6-month IELTS Study Plan

Common Objectives:

 Reading rapidly and grasping what you have read

 Perceiving recordings by listening at least an hour in a daily basis

 Speaking fluently

 Thinking in an innovative way and express it easily both in writing and speaking

Required Tool Box:

 Sample model essays

 Vocabulary books (400 Must-Have Words, Essential Words)

 Writing-structure books (Task 1, Common Connective Words, Formal Words, Longman

Activator, IBT 80)

 Novels, magazines, and newspapers

 TV series (Alias, Arrow, Nikita, Australian TV series) , documentaries, news, YouTube

teachers (Dori, Emma, Scott (LBCC), Australian Network Series 1-3)

 Reading books (Speed Reading for Dummies, 10 steps to College Reading

 Practice tests (Cambridge 1-10, McGraw Hill, Kaplan, Barron's)

 Collin's Dictionary

 Internet Connection (Google Translate)

Schedule

Week Assignments Sample Listening (an hour Practice

number Essays a day) Tests
Week 1 Essential Words - 1 - 21 twice a day Dori
Speed Reading For Dummies 1-3 Units; Nikita
Appendix
Week 2 Essential Words - 22-30 twice a day Dori
400 Must-Have Words 1 - 15 Nikita
Speed Reading For Dummies 4 - 6
Week 3 400 Must-Have Words 16 - 40 twice a day Emma
Speed Reading For Dummies 7 - 10 Nikita
Week 4 Grammar in Use 1 - 20 twice a day Emma
Speed Reading For Dummies 11 - 14 Alias
Week 1 Grammar in Use 21 - 40 twice a day Alias
Speed Reading For Dummies - Complete Joel Osteen
10 Steps to College Reading Units 1 - 2
Week 2 Task 1 twice a day Australian 2 (IELTS 1)
Common Connective Words Network Series 1,
 Formal Words 2
Express Yourself 1 - 1 - 10 Alias
Grammar in Use 41 - 50
10 Week 3 Longman Activator twice a day Australian 2 (IELTS 1)
Express Yourself 1 - 11 - 20 Network Series 3
Novel Alias
Week 4 Novel twice a day Joel Osteen 2
Speak English Like an American Harvard (McGraw
Express Yourself 1 - 21 - 25 University Hill)
Express Yourself 2 - 1 - 5
Week 1 General Review twice a day Joel Osteen 2
Ideas for IELTS Harvard (McGraw
Express Yourself 2 - 6 - 15 University Hill)
Grammar in Use 51 - 65
Week 2 Novel twice a day LBCC Lectures 2 IELTS
Express Yourself 2 - 16 - 25 Plus 1
Grammar in Use 66 - 80
Week 3 Novel twice a day LBCC Lectures 2 IELTS
What Do you think (General Reading Book) Plus 1
Grammar in Use 81 - 90
Week 4 Get Rid of Your Accent (British Accent) twice a day 2
Grammar in Use 91 - 105 Cambridge
2
Week 1 General Review twice a day 2 IELTS
American Accent Training Plus 2
Week 2 Novel twice a day 2 IELTS
Instant Discussions Plus 2
Grammar in Use 106 - 120
Week 3 Novel twice a day 2
Hot Topics 3 - 1 - 8 Cambridge
Grammar in Use 121 - 140 3
Week 4 Hot Topics 3 - 9 - 14 twice a day Cambridge 2
Advanced Grammar in Use - Units 99, 100 Pronunciation Cambridge
Lessons 4
Week 1 Contemporary Topics 2 1 - 7 twice a day 2
Reading for the Real World Cambridge
5
Week 2 Contemporary Topics 2 8 - 12 twice a day 2
Reading for the Real World 1 Cambridge
General Review 6
Week 3 Understanding Everyday Australian twice a day 2 (IELTS 7)
- Register for IELTS exam
Week 4 Motivational Book twice a day 2 (IELTS 7)
Listening to Australia - Intermediate
Week 1 Motivational Book twice a day 2 (IELTS 8)
Listening to Australia - Intermediate
Week 2 Listening to Australia - Advanced twice a day 2 (IELTS 8)
The Speed Reading Monster Course
Week 3 Listening to Australia - Advanced twice a day 2 (IELTS 9)
The Speed Reading Course - by Peter
Shepherd
 General Review
Week 4 twice a day 2 (IELTS 9)
Week 1 Exam week
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 1
Week 2