Page 11 - Mindset for IELTS Foundation (Cambridge)

Tip Boxes, Bullet Boxes and Mini Tips
• Tip boxes help you and your students improve task awareness and language skills. You will find further information on how to get
them most out of them in the Teacher's Book. Note that the number in the corner relates to the exercise that the tip goes with.

In this kind of exam task, there
is often information about the
question in more than one
text. Look at the information
in green. Think about why Bis
the correct answer here.

• Bullet boxes tell you how students are assessed in tests and give a better understanding of the task being addressed.

Try to add more information about your
answer and don't give short answers. You can
give reasons or examples. Use because for
reasons and for example/ like for examples.
• Mini tips help with the understanding of discrete questions and items that will help develop an understanding of the type of
question being asked. Note that the first number in the corner relates to the exercise number and the second one relates to the
question number.

06.1 MINI TIP What is the
opposite of the 'same'?

Teacher's Book

The Teacher's Book has been designed to give you a step-by-step look at the activities and how to teach them. It has also been
,
developed in a way that will help you see how the language and skills development relate directly to moving your students in the
direction of IELTS.
It also contains the following:
• Extension activities - exercises that give more practice on the skill or area, if you feel that your students need to spend longer on
them.
• Alternative activities - ideas that will help you develop ideas to tailor them to your students' needs and/or interests.
• Definitions -to help you with understanding of concepts connected with assessment features that are used both in the IELTS
test and other forms of assessment.
There is also a link to all of the classroom audio in the Teacher's Book.
How to use the online modules specific to the Foundation Module
As well as the Student's Book there are also on line modules that can aid with further study. These can be used for homework or to
reinforce what has been taught in class.
• Reading and Writing
• Speaking and Listening
• Language Builder
• Grammar and Vocabulary
The Reading and Writing and Speaking and Listening modules give more practice on the topics that have been studied in the book.
They help to develop both ideas and the language skills that the students will need in order to be successful.
The Language Builder builds knowledge of everyday topics and sets them in an IELTS context. It can aid with understanding
assessment and to build confidence and knowledge for lower level students.
The Grammar and Vocabulary module presents the grammar and vocabulary from the final section of each unit in a series of
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interactive exercises