Now that I have some time to reflect on my recent IELTS lessons, I’m putting together some resources to help prepare students. While there are a lot of good resources out there, some texts I felt didn’t cover everything I wanted or cover it in the way that I thought was best for my students. One big area where I found some good isolated exercises and ideas, but not one integrated series of lessons was in teaching Writing.
So I’m starting by putting together lessons on writing the IELTS task 1 …Continue

No, this is not a post on vocabulary retention or drilling. I’m still reflecting on my IELTS teaching and will be putting up lesson plans and suggestions, but we’re entering Writing territory and this is an area I have a lot more confidence in since I have taught academic writing for years.
This was our first week of IELTS Writing Prep. We started with Task 1 in which students must describe a graph or chart or some data in a short essay. I noticed two points that I had to …Continue