IELTS Course Outline

Listening module Reading module
  • anticipating content
  • listening for specific information
  • identifying main ideas
  • identifying detail
  • interpreting stress, rhythm and intonation
  • identifying and following signpost words
  • different ways of reading (skimming, scanning, reading intensively)
  • understanding the organisation of a passage
  • identifying main and supporting ideas
  • summarizing
  • distinguishing facts from opinions
  • identifying opinion/attitude and making inferences (reading 'between the lines')
  • matching information
  • extracting meaning from a text where not all vocabulary is understood
  • exam strategy
Speaking module Writing module
  • predicting topics
  • asking for clarification
  • conveying meaning
  • responding appropriately
  • becoming more fluent
  • structuring an individual talk
  • exploring a theme
  • producing a reasoned response (giving and supporting opinions)
  • describing facts and figures (bar charts, pie charts, tables) - Academic module only
  • describing trends (line graphs) - Academic module only
  • summarising data - Academic module only
  • describing a process - Academic module only
  • letter writing - General Training module only
  • structuring a discursive composition
  • introducing topics and main ideas
  • developing an argument / supporting an opinion
  • writing coherently and cohesively
  • building complex sentences