Final Preparation Strategy

B2 · Upper-intermediate54 minIELTS Test PreparationLesson 8 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: leave with a day-by-day final-week plan and a drilled emergency toolkit — four recovery phrases that survive a live nightmare-scenario rehearsal.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: The last lesson before the real thing

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: The Final Countdown

    Read a 180-word text about The Final Countdown

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Emergency Toolkit

    6 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Thinking Time Strategies

    Gap-fill exercise, 6 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Build Sophisticated Sentences

    Word-ordering exercise, 5 items

  5. Practice7 min

    Practice: Final Error Elimination

    Error-correction exercise, 5 items

  6. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: the emergency dress rehearsal

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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Could you repeat that, please?That's an interesting question. Let me think about that for a moment.What I'm trying to say is...Actually, let me rephrase that.To put it another way...If I had to sum up...

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