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[bdawg]

I'm part of a teaching team at Nanjing Normal University preparing a select group of students for their upcoming IELTS exam. My primary task is oral prep.

This is my first teaching job, but I feel that I have a fairly good grasp of the requirments of the oral portions of the IELTS. I've been using Mark Morgans "Speaking Skills for the IELTS Test" as a resource.

My class is small (13) and I usually break them into smaller groups of 3 or 4 to discuss the topic I provide them. That way I can move around to each group and encourage dialogue. We are still working on part 1 of the IELTS (introducing and describing oneself) and I've had fairly good results with this approach.

However, I feel that the strategy is become stale and student boredom is increasing. I need to diversify, but I don't want to deviate to far from my assigned task of IELTS oral prep. That means I don't really want to dive into games or unrelated speaking exercises. I'd like to stick as close as possible to the three sections (introduction, presentation and discussion)

I'm hoping that some of you out there have some experience with IELTS and could give me a few pointers on successful classroom dynamics or strategies in preparing students for their IELTS oral examination.

Thanks in advance.

[millie]

IELTS Speaking Prep. and Practice
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