IELTS stands for the International English Language Testing System, and is an internationally recognised test of English language proficiency.
Candidates can choose to sit either the Academic Test or the General Training Test. Each test contains four parts – Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking.
Those responsible for IELTS are: the University of Cambridge, the British Council and IDP IELTS Australia.
To find out more about the IELTS test and how to prepare for it, watch our video or download the transcript.
IELTS stands for the International English Language Testing System, and is an internationally recognised test of English language proficiency.
Candidates can choose to sit either the Academic Test or the General Training Test. Each test contains four parts – Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking.
Those responsible for IELTS are: the University of Cambridge, the British Council and IDP IELTS Australia.
To find out more about the IELTS test and how to prepare for it, watch our video or download the transcript.
IELTS stands for the International English Language Testing System, and is an internationally recognised test of English language proficiency.
Candidates can choose to sit either the Academic Test or the General Training Test. Each test contains four parts – Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking.
Those responsible for IELTS are: the University of Cambridge, the British Council and IDP IELTS Australia.
To find out more about the IELTS test and how to prepare for it, watch our video or download the transcript.
IELTS stands for the International English Language Testing System, and is an internationally recognised test of English language proficiency.
Candidates can choose to sit either the Academic Test or the General Training Test. Each test contains four parts – Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking.
Those responsible for IELTS are: the University of Cambridge, the British Council and IDP IELTS Australia.
To find out more about the IELTS test and how to prepare for it, watch our video or download the transcript.
IELTS stands for the International English Language Testing System, and is an internationally recognised test of English language proficiency.
Candidates can choose to sit either the Academic Test or the General Training Test. Each test contains four parts – Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking.
Those responsible for IELTS are: the University of Cambridge, the British Council and IDP IELTS Australia.
To find out more about the IELTS test and how to prepare for it, watch our video or download the transcript.
IELTS stands for the International English Language Testing System, and is an internationally recognised test of English language proficiency.
Candidates can choose to sit either the Academic Test or the General Training Test. Each test contains four parts – Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking.
Those responsible for IELTS are: the University of Cambridge, the British Council and IDP IELTS Australia.
To find out more about the IELTS test and how to prepare for it, watch our video or download the transcript.
IELTS stands for the International English Language Testing System, and is an internationally recognised test of English language proficiency.
Candidates can choose to sit either the Academic Test or the General Training Test. Each test contains four parts – Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking.
Those responsible for IELTS are: the University of Cambridge, the British Council and IDP IELTS Australia.
To find out more about the IELTS test and how to prepare for it, watch our video or download the transcript.
STUDY ENGLISH – IELTS PREPARATION SERIES 1
14
MEDICINE
Junk DNA
conditionals prefixes (opposites); suffixes
(forming adjectives)
15
SCIENCE
Sea floor
royal order of adjectives approximation
16
MEDICINE
DVT
speculation using modals,
adverbs, phrases
paragraph structure;
definition
17
MEDICINE
Water and aging
phrasal verbs; contractions;
coordinating conjunctions
informal spoken and
formal written English;
linking words; repetition
18
ENVIRONMENT
Salinity
transition signals;
Australian/British/American
English
describing a process AusE, BE, AE; weights,
measures
AusE, BE, AE stress: verb, noun
19
SCIENCE
Weather report
participial adjectives numbers stress; numbers
20
GEOGRAPHY
Torres strait
prepositions of place rules for capitalisation
21
SCIENCE
Watching birds
continuous tenses sentence stress
patterns
22
BUSINESS
Finance report
describing numerical
data
cardinal, ordinal, Arabic,
Roman, decimals, fractions,
currencies, dates, zones;
prefixes (numbers)
rules for writing numbers telephone numbers,
fractions, decimals
23
SCIENCE
&TECHNOLOGY
Octopuses
describing appearance
