IELTS Achiever (5.0-6.0)
| Week | Lesson | Duration | Lesson content | Aim |
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| 1 | 1 | 1.5hrs | “Unit 1: Urban and Rural life: Reading (p.8-12) Exam skills (p.12-13)”. HW: Reading practice 1. |
Matching heading tasks, article review, understand the importance of understanding the whole paragraph, identify the main idea of a paragraph, understand the meaning of prefixes. |
| 2 | Exam skill 1: How to structure an essay and a body paragraph. HW: Exam skill 1 exercise, Writing practice 1. |
Structure an essay, structure a paragraph |
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| 3 | Exam skill 2: Paraphrase. HW: Exam skill 2 exercise, Writing practice 2 and 3. |
Understand the importance of paraphrasing. Paraphrase for writing task 2. |
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| 2 | 4 | 1.5hrs | Unit 1: Listening (p.19-23) (#1-11) | Task 1 completion task, names and numbers, listening to paraphrases for multiple choice questions, understand and use future time conditionals. |
| 5 | Exam skill 3: Speaking Practice part 1 strategy. | Structure an answer for the Speaking task 1, practice linking words and paraphrasing in speaking, practice speaking task 1. | ||
| 6 | Exam skill 4: Coherence and Cohesion in writing. HW: Exam skill 4 exercise, Writing practice 4. |
Understand the grading criteria for coherence and cohesion, use cohesive devices effectively, create a sense of logical progression between ideas and paragraphs. |
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| 3 | 7 | 1.5hrs | Exam skill 5: Writing task 1 – Line, table, bar, pie, mixed charts. HW: Exam skill 5 exercise, Writing practice 5. |
Understand the basic structure of an essay for task 1, review and practice for line, table, bar, pie, mixed charts. |
| 8 | “Unit 2: Health: Reading (p.30-35) (#1-16) Exam skills (p.35-37)”. HW: Reading practice 2 |
Skimming and Scanning, table and flow chart types of questions, quatifiers, paraphrases | ||
| 9 | “Unit 3: Art & Architecture: Reading (p.52-56), Exam skills (57-58). HW: Reading practice 3. |
True, False, Not Given, identify main and suporting ideas, use past tenses correctly | ||
| 4 | 10 | 1.5hrs | Listening practice 1 | |
| 11 | Exam skill 6: Speaking part 2 strategy. HW. Exam skill 6 exercise. |
Improve the note-taking process for part 2 Speaking, fluency and coherency, usage of idioms, cohesive devices, and useful phrases. | ||
| 12 | Unit 3: Listening (p.65-68) | Use preposition of place and movements correctly, label a map or a plan, answer multiple-choice questions, follow directions, identify distractors. | ||
| 5 | 13 | 1.5hrs | Unit 3: Writing task 1 – Map (p.59-64). HW: Writing practice 6. | Describe changes on map, including which tenses to use, summarize information with discourse markers, ensure good coherence and cohesion in your answer |
| 14 | Exam skill 7: Speaking part 3 strategy. HW: Exam skill 7 exercise. |
Structure an answer for the Speaking part 3, improve fluency and coherency. | ||
| 15 | “Unit 4: Finance & Business: Reading (p.73-77) (#1-12), Exam skills (p.77-78)”. HW: Reading practice 4 |
Matching features, develop whole-text understanding to enable you to answer global multiple-choice questions, consider the meaning and use of mod a ls of obligation, past and present. |
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| 6 | 16 | 1.5hrs | Unit 7: Listening (p.150-154) | Make use of signposting languages in talks, sentence completion tasks, complete flow charts |
| 17 | Unit 4: Listening (p.84-87) | Use questions to help you follow a talk, short answer questions, diagram labelling tasks | ||
| 18 | Unit 4: Speaking (p.88-92) | Improve lexical resources, use a range of opinion for introducing opinions, correctly use discourse markers to help justify your argument, modals of obligation | ||
| 7 | 19 | 1.5hrs | Exam skill 8: Writing task 1 – Process. HW: Exam skill 8 exercise, Writing practice 7. |
Students will be able to: + Understand the differences between linear process, cycle, and flow chart. + Understand how to write a process essay. + Practice with linear process, cycle, and flow chart. |
| 20 | Listening practice 2 | |||
| 21 | Speaking practice | |||
| 8 | 22 | 1.5hrs | Listening rewiew | |
| 23 | Reading review | |||
| 24 | Writing review | |||
| 9 | 25 | 1.5hrs | Midterm test Speaking and Corrections | |
| 26 | Midterm test – Feedback and corrections | |||
| 27 | “Unit 5: History: Reading (p.93-97). Exam skills (p.98-99)”. HW: Reading practice 5. |
Identify a writer’s claim or view, select from a list, Yes/No/Not given, review second, third, and mixed conditinals | ||
| 10 | 28 | 1.5hrs | Unit 5: Listening (p.105-109) | Describe trends and periods in history, select from a list and matching tasks, identify attitude and opinion, use prepositions of time correctly |
| 29 | Unit 5: Speaking (p.110-113) | Use a range of past time phrases in speaking, expressions for agreeing and disagreeing, develop answers for part 3 | ||
| 30 | Exam skill 9: Grammar review 1. HW: Exam skill 9 exercise, Writing practice 8. |
+ Understand the grading criteria for grammatical range and accuracy + Grammar review: Punctuation rules, Types of sentences, Relative clauses. + Improve grammatical range and accuracy in the writing task 2 essay. |
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| 11 | 31 | 1.5hrs | “Unit 6: Science & Technology: Reading (p.114-119) (#1-8), Exam skills (p.120-121). HW: Reading practice 6 |
Summary completion task with or without box of options, label a diagram, future tenses |
| 32 | Exam skill 10: Grammar review 2. HW: Exam skill 10 exercise, Writing practice 9. |
Review: the grading criteria for grammatical range and accuracy Grammar review: Articles, Participle phrases. Improve grammatical range and accuracy in the writing task 2 essay. |
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| 33 | Unit 7: Speaking (p.155-159) | Talk about a TV program, correct yourself and clarify while speaking, stress words correctly when correcting yourself, use the passive when speaking | ||
| 12 | 34 | 1.5hrs | Listening practice 3 | |
| 35 | Reading practice 7 | |||
| 36 | Writing practice 10 | |||
| 13 | 37 | 1.5hrs | Speaking practice | Teachers prepare own materials |
| 38 | Listening practice 4 | |||
| 39 | Final review | |||
| 14 | 40 | 1.5hrs | Final review | |
| FINAL TEST |