The Complete Guide To IELTS - Mini Guide

Oct 1, 2026

A pocket-sized companion to The Complete Guide To IELTS, providing ready-to-use, photocopiable preparation tasks and classroom teaching tips. The mini guide introduces top tips for teaching IELTS, explains the band score range linked to CEFR levels B2–C1, and describes systematic lesson components such as task analysis, skills-building exercises, vocabulary focus, video support, grammar practice, and speaking-test confidence materials. Includes sample academic reading and writing practice plus student and teacher resource options.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryExam

FormatPDF

Pages7

Reading Time18 min

AccessFree to download

Welcome to The Mini Guide To IELTS

An overview of The Complete Guide To IELTS

Top Tips for Teaching IELTS

Try out sample preparation tasks

Skills-building exercises

Sample Academic Reading Task

Student accommodation chart task

The Complete Guide To IELTS Mini Inside the Mini Guide: Free IELTS preparation tasks Teaching tips IELTS scoring information Find the perfect IELTS material Course and exam information, free photocopiable activities and more! Welcome to The Mini Guide To IELTS Dear Teacher, To celebrate The Complete Guide To IELTS we have created The Mini Guide To IELTS, a useful pocket-sized guide filled with handy photocopiable tasks, teaching tips and more! The sample tasks in this mini guide are taken from The Complete Guide To IELTS and are designed to be used as part of a sequence that deconstructsthe skills involved in each task type so they aren’t truly standalone. However, they do make fantastic practice for any IELTS student! We hope you enjoy using them. Happy teaching! The Team at National Geographic Learning An overview of The Complete Guide To IELTS Top Tips for Teaching IELTS Overview of The Complete Guide To IELTS The Complete Guide To IELTS Bruce Rogers & Nick Kenny Try out some of the preparation tasks from The Complete Guide To IELTS inside this handy mini guide! Bands 5.5-7+ CEFR: B2 – C1 The Complete Guide To IELTS deconstructs the IELTS test and works systematically through each paper, covering all task types, text types and skills. No stone is left unturned. The material can be used in class or by students working on their own. • Each lesson offers task analysis, sample questions, tips and tactics, and skills-building exercises • Separate vocabulary lessons deal with the common lexical features and topics of the IELTS reading passage types and listening sections • Engaging and motivating National Geographic video lessons increase students’ familiarity with the listening task types • A Language Resource Bank provides a comprehensive grammar reference and practice exercises covering all the grammar needed for the test • Speaking Test videos and worksheets build students’ confidence by showing real students completing full IELTS Speaking test interviews • Contains a full practice test For Students: Student’s Book + DVD-ROM + Access Code Interactive Student’s eBook For Teachers: Teacher’s Book + DVD-ROM + Class Audio CD Intensive Revision Guide Interactive Whiteboard Intensive Revision Guide Every Student’s Book contains a code giving free access to online practice. In the days running up to the exam, students can focus intensively on eliminating mistakes that will cause them to throw away marks. The Intensive Revision Guide sensitises students to common pitfalls, then drills them in how to avoid them. It Sample Academic Reading Task Sample Writing Task 4 Skills-building exercises 4 Read the pairs of statements (1–6). Underline the important words and ideas in each statement. 1 A The recipes in the book Apicius are much older than the book itself. B The recipes in the book Apicius are 1,500 years old. 2 A The book Apicius provides plenty of information about the life of Marcus Gavius Apicius. B The book Apicius provides very little information about the life of Marcus Gavius Apicius. 3 A Apion’s book about Marcus Gavius Apicius is no longer available to read. B Apion’s book about Marcus Gavius Apicius is still popular today. 4 A It is widely thought that Marcus Gavius Apicius wrote the recipes in Apicius. B It is widely doubted that Marcus Gavius Apicius wrote the recipes in Apicius. 5 A The book Apicius includes recipes that are still in use today. B The book Apicius includes recipes for dishes that are familiar today. 6 A The ingredients used in the recipes tell us the type of people the book Apicius was intended for. B The book Apicius uses ingredients that were commonly available in Ancient Rome. 5 Read the passage quickly. Underline the sentences that contain the information relevant to each pair of statements in Exercise 4. 6 Go through the questions in Exercise 4 one by one. Read the passage carefully and decide which stat

FAQs

What is the purpose of The Mini Guide To IELTS?

It celebrates The Complete Guide To IELTS by offering photocopiable practice tasks and teaching tips that help learners work through IELTS skills in a sequence.

What training materials and lesson components are included with The Complete Guide To IELTS?

Lessons include task analysis, sample questions, tips and tactics, skills-building exercises, vocabulary lessons, National Geographic video lessons, a language resource bank for grammar practice, and speaking-test videos and worksheets, plus a full practice test.

How do the sample Academic Reading tasks work in the mini guide?

They include statement pairs that learners underline and compare as true/false, then read the passage carefully to decide which statements are true or false, followed by discussion and writing an introductory and key points response.

Oct 1, 2026

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