This course will teach students to develop key strategies need to successfully complete tasks found on the IELTS Test covering both examination skills and techniques while improving English speaking, listening, reading, writing, grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary skills.                

Program Duration：Two options, same duration, 15 weeks and 25 weeks

Learning Objectives:                

● Utilize the skills and techniques needed to successfully perform well in the different sections of the IELTS Test                

● Understand the format and content of IELTS                

● Recognize their true level in speaking, reading, listening, and writing                

● Recognize and overcome challenges presented in the IELTS                

● Evaluate and self-correct their speaking                

● Improve their English through language input and practice activities in listening, speaking, reading, and writing                

● Reading: Skimming/scanning for general and specific information, processing information from academic and authentic sources (magazines, journals, internet sources), logical organization of information                

● Writing: Understand how to plan, organize, and write personal correspondence, elicit and provide general factual information, and express opinions (views, complaints, etc.)                

● Listening: Extracting information from texts of varying length. Identifying and learning what information to look for. Understanding how to summarize and condense information                

● Speaking: Provide information in a formal/causal interview context; Give an extended talk on a given topic; Taking part in a formal discussion                

● Grammar: Recognize and correct common grammar/spelling mistakes for writing and speaking.                

● Vocabulary topics: Develop a comprehensive vocabulary connected with common IELTS topics related to the Environment, Science and Technology, Health, Education, Transport, The Arts, Media, and Urbanization.                

● Obtain a better understanding and sensitivity towards other cultures                

● Develop the study skills needed to continue to learn English after completing the course and for lifelong learning    
           

Students who enroll in a language program which is six months or less in duration or for which tuition is less than $4,000 may not make a claim against the Student Tuition Protection Fund, which is managed by the Private Training Institutions Branch (PTIB) of the Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Training. This language program may not have been reviewed or approved by PTIB. For more information about programs that do not require PTIB approval see: www.privatetraininginstitutions.gov.bc.ca