Introduction
IELTS Summary
IELTS Listening skills
1 Getting ready to listen
1 Understanding the context
2 Using the correct spelling
3 Writing numbers
2 Following a conversation
1 Identifying the speakers
2 Identifying function
3 Understanding categories
3 Recognisingaraphrase
1 Identifying distractors
2 Recognisingaraphrase
3 Selecting from a list
4laces and directions
1 Describing alace
2 Following directions
3 Labelling a map
5 Listening for actions androcesses
1 Understanding mechanicalarts
2 Describing an action orrocess
3 Describing arocess
6 Attitude and opinion
1 Identifying attitudes and opinions
2ersuading and suggesting
3 Reaching a decision
7 Following a lecture or talk
1 Identifying main ideas
2 Understanding how ideas are connected
3 Understanding an explanation
8 Contrasting ideas
1 Signposting words
2 Comparing and contrasting ideas
3 Using notes to follow a talk
IELTS Reading skills
1 Reading strategies
1 Using the features of a Reading
passage
2 Skimming aassage and speed reading
3 Global understanding
2 Descriptiveassages
1 Scanning for detail
2 Using words from theassage
3 Notesflow-chartdiagram completion
3 Understanding the main ideas
1 Identifying the main idea
2 Understanding the mainoints
3 Identifying information in aassage
4 Locating and matching information
1 Identifying types of information
2 Locating and matching information
3 How ideas are connected
5 Discursiveassages
1 Discursiveassages
2 Identifying theories and opinions
3 Matching features
6 Multiple-choice questions
1 Understanding longerieces of text
2 Different types of multiple choice
3 Identifying a writer’surpose
7 Opinions and attitudes
1 Argumentative texts
2 Identifying the writer’s viewsclaims
3 Identifying grammatical features
8 General Training Reading
1 The General Training Readingaper
2 Dealing with multiple texts
3 Understanding work-related texts
IELTS Writing
1 Academic Writing Task 1 –
Describing a chart, table or graph
1 Understanding graphs, tables and charts
2 More complex charts
3 Improving your Task Achievement score
2 Academic Writing Task 1 – Comparing
and contrasting graphs and tables
1 Avoiding repetition
2 Comparing and contrasting data
3 Grammatical Accuracy – describing
numbers and figures accurately
3 Academic Writing Task 1 –
Describing diagrams
1 Understanding a diagram
2 Describing arocess – coherence
and cohesion
3 Lexical Resource – being accurate
4 Academic Writing Task 1 –
Describing maps
1 Describing a map
2 Describing changes in alace
3 Grammatical Accuracy
5 General Training Writing Task 1 –
A letter
1 Understanding the task
2 Improving your score
3 Checking and correcting
6 Writing Task 2 – Getting ready to write
1 Understanding the task
2lanning and organising your ideas
3 Getting started – writing an
introduction
7 Writing Task 2 – Expressing your
ideas clearly
1 Linking ideas – cohesion
2 Lexical Resource – avoiding repetition
3 Expressing aersonal view
8 Writing Task 2 – Checking and
correcting
1 Developing your ideas clearly
2 Grammatical Accuracy
3 Assessing your language
IELTS Speaking
1 The Speaking Test –art 1
1 Getting ready to speak
2art 1 – talking about familiar topics
3 Using the right tense – Grammatical
Range and Accuracy
2art 2 – Giving a talk
1 Understanding the task
2 Improving Fluency and Coherence
3 Organising your notes and your talk
3art 3 – Talking about abstract topics
1 Talking about abstract topics
2 Agreeing and disagreeing
3 Improving your Lexical Resource score
4 Checking, correcting and assessing
1 Dealing withroblems
2ronunciation, intonation and ‘chunking’
3 Assessing yourself and improving
your score
Practice Tests
Practice Test 1
Practice Test 2
Practice Test 3
Practice Test 4
Practice Test 5
Practice Test 6
Practice Test 7
General Training Test
Practice Test 8
General Training Test
Recording Scripts
Answer Key
Sample Answer Sheets