IELTS Preparation Online Course: 9 Weeks , 27 Classes = $345
IELTS Preparation Online Course: 10 Weeks , 30 Classes + Final Practice Exams + IELTS Final Exam Booking = $545
The ELCPP IELTS Preparation Course is designed to align with British Council teaching and learning practices, tailored specifically to meet the needs of Cambodian students.
IELTS Program Outline
| IELTS PREP | Lesson 1 | Lesson 2 | Lesson 3 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | The first lesson: Will provide a comprehensive course overview, outlining class rules, requirements, and expectations. You will delve into the intricacies of the IELTS test structure and scoring system. Subsequently, you will undertake diagnostic listening and reading tests to accurately assess your current IELTS proficiency level. | The second lesson: Will commence with a review of the diagnostic listening and reading tests. We will analyse the answers and discuss what these scores represent. Following this, students will participate in a diagnostic speaking test. Upon completion of the speaking test, we will proceed with a diagnostic writing test. | The final lesson of the first week: Will commence with a review of the diagnostic writing test. We will examine model answers, compare them to your own writing, and identify areas for improvement. Subsequently, we will discuss your diagnostic speaking test performance, highlighting strengths and weaknesses. The instructor will then provide an overview of the speaking test structure, including model answers. To conclude the session, students will have the opportunity to practise answering IELTS Speaking Part 1 questions. | |
| Week 2 | Reading Lesson 1 - Developing Reading Skills This lesson teaches students the reading skills needed for the IELTS Reading test. Students will learn how to survey, skim, and scan texts. They will then use these skills in a simulated test. The lesson will conclude with an analysis of how to use each reading skill effectively. | Speaking Lesson 1 - Test familiarisation and lexical resource This lesson helps students prepare for the IELTS Speaking section by teaching them about its format, topics, and vocabulary. They will take a quiz, analyse good answers, and practice Part 1 questions. | Writing Lesson 1 - Describing data and making approximations This lesson teaches students how to describe changes in charts using language about increases and decreases. They will practise using this language with a line graph and a bar chart, and they will learn to write sentences that accurately describe the data, including approximate amounts. | |
| Week 3 | Reading Lesson 2 - Dealing with T/F/NG (and Y/N/NG) questions This lesson teaches students how to answer true/false/not given questions on the IELTS reading test. They will first learn to distinguish between these three answer choices. Then, they will use reading skills they learned in previous lessons to develop a strategy for clarifying statements and finding answers more confidently. Finally, they will practise this strategy with a real IELTS reading text. | Listening Lesson 1 - Form Completion and Multiple Choice questions Beginning with a look at Form Completion questions, students use prediction skills to anticipate context and possible answers before applying this to practice of the question type. The lesson then provides practice of analysing stems in MCQs and anticipating the use of synonyms and rephrasing before test practice with a set of Multiple Choice questions. Matching Features - This lesson introduces the use of synonyms throughout the Listening test with a particular focus on how they are used in Matching Features questions. With strategies to activate students’ awareness of the context of a listening, and the language they might hear, students are given the chance to apply these in practice of Matching Features questions taken from Part 1. | Writing Lesson 2 - Developing range of grammatical structures and lexis This lesson provides extensive practice of sentence writing to help students develop their Grammatical Range and Accuracy, and Lexical Resource. By analysing the language of a sample answer and several sentence-transformation tasks, students will identify and practise a variety of ways to demonstrate accuracy and range in their own use of language. Grammatical structures for describing diagrams - In this lesson, students will look at two different process diagrams and the language required for their description. With analysis and practice of sentence structures for describing cause and result, and relative clauses, students will develop their grammatical range, and ability to write more complex sentences. | |
| Week 4 | Reading Lesson 3 - General Training Reading This lesson provides an overview of what can be expected in the General Training Reading Test. Beginning with a familiarisation activity to raise awareness of its format, the lesson then provides practice in dealing with multiple texts – a feature of the first two sections of GT Reading. This lesson also consolidates the main reading skills that are essential across both Academic and GT Reading Tests. Dealing with Matching Headings questions -From a general overview of the text to a specific search for topic sentences, this lesson follows a step-by-step breakdown of strategy which involves the reading skills covered in the lesson at the top of this page. Students are supported in their application of strategy before final test practice. | Speaking Lesson 2 - Grammatical range and accuracy and lexical resource With a focus on upgrading and improving answers, this lesson raises awareness of the need to demonstrate a wide range of both grammar and vocabulary in the Speaking section of the IELTS test. Students will analyse sample responses and produce their own examples before practice of Part 1 questions. Question making - This lesson provides extensive practice of Part 1 of the Speaking section of the IELTS test by giving students the opportunity to design their own questions on a variety of Part 1 topics and use these in paired speaking practice. | PRACTICE TEST - This lesson will involve a practice test to check the students' level at this point in the course. The practice test will involve all areas of the IELTS exam. | |
| Week 5 | REVIEW PRACTICE TEST - We will spend time going through the answers of the practice test and make sure all students understand where they went wrong and where they can improve. | Listening lesson 2 - Note and Table Completion Beginning with a Table Completion overview task to familiarise learners with the format of Part 2, this lesson introduces a strategy to help test takers deal with both Table and Note Completion question types. A jigsaw exercise provides opportunity for communication between learners in the discovery of test strategy before the application of this in a full Part 2 practice. Short Answer questions - In this lesson, students will gain an understanding of the types of instruction they can find in question types which require them to write an answer. Students will also work through preparation strategies to be ready to listen and identify answers when the audio starts. | Writing Lesson 3 - Writing the overview By focusing on one aspect of Academic Task 1, the overview, this lesson develops students' ability to select key information to form the basis of this essential element in their response. After looking at a number of bar charts to identify the main trends / key features, students will then have practice writing their own overviews | |
