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Writing Skills Syllabus

Level 3
Improve your IELTS Writing Skills (Mc Carter - Whitby)
Cambridge Official Guide to IELTS (Cullen, et.al.)
Barron’s IELTS Book

Wee Dates Unit Sections Comments

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1 Writing Session: Task 1 Give the students a handout with
 Describing trends the main vocabulary used to
 Related verbs and nouns describe charts
Unit 1  Understanding data
Changes and 2nd Writing Session: Task 2 Start by introducing the problem
Consequences  Understanding questions solution essay and its structure.
1 Jan 21 - 25
(Line chart  Expressing solutions After finishing the chapter go
+problem solution  Linking Phrases through p28 with the students.
essay)  Using trigger words
3rd Writing Session: Drafts done during class
 Practice Test
 Writing Drafts
1st Writing Session: Task 1 Review errors from last week’s
 Comparing Information drafts
 Adverbs in comparison Start by introducing the two
 Comparing and types of bar chart (change over
Contrasting time/static)
Unit 2
The importance of 2nd Writing Session: Task 2 Review errors from last week’s
Jan Feb
2 the Past
 Using it, they, this, these drafts
28 - 1
(bar chart + cause Start by introducing the cause
 Planning essays
effect essay) effect essay and its structure
 Developing ideas

3rd Writing Session: Drafts done during class

 Practice Test
 Writing Drafts
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1 Writing Session: Task 1 Review errors from last week’s
 The passive drafts
 Sequencing Review the passive at the
beginning of the chapter.
Unit 3
Machines, Cycles, 2nd Writing Session: Task 1 Hand the students many
3 Feb 4 - 8
and Processes  Review as many types of previous processes tasks and
(Process) processes as possible in the discuss their structures and the
class. different steps for each orally.
rd
3 Writing Session: Drafts done during class
 Practice Test
 Writing Drafts
4 Feb 11 - 15 Unit 4 + Unit 6 1st Writing Session: Task 1 Review errors from last week’s
Education +  General and Specific drafts
Culture Statements Start by introducing pie charts.
(pie charts +  Comparing Information
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 Describing Proportions
2nd Writing Session: Task 1 Start by introducing tables
 Concluding statements
tables)  Concession (1)
3rd Writing Session:
 Practice Test
 Writing Drafts
1st Writing Session: Task 1 Review errors from last week’s
 Describing Changes drafts
 Describing Locations

Unit 5 2nd Writing Session: Task 1 Hand the students many

5 Feb 18 - 22 Youth  Review as many types of previous maps tasks and discuss
(Maps) maps as possible in the their structures and the different
class. steps for each orally.
3rd Writing Session:
 Practice Test
 Writing Drafts
1st Writing Session: Task 2 Review errors from last week’s
 Expressing advantages and drafts
disadvantages
 Advantage and
Disadvantage Vocabulary
 Concession (2)
Unit 6
2nd Writing Session: Task 2 Hand the students many
Feb Mar Culture
6 25-1 (Advantage/Disad  Review as many types of previous tasks and discuss their
Adv/disadv essays as structures and the different steps
vantage Essay)
possible in the class. for each orally. (ask them to
write intro for each task in 5 min
in class)
3rd Writing Session: Drafts done during class.
 Practice Test
 Writing Drafts
1st Writing Session: Task 1 Review errors from last week’s
 Adverbs drafts
 Using adverbs to evaluate
Unit 7 data
Arts and Science  Avoiding irrelevance
7 (Two bar charts + 2nd Writing Session: Task 2 Familiarize the students with the
Mar 4 – 8
Discuss both  Discussing Other people’s structure of discuss both
opinions essay) opinions opinions essay.
 Hypothesizing
3rd Writing Session: Drafts done during class Should
 Practice Test be doing BOTH Task 1 & Task 2
 Writing Drafts essays
8 Mar 11- 15 Mock IELTS Mock IELTS 1
Correction of Mock + catch up if
behind on syllabus
Present ways to improve the
students’ level on one to one

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sessions.
1st Writing Session: Task 1 Review errors from last week’s
 Making Predictions drafts
 Factual Accuracy
Unit 8 2nd Writing Session: task 2
Nature
9 Mar 18 –22  Articles
(Table and pie +
solution essay  Writing conclusions
3rd Writing Session: Drafts done during class Should
 Practice Test be doing BOTH Task 1 & Task 2
 Writing Drafts essays
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1 Writing Session: Task 1 Review errors from last week’s
Unit 9  Varying Vocabulary drafts
Health  Checking Spelling
(line and pie 2nd Writing Session: Task 2
10 Mar 25 –29 charts+ positive  Organizing words
and negative  Verb-subject agreement
effects) 3rd Writing Session: Drafts done during class Should
 Practice Test be doing BOTH Task 1 & Task 2
 Writing Drafts essays
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1 Writing Session: Task 1 Review errors from last week’s
 Word Order drafts
 Linking using with task 1
revision
Unit 10 2nd Writing Session: Task 2 Introduce the students with both
Individual and
 Paragraph structure essay questions and their
11 Apr 1 -5 Society structure:
 Relevant and Irrelevant
(Bar chart + - Do you agree/ disagree
information
opinion essay) - How far do you agree?
 Task 2 revision
rd
3 Writing Session: Drafts done during class Should
 Practice Test be doing BOTH Task 1 & Task 2
 Writing Drafts essays
Administration of Mock IELTS 2
2nd Writing Session: Task 2 Bring your own handouts to the
 Two essay-question type. class.
 Introduce the essay
question and the
Mock IELTS structure.
12 Apr 8 – 12
 Practice planning some
IELTS double-question
essay.
3rd Writing Session: Drafts done during class.
 Practice Test
 Writing Drafts
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1 Writing Session: Cullen Unit 1
(pp 93-99)
13 2nd Writing Session: Cullen Unit 2
Apr 15 –19 IELTS ONLY (p.100)
3rd Writing Session: Cullen Unit 6
(p.119)
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1st Writing Session: Cullen Unit 3

(p.106)

14 Apr 22 –27 IELTS ONLY 2nd Writing Session: Cullen Unit 7

(p.124)
3rd Writing Session: Cullen Unit 5
(p. 68-69)
Mock IELTS 3

Apr May 2nd Writing Session: Cullen Unit 4 Review errors from Mock exam
15 29 – 3
Mock IELTS and 8 (pp 110.129)
3rd Session:
Barron’s target 1, 2, 3, &4
May 6- 11 Real IELTS Exam
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