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How to teach IELTS

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Cambridge English Exams

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Course summary:
Gain a thorough understanding of IELTS and help your learners
approach the exam with confidence. Use practical strategies and
activities to fully prepare your learners for exam success. Print certificate

Course progress:

Content viewed 100%

Activities completed 100%

Activity score 100%

Average score of all users 97%

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Suitable for:

This course is ideal if

You are, or will be, preparing learners for the IELTS test.
You want to help your learners get better results by improving your
approach.
This course is about preparing others for IELTS, not taking it yourself.

You should already have

B2 level English or higher.
Basic lesson planning skills.
Basic understanding of the IELTS test.
Learners that you are currently teaching.*
This course is appropriate for teachers with any level of experience.

* Recommended but not essential.

Awards:

Certificate of Completion
Your certificate from Cambridge University Press and Cambridge English Language
Assessment is awarded at the end of the course.
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Aims:

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Written by the same organisation that’s involved in writing and assessing the IELTS test, this course
explains how to teach all four papers: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening (including Academic and
General Training options, and all sections). The course first explores what it means to be good at these
skills, before explaining how they are assessed, the types of tasks learners can expect, and strategies for
each of those tasks. Finally you’ll learn how to apply this knowledge to the classroom with practical
teaching ideas that give learners confidence and help them perform at their best.

By taking this course, you’ll learn

What you need to do to fully prepare learners for their exam.
How the exam works and is assessed.
Practical strategies and activities to help learners achieve results.
How to deal with common problems learners have while preparing.
How to reflect on this and its implications for your teaching.

Methods:

Online Self­Study

Read and complete exercises in your web­browser, from anywhere with an Internet
connection.
Video, text and interactive activities to reinforce understanding.
Discussion forums with other teachers on the course.
Online Journal to reflect on what you learn.
End­of­course quiz provides feedback and suggests areas for revision.
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Course duration:

15 ­ 25 hours of study

This is an estimate. How long the course takes will depend on the amount of time you
spend on the course activities, posting to the forums, reflecting in your Journal, etc.

12 months to complete

This is how long you’ll have access to the course once you enrol. Any material you wish
to refer to in future should be printed during this period.

Units:

1. Reading Skills and Text Types

Task Types; Previewing and Predicting Skills; Text Types; Matching Headings Tasks.

2. Reading Skills and Task Types

Scanning Skills; Matching Features Tasks; Matching Information Tasks; Sentence Completion Tasks; Note Completion Tasks; Other Completion

Tasks; The General Training and Academic Reading Tests.

3. Reading Skills, Task Types and Strategies

Preparing Learners; Recognising Cohesion; Identifying Information Tasks; Guessing Words from Context; Multiple Choice Questions Tasks;

Short Answer Questions Tasks.

4. Writing Skills and Learner Problems

What Makes a Good Writer; Assessing Writing; Learner Problems; Formal and Informal Writing; Identifying Grammatical Errors.

5. Writing Task 1 and Assessment

Assessing Task Achievement; Assessing Lexical Resource; Assessing Grammatical Range; Assessing Coherence and Cohesion; Answering Task 1

6. Writing Task 2 and the Stages in Writing

Thinking About Writing Stages; Writing the Introduction; Cohesion; Using Subordinate Clauses; Avoiding Repetition; Writing the Final

Paragraph.

7. Listening Skills and Listening Sections 1 and 2

Thinking About Listening Skills; Task Types; Predicting Skills; Intensive Listening.

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8. Listening Sections 3 and 4
Matching Questions Tasks; Multiple Choice Questions Tasks.

9. Speaking Skills and Part 1

Assessment Criteria; Assessing Pronunciation.

10. Speaking Parts 2 and 3

Using Fillers; Other Speaking Skills.

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