IELTS Exam Preparation Course

Studying IELTS at KKCL

KKCL is offering combined General/Academic IELTS Exam Preparation courses in the morning from 9am-12pm (every weekday) and in the evening from 6pm-9pm (Monday, Wednesday and Friday). As proof of your success in English, obtaining a good IELTS qualification will give you access to a range of new educational and employment opportunities around the globe.

Key Information

HOURS PER WEEK: CLASS SIZE: MINIMUM AGE: LANGUAGE LEVEL: COURSE START: COURSE LENGTH:
9-15 Hours 12 average, maximum 18 18+ Intermediate to Advanced Every Monday 12 weeks to 1 year

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Materials

Resources used are compiled from different sources, including several course books such as Step Up To IELTS, New Insight Into IELTS, online sources, etc.

Course structure

The course runs in 12-week cycles, where you can complete one cycle and then decide whether to continue for several weeks more, or even finish the entire extended cycle until you are comfortable with your knowledge and ready to take the exam.
The course is designed to suit the students’ needs and commitments by allowing you to stay on as long as you wish before you take the exam at either general or academic level as both are combined throughout the cycles.

What you will learn

A wide range of skills is taught and practised throughout the course, including:

Writing Skills (Click to Learn More):

  • Describing and interpreting graphs, tables and diagrams
  • Summarising data
  • Letter writing, using appropriate register
  • Discursive/argumentative writing
  • Organising ideas to develop an argument
  • Providing relevant supporting examples for arguments

Reading Skills (Click to Learn More):

  • Reading for gist
  • Reading for main ideas
  • Reading for detail
  • Understanding inferences and implied meaning
  • Recognising a writer’s opinions, attitudes and purpose
  • Following the development of an argument

Speaking Skills (Click to Learn More):

  • Taking part in discussions
  • Sustaining conversations
  • Identifying topics of conversation
  • Paraphrasing
  • Fluency
  • Communicating opinions and information on everyday topics and common experiences and situations
  • Speaking at length on a given topic using appropriate language and organising ideas coherently
  • Expressing and justifying opinions
  • Analysing, discussing and speculating about issues

Listening Skills (Click to Learn More):

  • Understanding main ideas
  • Understanding specific factual information
  • Listening for detail
  • Understanding inferences and implied meaning
  • Recognising opinions, attitudes and purpose of a speaker; and following the development of an argument
  • Taking (lecture) notes

Grammar Skills (Click to Learn More):

  • Grammar related to the above writing and speaking skills
  • Identified areas of weakness

Optional add-on English lessons: This IELTS Exam Preparation course can be taken as a stand-alone course or can be combined with our General English Programme during or prior to the start of the course.