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Course Name: Preparatory Course for IELTS
Level: Secondary 3- Secondary 6
No. of Lessons: 20 (Suggested)
Lesson Duration:1 hour 30 minutes (Suggested)
Instructors: Native English teachers with a university degree ; related teaching experience, and/or teacher training such as TEFL, TESOL, CELTA, PGDE/PCEd, etc.
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Objectives
Eureka’s IELTS Preparatory Course aims to help students prepare for the international exam and enhance their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills for their future academic endeavours and beyond. This course will be especially useful for students aiming to study abroad, or those who wish to hone their English-language skills in preparation for the HKDSE* or other public examinations.
Features
- Skill-based curriculum covering essential areas and question types of the IELTS syllabus and beyond
- Includes pre-course assessments to help students identify their strengths and areas that need improvement
- Structured lesson plans for classroom delivery by native-speaking English teachers
- Interactive activities to encourage student participation
- Final mock test to evaluate learning
*This programme corresponds to levels B1 – C2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). This programme is compatible for those who wish to takes IELTS exam, or for those aiming to study it alongside or in preparation for the HKDSE (corresponds to level B1 – C1 of the CEFR).
Outline
Unit 1: Reading: Education
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- Information: IELTS Reading test
- Reading: Big ideas for better schools
- Be an active reader: Successful plagiarism 101
- The passive voice
- Vocabulary exercise
Unit 2: Reading: Study and Work
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- Warm-up: People Bingo
- Discussion
- Classifying information
- Adjectives and adverbs
- Listening exercise and discussion on a contemporary issue
- Lesson review
Unit 3: Reading: Health
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- Warm-up: Paper game
- Discussion on health
- Formal language
- Reading: Fatal addiction – the story of Scott Douglas
- Vocabulary exercises
- Adverbs of degree
- Listening exercise and discussion on the topic ‘health’
- Lesson review
Unit 4: Reading: Communication
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- Warm-up: Rescue me!
- Discussion on communication
- Synonyms
- Compound nouns
- Reading: First words
- Grammar exercises: phrasal verbs; adjective + noun
- Listening exercise and discussion on the topic ‘communication’
- Lesson review
Unit 5: Reading: Nature
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- Warm-up: What’s the meaning?
- Flora and fauna
- Compound nouns
- Vocabulary on ecology
- Reading: A remarkable beetle
- Commonly confused nouns
- Listening exercise and discussion on the topic ‘nature’
- Lesson review
Unit 6: Listening: Universe
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- Information: IELTS Listening test
- Directions: Blank filling
- Vocabulary: The Universe
- Making assumptions: Listening test sections 1 & 2
- Listening for numbers, alphabet, descriptions, time and frequency
- Vocabulary: The Universe
- Consolidation
- Lesson review
Unit 7: Listening: Travelling
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- Directions: Blank filling
- Listening for similar meanings, emotions, explanations and classifications
- Vocabulary: Tourism
- Verb agreement; singular/plural noun; pronoun agreement; articles
- Consolidation
- Lesson review
Unit 8: Listening: History
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- Gerunds, infinitives, and base form verbs
- Listening for comparisons & contrasts, negative meaning, chronology
- Vocabulary: History
- Consolidation
- Lesson review
Unit 9: Mock Test I: Reading & Writing
Unit 10: Writing I
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- Information: IELTS Writing test
- Information on task 1 & thesis statement
- Bar charts
- Pie charts
- The language of numeracy
- Fine-tuning
- Consolidation
- Lesson review
Unit 11: Writing II
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- Tables
- The language for trends
- Line graphs
- Spelling check
- Chronological order
- Prepositions
- Consolidation
- Lesson review
Unit 12: Writing III
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- Process & cycle diagrams
- Organizing ideas
- Consolidation
- Lesson review
Unit 13: Writing IV
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- Writing the introduction
- Improving sentence structures
- Consolidation
- Lesson review
Unit 14: Writing V
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- Writing a paragraph
- Language for stating an opinion
- Language for generalising and quantifying an opinion
- Writing the conclusion
- Consolidation
- Lesson review
Unit 15: Writing VI
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- Synonyms
- Comparisons and contrast
- Cause and effect
- Parallel structures
- Coherence
- Consolidation
- Lesson review
Unit 16: Speaking: Climate Change
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- Synonyms
- Comparisons and contrast
- Cause and effect
- Parallel structures
- Coherence
- Consolidation
- Lesson review
Unit 17: Speaking: The Arts
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- Warm-up: My dream job
- Introduction to IELTS Speaking Part 2
- Approaching the task
- Writing a note card
- Starting your speech
- Using connectives
- Reading, watching videos and discussing on the topic ‘Arts’
- Lesson review
Unit 18: Speaking: The Media
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- Warm-up: Did you know?
- About current affairs
- Introduction to IELTS Speaking test Part 3
- Approaching the question
- Expressing your opinion
- Reading, watching video and discussion on the topic ‘Media’
- Lesson review
Unit 19: Speaking: Talking Business
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- Warm-up: How much do you know?
- IELTS Speaking test tips
- Becoming a better communicator
- Emphasising ideas
- During the test
- Talking business
- Speaking: Mock tests I & II
- Lesson review