I am a ESL teacher. i am teaching IELTS to a student using this course program :

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This is a preparation course for IELTS test candidates aiming for a score of 7.0-7.5 on the exam. The course is organised around basic themes that appear on the exam and which students will also use in academic contexts. Each unit in the course consists of four lessons.

The first lesson introduces the theme along with relevant academic vocabulary, and subsequent units offer practice in listening and speaking, reading and writing, as well as further development of vocabulary and phrases. Academic vocabulary is indicated throughout, and the lessons include tips for tackling each paper and question type.

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Requirements

Table of Content

8 units | 36h total length

Part 1 - Unit 1: Description

4 lessons | 4h

- Unit 1: Glasses
- Description: This video-based lesson uses the topic of eyeglass design to introduce a range of academic vocabulary relating to description, one of the major themes of the IELTS exam. This lesson is the first part of Unit 1 in the Linguahouse IELTS preparation course plan, which provides exam practice in listening/speaking, reading, and writing. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

- Unit 2: Boot Camp
- Description: Students work with the theme of description in IELTS Listening Section 2 and Speaking Part 2. They define academic vocabulary related to describing courses of study and listen to an informative talk about a coding boot camp. They then prepare for and practise delivering a Speaking Part 2 description of a course of study. Optional extension activity with Speaking Part 3 questions. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

- Unit 3: Academically Speaking
- Description: This lesson combines IELTS reading exam practice and learner training, focusing on academic vocabulary related to the theme of description. Includes true/false/not given and matching features questions, and supports students in recording and studying academic vocabulary effectively. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

- Unit 4: Maps and Plans
- Description: Focuses on Writing Task 1 with the theme of description. Students discuss experiences of supermarket shopping, examine a task with two maps and a model answer, and prepare to write a response. Exam tips and marking frameworks provided. Optional extension task to practice Speaking Task 2 mini-presentation about shops. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

Part 2 - Unit 2: Comparison

5 lessons | 5h

- Unit 1: Driving Green
- Description: This video-based lesson uses the topic of alternative ways to power vehicles to introduce academic vocabulary and structures related to comparison. Provides exam practice in listening/speaking, reading, and writing. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

- Unit 2: Good Question!
- Description: Students work with the theme of comparison and evaluation in an IELTS Listening Section 1 task and a Speaking Part 1 task. They review key points for pronouncing letters and numbers, and listen to a student activity survey. Exam tips provided. Optional extension related to hesitation devices for answering questions in speaking. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

- Unit 3: Screen vs Print
- Description: Students work with the theme of comparison and evaluation in an IELTS Reading task. They watch a short video, define relevant vocabulary, read an article, and respond to multiple-choice and summary completion questions. Exam tips provided. Optional Task 1 exam speaking activity related to reading habits and preferences. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

- Unit 4: A Dead Heat
- Description: Focuses on comparison in IELTS Writing Task 1. Reviews information about greenhouse gas emissions and global warming, examines a task, table, and model answer, and prepares for writing a response. Exam tips and marking frameworks provided. Optional extension for proofreading practice. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

- Unit 5: IELTS Academic: Upper-Intermediate Review 1
- Description: Review exercises that test recall and understanding of academic and other vocabulary from Units 1 and 2. Generates a score out of 100 if all activities are completed. Includes a speaking assessment and reflection on performance for future planning. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

#### Part 3 - Unit 3: Changes

4 lessons | 4h

- Unit 1: Dinosaurs
- Description: Video-based lesson using the topic of dinosaurs to introduce academic vocabulary and structures describing change. Provides exam practice in listening/speaking, reading, and writing. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

- Unit 2: Computer Games
- Description: Focuses on change in an IELTS Listening Section 3 task and Speaking Part 3 task. Involves a three-way conversation about the early history of computer games, followed by discussion questions related to change. Exam tips provided. Optional listening questions related to attitude and opinion. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

- Unit 3: Fires are Burning!
- Description: Focuses on change in an IELTS Reading task. Includes defining relevant vocabulary, reading an article, and completing matching and short answer questions. Exam tips provided. Optional word puzzle to review and extend vocabulary related to fire. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