| Week 6 | Reading Lesson 4 - Through a jigsaw task and peer-teaching This dynamic lesson raises awareness of the common threads running through Summary, Note, Table and Flow chart completion questions. Splitting the class into expert groups on each type allows for a guided discovery approach to strategy which is then consolidated in open class. A focus on instructions allows for clarification of the need for accuracy in these question types. | Speaking Lesson 3 - Improving grammatical range and accuracy With a focus on the range and accurate use of verb tenses, this lesson helps students to develop the structures used in their own responses to the Long Turn of the IELTS Speaking section. Through identifying accurate use of discourse markers, students are also given practice of extending their responses by using a range of cohesive devices. Using PPF (past, present and future strategy) - This lesson introduces one possible strategy to help students develop their response in Part 2 of the IELTS Speaking section by referring to different times. Through an analysis of tense use, this lesson also helps students to develop their own grammatical range and accuracy in practice of Part 2 style questions. | Writing Lesson 4 - Developing arguments With a focus on planning and preparing to write This lesson develops students’ ability to examine the question and generate ideas. By analysing the use of cohesive devices in two different ways to balance an argument, students are encouraged to provide coherent and cohesive responses in a final practice writing task. Developing paragraphs - This lesson provides extensive practice of building cohesive sentences to form fully coherent paragraphs. Through analysis of sentence and paragraph structure, including practice of writing complex sentences, students will develop their ability to write logical and fully-supported responses. | |
| Week 7 | Reading Lesson 5 - Dealing with Matching Features questions This lesson begins with a quick practice task which familiarises students with an idea of types of features and characteristics that they could be asked to look for in a text. A clear application of the previously-covered reading skills then allows students to arrive at a possible strategy to apply to this question type. Finishing with test practice, students can immediately put this strategy to use. | Listening Lesson 3 - Matching questions Following an overview of this part of the IELTS Listening test This lesson focuses on a strategy for dealing with Matching question types. An analysis of strategy is followed by a focus on the language to express certainty and uncertainty to prepare learners to listen for the speakers’ attitudes, which is often tested in this part of the IELTS listening test. This awareness of language and test strategy can then be applied in the final task, practice of this question type from Listening Part 3. Sentence Completion - This lesson begins with an activity to raise awareness of the instructions provided for completion question types and the accuracy required. Following this, students look at how to identify the context of the Listening prior to hearing the audio being played. Students then work together on the analysis of a strategy before applying this in the final practice of Sentence Completion questions taken from Listening Part 3. | Writing Lesson 5 - Essay structure and writing an introduction This lesson introduces two possible essay structures in response to opinion or 2-sided argument essay questions. Students will work through activities to help them prepare to write before analysis of an effective introduction. Students are then given the opportunity to put this into practice in a final Task 2 essay question. Problems and solutions - By analysing the question type and preparing to write, students will develop their awareness of this type of Task 2 question before looking at the language of cause and effect. Activities which require students to use these appropriate phrases, as well as language to express purpose at sentence level, prepare students to write a final problems and solutions Task 2 essay. | |
| Week 8 | Reading Lesson 6 - Dealing with Short Answer questions Effective exam-taking practices are encouraged in this lesson through an application of reading skills which help students navigate a text quickly and accurately. This leads to a specific focus on the identification of key words, synonyms and scanning skills. Following on from this practice, students are then given the chance to reflect on their approach and identify the strategy used before applying this to an additional test practice task. | Speaking Lesson 4 - Overview and practice This lesson begins with a review of what to expect in Part 3 of the Speaking section of the IELTS test. Students are then introduced to expressions to ‘buy time’ to think and are encouraged to consider alternative perspectives to ensure they are able to provide appropriately-extended answers in a final Part 3 practice task. Using linking devices - Through matching tasks and analysis of use, this lesson develops students’ ability to identify and employ appropriate linking devices for comparing, commenting, speculating, explaining and generalising. Through a number of Part 3 practice questions, students will put these devices into use in providing extensive responses. | Writing Lesson 6 - Coherence and Cohesion With a focus on this criterion of the band descriptors, this lesson introduces the concepts of Coherence and Cohesion in Writing Task 2. From task analysis, essay planning to topic sentences and cohesive devices, students also have practice of developing coherent and cohesive responses in a final writing task. | |
| Week 9 | Listening Lesson 4 - Note-taking With an initial note-taking task which draws attention to the real-life application of the skills being tested in Part 4, this lesson looks at Diagram, Summary and Table Completion question types. After working through a strategy for each of these, students are given practice of a full Part 4 which contains all three of these question types. Keeping up with the speaker - This lesson tackles the challenge of Part 4 of the Listening test through activities which provide strategies for students to keep up with the speaker. By analysing the structure of an academic talk and the use of signposting expressions, students are given the opportunity to apply strategy in test practice of Part 4 in full. | Speaking Lesson 5 - This lesson will be a chance for students to review and practise all 3 parts of the Speaking Test. | Listening Lesson 5 - Students will review the listening part of the test and then have a run through of a listening test to familiarise themselves with the test format. | |
| Week 10 | IELTS PRACTICE TEST | REVIEW IELTS PRACTICE TEST | IELTS PRACTICE TEST FEEDBACK & REAL EXAM BOOKING | |
| * Course Starts 02/12/2024 | ||||
| * Group classes 1:10 students | ||||
| * Lessons are 90 minutes in duration. | ||||
| * Students receive ELCPP email addresses and access to learning environment in customised Google Classrooms platform | ||||
| * Lessons which fall on a national holiday will be moved at the discretion of the teacher and/or Ed Tech. | ||||