or character of people
or animals
physical features, shapes,
behaviour, character, body
parts
similar sounds
24
SCIENCE –
PSYCHOLOGY
Perfect Siesta
comparatives: as…as commas, apostrophe,
hyphen, colon, semicolon
intonation
25
LAW
Copyright
present tense; editing writing a technical/
information report;
writing definitions
technical vocabulary editing ‘-ed’ endings
26
ARCHAEOLOGY
Archaeology
its/it’s; subject-verb
agreement
classifying &
summarising
‘s’ endings: plurals, 3rd
per. sg. present tense
STUDY ENGLISH – IELTS PREPARATION SERIES 1
THEME
EPISODE
GRAMMAR
WRITING
VOCABULARY
PUNCTUATION
SPELLING
PRONUNCIATION
1
TECHNOLOGY/LAW
Electronic crime
word building; formal/ informal;
vocabulary strategies
spelling rules syllable stress
2
MEDICINE
Vitamin D
modals: opinion and attitude formal/informal word stress; sentence
rhythm
3
BUSINESS
Company growth
impersonal language;
prepositions for describing
data
describing data adjectives, nouns, verbs,
adverbs for describing data
4
BUSINESS
Rising dollar
comparative adjectives comparing data per cent vs percentage per cent vs percentage per cent vs percentage
5
ENVIRONMENT
Global warming
referents and noun phrases cause and effect
relationships
6
ENVIRONMENT
Greenhouse gases
cause and effect language;
adjectival endings
(nationalities)
spelling of nationalities pronunciation of
nationalities
7
ENVIRONMENT
Enviro-loo
passive voice describing a process
8
TOURISM
Crocodile tourism
relative pronouns
IELTS Speaking test
assessment; linking:
C+V or V+V
9
MEDICINE
ADHD
abbreviations; acronyms; Latin
abbreviations
abbreviations,
acronyms
10
ARCHITECTURE
Solar house
conjunctions: coordinating,
subordinating
connecting ideas complex sentences
(commas)
11
MEDICINE
Recounting the past
past tenses: simple vs
perfect; sentences types:
compound, complex
describing past events
12
ENVIRONMENT
Carbon cycle
phrasal verbs describing a cycle;
writing tips
13
SCIENCE
Under the sea
definite/indefinite articles weather patterns
articles
STUDY ENGLISH SERIES 2
MAP OF CONTENTS
EPISODE
THEME
STRATEGIES
WRITING
GRAMMAR
VOCABULARY
PRONUNCIATION
1
EYE TESTING
Health pronoun substitution and
agreement – subjects,
objects and possessive
adjectives
homonyms –
homographs and
homophones; suffixes:
‘-able’, ‘-ist’, ‘-ism’
2
GINSENG
Medicine using ‘say’ for quoting,
exemplifying, narrowing
down and a filler;
collocations
3
JARRAH
FOREST
Environment prepositions – spatial
relationships in
descriptions
Idioms – proverbs
4
CLOUDS
Science paragraph structure:
topic, supporting,
developing sentences;
cohesion; coherence
weather-related
vocabulary
5
VIRTUAL
DOCTOR
Medicine ‘there’ – introductory
subject and adverb of
place
fluency in spoken
English; linking: V+ /j/ +
V and V + /w/ + V
6
LASERS
Technology writing task 1 (academic)
describing how
something works:
structure and language
features
colour vocabulary
7
LIFE ON MARS
Astronomy determiners: ‘some’ and
‘any’
astronomy vocabulary
8
AIR ARCHIVE
Environment verbs: present perfect
and simple past tenses;
adverbs of time: ‘just’,
‘already’, ‘yet’
9
WHALE
SHARKS
Ecotourism grammar and spelling of
contractions; quantity
words: ‘amount’, ‘number’
pronunciation of and
stress in contractions
10
DURIANS
Agriculture demonstrative and
reflexive pronouns
11
MANGROVES
Ecology speaking section 3:
expressions for
speculation, prediction,
talking about the future
future forms: verb tenses,
modals, conditionals,
adverbs, adjectives
discourse markers:
speculating, predicting
12
CANE TOADS
Ecology degree or amount
constructions: ‘so…
(that)’; ‘such… (that)’
attitude markers
STUDY ENGLISH SERIES 2
MAP OF CONTENTS
13
WELDING
Industry word form groups and
their function
words which can be
both nouns and verbs
14
TERMITES
Ecology writing tasks 1 and 2
(academic): text types and
language structures
using the simple
present tense and plural
subjects/noun phrases
in the IELTS essay
expressions describing
complementary
processes: the + a
comparative, the + a
comparative
15
ASTRONOMER
Astronomy speaking section 1:
features of a good
response
word relationships:
synonyms, opposites
and scales
16
GLASS ARTIST
Fine Art speaking section 3:
features of a good
response
double negatives negative prefixes: ‘dis’,
‘un’
17
NATUROPATHI
C MEDICINE
Medicine reading skills and
strategies: skimming,
scanning, understanding
main ideas; answering
T/F/NG type questions
18
OUTBACK
TOURISM
Tourism expressing contrast and
concession; hyphens in
compound words
19
OLD TREES
Ecology functions in a text:
stating a fact, giving an
opinion, making a
proposal or suggestion,
giving an example
20
ZOOS
Zoology infinitive verb
constructions
conversation
management markers
21
HEALTH
Health listening skills and
strategies answering
IELTS question types:
multiple choice, short
answers, summary
completion, gap-fill,
diagram labelling etc.
