Comprehensive preparation and practice for IELTS is provided through a variety of resources and insights in this guide. It focuses on enhancing skills necessary for the exam, offering strategies and tips to help test-takers succeed. The material is designed to cater to different learning styles, ensuring a thorough understanding of the test format and requirements.
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New Insight into IELTS offers comprehensive preparation and practice for IELTS.
A short, intensive, low-level exam preparation guide, based around preparing for IELTS in the few weeks leading up to the test.
Insight into IELTS prepares candidates for the International English Language Testing System. The book is arranged by paper, so that teachers, or students working alone, can choose exactly which part of the exam they want to focus on.
Step Up to IELTS Student's Book
- 112 pages
- 4 hours of reading
Step Up to IELTS covers essential exam skills and language for IELTS in approximately sixty hours of teaching time, and familiarises students quickly with the exam. The course covers both the Academic and General Training modules. Shorter, achievable exam-type tasks build students' exam skills, before students try the more challenging tasks at authentic test level. The test practice sections at the end of each unit together constitute a whole sample IELTS test.
This course covers essential exam skills and language for IELTS in approximately sixty hours of teaching time, and familiarises students quickly with the exam. The course covers both the Academic and General Training modules. Step Up to IELTS covers essential exam skills and language for IELTS in approximately sixty hours of teaching time, and familiarises students quickly with the exam. The course covers both the Academic and General Training modules. Shorter, achievable exam-type tasks build students' exam skills, before students try the more challenging tasks at authentic test level. The test practice sections at the end of each unit together constitute a whole sample IELTS test.
Cambridge Books for Cambridge Exams: Insight Into IELTS Extra, With Answers
The Cambridge IELTS Course Workbook
- 158 pages
- 6 hours of reading
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.
Cambridge practice tests for IELTS 1
- 158 pages
- 6 hours of reading
Cambridge Practice Tests for IELTS 1 is written by experienced IELTS examiners, one based in Britain and one based in Australia. The Student's Book contains an introduction to the different modules of the exam together with an explanation of the different IELTS question types and how to approach them. The inclusion of annotated keys and tapescripts for each test makes the book ideal for students working partly or entirely on their own.
IELTS practice tests plus (with key)
- 176 pages
- 7 hours of reading
IELTS practice tests plus provides practice in all four modules of the IELTS examination: Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking. It includes five complete practice tests incorporating the 2001 modifications to the Speaking module, additional Reading and Writing modules for General Training candidates, plus a full description of the exam, students' top questions answered, and 'skills for IELTS' sections training key subskills for each module. --book cover.
Insight into IELTS offers comprehensive preparation for the IELTS examination. It develops skills, language and familiarity with the test format for each paper progressively: exam-type exercises are a regular feature of the course, and it finishes with a complete practice test. It explores the exam thoroughly, paper by paper, and its flexible structure allows teachers or students working alone to pinpoint exactly aspects of the exam they most need to study. The course also prepares students for study abroad by introducing them to the types of communication tasks which they are likely to meet in an English speaking study environment. A separate section of supplementary material provides activities for use as homework or extra classroom practice. Insight into IELTS is equally suitable for use as a course book in the classroom or at home: a detailed introduction to the exam, together with a thorough answer key make it easy to use as self-study material.



