IELTS Focus Week 10 Academic

This is the Final Week!

You will do another listening and reading assessment this week and send your results for checking.

How are you doing?

• What are your listening scores (have you managed to increase them?)

• How are your reading scores – are they higher? Are the consistent?

• What about your writing – do you know exactly what you have to write? Are you avoiding the mistakes that you use to make?

• Finally how do you feel about your speaking? Has this improved? Do you feel more confident?

If you are not sure about anything let me know, send an email. I will be speaking to you all this week individually so we can discuss this then but if you can’t wait then drop me an email.

This programme comprises the following weekly components:

4 (3 plus word of the day) set exercises each day (Mon to Fri) on Gapfillers (these are in the Gapfillers latest panel and dated – in the middle of the home page) This should take you around 30 minutes to 1 hour to complete, depending on the type of exercise.

Two supplementary reading and listening exercises from Gapfillers plus 2 each of IELTS reading and listening exercises which I’ll send to you.
Both a task one and task two writing exercise. I will send you the questions for task 1 and task 2 which you can complete and return via email.

Finally, a weekly Skype lesson for checking the week’s work and practising the speaking part of the test

Doing the exercises

– Make sure you make a note of your scores (this is part of monitoring your progress)
– Try the exercises more than once if you need to
– Make a note of anything that you don’t understand or is confusing

Schedule – week 10

This week you will be doing another assessment of all your skills. As you are now approaching your test date it is important that all your skills are on-track in terms of accuracy of answers and also that you can do everything in the time allowed..

Day 1

– Complete the daily exercises on Gapfillers – grammar, writing and news bulletin.
– Complete this extra reading exercise on Gapfillers
– Complete the IELTS listening test. This is a complete listening test -There are no answers as I want you to send your results to me. DO NOT listen more than once and try to do this UNDER EXAM CONDITIONS – once you have sent me the results then you can go over it again (I’ll give you the answers)

Day 2

– Complete the daily exercises on Gapfillers – grammar, reading and news bulletin.
– Complete the extra listening exercise on Gapfillers

– Complete an extra reading exercise on Gapfillers
– Complete Task one in 20 minutes including your plan and checking time. Send it to me. It is important that you do this exactly as it is in the exam.

If you prefer to do both writing tasks in 1 hour that is fine – send them both when you have completed them

 

Day 3

– Complete the daily exercises on Gapfillers – grammar, listening and news bulletin.
– Complete an extra reading exercise on Gapfillers
– Complete an extra listening exercise – on Gapfillers
– Complete Task two in 40 minutes including your plan and checking time. Send it to me. It is important that you do this exactly as it is in the exam.

If you prefer to do both writing tasks in 1 hour that is fine – send them both when you have completed them

Day 4

– Complete the daily exercises on Gapfillers – grammar, reading and news bulletin.
– Complete an extra writing exercise on Gapfillers
– Complete the IELTS reading test- There are no answers as I want you to send your results to me. DO the reading test UNDER EXAM CONDITIONS and in exactly 1 hour – once you have sent me the results then you can complete it if you didn’t finish and go over it again if you wish (I’ll give you the answers)

Day 5

– Complete the daily exercises on Gapfillers – grammar, listening and news bulletin.
– Complete an extra reading exercise on Gapfillers
– Here are some grammar exercises that might be helpful
– Avoiding ‘will’ when talking about the future
– More about the future using present tense
– Present tense with future meaning

Check:

– Did you complete all the daily exercises (3 per day plus word of the day)
– Did you make a note of all your scores and timings?
– Did you make a note of any problems or things you didn’t understand?
– Did you send me your writing exercises via email and did you plan these first?

Now in our Skype lesson we will go over the tests you have done this week as well as do a complete speaking test.

 

– Keep recording yourself for the speaking – especially part 2 but also look at part 3 questions and record the answers you would give to these

– Why not relax a little this week and treat yourself to some movies or TV programmes or songs – all English you expose yourself to is good

– Keep doing Gapfillers exercises all exposure to English is good and these will keep your skills moving forwards. Choose things you find interesting or fun

– Remember I am at the end of an email – anything at all that is worrying your or you are not sure about then email me. There are NO silly or stupid questions 😉