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IELTS General Training Complete

Everything you need for migration and work visas - letters, everyday reading and real-life speaking.

  • 4.8 (918 ratings)
  • 2,640 students
  • 6 weeks
  • 17 lessons
  • 28 hours
Led by Daniel Brooks

What you will learn

  • Write formal, semi-formal and informal letters that hit every bullet point
  • Move quickly through workplace and everyday reading texts
  • Build a Task 2 essay that answers the exact question
  • Speak naturally about familiar and abstract topics

Course content

5 modules · 17 lessons · 3h 41m of video

General Training explained 3 lessons
  • How GT differs from Academic Free preview 16 min
  • Scores for common visa routes Free preview 22 min
  • Quiz: know your test 10 min
Reading: everyday and workplace texts 4 lessons
  • Notices, adverts and timetables 17 min
  • Workplace handbooks and policies 10 min
  • The long general-interest passage 15 min
  • Worksheet: GT reading practice
Writing: letters that score 4 lessons
  • Formal letters: complaints and requests 19 min
  • Semi-formal letters 12 min
  • Informal letters to friends 12 min
  • Covering every bullet point 14 min
Writing: Task 2 for GT 3 lessons
  • Opinion and discussion essays 13 min
  • Problem-solution essays 9 min
  • Worksheet: model essays
Listening and Speaking 3 lessons
  • Everyday conversations in Listening 24 min
  • Speaking about work and daily life 18 min
  • Full mock test briefing 10 min

About this course

General Training shares Listening and Speaking with Academic, but its Reading texts and Writing Task 1 are completely different. This course is built specifically for them.

You will learn to write formal, semi-formal and informal letters that cover every bullet point, and to move quickly through workplace notices, adverts and handbooks in the Reading paper.

Who this course is for

  • You are applying for migration, work or a training programme
  • Your current level is around B1-B2

Your trainer

Daniel Brooks

Senior Trainer - Listening & Reading · DELTA · MA TESOL

Daniel has taught English in the UK, the Gulf and South Asia for fourteen years. He specialises in the receptive skills - helping students read faster, listen smarter and stop losing easy marks to distractors and spelling slips. His General Training students value his clear, step-by-step approach to letters and everyd...

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