IELTS Band 7+ Complete Prep Course

Academic and General Syllabi

If you are interested in accelerating through the course at a faster pace, you will find the Accelerated Syllabus for the Academic and General Tests. Some students are already familiar with the exam, and they want to go faster than those who want to take the entire course.

For those who know exactly what they need from a course, you can go directly to the course sections that cover your needs. For example, if you want to study Reading first, look at the curriculum and go directly to the Academic or General Reading Section(s).

How to excel in your courses

Do you know how to learn? Many students don’t. Specifically, they don’t know how to look inward to examine how they learn and judge what’s effective.

About metacognition

• Metacognition is often referred to as “thinking about thinking.” Metacognitive strategies are techniques that help students become more successful learners.

• Metacognition allows you to take charge of your learning.

• Learners often show an increase in self-confidence when they build metacognitive skills. Self-confidence improves motivation as well as learning success.

• Metacognitive knowledge is crucial for efficient independent learning for all age groups because it fosters forethought and self-reflection.

We use the following books in this course.

7. Cambridge IELTS 7 PDF book +

8. Cambridge IELTS 8 PDF book + CD

9. Cambridge IELTS 9 PDF book + CD

10. Cambridge IELTS 10 PDF book + CD

11. Cambridge IELTS 11 PDF book + CD

12. Cambridge IELTS 12 PDF book + C

13. Cambridge IELTS 13 PDF book + CD

14. Cambridge IELTS 14 PDF book + CD

15. Cambridge IELTS 15 PDF Book + Audio

16. Cambridge IELTS 16 PDF Book + Audio

17. Cambridge IELTS 17 PDF Book + Audio

18. Cambridge IELTS 18 PDF Book + Audio

IELTS Trainer Books 1 and 2

The 2014 (8 tests) Official Cambridge Guide To Ielts Student's Book With Answers With Dvd Rom

Book by Amanda French, Pauline Cullen, and Vanessa Jakeman

Look at the resources, and you will see the images of the BOOK COVERS. This will help you know if you get the correct book when you obtain your copies.

As stated in the course description, we CANNOT give you these books. This is because this material is protected by copyright and trademark laws. Our students find these books on Amazon. Cambridge, Facebook, and Google search for the versions they seek and in the format they need.  They also find them much cheaper than we would charge if we included that fee. This course is priced to maximize your economic budget.

The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) is an international standard for describing language ability. This will determine your English level. The greater your English level, the better you can apply the strategies you learn in this course.

Make sure that you also read over the Fill the Blank Strategy1

At the end of the video, we say that the listening strategy application lectures are coming up next, which will begin in the next section. We recently reorganized some lectures because it would be better for students to receive that information before approaching the strategy application lectures. We constantly try to re-work the course to give students the best experience.

This is an Article that gives you advice and suggestions about how to improve your overall listening ability. Students often struggle to apply the course strategies and tactics they learn because of insufficient English skills. You can completely understand how to apply a strategy, but without English skills, achieving what you want becomes more and more likely as a result. So, outside of what you learn in this course, you need to work independently on improving your English level, and this article gives advice on how to improve listening.

1. Make sure that you have paper and pencil ready.

2. After you complete the spelling test, download the Answer Key and check your results.

Good Luck!

Before you get started learning and applying our practical listening exam strategies, go ahead and take a 4 part diagnostic test to determine your current strengths and weaknesses. Make a note of question types and question sections that gave you the most problems. This way, you can better tailor your learning from the upcoming lectures.

Go to the following link and complete the 4 Sections of the Free Online Listening Test 1. DO NOT COMPLETE TEST 2 as it is reserved as the Post-Diagnostic TEST:

https://takeielts.britishcouncil.org/take-ielts/prepare/free-ielts-practice-tests/listening

Band Score Calculator: Use the following Band Score Calculator to determine your current level.

http://ielts.calculator.free.fr/

Many students struggle with some of the micro-skills associated with the IELTS listening section, which you mainly find in Section 1 or possibly Section 2.

These Micro-Skills related to spelling:

1. Names

2. Dates

3. TImes

4. NUmbers

5. Prices

6. Postcodes

7. Email Address

8. Street Names

9. Institution Names

etc.

Go to this link on YouTube. It is a good link if you need more practice in this area. In the future, I may add additional practices in this area

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezKZWfoxIdo&list=PLeTHI0JOWYXR-Yjd-Dt6fn_1ipNDiPbQI&index=1

This is from Book 13 Test 1 Section 1

This will review the application of strategy and point out the tricks and traps used by the test makers. The purpose of this is for teaching!

This is Part 2 of our directional map challenge. Follow along and work on following Map Terminology.