The course begins with three tutorials. These identify two main essay types and demonstrate the 5 steps recommended for organising time in Task 2. The focus is on optimising timing and answering the question in order to achieve highly in Task Response and Coherence and Cohesion.
Following the tutorials are Practice Activities, in which students practice common vocabulary and grammar errors in their guided tasks. Detailed Lexical Resource and Grammatical Range and Accuracy feedback is student-centred and graded by the classroom teacher according to individual student needs via the independent parts of the Practice Activities.
- Tutorials
- Tutorial 1: Essay Type 1; Steps 1 - 2
- Tutorial 2: Essay Type 1; Steps 3 - 5
- Tutorial 3: Essay Type 2; Steps 1 - 5
- Practice Activities
- Practice Activities 1
- Theme 1 (G) Advertising. Focus: spelling
- Theme 2 (G) Arts and Entertainment. Focus: spelling, synonyms, negatives
- Theme 3 (G) Communication. Focus: spelling, some/any/no
- Theme 4 (G) Social Issues. Focus: spelling, word form
- Theme 5 (G) Transport and Inventions. Focus: spelling, adjectives
- Practice Activities 2
- Theme 6 (G) Sport. Focus: word form, prepositions, linking cohesive devices
- Theme 7 (G) Travel. Focus: coherence and cohesion
- Theme 8 (G) Health. Focus: adjectives
- Theme 9 (S-G) Change
- Theme 10 (S-I) Education
- Practice Activities 3
- Theme 11 (G) Globalisation
- Theme 12 (S-G) Media. Focus on vocabulary (word form, synonym, adjective)
- Theme 13 (S-I) Business
- Theme 14 (I) Environment
- Theme 15 (I) Science and Technology
- Practice Activities 4
- Theme 16 (S-I) Relationships
- Theme 17 (I) Work
- Theme 18 (I) Animals
- Theme 19 (I) Leisure
- Theme 20 (I) Language
Key: (G) = Guided; (SG) = Semi-guided; (S-I) = Semi-independent; (I) = Independent