IELTS Graduation Gera sae seXoxoy sqMacmillan Education Between Towns Road, Oxford OX4 3PP division of Macmillan Publishers Limited ‘Companies and representatives throughout the world ISBN: 978-1-4050-8079-8 ‘Text, design and illustration © Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007 First published 2007 All rights reserved; no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted in any form, or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publishers. Note to Teachers Photocopies may be made, for classroom use, of pages 106-120 without the prior written permission of Macmillan Publishers Limited. However, please note that the copyright law, which does not normally permit multiple copying of published material, applies to the rest of this book. Designed by eMC Design; www.emedesign.org.uk Cover design by Macmillan Education lustrated by eMC Design and Peter Comwell ‘The authors and publishers would like to thank the following for permission to use copyright material: Extracts from Greenpeace online www.greenpeace.org reprinted by permission of the publisher. Extract “Number working past retirement age set to double in 10 years” by Sarah Womack © The Daily Telegraph 2005 reprinted by permission of the publisher. ‘The publishers would like to thank Frances Cook for all her hard work on this project. Printed and bound in Spain by Edelvives 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 198765432Increasing numbers of international students wishing to study at colleges and universities in Britain, Canada and Australasia need to achieve a high band score in IELTS in order to do this. IELTS Graduation is designed to help students develop the academic language and exam skills necessary to achieve an IELTS band score of between 5.5 and 7.5. For students at a lower level than this, we recommend studying IELTS Foundation fist ‘The course consists of the following components: Student's Book Teacher's Book Audio CDs Study Skills Book (with Audio CD) Coursebook IELTS Graduation consists of 10 interesting topic-based units. Each unit contains comprehensive practice in Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening with each part of the test broken down and explained, and exam skills practised. The units also contain Language Focus sections, which analyse the main grammatical areas relevant to a higher IELTS level, together with, Vocabulary sections focused on common IELTS topics. ‘There are also regular pronunciation sections as well as pages developing Study skills. ‘The back of the book contains further grammatical explanations and exercises along with extra vocabulary work. There are also complete model answers for all the Writing questions accompanied by useful comments. ‘Complete scripts for all the Listening exercises are in the back of the book. ‘The contents are closely based on the IELTS exam assessment criteria and each of the 10 units integrates the four skills thus providing balance and variety. The book also aims to develop the type of skills necessary to study and perform effectively in an English- speaking academic environment and active learning is encouraged. Therefore, IELTS Graduation combines two key elements: IELTS preparation and essential study skills. For a detailed description of each unit see Contents on pages 8 and 9. Teacher's Book ‘The Teacher's Book provides the keys to exercises including line references indicating where answers to reading text questions can be found, clear teaching notes for the activities in the Student's Book and ideas for making the best use of the Student’s Book material. For teachers with little experience of teaching IELTS students, the Teacher's Book gives detailed information about the IELTS exam and the strategies and techniques, necessary to achieve a good band score. In addition, italso offers insights into English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and the crucial role that study skills play. This information can be found in the ‘Aims sections of the teacher’s notes. Recording scripts with highlighted answers are included as well as a number of suggestions for optional activities that can be used to supplement the core materials of the Student's Book. There are 10 Photocopiable practice activities at the back of the Teacher's Book, related to each unit in the Student’s Book. These activities reinforce work done in class. Detailed feedback and model answers can be found in the Key for this section. Study Skills Book ‘The Study Skills Book can be used for self-study or as an intensive IELTS preparation course. Itis divided into four sections to give further practice in the Listening, Speaking, Academic Reading and Writing modules of the IELTS exam. This workbook includes relevant exercises, sample answers and useful strategies on how to be successful in the IELTS exam. Keys and ‘comments are given forall the activities in the book and a complete IELTS practice exam is included. The Study Skills Book can be used both to supplement IELTS Graduation or as a separate course. Ret Ree rd Reading Texts are taken from a variety of sources including newspapers, magazines and academic journals and are intended to have a broad appeal to students from a range of backgrounds and cultures. Texts become more difficult as the course progresses. In the later units the aim is to provide students with texts which reflect both the more academic subject matter and linguistic level of