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Mindset for IELTS Level 2 Teacher’s Book / Natasha De Souza

Cambridge English

An Official Cambridge IELTS Course

TARGET BAND SCORE 6.5

English. 106 pages

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Student’s Book
Mindset for IELTS Level 2 is aimed at students who are at 82 level and want to achieve a Band 6 or 6.5 result at IELTS. You can follow the book by topic and teach it lineally or alternatively you can focus on the different skills and papers that you would like your students to improve. It is designed for up to 90 hours of classroom use, but you be can be flexible and focus on key areas of your choice.

The topics have been chosen based on common themes in the IELTS exam and the language and skills development is based on research in the corpus, by looking at the mistakes that students at this level commonly make in IELTS.

Mindset for IELTS Level 2 offers a flexible way of teaching. You can work through the units consecutively or choose the lessons that are important to your students. You can choose to teach the book by topic or by skill.

• Topics have been chosen to suit the needs and abilities of students at this level, they are topics that occur in the IELTS test, but are tailored to the needs and interests of your students.
• There is full coverage of the test both here and in the online modules. However, there is an emphasis on the parts of the exam  where students aiming at a Band 6 or Band 6.5 will be able to pick up the most marks, maximising their chances of getting the score that they need.
• Each level of Mindset is challenging, but doesn’t push students above what they can do.
• Grammar and vocabulary is built into the development of skills, so students improve their language skills as well as the skills that they need to learn to achieve the desired band score

How Mindset for IELTS helps with each skill

• Speaking – Mindset gives you strategies for what happens if you don’t know much of the topic. It also helps build vocabulary for each part of the test and allows students to grow in confidence.
• Writing – Mindset gives you tips on how to plan better and develop your ideas. There is coverage of all types of Task 1 and Task 2 and detailed help on how to approach each as well as model answers.
• Reading – Strategies for dealing with Reading texts on difficult and unknown topics are developed, as well as coverage of all question types. Strategies for improving reading skills in general as well as skills needed in the exam, such as an awareness of distraction and the use of paraphrases.
• Listening– Mindset gives coverage of all the Listening tasks, but concentrates on how your students can maximise their score. Vital skills for dealing with the paper like paraphrasing are developed and listening strategies that will help your students in everyday life are developed.