Preparing for the IELTS exam
Listening, Reading, Grammar, and Speaking Training
What you'll learn
- Understand the introduction to IELTS preparation
- Improve listening skills and vocabulary
- Develop reading skills
- Practice reading and comprehension
- Develop English grammar
- Get to know tips for passing the speaking test
- Make use of general tips and guidance
About this course
This course shows how to prepare for the IELTS exam by training on listening, reading, grammar and speaking skills. It starts with an introduction to the IELTS preparation course, then three parts on listening skills and improving your vocabulary, two parts on reading skills, reading and comprehension exercises, and three parts on improving your grammar. After that it presents two parts on tips to pass the speaking test, then general tips and guidance, and a downloadable book. It suits anyone preparing for the IELTS exam for study or travel who wants to organize their revision, and it helps if you already have a basic level of English. The course combines explanation with practical training for each skill separately, so you can find your strengths and weaknesses and focus your study on them. By the end, you will know how to prepare for each section of the test, practice listening, reading and grammar, and be better prepared for the speaking section.
Expected outcomes
- Master the essential skills to pass the IELTS test.
- Increase vocabulary and improve grammar.
- Ability to answer test questions accurately and quickly.
- Complete confidence during the speaking section.
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Course content
1Preparing for the IELTS Exam
13 lectures
- Introduction to the IELTS Preparation CourseGives an overview of the IELTS preparation course content, and explains the exam's division into four sections: listening, reading, writing, and speaking, with the duration of each.12:08
- Listening Skills Improving Your Vocabulary and Listening Skills (Part One)Covers new vocabulary describing personality traits such as talkative, cheerful, indecisive, and clumsy, to help understand IELTS listening and reading questions.20:38
- Listening Skills Improving Your Vocabulary and Listening Skills (Part Two)Practices reading a passage about popularity and likeability among teenagers, answering true/false/not given questions, and explains new vocabulary from the text.16:37
- Listening Skills Improving Your Vocabulary and Listening Skills (Part Three)Covers new vocabulary related to using an English-English dictionary such as phonemic, grammatical, and informal, and its usefulness for learning correct pronunciation and meaning.13:35
- Reading Skills Improving Your Reading Skills (Part One)Explains how to identify word types in a reading passage through font style such as bold and italic, and how to infer sentence meaning from context without understanding every word.13:30
- Reading Skills Improving Your Reading Skills (Part Two)Practices translating and understanding a reading passage about the history of the nutmeg trade in Asia, in preparation for comprehension questions in the next lecture.24:46
- Exercises on Reading and Comprehension Skills PracticeSolves comprehension questions on the nutmeg reading passage, including sentence completion, true/false/not given, and table completion, explaining how to extract answers from the text.11:25
- Improving Grammar Skills (Part One)Explains simple tenses in English such as present simple, past simple, and present perfect simple, their uses, and how to form negatives and questions in each.23:48
- Improving Grammar Skills (Part Two)Explains continuous tenses in English such as present continuous, past continuous, and present perfect continuous, and their uses in describing temporary situations and ongoing events.10:55
- Improving Your Grammar (Part 3)Explains past perfect tenses such as past perfect and past perfect continuous, and the use of used to and would to express past habits that have stopped.10:26
- Tips to Pass the Speaking Test (Part 1)Explains how to answer personal questions in Part 1 of the IELTS speaking test, with tips on pronunciation, fluency, and using the appropriate tense for each question.20:36
- Tips to Pass the Speaking Test (Part 2)Explains how to answer general topic questions in Part 3 of the IELTS speaking test, through examples of matching suitable answers to the questions asked.9:38
- General Tips and GuidelinesSummarizes the four IELTS exam sections and key tips for each, and explains the suitable preparation period and how the certificate is used for travel, study, or work abroad.10:30
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Instructor
Inas El-Sayed Ali
