2
UNIT
IELTS Paper
Focus
Vocabulary
Focus
Skills
Focus
Grammar
Focus
Exam
Focus
1 Study time and
downtime
(pp. 8-19)
Speaking
Test
• Topic-related
vocabulary
• Collocations
Affixes
• Responding to/
• Extending
answers
• Using weak
forms and
linking
• Making/
Speaking
from notes
• Modal/Past
modal
meanings
• Phrases with
modal
meaning
Speaking Test Parts 1 & 2
• Personal information
questions
• Long turn
2 Coming to a
new country
(pp. 20-31)
Listening
Paper
• Topic-related
vocabulary
• Prefixes and
suffixes
• Predicting
• Listening for
specific
information
• Distinguishing
sounds in
connected
speech
• Intonation,
grammar and
meaning
Listening Paper
Sections 1 & 2
• Short-answer
questions
• Plan/Map/Diagram
labelling
• Multiple choice
3 Biology and
health
(pp. 32-43)
Reading
Paper
• Topic-related
vocabulary
• Collocations
• Academic
vocabulary
• Predicting
• Skimming
• Scanning
• Different
kinds of
clauses
Reading Paper Passage 1
• Sentence completion
• Short-answer questions
• Matching information
4 Statistics,
trends and
processes
(pp. 44-57)
Writing
Paper
• Identifying
adjectives of scale
• Transitive verbs in
process
descriptions
• Prepositions in
reporting statistical
data
• Identifying most
salient data
• Organising
reports on
graphical data
• Describing
processes
• Textual
reference
• Ellipsis
Writing Paper Task 1
• Reporting on graphical
data (describing charts
and tables, process
descriptions)
5 Cultural
identity
(pp. 58-67)
Speaking
Test
• Topic-related
vocabulary
• Collocations
• Word stress
• Extending
responses
• Relating own
views to others’
views
• Sentence stress
• Comparative
structures
and phrases
• Speaking Test Part 2
• Long turn
6 Getting trained
(pp. 68-77)
Listening
Paper
• Topic-related
vocabulary
• Collocations
• Compound words
• Predicting
• Listening for
detail
• Sentence stress
• Some signal
words/
phrases
Listening Paper Section 3
• Sentence completion
• Matching
• Short-answer questions
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