by Fatime Losonci | IELTS listening sub-skills, IELTS reading sub-skills, IELTS speaking sub-skills, IELTS writing sub-skills
Have you heard?! ALL 7 of my IELTS teacher training books are on SALE as of today, for 10 days (until the 24 Dec 2022)! Some of this content is normally EXCLUSIVE to my Bootcamp only (which is why you won’t find Listening, Reading, or Speaking on Amazon either,...
by Fatime Losonci | IELTS speaking sub-skills
Match the letters to the numbers! 😉 (Answer key: a, b, d, e, c) — — Hi. I’m Fatime. I’m an IELTS Teacher Trainer, helping CELTA-qualified English language teachers become better at teaching SKILLS, as opposed to just testing them. Check...
by Fatime Losonci | IELTS speaking sub-skills
..if we know it DOESN’T ≠ -TESTING speaking -using speaking to PRACTICE LANGUAGE (grammar, vocab) -using it as a FREE PRACTICE STAGE in another skill lesson (e.g. reading, writing, listening) — — Hi. I’m Fatime....
by Fatime Losonci | IELTS speaking sub-skills
Have you noticed your IELTS students (consciously or unconsciously) using AVOIDANCE when they aren’t sure of a particular grammar area? While it can be a useful strategy at times, if overused, it might result in their GRAMMATICAL RANGE AND ACCURACY being...
by Fatime Losonci | IELTS speaking sub-skills, lesson planning
When we teach new LANGUAGE, we need to cover its • MEANING • FORM • PRONUNCIATION …and? • APPROPRIACY, yes, you guessed it! (I hope … :D) As a useful awareness raising activity of the importance of REGISTER in IELTS speaking, have your...
by Fatime Losonci | IELTS speaking sub-skills, IELTS writing sub-skills
Have you noticed any issues with your students not knowing ALL FOUR of the following aspects of a word or phrase: • meaning • form • pronunciation AND… • APPROPRIACY!? We can’t really say a learner knows a word or phrase if they...
by Fatime Losonci | IELTS speaking sub-skills
If you know other language exams, how is the IELTS speaking exam similar to, or different from them in terms of • TASK TYPES • CRITERIA, and • LEVELS (=’bands’)? Which exam(s) do you most enjoy preparing students for? Why?...
by Fatime Losonci | IELTS speaking sub-skills
Speaking Part 3 tends to be challenging for candidates because the questions get REALLY complex by this point in the exam… To help them prepare, show them how they can ‘build up’ their ideas from ‘the ground up’, by collecting some...
