Focus on Academic Skills for IELTS

Map of the book

Reading

Writing

Listening

Speaking

Language review

Changes in eating habits

True/False/Not Given Summary (with bank)

1 The language of change (increase, decrease, etc.)

2 Interpreting information from diagrams

Describing the data (Task I: graphs)

Describing habits

(Part I)

Understanding the questions Extending your answers Fluency markers

1 Topic vocabulary

2 General words

3 Describing graphs

4 Word formation: language of change

Sports centre job

(Section I)

Note completion

Interpreting and comparing data

(Task I: bar charts)

Writing and organising the description

Comparing and contrasting

(Parts I and 3)

Organising responses Modifying expressions

1 Topic vocabulary

2 Parallel phrases

3 Describing qualities and quantities

4 Topic vocabulary: money and natural resources

Light years ahead

Sentence completion (with bank)

Matching

Wind-powered school

(Section 2)

Multiple choice Labelling a map

Clocking cultures

Matching headings Multiple choice Summary (no bank)

Presenting arguments (Task 2: argument-led approach) Analysing the question Anaysing a sample answer

Sharing a flat (Section I)

Table completion

Describing people

(Part 2)

Analysing a sample answer Organising your talk

1 Topic vocabulary

2 Sentence rewriting

3 Speaking - using colloquial language

4 Writing: reference links

Problems and solutions

solution)

Presenting and justifying solutions (Modal verbs/ conditionals)

1 Music course (Section 3) Multiple choice with multipli answers

S h o rt a n s we rs/11 sts

2 Art in Bali (Section 4) Table completion Note completion

1 Topic vocabulary

2 Parallel expressions: avoiding repetitior.

3 Problems and solutions

4 Linking expressions

5 Describing research

Fighting the dust

Sentence completion (no bank)

Multiple choice with multiple

'CM '

Answering different

question types (Part: i) Question forms Exte n d i ng an s we rs

Eating up the Titanic

I u. /I ,1 'lli i ws

I able completion

Mullipli i 1 ^in 4" multiple

answers

Describing diagrams

showing natural processes (I ask I: diagram)

Understanding the diagram Linking ideas

1 Describing a place

(Part 2)

Dealing with rounding off questions

2 Describing problems and

solutions (Part 3) Developing the topic

Rotorua, New Zealand

(Si‘i Lion , I l ifi''llin i n ap iabk completion

lops volY i iL- ,

Presenting an opinion (Task 2; thesis-led approach) Developing and supporting ideas

Analysing a sample answer

1 Describing a past event

(Part 23)

Explaining

2 Giving opinions (Part 3) justifying opinions

1 Topic vocabulary

2 Word к)РП||к;П nrQ( f|'/n endings

3 Language of research: research methods

4 Unking ideas: concession and contrast

The knowledge society

Multiple choice Yes/No/Not Given

Survey on computer facilities (Section 3) Multiple choice Matching