- Unit 4: Home or Office?
- Description: Focuses on change in IELTS Writing Task 2. Involves brainstorming advantages and disadvantages of working from home, comparing ideas with a model essay, and preparing to answer a similar exam question. Exam tips and marking frameworks provided. Optional task to support mastering useful verbs from the model essay. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

#### Part 4 - Unit 4: Trends

5 lessons | 5h

- Unit 1: Going Cashless
- Description: Video-based lesson using the topic of a coin shortage to introduce vocabulary related to quantitative change. Provides exam practice in listening/speaking, reading, and writing. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

- Unit 2: Overfishing
- Description: Focuses on trends and changes in IELTS Listening Section 4 and Speaking Part 3. Involves defining academic vocabulary for describing quantitative changes and listening to a lecture about overfishing. Exam tips provided. Optional extension for describing a line graph for Writing Task 1. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

- Unit 3: Falling Standards?
- Description: Focuses on changing trends in British English usage in an IELTS Reading task. Includes discussing a line graph, defining relevant vocabulary, reading an article, and responding to matching headings, multiple matching, and sentence completion questions. Exam tips provided. Optional error correction extension for Writing Task 1. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

- Unit 4: Listen and Look
- Description: Focuses on trends in IELTS Writing Task 1. Involves discussing music formats, examining a task with a line graph, and preparing to write a response. Exam tips and marking frameworks provided. Optional extension to practice discussion questions for Speaking Part 3 related to media formats and access. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

- Unit 5: IELTS Academic: Upper-Intermediate Review 2
- Description: Review exercises testing recall and understanding of academic and other vocabulary from Units 3 and 4. Generates a score out of 100 if all activities are completed. Includes a speaking assessment and reflection on performance for future planning. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

#### Part 5 - Unit 5: Cause and Effect

4 lessons | 4h

- Unit 1: If Satellites Failed
- Description: Video-based lesson exploring cause and effect using a thought experiment about disappearing satellites. Supports development of subject-specific and academic vocabulary, and practice in conditional structures. Provides exam practice in listening/speaking, reading, and writing. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

- Unit 2: Recycling Rules
- Description: Focuses on cause and effect in an IELTS Listening Section 2 and Speaking Part 2. Involves defining vocabulary, listening to a talk about a campus recycling scheme, and practising delivering a Speaking Part 2 related to reducing waste. Exam tips provided. Optional extension for describing a process in Writing Task 1. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

- Unit 3: TV Guide
- Description: Focuses on cause and effect in an IELTS Reading task about children’s TV viewing. Includes defining relevant vocabulary, reading an article, and responding to matching sentence endings, matching features, and true/false/not given questions. Exam tips provided. Optional bonus reading extension. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

- Unit 4: The White Stuff
- Description: Focuses on describing a process in IELTS Writing Task 1. Involves watching a video about making tofu, examining a task and model answer, and preparing to write a response similar to making cheese. Exam tips and marking frameworks provided. Optional extension for understanding and describing another process. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

#### Part 6 - Unit 6: Problems and Solutions

5 lessons | 5h

- Unit 1: The Red Planet
- Description: Video-based lesson introducing the theme of problems and solutions by considering survival on Mars. Supports development of subject-specific and academic vocabulary, and provides practice in listening, reading, and speaking. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

- Unit 2: Citizen Science
- Description: Focuses on problems and solutions in IELTS Listening Section 4 and Speaking Part 3. Involves defining vocabulary, listening to a talk about citizen science, and considering discussion questions related to problems and solutions. Exam tips provided. Optional extension to learn more about citizen science projects. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

- Unit 3: Plastic Pollution
- Description: Focuses on problems and solutions in an IELTS Reading task. Involves defining relevant vocabulary, reading an article, and responding to note completion and multiple-choice questions. Exam tips provided. Optional extension on idioms related to problems and solutions. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

- Unit 4: Being Connected
- Description: Focuses on problems and solutions in IELTS Writing Task 2. Involves brainstorming issues related to global internet and mobile phone access, comparing ideas with a model essay, and preparing to answer a similar exam question. Exam tips and marking frameworks provided. Optional task to practice Writing Task 1 planning using similar data. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

