IELTS Academic.
The IELTS Academic course is an essential program for individuals who wish to study at undergraduate or postgraduate levels or for professional registration.
The course covers four main sections: Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking. The course is comprehensive and academically rigorous, putting equal weight on reading, writing, listening, speaking, and test-taking strategies. The course also covers sub-skills such as academic vocabulary, academic style, and study skills each day.
The IELTS Academic test assesses the English language proficiency of test-takers in an academic context. The test consists of various tasks that evaluate the test-takers ability to understand and use academic language, including complex vocabulary and grammar structures. The IELTS Academic course aims to enhance students' knowledge and awareness of the test format, structure, and requirements. It equips students with different test-taking techniques and strategies, academic vocabulary, academic style, and study skills. The course also provides students with opportunities to practice their skills through various activities, such as speaking and writing practices, SCRIBO writing, ELSS visits, and practice papers.
By the end of the course, students should be able to recognize their true level in speaking, reading, listening, and writing, recognize and overcome challenges presented in the IELTS, and write different academic easy types.
In summary, the IELTS Academic course is a necessary program for individuals who wish to study or work overseas and need to take an English language test. The course provides students with the necessary skills and knowledge to succeed in the IELTS Academic test and achieve their academic or professional goals.
Course Outline
1. Listening ( four sections, all types of questions, note completion, form completion, MCQs single answer and double answer, diagram labelling, map labelling, plan labelling, matching types of questions, flowchart completion, summary completion, and sentence completion.
2. In-class practice of listening and after-class assignments.
3.Reading ( Three sections and all types of questions, MCQs, identifying information, identifying writer's view or claim, matching information, matching headings, matching features,
Matching sentence endings, summary completion, note completion, table completion, short answer questions, sentence completion, diagram labelling completion, flowchart completion)
4. In-class practice of reading with skimming scanning and general idea extraction techniques and after class assignments.
5. Writing task 1 Report writing and its 5 to 7 types (line graph, bar graph, pie chart, tables, process, maps, combinations and development )
6. Writing task 2
Essay writing and its five types(Agree and disagree essay, advantages and disadvantages essay, reasons and solution essay, reason and opinion essay, and opinion on both points of view essay.)
7. In-class writing practice and after-class writing assignments.
8. Speaking and its three parts. (Introduction and general questions part 1, cue card or long term question part 2, discussion or cross questions part 3)
9. In-class speaking practice and after-class speaking assignments.
10. Basic grammar and tenses
11. Use of sentence starters, connectors, conversation fillers and idiomatic language.
12. Development of the lexical resource and vocabulary.
13. Sentence structure simple, compound, complex and compound complex.
14. Active and passive tense for report writing.
15. Model verbs and noun phrases.
16. Practice of task completion, lexical resources, pronunciation or grammar and cohesion in writing tasks.
17. Mock tests at every weekend and after the month at the completion of the course.
