Free IELTS teacher webinars

Are your students getting ready to take their IELTS?
Are you teaching IELTS, or interested in teaching IELTS?
Do you want expert advice and ideas for teaching IELTS?

If you answered yes to any, or all, of those questions, our IELTS webinars can help.

They are free to join, delivered by English experts and created especially for anyone who will be helping students take the next step in their aspirations to achieve a high IELTS score.

Join our Webinars for Teachers on the 15th of each month. You can choose between 10am and 3pm UK time. Those who attend the webinar will receive a certificate of participation.

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Webinar schedule

Day	Date	Topic	Description
Monday	15 June 2026	IELTS Academic Reading	This webinar looks at ways of harnessing learners’ existing reading skills and the application of these in the longer texts of the IELTS Reading section. The webinar also includes strategies for learners to deal with unknown vocabulary as well as a number of classroom ideas and activities for you to use in your own lessons.
Wednesday	15 July 2026	IELTS Listening	Following an overview of the test format, this interactive webinar takes a closer look at the key listening skill of prediction and how to ensure that learners are fully prepared for each of the four parts of the Listening test. The webinar also includes classroom tasks for you to use in your own lessons and a look at the common crossover points with other sections of IELTS.
Tuesday	15 September 2026	Developing Higher Level Vocabulary for IELTS	By examining two key areas of Lexical Resource, flexibility and precision, this webinar presents strategies to help your learners break through the plateau and expand their vocabulary range. Classroom tasks and ideas, for you to use in your own lessons, will help you support learners by promoting the use of higher-level lexis across both the Writing and Speaking sections of IELTS.
Thursday	15 October 2026	IELTS Academic Writing Task 1	After a brief review of Academic Task 1, we will look at some key points and strategies to help our students produce a clear and logical description of the data. The key areas we will focus on are how to get our students to analyse the question and develop their visual literacy so that they can produce an appropriate overview. We will then go on to look at how to identify, select and organise the data into a coherent response.
Sunday	15 November 2026	IELTS Writing Task 2	After a quick review of Writing Task 2, we will look at the assessment criteria and discuss how we can use them with our students to best affect. Then will look at ways to help our students analyse the question, come up with ideas, and organise those ideas into a coherent essay.
Tuesday	15 December 2026	IELTS Speaking	The webinar will start with a discussion of the format of the test and the assessment criteria. After that, we will go through each of the 3 parts of the test looking at the challenges and suggesting some solutions. We will offer concrete activities that you can share with your students.
Friday	15 January 2027	Top Tips for IELTS Teaching + Learning	We will begin by looking generally at some of the challenges our students face with the IELTS test. We will then work though classroom activities and tips for each module of the test.
TBC Monday	15 February 2027	Dealing with IELTS Listening Part 4	This webinar will start with a very brief overview of the Listening Test. Then we will look at the difficulties our students have with Part 4 of the test. We will work through classroom activities using the audio scripts to help our students with listening to a lengthy talk possibly on an unknown topic, keeping up with the speaker and dealing with the density of information.
TBC Monday	15 March 2027	Using the IELTS Band descriptors for course design	This webinar takes an in-depth look at what the IELTS band descriptors are, before providing a few suggestions for planning your course design. We’ll look at ways to cover specific points of the descriptors through a holistic, cross-skills approach to ensure every lesson meets a specific aim for both you and your students in their development towards their target band score.