Pre-unit Speaking - See where you are before starting the unit so you can focus on your weakest areas and measure your progress at the end of the unit. (15 minutes)

1. Record your speaking response and submit it on Flipgrid

2. Leave two thoughtful comments on the responses of your peers

Vocabulary - Learn advanced vocabulary to describe food and eating habits while also learning about American culture. (45 minutes)

1. Complete Vocabulary worksheet 1 and check your answers

2. Take notes on your brainstorming sheet

3. Practice Quizlet food vocabulary

4. Join the #IELTSJourneysChallenge

Listening - Watch Food Insider video ‘Bubby’s Pancakes Make It the Best Brunch In NYC’ and answer questions. Here you will be introduced to some of the skills you need to pass the most common IELTS listening questions. (30 minutes)

1. Watch ‘Bubby’s Pancakes Make It the Best Brunch In NYC’

2. Complete listening worksheet and check your answers

3. Do the listening sentence completion practice exercises

Grammar - Learn the passive voice and how to apply it to the past, present and future. (30 minutes)

1. Read the explanation of the passive

2. Complete the passive exercises and check your answers

Reading - Read an article about the origins of Thanksgiving and learn skills for four types of reading questions: Summary completion, True/False/Not Given, short answer and multiple choice. (60 minutes)

1. Read the article and answer the questions

2. Check your answers

3. (Optional) Complete extra exercises on ‘Short answer’ questions

4. (Optional) Complete extra exercises on ‘Complete the notes’ questions

5. (Optional) Complete extra exercises on ‘Multiple choice’ questions

6. (Optional) Complete extra exercises on ‘True/ False/ Not given’ questions

Writing - You need to start getting feedback on your writing tasks. This is an opportunity to practice using the vocabulary and grammar you have learned so far and get feedback on your writing. This will be graded by the teacher! (60 minutes)

1. Complete Writing task 1 and submit it on Padlet

2. Write thoughtful feedback for two of your peers

3. Complete Writing task 2 and submit it on Padlet

4. Write thoughtful feedback for two of your peers

Post-unit Speaking - You will be introduced to the methods for answering Speaking Part 1 and then you will put your knowledge to the test by doing a full practice speaking exam. For this speaking exercise you will receive feedback from the teacher!! (20 minutes)

1. Watch the video on Speaking Part 1 Strategy

2. Record your speaking response and submit it on Flipgrid

3. Leave two thoughtful comments on the responses of your peers

Total: 4.25 hours

This Weeks lessons

Pre-unit Speaking –You will once again need to record yourself doing speaking parts 1,2, and 3. This time think about the lessons you learned about speaking part 1 and try to apply them to your response. (30 minutes)

1. Record your speaking response and submit it on Flipgrid

2. Leave two thoughtful comments on the responses of your peers

Vocabulary - Learn advanced vocabulary to describe cities and places of interest while also learning about major American cities. (45 minutes)

1. Complete Vocabulary worksheet 1 and check your answers

2. Take notes on your brainstorming sheet

3. Practice Quizlet cities vocabulary

4. (Optional) Watch the video ‘15 Most Beautiful Cities in America’ and write down useful vocabulary words

Listening - Do a full listening practice test from IELTS USA. This activity will help you get used to the type of listening questions and the length of this section. (60 minutes)

1. Familiarize yourself with the listening answer sheet

2. Complete the Practice Exam

3. Check your answers and identify question types that you struggle with

4. Look at the ‘Extra Listening Practice’ and do the exercises that correspond with question types you find difficult.

Grammar -Learn about advanced comparative structures. (30 minutes)

1. Look over the PowerPoint Slides or watch the video explaining how to form comparatives

2. Complete the exercises and check your answers

Reading - Read a passage from IELTS USA on the International Style from the early 20th century. In this section you will practice 3 different question types: matching paragraph information, complete the sentence, multiple choice. (60 minutes)

1. Complete the practice exam

2. Check your answers and identify question types that you struggle with

3. Familiarize yourself with the reading answer sheet

4. (Optional) Complete extra exercises on ‘Matching paragraph information’ questions

5. (Optional) Complete extra exercises on ‘complete the sentence’ questions

Writing - Take the advice you received from the previous exercise and try to apply it to this week’s writing. In this section you will also learn tips for structuring Writing Task 2. (60 minutes)

1. Look at Writing Task 2 PowerPoint

2. Complete Writing task 1 and submit it on Padlet

3. Write thoughtful feedback for two of your peers

4. Complete Writing task 2 and submit it on Padlet

5. Write thoughtful feedback for two of your peers

Post-unit Speaking - Here we will discuss the PPF method to structuring your part 2 response. This method will ensure that you show the grammatical range necessary to get a high score on the IELTS exam. Following the lesson on strategy you will immediately have a chance to practice by doing a full three-part speaking exam. (40 minutes)

1. Read through the PPF Strategy

2. Record your speaking response and submit it on Flipgrid

3. Leave two thoughtful comments on the responses of your peers

Total: 5 hours

Pre-unit Speaking – Apply the PPF method while taking into consideration the feedback you had from the previous lessons. Focus and try to make all necessary improvements as you complete this three-part speaking practice test. (15 minutes)

1. Record your speaking response and submit it on Flipgrid

2. Leave two thoughtful comments on the responses of your peers

Vocabulary - Learn advanced vocabulary to describe educational levels and experience while also learning about the American school system. You will also read about some challenges you can set for yourself to help you review vocabulary. (45 minutes)

1. Complete Vocabulary worksheet 1 and check your answers

2. Take notes on your brainstorming sheet

3. Practice Quizlet education vocabulary

4. Read about creating vocabulary challenges for yourself

Reading - Read an article about the history of public education in The United States. There will be three question types: flow chart completion, Match the sentence ending and Classification. (60 minutes)

1. Complete the practice Reading task

2. Check your answers

3. (Optional) Complete extra exercises on ‘flow chart completion’ questions

4. (Optional) Complete extra exercises on ‘Match the sentence ending’ questions

5. (Optional) Complete extra exercises on ‘Classification’ questions

Listening - Watch Vice News video ‘Charter Schools May Be the Future of Public Education’ and answer questions. Here you will be introduced to some of the skills you need to pass the most common IELTS listening questions. (30 minutes)

1. Watch the Vice News video

2. Complete the listening worksheet and check your answers

3. Complete the extra short answer practice tasks

Grammar – Review the four conditional structures and learn in which situations you should use conditionals. (30 minutes)

1. Read the ‘Four Conditionals’ infographic

2. Complete the worksheet on conditionals

Writing – In this section you will be given two writing tasks to complete and then you will need to give feedback to the other students in the course. In this section you will also learn tips for structuring Writing Task 1. (80 minutes)

1. Watch Video explaining Writing Task 1 strategy

2. Complete Writing task 1 and submit it on Padlet

3. Write thoughtful feedback for two of your peers

4. Complete Writing task 2 and submit it on Padlet

5. Write thoughtful feedback for two of your peers

Post-unit Speaking – In this section you will learn speaking part 3 strategy. This strategy will require you to use the concepts taught in the grammar section so make sure you feel confident, before doing the practice speaking test at the end. (15 minutes)

1. Read about Speaking Part 3 strategy

2. Record your speaking response and submit it on Flipgrid

3. Leave two thoughtful comments on the responses of your peers

Here you will learn strategies for writing task 2 essays. At the end there will be an example using the sample essay from the cities section.