Subject No.

Materials Publisher Rationale

- Level: IELTS Band 4-5.5
- Focuses on building skills and providing essential exam practice → suitable
for preparation IELTS courses
Language skills 1

- Be designed for approximately 30-40 hours’ teaching time. → fits with the
teaching periods of the course
1 IELTS Express Intermediate (2nd edition) Cengage - Includes workbook with a wide range of practice materials → good source
for self-study.
- Eight theme-based units covering a broad range of typical IELTS topic
areas (Studying, Shopping, Jobs, Crime,…)
- Units 1, 3, 5, 7 consists of Reading and Speaking section, while Unit 2, 4,
6, 8 consists of Listening and Writing section.
Language skills 2

IELTS Express Upper Intermediate (2nd - Level: IELTS Band 5 and above
2 Cengage
edition) - Similar to IELTS Express Intermediate
Language skills 3

Ready for IELTS

3 MacMillan - This book aims to help students achieve IELTS score up to 6.5/7 → should
Units 1-7
be used for Language skills 3&4, especially when students get minimum
scores of 5 and above.
- This book can provide a huge source of Academic words (Wordlists) and
Language skills 4

Grammar (Grammar reference) at a higher level.

- The book clarify the expectation and how to achieve the highest scores
Ready for IELTS throughout tips before each kind of tasks.
4 MacMillan
Units 8-14
 - Check your vocabulary for English for the IELTS examination – a workbook for students (by Rawdon Wyatt)
- Effective academic writing 2: The short essay (2nd edition) (by Alice Savage)
- IELTS Listening strategies for the IELTS test
Further reading

- Longman essay activator

- Marvelous techniques for IELTS writing
- Visuals – Writing about graphs, tables and diagrams (by Gabi Duigu)
- Speaking recent actual tests
- The Complete guide to IELTS (Cengage)
- The official Cambridge guide to IELTS
- IELTS trainer
- IELTS simulation tests