Preparatory Course for International English Language Testing System (IELTS)

Course Syllabus

Reading

Writing

Predicting
Skimming
Matching features
Multiple choice

Task 1
Data relating to higher
education
Understanding visual
information
The opening paragraph

Locating information

Task 2

Yes, No, Not given

Prediction
Guessing meaning form
the context

Climate change
Introductions and
conclusions
Topic sentences
Editing

Prediction
Skimming
Matching headings to
paragraphs
Short answers

Task 1
Data describing tourism in
different countries
Selecting and reporting the
main features
Describing trends and
changes over time
Adding specific details to
general statements

Grammar &
Vocabulary
Section 1
Part 1
Adjectives ending
Predicting answers
Expanding answers, giving in ed/ing
reasons and examples
Forming questions
Section 2
Dependent
Summary completion
Part 2
prepositions
Table completion
Describing a school
Countable /
subject
uncountable nouns
Quantifiers
Section 3
Discussing alternative
Singular or plural
energy, traffic congestion
Short answer questions and recycling
Present simple vs
Sentence completion
present continuous
The environment
Listening

Practice test for section

1&
Using tape script to
review answers for
sections 1 & 2

Speaking

Part 2: Describing culture,

events, objects, people,
and places.
Use of idiomatic
expressions to describe

Articles
use?

when to

Vocabulary for travel

and tourism

Study Skills
Identifying
parts of speech
Colocations:
Adjective +
noun

Working out
meaning from
context

Editing
Colocations:
travel and
traveller

Reading
Prediction
Scanning
True, False, Not given
Table completion
Classification

Skimming
Matching headings to
paragraphs
Labelling a diagram

Locating information
Scanning
True, False, Not given
Sentence completion
Identifying the writers
purpose
Guessing meaning from
context

Writing
Task 2
Prisons/discipline in school
Key stages:
Understanding the question
Generating main ideas
Adding supporting
information
Making a plan
Writing your answer
Checking your answer
Task 1
Unemployment/workforce
composition and earnings
Using linkers
Comparing and contrasting
data
Task 1
Milk production/Sugar beet
production
Describing a process
Sequence

Listening

Speaking

Section 2
Note completion
Multiple choice

Part 3
Useful language for
discussions

Section 3
Prediction
Table completion
Matching

Punishment and crime

prevention

Section 1
Multiple choice
Labelling a diagram
Section 2
Table completion
Labelling a flow chart
Section 4
Multiple choice
Table completion
Signposting language

Part 2
Describing a job you
would like to do
Part 3
Discussing different
aspects of employment
Part 2
Describing a successful
company
Part 3
Discussing the world as a
global village
Balancing the argument

Grammar &
Vocabulary
Crime and the law

Study Skills
Using a
dictionary

Defining relative
clauses
Present perfect vs
past simple

Class debate

Describing skills and

qualities
Future forms
Comparatives and
superlatives
Suffixes
Non-defining relative
clauses
Money, buying and
selling
The passive

Word families
Collocations:
job, work,
career

Academic
writing style

Reading

Writing

Listening

Scanning
Locating information
Multiple choice

Task 1
Describing how a hot air
balloon/a fire extinguisher
works
Organizing your answer
Expressing purpose

Classification
True, False, Not given
Summary completion
Multiple choice

Task 2
Section 3
Alternative medicine
Multiple choice
Key phrases to express Note completion
impersonal views
Preparing to write
Using an appropriate writing
style
Using adverbs

Jigsaw
reading
reporting back
Note completion

and Task 2
Academic achievement as a
measure of intelligence
Organization and
coherence: paragraphing

Speaking

Section 4
Table completion
Multiple choice
Note completion

Section 4
Summary completion
Multiple choice
Section 3
Note completion

Describing listening
habits
Part 2
Describing an item of
technology
Part 3
Discussing modern
technology
Part 3
Discussing health and
healthcare

Part 2
Describing a time when
you learned something
new
Part 3
Discussing
learning
environments and kinds
of intelligence

Grammar &
Vocabulary
Dependent prepositions
Expressing purpose
Describing objects
Word building

Parts of the body and

illnesses/conditions
Real conditions
Health and medical
breakthroughs
Unreal conditionals

Study Skills
Editing
Phrasal verbs
with different
meanings

Avoiding
repetition

Signs of intelligence Hedging Idioms

Lexical links ing form
and infinitive
Expressions to describe
skills

Reading

Writing

Multiple choice
Summary completion
Labelling a diagram

Task 2
Causes of cyber bullying and
solutions
Describing problems and
solutions

Matching headings to
paragraphs
Note completion
Multiple choice
Yes, No, Not given
Sentence completion
Identifications of beliefs
or arguments
Yes, No, Not given
Summary completion
Multiple choice

Task 2
Methods used in advertising
Arguments for and against a
viewpoint

Task 1
Data relating to the Olympic
Games
Summarizing information
Task 2
Success
Giving opinions and
examples

Listening

Grammar &
Vocabulary
Part 2
Leisure activities
Describing
leisure Expressing preference
activities
Expressions with future
Part 3
meaning
Discussing changes in The internet
leisure activities over
time
Part 2
Formal and academic
Describing a memorable language
advertisement
Advertising and
Part 3
marketing
Discussing effective
Modals of obligation and
advertisements and
prohibition
global brands
Speaking

Section 1
Form completion
Section 3
Short answer
questions
Sentence completion
Matching
Section 3
Classification
Table completion

Section 2
Multiple choice
Sentence completion
Section 3
Note completion
Table completion

Part 1
Talking about familiar
topics
Part 2
Describing a successful
situation
Part 3
Talking about success

Collocations relating to
success
Talking about ability
Test your knowledge

Study Skills
Negative
prefixes

Understanding
verbs in essay
titles
Collocations:
Synonyms with
different
collocations
Self-evaluation