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Some of the ideas on these pages are from personal resources and others are from other teachers and ESOL websites and are chosen for their relative merit for teaching IELTS.   You are welcome to copy any of these and I do not claim any ownership to them.  I have only listed to date ideas which I have used and which worked well in class.  

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Personal Reading Q    "Sir, how can I improve my reading ability?" A    "Read more!" Oh! I wish I had a dollar for the above every time.  Adolescent students have adolescent things to do and older students usually have work and family commitments.  Reading can often be neglected and sporadic.   If you have access to a resource room computers or better still a library get the students to read about their favourite subject, could be cars, fashion, sport, dogs.  This should be part of a regular weekly schedule for a couple of hours.  Students work strictly alone with their chosen books or text and make notes about key points and topics.  The notes will later be used for making a presentation on their chosen subject.  Students soon get used to this special space in their schedule.  For the teacher this is an invaluable time and can be used for monitoring, advice on reading materials, vocabulary, tutorial, counselling and also essay marking depending on how independent the students are.  After a few weeks the students make a presentation and are marked on their depth of information and lexis used.

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