IELTS Speaking The Most Comprehensive Guide All in One Kite Boy Series Michael C. Thorp

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IELTS Speaking The Most Comprehensive Guide

All in One Kite Boy Series

Copyright © Michael C. Thorp

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First Edition First published in 2020 by Free House Studios Ltd.

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ISBN: 978-0-9951367-1-7

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As an IELTS examiner and teacher for over 20 years, I feel that most of the IELTS speaking test study materials are woefully inadequate. They don’t prepare students with enough useful vocabulary, vocabulary exercises, speaking practice, and detailed practice structures and examples that can best enable them to attain a band score 6 or 7 or higher. The Kite Boy IELTS speaking series of books (Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate, Advanced, and All in One) aims to rectify all that by providing the most comprehensive guide to the IELTS speaking test. The All in One guide includes: • 72 different topics and key vocabulary • 1600+ vocabulary exercises • 700+ practice questions, with model answers and suggested structures • 14 different types of questions, and 40 different ways of answering them. Specific aims of the book

It is to provide useful vocabulary, highlight ways of answering the different questions, with model answers and lots of practice questions, so students can feel confident about how to do well in the IELTS speaking test. How Teachers Could Use this Book

As per the attached example lesson, here is how I have a great 3-hour lesson using this book for one topic for an advanced class. 1. Play a TED talk video (~5 minutes long) related to the topic.

2. Back to the board (key word vocabulary) The teacher puts the students into 4 teams, who stand in front of the whiteboard with one each team member facing them, seated on a chair – back to the board. The teacher writes a word from the key vocabulary on the board, and the students who are standing have to describe the word to their team member seated, without saying the word or using body language or the root word. If one of the people seated know the answer, they raise their hand, and their team gets one point if it’s correct. 3. Pronunciation Practice (key word vocabulary) Once back to the board is over, the teacher can then model the more difficult words, and get the students to practice. The teacher can also ask the students questions about themselves related to the words to provide meaningful context. 4. Vocabulary Exercises Project the exercises onto a whiteboard and number the students 1-10 and have them come up and complete the first and then the second 10-question vocabulary exercises. Afterwards, the teacher can again get them practice pronouncing any difficult words and ask questions about them to reinforce meaning and usage.

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