Are your students getting ready to take their IELTS? Are you interested in teaching IELTS? Or are you hoping to be an English-Language teacher?
If you answered yes to any 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 the dreams of achieving a high IELTS score.
Upcoming dates:
| Date and time | Topic | Description |
| Wednesday 15 February 2023, 12:00 pm UK time | Reading Skills for IELTS and beyond | This webinar will look at how we can harness learners' reading skills and use reading subskills to help them deal with longer texts. We'll also look at how to help with dealing with unknown lexis and different questions types that our learners will encounter in the IELTS test. We will also look at how we can help our learners transfer their skills to their future studies. |
| Wednesday 15 March 2023, 12:00 pm UK time | Academic Writing Task 1: dealing with 2-diagram questions | This webinar will start with a quick overview of Academic Writing Task 1 and then will look at the challenges of these types of questions and the strategies to deal with them, namely, how and where to start, and how to organise the answer. |
| Saturday 15 April 2023, 12:00 pm UK time | Top Tips for IELTS | 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. |
| Monday 15 May 2023, 12:00 pm UK time | Dealing with 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. |
| Thursday 15 June 2023, 12:00 pm UK time | An introduction to using the public band descriptors for course design | This webinar takes an in-depth look at what the public 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. |
| Saturday 15 July 2023, 12:00 pm UK time | Writing Task 2: using sample answers | As usual, we will start this webinar with a brief overview of Writing Task 2 and discussion about using Public Band Descriptors. We will then go on to look at how sample and our students’ essays can be used for making our students aware of the use of extended and supported arguments, and of examples of good language. We will end with looking at how we can use these essays as skeletons for our students to build on. |
| Friday 15 September 2023, 12:00 pm UK time | Academic Writing Task 1: two-diagram questions | This webinar will start with a quick overview of Academic Writing Task 1 and then will look at the challenges of these types of question and the strategies to deal with them, namely, how and where to start, and how to organise the answer. |
| Sunday 15 October 2023, 12:00 pm UK time | The Reading Test | 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. |