TRAINING PLAN
Trainer: Lyle Rey G. Rabasano
Course: IELTS
Periods: 3rd and 6th
Duration: 3 weeks
Materials: PowerPoint Presentation, Marker, Board, book
WEEK 1: Advance Your Speaking
Day 1 (Speaking)
I. Short discussion about IELTS background
- What is IELTS
- What are the 2 modules
- Band score/Level/CRF
II. Overview of IELTS Speaking
- 3 parts of speaking
- timing
- Structure of answering
- Introduce the “IELTS Speaking Success” book
- Types of questions (present some examples)
III. Class methodology
Day 2 (Speaking)
I. Speaking Scoring
- Introduce the 4 criteria (give details each)
- Introduce the Band descriptor
- Proper feedbacking
- Proper scoring (IMS Standard: NOT over 7.0)
II. Video presentation
- Sample video of a speaking exam
- Mock test / real exam set up
Day 3 (Speaking)
III. Assessment (simulation)
a. Thet trainees will we paired to do a speaking class simulation
b. The pair gets to decide who will act as the teacher and student.
c. The trainer (me) will decide for their topic, what part in speaking,
the level of the student, and the day/week that the student has
been in their class.
d. The trainer will give his feedback after
DAY 4: Get Reading-Ready (Reading)
I. Overview of the Reading IELTS
- Timing
- Differences of the 2 modules
- Number of passages
- Number of questions
II. Types of Questions
- Diagram label completion
- Identifying a writer’s views or claims
- Identifying information
- Matching features
- Matching headings
- Matching information
- Matching sentence endings
- Multiple choice
- Sentence completion
- Short-answer questions
- Summary, Note, Flow chart, tables completion
III. Few tips and Strategies
- Skimming and scanning
- Keywording (finding locations)
- Understanding vocabulary
- Grammar
DAY 5 (Reading)
I. Class Methodology
- Teaching strategies
II. Assessment (practice test and simulation)
- Let the teachers answer 3 passages
- Checking
- Select from the trainees to act as a teacher and discuss some items
- The trainer will give his feedback after
Week 2: Lift Your Listening
DAY 6 (Reading)
I. Checking of papers
II. Assessment (Simulation)
- Assign teachers to discuss the practice test. The teacher will be asked
to act as a teacher.
- The trainee will give his feedback after every simulation
Day 7 (Listening)
I. Overview of the IELTS Listening
- Timing
- Number of sections
- Number of questions
II. Types of Questions
- Multiple choice questions
- Matching questions
- Map and plan labelling
- Diagram labelling
- Form completion
- Completion
- Table completion
- Flow-chart completion
- Completion
- Completion
- Short-answer questions
III. Few tips and strategies
- Class methodology
- Class preparation
- Class discussion
Day 8-9 (Listening)
I. Assessment (Listening Practice Test and Simulation)
- Practice test
- Checking
- Select a trainee to act as a teacher and discuss the practice test.
All trainees must present and do a class simulation.
Day 10 (Listening)
I. Feedbacking
- The trainee will give comments and advices
Week 3-5: Boost Your Writing
Day 11 (General Writing)
I. Task 1 (General)
- Timing
- Structuring and organization
- Different types of letters
II. Introduce different samples
- Vocabulary
- Grammar
Day 12 (General Writing)
I. Scoring
- How to check
- Hoe to calculate the band score
II. Class Methodology
III. Assigning of the task for the assessment
- The trainer will assign a task for each of the trainee to discuss the
next day (mostly class setting)
Day 13 (General Writing)
I. Assessment
- Class Simulation
- The trainee will give feedback after the presentation
- The trainee will give advices and suggestions
Day 14 (Academic Writing)
I. Introduction
- What is IELTS Academic Task 1
- Timing
- organizational structure
- criteria
- different types of graphs
- how to write an overview
- Dos and Donts in writing
II. Overview
- How to write an overview
III. Body
- How to organize bodies
Day 15 (Academic Writing)
I. Line Graph
- How to interpret a line graph (single and multiple)
WEEK 4: BOOST YOUR WRITING
Day 16-19 (Academic Writing)
I. Interpreting the remaining types of graphs
-sample answers
-sample essays
Day 20 (Academic Writing)
I. Assessment
- Practice test
- Task 1 Writing
WEEK 5 (Writing TASK 2)
I. Discuss the different types of essays
- Structure
- Numbers of paragraphs
- How to organize
different sample topics
II. Scoring
- Introduce the band descriptor
