Course name: PRE-IELTS (Academic Modules)                        

Course length: 10 weeks (4 meetings/ week), equivalent to 80 hours

Vietnamese/native rate: 30 meetings/10 meetings

Primary material: 

• Mindset for IELTS – Foundation (Cambridge University Press)
• Online Modules (Go to www.cambridgelms.org/main to activate the online modules by using the activation code on the front cover of Mindset for IELTS – Foundation. This code can be used only once and provide 18 months’ access to the online modules.)

Supplementary material:

• Supplement for PRE-IELTS (Gia Viet Inhouse Material)
• Get Ready for IELTS Listening (Collins Cobuild)
• Basic IELTS Listening (HCMC Publishing House)
• Basic IELTS Reading (HCMC Publishing House)
• Complete IELTS band 4.0-5.0 (Cambridge University Press)
• The New Prepare for IELTS (Insearch UTS)
• IELTS Foundation Study Skills (Macmillan Education)

SPEAKING FOCUS:

• Conversational skills and confidence in using language for conversing about daily topics;
• Speaking task types and requirements of parts 1 and 2 of the IELTS Speaking test;
• Vocabulary for common topics: daily life, house and home, hobbies/leisure/entertainment, travel and holidays, food, transport and places in town, jobs/work/study, health/medicine, language, science and technology

SPEAKING OUTCOMES (SWBAT):

• initiate and maintain conversations and interactions with a partner by using questioning skills and communicative strategies;
• use key vocabulary for each topic with accurate word stress and acceptable sentence stress and intonation;
• express ideas across present, past, and future timeframes using correct tenses;
• use simple and compound structures in speaking performance; complex structures, however, are limited and with frequent errors. 

LISTENING FOCUS:

• Typical listening tasks (social exchanges) in part 1 of the Listening test;
• Question types: spelling and numbers, multiple choice, short answer questions, sentence completion, and note completion.

LISTENING OUTCOMES (SWBAT):

• complete a listening test with 3 sections (30 questions in total) with at least 12/30 correct answers. 

READING FOCUS:

• Short reading texts and tasks found in General IELTS (70%) and Academic IELTS (30%) with topics such as daily routine, housing and accommodation, holiday activities, food festivals, jobs and employment, language development, the internet.
• Reading skills: skimming and scanning
• Reading strategies: reading for specific information and detailed meaning, guessing meaning and understanding instructions, identifying key words from a reading text, summarizing key information.
• Reading questions: multiple choice, sentence completion, note completion, true/false/not given, matching, short-answer questions;

LISTENING OUTCOMES (SWBAT):

• complete a Reading test (2 reading passages from General IELTS and 1 from Academic IELTS) and answer 15 out of 30 questions correctly.

WRITING TASK 1 (SWBAT):

• write a report on a simple line graph (80-100 words, with a clear structure (opening, overall information, key features) but these parts may be underdeveloped;
• use appropriate simple words for describing trends (i.e. increase, decrease, fluctuate, stabilize, etc.);
• write informal (to a friend) and formal (job application) emails with a clear structure (salutation, body, closing).

WRITING TASK 2 (SWBAT):

• write a well-developed essay describing advantages and disadvantages with a clear structure (short introduction, two body paragraphs, short conclusion)
• use basic paraphrasing, simple/compound structures/basic cohesive devices in writing.