Pre-TOEFL & IELTS Course - Building Skills

 The TOEFL and IELTS tests all 4 English skills – Reading – Listening – Writing – Speaking in an academic atmosphere.

The Pre-TOEFL/IELTS Course has been designed by the Language Institute to build students’ English skills in the context of the TOEFL and IELTS tests, but at the appropriate level of the students’ ability. This means that when the students progress to the TOEFL or IELTS Preparation Course they will have acquired the skills to tackle the more difficult TOEFL/IELTS questions.

All students will be pre-tested and interviewed before joining the TOEFL or IELTS Courses at the Language Institute, and given advice about how they should proceed and what course would be appropriate for their skill level and needs.

There is no specific course book used in this course. Authentic materials will be supplied by the teacher, that correspond to academic or non-academic sources. Students will be expected to do homework and follow a study plan. 

Some of the skills covered in the course are:

• Planning a self study strategy and setting goals
• Self analysis and keeping a record
• Note taking and using short hand
• Active reading and listening
• Skimming and scanning
• Finding the topic and main idea
• Understanding natural speech
• Pronunciation, intonation and speech patterns
• Simple sentence structures
• Working on grammar
• Being clear, concise and unified in speaking and writing
• Linking ideas in reading and listening
• Organizing essays – from the general to the specific
• Identifying and using signal and transition words
• Summarizing and paraphrasing
• Using examples and details in writing and speaking
• Planning – writing and speaking
• Between the lines – suggestions and listening for tone and attitude
• Predicting in reading and listening
• Personal preference answers
• Choosing and supporting an option in speaking and writing
• Vocabulary in context strategies
• Definitions and finding references