8 WEEKS COURSE SYLLABUS

Proficiency
Advanced
Up Int
Intermediate
Pre-Int
Elementary
Beginners
A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Course goals

1. To develop the communication skills of students

2. To provide a learning environment where students feel comfortable
to use language effectively and experimentally
3. To encourage individual students to own their learning experience
4. To encourage individual students to take responsibility for their
own learning progress

Upon finishing this course we aim for students to have reached Advanced
level, which is classified as follows:

C1 C1 C1 Spoken C1 Spoken C1
Listening Reading Interaction Production Writing
Can Can Can express Can present Can express
understand understand myself fluently clear, myself in
extended long and and detailed clear, well-
speech even complex spontaneously descriptions structured
when it is not factual and without of complex text,
clearly literary much obvious subjects expressing
structured and texts, searching for integrating points of
when appreciating expressions. sub-themes, view at
relationships distinctions Can use developing some length.
are only of style. Can language particular Can write
implied and understand flexibly and points and about
not signaled specialized effectively for rounding complex
explicitly. articles and social and off with an subjects in a
Can longer professional appropriate letter, an
understand technical purposes. Can conclusion essay or a
television instructions, formulate ideas report,
programs and even when and opinions underlining
films without they do not with precision what is
too much relate to and relate my considered
effort. their field. contribution to be the
skillfully to salient
those of other issues. Can
speakers. select style
appropriate
to the
reader in
mind.
Course details

Level Session No. of Part Focus Topic Description

hours
1 3 Writing #1 Introduction to * Focus on 4 assessment
IELTS Academic criteria used to assess the
Writing Task 1 writing task I
(Assessment
* Analyse patterns of
criteria: Content,
"IELTS Writing Test" (Task
Organisation,
Upper I)
Vocabulary,
Intermediat Grammar) * Adopt approaches in
e developing paragraphs in an
essay
* Understand and familiarise
the graphic information as
well as how to interpret the
factual information
accurately
2 3 Writing #2 Interperting * Develop a good
graphic understanding of different
information and types of visual data
describing trends
* Identify the main purpose
of the task given and make it
into an intoductory
paragraph (an overview)
* Heighten vocabulary skills
necessary for describing
trends
3 3 Writing #3 Summarising * Learn to select the main
information points and illustrate them
with relevant data
* Learn how to plan each
paragraph and develop them
into a full essay
4 3 Writing #4 Comparing and * Practice how to use
grouping expressions involving
information comparisons
* Understand how to
catagorise or group
information from the task
 that has more than one piece
of visual material
5 3 Reading #1 Reading * Heighten reading skills
Strategies necessary for completing
each question type
* Learn how to use reading
strategies such as scaning for
a specific detail and skiming
for general understanding
* Identify main and
supporting ideas precisely
and consisely
6 3 Reading #2 IELTS Reading * Practice how to use
test practice specific information to
complete a flowchart,
diagram and table
* Learn how to approach the
task on True/ False/ Not
Given
* Enhance summarising skill
to approach the task on
summary completion
7 3 Reading #3 IELTS Reading * Learn how to capture the
test practice main themes of each
paragraph and complete the
task on choosing headings
for each paragraph
8 3 Reading #4 Advanced * Develop the skills to
Practice master in Academic Reading
module
* Practice the wider range of
advanced level tests