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978-1-107-60245-8 – Complete IELTS Bands 4-5
Rawdon Wyatt
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Map of the units 5
Unit title Reading Listening Writing Vocabulary and Spelling Grammar
1 Great places to be Reading 1: The best cities in the world
• Table completion
Reading 2: A city survey with a difference
• Note completion
Listening: Renting an apartment
• Form completion
Writing Task 1
• Describing pie charts and bar charts
• Selecting key features
• Using accurate data
• Collocations and prepositional phrases
• Key vocabulary
• Spelling: Making nouns plural
Present simple and present
continuous
2 People’s lives Reading 1: Patrick Malone
• Flow-chart completion
Reading 2: Sylvia Earle, Underwater hero
• Short-answer questions
• True / False / Not Given
Listening: Preparing for a magazine interview
• Predicting the answers
• Note completion
Writing Task 2
• Analysing the task
• Planning an answer
• Writing an introduction
• Using linkers: also, and, but and however
• Working out the meanings of words
• Key vocabulary
• Spelling: Changes when adding –ed
Past simple
3 Getting from A to B Reading 1: The Boeing 787
• Labelling a diagram
Reading 2: Pedestrians only
• Matching headings
Listening: Information about a train journey
• Labelling a diagram
• Multiple choice
• Listening for synonyms and paraphrases
Writing Task 1
• Describing tables and charts
• Comparing data and selecting key points
• Writing in paragraphs
• make and cause
• Key vocabulary
• Spelling: Changes when adding –er and
–est to adjectives
Making comparisons with
adjectives and adverbs
4 It was all new once Reading 1: The ballpoint pen
• Multiple choice
Reading 2: Marcel Bich
• Summary completion
Listening: Market research interview
• Sentence completion
• Pick from a list
Writing Task 2
• To what extent do you agree or disagree?
• Brainstorming ideas
• Organising your ideas
• What type of word is it? 1
• Key vocabulary
• Spelling: Using and misusing double
letters
Present perfect
5 Animal world Reading 1: The honey badger
• Sentence completion
Reading 2: On the trail of the honey badger
• Pick from a list
Listening: Information about a college event
• Table completion
• Labelling a plan
Writing Task 1
• Summarising two charts
• Comparing bar charts
• Grouping information
• What type of word is it? 2
• Prepositions in time phrases
• Words that give directions
• Key vocabulary
• Spelling: Small words often misspelled
Countable and uncountable nouns
6 Being human Reading 1: Breaking the habit
• Yes / No / Not Given
Reading 2: Fighting fear using virtual reality
• Summary completion with a box
Listening: Things that make people happy
• Matching
• Pick from a list
Writing Task 2
• Answering a single question
• Planning an answer
• Word building
• Key vocabulary
• Spelling: Suffixes
Zero and first conditionals (if/ unless)
7 Literacy skills Reading: Graphic novels
• Matching information
• Table completion
Listening: Applying for tickets to a book fair
• Form completion
• Multiple choice
Writing Task 1
• Describing trends
• Using verb and noun phrases
• Writing an overview
• raise or rise?
• Key vocabulary
• Spelling: Forming adverbs from adjectives
Prepositions to describe graphs
8 Tourist attractions Reading: Holidays with a difference
• Summary completion
• Matching features
Listening: Tour guide giving information
• Sentence completion
• Table completion
Writing Task 2
• Answering two questions
• Analysing the task
• Writing a conclusion
• tourism or tourist?
• Key vocabulary
• Spelling: Introductory and linking phrases
Relative pronouns: who, which, that, where
9 Every drop counts Reading: The rain makers
• Matching headings
• Sentence completion
• Pick from a list
Listening: A tutor and a student talking
about an essay
• Matching
• Flow-chart completion
Writing Task 1
• Summarising a diagram
• Planning an answer
• Ordering the information
• Comparing two diagrams
• effect, benefit, advantage, disadvantage
• Key vocabulary
• Spelling: Some common mistakes
The passive
Sequencers
10 Building design Reading: The man who tried to destroy Paris
• Multiple choice
• Matching sentence endings
• Yes / No / Not Given
Listening: A talk on the Beijing Olympic
stadium
• Note completion
Writing Task 2
• Discussing opposing views and giving
your opinion
• Analysing the task and brainstorming
ideas
• Structuring an answer
• Proofing an answer for spelling and
punctuation mistakes
• Word choice
• Guessing the meaning of words
• Improving vocabulary use
• Key vocabulary
• Spelling: Proofing your essay for common
spelling mistakes
Modal verbs