checking, correcting and assessing

• Dealing with problems
• Pronunciation, intonation and ‘chunking’
• Assessing yourself and improving your score