IELTS COURSE

IELTS Advanced

www.ieltscnr.com/ielts_advanced

This course is designed to help students work toward a bandscore 7.0+. It covers highlevel academic/general vocabulary looking at the more unusual and colourful language used by native speakers - including idioms, expressions and collocation.

The course also provides a good overview of the grammar structures needed to show a high level in the speaking and writing exam, including conditionals (mixed), elliptical and inverted sentences among others. The listenings and readings are challenging and some even seem to be harder than the actual exam. The course is heavily supplemented with extra self-study material and class activities which focus on developing communication skills suitable for the exam (but also useful for later study and living in Australia).


The course will include a 1-to-1 with the teacher to assess learning needs and strengths and weaknesses and to allow for time to request changes to the course.


Requirements:

• Student should already have a strong level in English with a bandscore equivalent of 6.0-6.5+ (depending on individual student. 
• Or student should have completed CNR IELTS Intermediate Exam Technique & CNR Level Booster Upper-intermediate &/or CNR IELTS Writing &/or CNR IELTS Speaking.

Learning outcomes:

• Understand the exam structure - listening, reading, writing, speaking
• Understand and use a range of advanced grammar and vocabulary for the speaking and writing exam
• Understand a wide variety of question types from the listening and reading exam
• Understand your own weaknesses and how to correct them through self-study

Course details:

• Monday to Friday daily
• 2pm-5pm
• 6 weeks
• Starting 8th March 2010
• Teachers: Dave & Olly (main teachers)
• Book: Objective IELTS Advanced (highest level IELTS book available) 

Course content:

• 20 vocabulary sets - including: study, sport, marketing, music, exploration, food technology, genetics, natural world, psychology, work etc.
• 20+ grammar points: modality; cleft sentences; adverbial clauses; speculation/deduction; concessive clauses; inversion; noun phrase; modal perfect etc
• Task 1 writing: graphs; pie charts; tables; comparison/contrast; process etc
• Task 2 writing: argument; discuss; cause/effect/solution; unusual question types.
• practice tests
• question types: T/F/NG; multi choice; gap fill; summary; labelling diagrams; heading; sentence completion etc