Synopses & Reviews
Insight into IELTS offers comprehensive preparation for the International English Language Testing System, known as IELTS. The course progressively develops skills and language for each test paper by examining the four IELTS papers one by one, including both Academic and General Training modules for the Reading and Writing modules. Insight into IELTS also introduces students to the types of communication tasks which they are likely to meet in an English-speaking environment. Insight into IELTS Extra is a workbook providing extensive practice material for each paper of the IELTS examination, with one unit corresponding to each unit of the Student's Book. It prepares students thoroughly for the updated Speaking Paper, and contains 'Vocabulary Builder' activities to develop and consolidate vocabulary, improving confidence and communicative skills for each exam paper. The answer key and transcripts of the recorded material make it ideal for self-study.
Synopsis
The Extra workbook provides extensive IELTS practice. The answers and transcripts are ideal for self-study.
Synopsis
This workbook contains practice activities for the whole range of IELTS task types, a 'Vocabulary Builder' to extend students' knowledge of words, phrases and collocations, 'Test tips', and timed exercises. It can be used in conjunction with the Insight into IELTS coursebook or on its own.
Table of Contents
Listening units; Unit 1. Orienting yourself to the text; Unit 2. Listening for specific information; Unit 3. Identifying detail; Unit 4. Identifying main ideas; Unit 5. Seeing beyond the surface meaning; Unit 6. Following signpost words; Unit 7. Being aware of stress, rhythm and intonation; Speaking units; Unit 1. Part one of the speaking test - the interview; Unit 2. More practice for part one; Unit 3. The long turn; Unit 4. More practice for part two; Unit 5. The two-way discussion; Unit 6 More practice for part three; Reading units; Unit 1. Orienting yourself to the text; Unit 2. Skimming/scanning for specific information and detail; Unit 3. Identifying main and supporting ideas; Unit 4. Improving global reading skills; Unit 5. Summarising; Unit 6. Understanding argument; Unit 7. Identifying opinion/attitude and making inferences; Unit 8. General training reading - section one; Unit 9. General training Reading - section two; Writing units; Unit 1. Task 1 - describing facts and figures; Unit 2. Describing trends; Unit 3. Summarising data; Unit 4. Describing a diagram; unit 5. General training task 1 continued; Unit 6. General training task 1; Unit 7. Academic and general training task 2; Unit 8. Planning a structure; Unit 9. Introducing topics and main ideas; Unit 10. Developing an argument; Unit 11. Writing your answer