IELTS TARGET 6.5+
Week | Lesson | Duration | Lesson content | Lesson outcomes |
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1 | 1 | 1.5 hrs | Reading practice 1 | Review about testing format, main topics, signposting languages, and paraphrases in the reading test |
2 | 1.5 hrs | Exam skill 1: How to structure an essay and a body paragraph.
HW: Exam skill 1 exercise, Writing practice 1. |
Students will be able to learn how to:
+ Structure an essay + Structure a paragraph |
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3 | 1.5 hrs | Exam skill 2: Paraphrase.
HW: Exam skill 2 exercise, Writing practice 2. |
Students will be able to:
+ Understand the importance of paraphrasing. + Paraphrase for writing task 2. |
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2 | 4 | 1.5 hrs | Listening practice 1 | + Review about signposting languages and paraphrases in the listening test.
+ Review about the decimal separators and the thousands separators. |
5 | 1.5 hrs | 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 | 1.5 hrs | Exam skill 4: Coherence and Cohesion in writing.
HW: Exam skill 4 exercise, Writing practice 3. |
Understand the grading criteria for coherence and cohesion, use cohesive devices effectively, create a sense of logical progression between ideas and paragraphs. | |
3 | 7 | 1.5 hrs | Exam skill 5: Writing task 1 – Line, table, bar, pie, mixed charts.
HW: Exam skill 5 exercise, Writing practice 4. |
Understand the basic structure of an essay for task 1, review and practice for line, table, bar, pie, mixed charts. |
8 | 1.5 hrs | Reading practice 2 | ||
9 | 1.5 hrs | Listening practice 2 | ||
4 | 10 | 1.5 hrs | Exam skill 6: Speaking part 2 strategy.
HW: Exam skill 6 exercise. |
Students will be able to learn how to:
+ Improve the note-taking process for part 2 Speaking. + Improve fluency and coherency. + Improve usage of idioms, cohesive devices, and useful phrases. |
11 | 1.5 hrs | Exam skill 7: Grammar review 1 – Types of sentences, Relative Clauses, Participle Phrases.
HW: Exam skill 7 exercise, Writing practice 5. |
Understand the grading criteria for grammatical range and accuracy
Grammar review: Types of sentences, Relative clauses, Participle Phrases. Improve grammatical range and accuracy in the writing task 1 and 2 essays. |
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12 | 1.5 hrs | Exam skill 8: Writing task 1- Map.
HW: Writing practice 6. |
How to analyze a map, useful words and expressions for writing task 1 map | |
5 | 13 | 1.5 hrs | Exam skill 9: Writing task 1 – Process.
HW: Exam skill 9, Writing practice 7. |
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. |
14 | 1.5 hrs | Listening practice 3 | ||
15 | 1.5 hrs | Reading practice 3 | ||
6 | 16 | 1.5 hrs | Complete IELTS 6.5-7.5, Unit 2 Speaking + Pronunciation + page 24-25, Unit 3 Vocabulary + Speaking + Pronunciation page 35-36. | Speaking part 2: Useful expressions to begin and end the talk, maintain fluency and coherency, practice making notes, practice intonation + linking + pausing |
17 | 1.5 hrs | Listening practice 4 | ||
18 | 1.5 hrs | Exam skill 10: Speaking part 3 strategy.
HW: Exam skill 10 exercise. |
Structure an answer for the Speaking part 3, improve fluency and coherency. | |
7 | 19 | 1.5 hrs | Complete IELTS 6.5-7.5, Unit 4 Speaking + Pronunciation + Key grammar page 45-49, Unit 5 Pronunciation + Key grammar page 59-60. | Speaking part 2 and 3: Using advanced vocabulary, addressing abstract topics, generalizing and distancing, speech rate and chunking, sentence stress, expressing purpose, cause and effect, conditionals in speaking. |
20 | 1.5 hrs | Complete IELTS 6.5-7.5, Unit 6 Speaking + Pronunciation 66-69, Unit 7 Speaking + Pronunciation + Key grammar 79-81 | Speaking part 2 and 3: Advantages and disadvantages, paraphrasing unknown and forgotten vocab, structure the talk, using advanced vocab, intonation practice, word stress, speculating about the future. | |
21 | 1.5 hrs | Writing task 1: Complete IELTS 6.5-7.5, Unit 5, Writing task 1 diagram, page 60-61. | How to analyze a proccess, useful words and expressions for writing task 1 proccesses, participle clauses review | |
8 | 22 | 1.5 hrs | Listening and Speaking review | Teachers prepare own materials |
23 | 1.5 hrs | Reading review | ||
24 | 1.5 hrs | Writing review | ||
9 | 25 | 1.5 hrs | Midterm test – Feedback and corrections | |
26 | 1.5 hrs | Midterm test – Feedback and corrections | ||
27 | 1.5 hrs | “Exam skill 11: Grammar review 2.
HW: Exam skill 11 exercise, Writing practice 8.” |
+ Understand the grading criteria for grammatical range and accuracy
+ Grammar review: If clauses, Inversion, and Parallelism. + Improve grammatical range and accuracy in the writing task 1 and task 2 essay. |
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10 | 28 | 1.5 hrs | Listening practice 5 | |
29 | 1.5 hrs | Complete IELTS 6.5-7.5, Unit 8 Speaking + Pronunciation 89-91, Speaking practice | Speaking part 2 and 3: Understand the question and give appropriate answers, use a range of language functions, rhythm and chunking. | |
30 | 1.5 hrs | Reading practice 4 | ||
11 | 31 | 1.5 hrs | Writing practice 9 | |
32 | 1.5 hrs | Listening practice 6 | ||
33 | 1.5 hrs | Speaking practice | ||
12 | 34 | 1.5 hrs | Reading practice 5 | |
35 | 1.5 hrs | Writing practice 10 | ||
36 | 1.5 hrs | Listening practice 7 | ||
13 | 37 | 1.5 hrs | Speaking practice | Teachers prepare own materials |
38 | 1.5 hrs | Listening practice | Teachers prepare own materialsq | |
39 | 1.5 hrs | Reading practice | Teachers prepare own materials | |
14 | 40 | 1.5 hrs | Final test: Speaking | Teachers prepare own materials |
Final test: Listening, Reading, Writing. | Teachers prepare own materials |