Level 1ESOL (IELTS 5.5/6.5)

Overview

Overview

This course will help you to improve your speaking, listening, reading and writing in English. We will help you to prepare for the IELTS Academic Test. More information can be found at www.ielts.org.

This course will help you to:

• Practise for the IELTS Academic exam in all 4 areas – reading, writing, speaking & listening.

• Understand the question types in all four areas and understand what the examiners expect from your answers.

• Tell the difference between a good and a bad answer in the IELTS exam.

• Produce clear, well-structured writing on complex subjects.

• Understand a range of complex written texts and extract relevant information.

• Listen and extract specific and general meaning in order to complete a variety of tasks.

• Express your ideas clearly in speaking and interact with others naturally and without too much difficulty.

Intermediate Level IELTS topics include: culture, health, the arts, education, business, science and communication.

We will also review and study a range of grammatical areas including: tenses, modal verbs, prepositions, articles, reported speech, relative clauses, question formation, conditionals, nouns and adjectives, gerunds and infinitives, quantifiers and adverbs together with useful language needed to answer specific exam tasks; for example, language to describe statistical information and cause and effect