
Course Name: Preparatory Course for IELTS
Level: Secondary 4- Secondary 6
No. of Lessons: XX (Suggested)
Lesson Duration: 3 hrs (Suggested)
Instructors: Native English teachers with a university degree ; related teaching experience, and/or teacher training such as TEFL, TESOL, CELTA, PGDE/PCEd, etc.
課程目標
雅理加的雅思預備課程旨在幫助學生為國際考試做準備,並提高他們的聽、說、讀、寫能力,為他們未來的學術努力及其他方面做好準備。 本課程對有意出國留學的學生或希望磨練英語能力以準備HKDSE*或其他公開考試的學生特別有用。
課程特色
- 以技能為基礎的課程,涵蓋雅思教學大綱及其他重要領域
- 包括課前評估,以幫助學生確定他們的優勢和需要改進的領域
- 由以英語為母語的導師編制課堂教學計劃
- 鼓勵學生參與度的互動活動
- 評估學習的終期模擬測試
*該計劃對應於歐洲共同語言參考框架 (CEFR) 的 B1 – C2 級。 該課程適合那些希望參加雅思考試的人,或者那些打算同時學習或準備HKDSE考試的人(對應於 CEFR 的 B1 – C1 級)。
課程大綱
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