22
PHONICS
Education guessing the meaning of a
word from the context;
identifying key words
linking or copular verb +
subject complement
23
ECO-SYSTEMS
Ecology pronunciation changes
when linking
consonants;
pronunciation of words
beginning with /h/
24
EMPLOYMENT
Employment ‘-ly’ adverbs and their
function
foreign words and
phrases in English
STUDY ENGLISH SERIES 2
MAP OF CONTENTS
25
IELTS
ACADEMIC
WRITING
Writing Task 1,
Academic
Module
overview of task 1
academic writing
analysing task 1
questions and planning
an answer
26
IELTS
GENERAL
TRAINING
WRITING
Writing Task 1,
General
Training
Module
overview of task 1 general
training writing
analysing the letter and
planning an answer
Javier Burgos
E.L.T.
Great teachers inspire, motivate, change the world 
Look at the following examples.
I’m listening to the radio. What are you listening to?
She wants to dance with you. Who does she want to dance with?
We’re going to the cinema tonight. Where are you going tonight?
Now write questions to the following answers. Remember your questions must be based on words in bold type.
1. You can start work on Monday. _________________________________________?
2. The last exercise was the hardest. _________________________________________?
3. She met his wife at a party. _________________________________________?
4. Margaret weighs 65 kilos. _________________________________________?
5. We’ve seen the film three times. _________________________________________?
6. He bought three new shirts. _________________________________________?
7. She paid by cheque. _________________________________________?
8. The car cost $5.000 _________________________________________?
9. There were more than 10.000 people at _________________________________________?
pop concert.
10. He sees his parents twice a week. _________________________________________?
11. They are staying with their cousin. _________________________________________?
12. Janet doesn’t like spaghetti. _________________________________________?
13. We had to wait over half an hour ________________________________________?
for our train.
14. Cathy lives in Cuenca. _________________________________________?
15. She’s got a flat on the third floor. ________________________________________?
16. They have gone to France for two weeks. _________________________________________?
17. Ambato is about 100 kilometers from Quito. ________________________________________?
18. Cathy has worked here since 2001. _________________________________________?
19. She’s upset because she wasn’t invited to _________________________________________?
the party.
20. John’s wife is called Mandy. _________________________________________?
Javier Burgos
E.L.T.
WRITING TOPICS
1. Describe the most important achievement in your life. What did you do? Why was it important to you?
How has it changed your life?
2. What are the best and worst memories you have of your elementary school days?
3. What I would do if I inherited a million dollars. (Explain what you will do with the money, what effect it would have on the way you live, what effect it would have on your personality, how it will change or affect your friends’ attitudes toward you, etc..)
4. Rich problems and poor problems. Discuss the problems that money can solve and those that money cannot solve.
5. Write an advertisement for a place you know well. Your ad should make tourist go there for a vacation.
6. Describe a terrible experience you once had. (Try to include some element of suspense to arouse the curiosity of the reader).
7. You are a reporter for the local newspaper and you have been asked to write an article about a car accident, a train accident or a plane crash a few miles from town. Include short interviews with people who survived the crash and observers in the area of the crash.
8. Write a short letter to friend about something that happened to you that made you feel especially happy, proud, annoyed, or anxious, afraid.
9. Write about a place you would like to disappear to and what you would do there.
Javier Burgos
E.L.T.
LETTER / ARTICLE WRITING
1. Write a letter to a company requesting for the supply of goods or merchandise to your store. Tell the supplier the reason for requesting such goods:- particular demand, quality, cost, and availability of goods at any time.
Also state the location of your store and the competition in the area.
2. Write a letter to the company acknowledging the receipt of the goods they supplied you and thank them for their services. Express your desire to have the pleasure of working with them in the future.
3. Write an application to a company applying for a job as secretary, accountant, or a salesman. State in details your academic qualification, experience in the job (if any), and places where you have worked before. Also give references of two important people as your guarantors.
4. You are a tour guide and you are offering a tour package for tourist to visit different places in your country. Write the itinerary of the trip and the kind of offers in the package.
5. There is volcanic eruption in a part of the country and you have been sent there by a newspaper to report on the situation and the effect on the people in the proximity of the eruption. Write a complete story about everything you saw there. Create suspense to arouse the curiosity of readers.
Javier Burgos
E.L.T.