CAMBRIDGE
EXAMINATIONS
PUBLISHING
The Cambridge IELTS Course
Updated Edition
CAMBRIDGE
UNIVERSITY PRESS
CAMBRIDGE
EXAMINATIONS
PUBLISHING
Vanessa Jakeman and Clare McDowell
I
Insight into
IELTS
Updated edition
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IELTS
Section
1
task
-
form filling
UNIT
3
Identifying detail
14
When do we need to listen
for detail?
IELTS
Section
1
task
-
multiple-choice pictures
UNIT
4
Identifying
main ideas
16
What are the speakers
talking about?
What are the main ideas and
how are they are developed?
IELTS
Section
2

Being aware
of
stress,
rhythm
25
and intonation
How do intonation and word
stress help us to understand?
IELTS
Section
4
task
-following
a
flow chart
IELTS
Section
4
task
-
table/flow chart completion and
multiple choice
THE READING MODULE
Introduction
UNIT
1
Orientating yourself
to the
text
Titles and sub-headings

task
-
multiple
choice
IELTS
task
-
note-taking
Improving global reading skills
Paragraph headings
IELTS
task
-
paragraph headings
Summarising
Completing a summary
Understanding paraphrase
42
46
Understanding argument 49
Argument or fact?
IELTS
task
-
identifying
arguments
IELTS
task
-
matching

IELTS
task
-
paragraph headings
THE WRITING MODULE
THE SPEAKING MODULE
Introduction
UNIT
1
Describing facts
and
figures
Bar charts
Pie charts
Tables
66
67
69
UNIT
2
Describing trends
Line graphs
Examining the axes
UNIT
3
Summarising data
73
Selecting important information
Comparing data
Grouping information

Understanding the instructions
Approaching the task
Forming ideas
UNIT
8
Planning
a
structure
85
Organising ideas
The introduction
The conclusion
UNIT
9
Introducing
topics
and
main
ideas
88
Expressing views
Making concessions
Refuting an argument
Defining/explaining
UNIT
10
Developing
an
argument
91

More practice for part two
Giving short answers to the
follow-up questions
UNIT
3
Part
three
of the
Speaking test
- 106
the discussion
Exploring the theme
Producing a reasoned response
More practice for part three
SUPPLEMENTARY ACTIVITIES
Listening 109
Reading 111
Writing 115
Speaking 122
IELTS PRACTICE TEST
Listening 127
Academic Reading 133
Academic Writing 144
General Training Reading 146
General Training Writing 157
Speaking 159
RECORDING SCRIPT
ANSWER KEY
SAMPLE ANSWER SHEETS 190
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

community.
The units contain class and pair activities and the opportunity for individual practice.
Teachers may choose to work systematically through each section, taking advantage
of the graded approach, or, alternatively, select material to suit their learners' needs
as required.
The Supplementary activities can be used to expand the units as follow-up work in
class or as homework exercises. For students working on their own, they provide
further opportunity to practise and consolidate the language covered in each unit or
they can help students to structure their revision schedule once they have covered
the units in the first part of the book.