Level B Course Outline

Module Skills Lesson Type

Speaking & Listening 1.1
1 1. Speaking Part 1 – Warmer: Job
2. What is the IELTS Test
3. Speaking Criteria
4. Speaking about yourself & Pronunciation Stress
5. Speaking part 1 Hometown and Work questions
6. What is the Listening test?
7. What types of Listening questions are there?
8. Listening for a form

1.2
1. Speaking Part 1 – Art
2. Character, Personality and Relationships
3. Listening about Character & Personality
4. Speaking Part 2 – Describe a close friend
5. Thinking about tenses
6. Listening for Specific information

1.3
1. Speaking Part 1 – Birthdays
2. Sports and Fitness
3. Listening about Sport
4. Speaking Part 2 – Describe a favorite sport
5. Vocabulary for Health and Diet
6. Speaking Part 2 – Describe an exciting competition or
sporting event you have witnessed 
7. Listening for Expression
8. Speaking Part 3 – Health and Diet
9. Listening for Direction

Reading & Writing 1.1

1. Skill Overview: Writing Exam Information
2. Writing Criteria
3. Types of Task 1 Question
4. IELTS Writing – Task 1 – Structure
5. IELTS Writing – Opening statement
6. Sentence Structure
7. Understanding data
8. Reading Skill: Skimming and Scanning
9. Reading Skill: Paraphrasing
10. Question type: Short-answer questions
11. Question type: Completing sentences
13. Exam skills

1.2
1. Identifying the Topic
2. Task 2: Understanding questions
 3. Expressing solutions
4. Reading: Facts and opinions
5. Approaching the question
6. Global understanding
7. Exam skills

1.3
1. Linking words
2. Using trigger words
3. Practice Task 2 Question
4. Practice Task 1
5. Question type: Matching information
6. Identifying different types of information
7. Exam Skills

Speaking & Listening 2.1

2 1. Speaking Part 1: Childhood
2. Pronunciation: Expressing opinions
3. Vocabulary: Collocations
4. Planning your answer
5. Listening: Multiple choice
6. Listening: Labelling a map

2.2
1. Speaking Part 1: Clothes
2. Vocabulary: Studies and Work
3. IELTS Speaking Exam: Part 2
4. Grammar: Speculating
5. Using Conditionals
6. Listening: Pick from a list
7. Listening: Short-answer questions

2.3
1. Speaking Part 1: Computers
2. Speaking Part 2: Job questions
3. Speaking Part 3: Job questions
4. Exam technique: Giving answers that are the right
length
5. Listening: Short-answer question
6. Sentence and flowchart completion

Reading & Writing 2.1

1. Task 1: Comparing information
2. Adverbs in comparison
3. Making comparisons and contrasts
4. Practice Task 1
5. Reading: Family and Matching Headings

2.2
1. Task 2: Using references
 2. Planning essays
3. Assessing key words
4. Practice Task 2
5. Reading: Matching Headings

2.3
1. Task 1: Cycles and Processes
2. Sequencing ideas
3. Linking ideas
4. Practice Task 1
5. Reading: Part 1: Vocabulary

Speaking & Listening 3.1

3 1. Speaking Part 1: Daily Routine 
2. Vocabulary: The Environment and the World Around
Us
3. Speaking Part 2: Using Complex Sentences
4. Grammar: Subordinate clauses
5. Pronunciation: Long and Short Vowel Sounds
6. Listening: Note completion
7. Listening: Table completion

3.2
1. Speaking Part 1: Evenings1 
2. Exam Technique: Using News Articles to Improve
your Answers
3. Communication and Language
4. Using the correct word form
5. Grammar: Making Comparisons
6. Expressing Attitude
7. IELTS Speaking Exam Part 2
8. IELTS Speaking Exam Part 3
9. Listening: Matching
10. Listening: Labeling a diagram

3.3
1. Speaking Part 1: Family and Friends 
2. Exam Technique: Giving Yourself Time to Think
3. Technology and the Internet
4. Phrasal verbs
5. Vocabulary: the Internet
6. Phrasal Verb Participles
7. IELTS Speaking Exam Part 2
8. Exam Technique: Coherence
9. IELTS Speaking Part 3
10. Listening: Flow chart completion
11. Listening: Sentence completion

Reading & Writing 3.1

1. Language development
2. Discuss questions
3. Using ‘Which’
4. Practice Speaking Part 2 – Internet
5. Reading – Locate the answers

3.2
1. Part 1 – Describing changes
2. Describing maps
3. Active and Passive tense
4. Using Synonyms
5. Using Past tense
6. Describe locations
7. Practice Writing Task 1 – Maps
8. Reading – True; False; Not Given

3.3
1. Developing and Justifying opinions
2. Writing Introductions
3. Practice Writing Task 3 – Advantages and
Disadvantages
4. Reading