- Unit 5: IELTS Academic: Upper-Intermediate Review 3
- Description: Review exercises testing recall and understanding of academic and other vocabulary from Units 5 and 6. Generates a score out of 100 if all activities are completed. Includes a speaking assessment and reflection on performance for future planning. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

#### Part 7 - Unit 7: Contrast and Reservations

4 lessons | 4h

- Unit 1: Universal Basic Income
- Description: Video-based lesson exploring facts and opinions by considering universal basic income. Supports development of subject-specific and academic vocabulary, and provides practice in listening and speaking. Exam tips provided. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

- Unit 2: Do Blondes Have More Fun?
- Description: Focuses on facts and opinions in an IELTS Listening Section 3 and Speaking Part 1. Involves a mini experiment and listening to a discussion about a student research project. Exam tips provided. Optional extension to consider unusual topics. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

- Unit 3: Non-Human Persons
- Description: Focuses on facts and opinions in an IELTS Reading exam task. Involves defining relevant vocabulary, reading a challenging article, and answering yes/no/not given and summary completion questions. Exam tips provided. Optional extension on legal vocabulary. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

- Unit 4: Animal Welfare
- Description: Focuses on facts and opinions in IELTS Writing Task 2. Involves brainstorming issues related to animal welfare, comparing ideas with a model essay, and preparing to answer a similar exam question. Exam tips and marking frameworks provided. Optional task for a mini presentation on an animal-related topic. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

#### Part 8 - Unit 8: Fact and Opinion

5 lessons | 5h

- Unit 1: A Mammoth Task
- Description: Video-based lesson introducing prediction, speculation, and recommendation by considering a scientific project to bring mammoths back to life. Supports development of relevant vocabulary and practice in listening, speaking, and writing. Optional extension on present participles. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

- Unit 2: Fully Functional
- Description: Focuses on prediction, speculation, and recommendation in an IELTS Listening Section 1 and Speaking Part 2. Involves reviewing functional language, listening to people making plans for lunch, and connecting functional language to speaking mini presentations. Exam tips provided. Optional extension to illustrate connections between Speaking Parts 2 and 3. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

- Unit 3: Learning in English
- Description: Focuses on prediction, speculation and recommendation in an IELTS Reading task. Involves issues raised by delivering higher education courses in English, defining relevant vocabulary, and answering note completion and matching sentence endings questions. Exam tips provided. Optional extension on commonly confused words. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

- Unit 4: That’ll Teach Them!
- Description: Focuses on prediction, speculation, and recommendation in IELTS Writing Task 2. Involves brainstorming issues related to language learning success, comparing ideas with a model essay, and preparing to answer a similar exam question. Exam tips and marking frameworks provided. Optional end-of-course extension to evaluate strengths and weaknesses. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman

- Unit 5: IELTS Academic: Upper-Intermediate Review 4
- Description: Review exercises testing recall and understanding of vocabulary and language in context from Units 7 and 8. Generates a score out of 100 if all activities are completed. Includes a speaking assessment and reflection for future planning. The full lesson plan takes a minimum of 60 minutes.
- Instructor: Stephanie Hirschman



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The student only has 3-4 weeks to prepare for the test. Therefore, I need a crash course that  covers only the most essential lesson plans from this program. Also, I just gave my student a English placement test. Perhaps we can use his answers to target where we should focus:

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Jane is walking ___ the park.
on

Susana thinks that vegetables with ___ are healthier than vegetables with pasta.
the rice

We ___ watch a movie after dinner.
will be

The Buchwalds ___ live in this neighborhood. They moved away 6 months ago.
were used to

Can you open the door, please? It ___ be Izzy. She said she would come by.
can't

The team will join the race, ___ they struggled to make time for training.
even

It was ___ we all stopped speaking.
so beautiful so

I would get the striped one ___.
if i am you

___ can take flight for that long.
Either roosters or hens

He didn't want to ___, so he did what his boss asked.
become fired

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