IELTS Academic Preparation
IELTS Academic Preparation
Build academic skills, exam strategies, and confidence for IELTS Academic
- 24 focused classes
- Covers all IELTS Academic skills: Listening, Reading, Writing, Speaking
- Emphasis on exam strategies, vocabulary, grammar, and time management
- Includes practice, feedback, and timed exercises
Module 1: IELTS Overview & Foundations (Classes 1–4)
- Content: Test format (Listening, Reading, Writing, Speaking)
- Skills: Understanding band descriptors
- Vocabulary: Academic phrases
- Skills: Identifying main ideas, keywords, paraphrasing
- Practice: Short dialogues, conversations
- Skills: Skimming, scanning, understanding main ideas
- Reading: Short academic passages
- Grammar: Sentence structures, linking words, comparisons
- Writing: Introduction & overview sentences
Module 2: Listening & Speaking (Classes 5–10)
- Skills: Listening for details, synonyms, numbers
- Practice: IELTS-style exercises
- Multiple Choice & Note Completion
- Assignment: Regular practice of Writing and topic based Speaking
- Skills: Spatial info, sequencing, prepositions
- Practice: Diagram/map exercises
- Assignment: Regular practice of Writing and topic based Speaking
- Skills: Fluency, pronunciation, grammar
- Practice: Personal questions on home, study, work
- Assignment: Regular practice of Writing and topic based Speaking
- Skills: Organizing ideas, using connectors, Express opinions, justify answers, speculate
- Practice: 1–2 minute monologues on academic/general topics
- Assignment: Regular practice of Writing and topic based Speaking
- Skills: Singular/plural consistency (e.g. He works, not He work).
Special cases: everyone, each, data, news
Practice: Discuss abstract/academic topics
- Assignment: Regular practice of Writing and topic based Speaking
a / an / the — one of the most common IELTS grammar mistakes.
No article use (e.g. at school, in prison).
Quantifiers: some, any, much, many, few, little, several.
- Assignment: Regular practice of Writing and topic based Speaking
Module 3: Reading Skills (Classes 11–16)
- Skills: Critical reading, identifying statements
- Practice: Academic passages
- Assignment: Regular practice of Writing and topic based Speaking
- Skills: Identifying main ideas, paraphrasing
- Practice: IELTS Academic passages
- Assignment: Regular practice of Writing and topic based Speaking
- Skills: Synonyms, scanning, inference
- Practice: Academic exercises
- Assignment: Regular practice of Writing and topic based Speaking
- Skills: Interpreting data from passages
- Practice: Academic diagrams
- Assignment: Regular practice of Writing and topic based Speaking
Present simple & continuous
Past simple & continuous
Present perfect & past perfect
Future forms (will, going to, present continuous for future)
- Assignment: Regular practice of Writing and topic based Speaking
Time: at, on, in
Place: at, in, on, to, into
Common combinations: depend on, interested in, good at.
Commas in complex sentences.
Avoid comma splices.
Proper use of capital letters and full stops.
- Assignment: Regular practice of Writing and topic based Speaking
Module 4: Writing Skills (Classes 17–22)
- Skills: Overview, comparisons, trends
- Practice: Line, bar, pie charts
- Skills: Sequencing, passive voice, connectors
- Practice: Academic processes
- Skills: Thesis statement, supporting ideas, linking words
- Practice: Sample opinion questions
- Skills: Structuring essay, coherence, cohesion
- Practice: Academic prompts
Simple, compound, and complex sentences — you must be able to mix them naturally.
Clauses (independent, dependent, relative, conditional).
- Assignment: Regular practice of Writing and topic based Speaking
- Zero, first, second, third, and mixed conditionals.
more/less than, the most/least,
Complex forms: far more, slightly less, much better
- Assignment: Regular practice of Writing and topic based Speaking
Module 5: Full Practice & Exam Strategy (Classes 23–24)
- Listening: Academic passages, all question types
- Reading: Timed passage practice
- Writing: Short summary of listening text
- Speaking: Part 1, 2, 3 role-plays
- Writing: Full Task 1 & Task 2 practice under exam conditions
- Strategy: Band awareness, tips to improve score