Hello, this is an online course to help you improve IELTS Speaking!

Course Description

This course aims to (1) familiarize you with topics, criteria and mode of IELTS speaking test; (2) improve your fluency by offering more opportunities for you to speak; (3) facilitate your lexical variety and grammatical accuracy; (4) help you produce accurate and intelligible English.

The tools will be employed in this course are blog and virtual world. The former is used as a platform for you to obtain newest information, materials and tasks you need to accomplish before class and as a platform for interactions of students and teachers and your cooperative learning. The latter is adopted to create interesting backgrounds and lively atmosphere for your free talking.

Course Assessment

Formative assessment will be held at the mid-term of the online course in the form of IELTS speaking mode; summative test will be held to prepare you with the mode of IELTS speaking, which is criteria-based.

Course schedule

Time: 1 session/week, 1 hour/session

Calendar
Time	Task
Week 1	Introduction
Week 2	People
Week 3	Events
Week 4	Objects
Week 5	Nature
Week 6	Transportation
Week 7	Places
Week 8	Holidays
Week 9	Assessment

If you are interested, please do not hesitate to join in!

You can email to course organizer: 598219596@qq.com

Or you could join us in this blog to comment and we could discuss further.

Week 1: Introduction to IELTS speaking

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In the first week, the course focuses on four aspects.

1.Introduction and analysis of three parts of IELTS speaking;

2.Analysis of criteria for IELTS speaking with videos as the example;

3. Introduction of second life;

4.Overview of topics in IELTS speaking, schedule of the course, recommended reading and websites

(Please ensure that you have gone through all the materials posted to be more prepared )

1. Introduction & analysis of 3 parts of IELTS speaking

You can find very detailed information on the content of three parts of the test, such as what kind of questions will be asked, how long it will take.

Here is the link: A. Introduction to first part of speaking

B. Introduction to second part of speaking

C. Introduction to third part of speaking

2 . Analysis of 4 criteria for IELTS speaking with videos as the example;

A. Fluency & Coherence:

B. Grammar:

C. Pronunciation:

D. Lexical resources:

3.Introduction to Second Life

Registration for SL:

A. Second Life is a virtual world, and is used by many people world-wide. It was not created as a learning environment, but there are quite a few educators who have looked at the potential for this kind of virtual world.

B. To start using SL you must download the programme software from the Second Life website http://secondlife.com/. You also have to sign up for an account, which is also free. You need create USER NAME & PASSWORD and you can meet up with the group in one of the designated areas, which you will receive detailed information before the class from you teachers.

C. You need become familiar with how to move and talk – “talking” can be done by writing in the chat line at the foot of the screen.

4. Schedule of the course, course assessment, recommended reading and websites.

A. Course schedule

Time: 1 session/week, 1 hour/session