IELTS
IELTS is an Examination for University entry to
England, Australia and New Zealand. It is also used for immigration
purposes, career testing and professional body membership.
Useful Books
Insight Into IELTS
An excellent resource for both teachers and
students who are aiming to score higher grades in IELTs with detailed
guides to all aspects of the exam and a complete practice paper.
However I'd recommend against using this for weaker learners as a good
knowledge of the English language is assumed. Read
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Paperback 190 pages (November 15, 2001)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
ISBN: 0521011485
Step Upto IELTS
This book provides a course for weaker students to
try to score IELTs 5 - 5.5. It is a good coursebook for Upper
Intermediate learners.
This course covers essential exam skills and
language for IELTS in approximately 60 hours' teaching time, and
familiarises students quickly with the exam. The course covers both the
Academic and General Training modules It provides students with
invaluable advice on how to maximise their band score in the exam.
Shorter, achievable exam-type tasks build students' exam skills, before
students try the more challenging tasks at authentic test level. The
test practice sections at the end of each unit together constitute a
whole sample IELTS test.
The 'With answers' edition contains a full answer
key and information on the exam, making it ideal for students preparing
independently. For students with more time, the pocket-sized Personal
Study Book provides extra vocabulary, grammar and writing practice. The
Self-study Pack contains the Self-study Student's Book and Audio CDs
(2). Read
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Paperback 112 pages (May 13, 2004)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
ISBN: 0521533023
IELTS Examinations books
IELTs
Testbuilder is the
cheapest of the IELTS examination books and comes with 2 CDs, but for
schools it is worth getting more than just this book and the Cambridge
University Press series are excellent if a little pricey.
(Please make sure you buy the self-study packs
with CDs)
For large schools IELTS
2 and IELTS
1 do provide
good practice, but they're very old and so I'd make them the final
purchases.
Resources on this Website
- IELTs
Speaking Subjects (75KB PDF)
Introductory lesson to the speaking part 2.
- Logging In
Indonesia
This includes a complete Task 1 and 2 writing exercise with sample
answer.
- IELTS
Writing Timings (68KB PDF)
Encourages better time management in the writing exam.
- Children of
East Asia (181KB PDF)
An exercise that explores children's values, aspirations and
expectations in East Asia. It includes, a vocabulary exercise, reading
comprehension, discussion and writing questions and an IELTs style
Writing task 1.
- Logging in
Indonesia
Listening resource, but also includes IELTs wriitng task 1 and 2 with sample
answers.
Marking Sheet
Open Office Marking Sheet (18KB OTS)
An Open Office Template that provides, IELTs band conversion, score averaging to a half band and class averaging. - Microsoft Excel Marking Sheet (124KB XLT)
Microsoft Excel Template that provides, IELTs band conversion, score averaging to a half band and class averaging.
Writing Task 1
Resources
- IELTs
Graph-writing guide (136KB PDF)
This includes sample question, key-vocab, guided wriitng exercise,
sample answer and teaching ideas. All designed with black and white
printers in mind.
- Graphs
Advanced Vocab (79KB PDF)
An exercise to build vocabulary for IELTs task 1 when describing
graphs.
- IELTS
Task 1 Further Vocab (66KB PDF)
More vocabulary for handling IELTs task 1
Writing Task 2 Resources
- 20 Sample Answers
Real samples from real students with grammar corrections and banding. These
could also be useful for those doing TOEFL iBT.
- IELTS
Writing Topic Guide (71KB PDF)
Guide to likely topics in the IELTs writing exam part 2
- How to Write An
Introduction (107KB PDF)
This guide shows you how to write introductions when in an exam such as
IELTs
and when doing an assignment.
- Guide
to argumentative essays
Our guide to writing argumentative essays with impact.
- Top 25 Moments
of 2007 (202KB PDF)
This is a good opportunity for students to describe pictures and write
their own reflections on the year. Also useful for IELTs students,
because it has an IELTs Task 2 Writing exercise.
Listening Resources
IELTS Pub Quiz
This is an ideal consolidation exercise for
students at the end of an IELTs course. It is also a good way to cover
common grammar mistakes. For this Pub Quiz you need to download the
following:
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