English: International Examinations Practice

2023/2024

Category 'Best Course for Career Development'

Category 'Best Course for Broadening Horizons and Diversity of Knowledge and Skills'

Category 'Best Course for New Knowledge and Skills'

Type: Optional course

Delivered by: School of Foreign Languages

When: 3, 4 module

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Yulia Mikhailovna Chanturidze

Language: English

ECTS credits: 5

Contact hours: 80

Full Syllabus

Abstract

«International English Examinations Practice» course is a specialized highly intensive program designed to give students insight into the IELTS Academic testing system. The program focuses on four parts of the exam which are Reading, Listening, Writing and Speaking.The course highlights crucial tips and ready-to-use techniques to keep in mind during the examination. It also draws attention to common mistakes and pitfalls hampering test takers from gaining higher scores. The program blends theory and practice, though practice prevails. Students are offered to scrutinize printed materials, peruse online learning resources as well as fulfill numerous exercises both in class and at home and thus familiarize themselves with subtleties of the testing systems.

Learning Objectives

to give a detailed overview of all parts of various exams;
to provide students with the language, grammar and test-taking strategies required for exams;
to improve all four language skills, speaking, listening, reading and writing, as required for exams.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Listening - understand academic and professional discourse; - identify the main ideas and distinguish relevant supporting details of a formal or academic passage;
Reading - understand a variety of different academic text types; - use different reading strategies and focus on target material in all types of reading passages;
Speaking - demonstrate enhanced speaking in different task formats; - formulate, express and defend opinions using appropriate vocabulary and grammatical structures.
Writing - produce different types of IELTS written tasks; - demonstrate enhanced vocabulary and grammatical structures;

Course Contents

Topic 1: Urban and Rural Life
Topic 2: Health
Topic 3: Art
Topic 4: Finance and Business
Topic 5: History

Assessment Elements

Written assessment
Written assessment consists of essay writing, reading and listening.
Oral assessment
Oral assessment is conducted in the form of an IELTS Speaking exam and includes two parts of it.
Independent work assessment
Independent work includes activities that students do at home and several lexical-grammar tests.
Final assessment
Final assessment consists of an essay and two speaking tasks.

Interim Assessment

2023/2024 4th module
0.3 * Final assessment + 0.25 * Independent work assessment + 0.2 * Oral assessment + 0.25 * Written assessment

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

Mindset for IELTS : student's book 3: an official Cambridge IELTS course, , 2018

Recommended Additional Bibliography

Achieve IELTS. English for international education : student's book: intermediate - upper intermediate, Harrison, L., 2005
Cambridge grammar for IELTS : grammar reference and practice, Hopkins, D., 2012
Cambridge vocabulary for IELTS advanced with answers : self-study vocabulary practice, Cullen, P., 2012

Authors

CHANTURIDZE YULIYA MIKHAYLOVNA

Course Syllabus