Bridging the Gap: from kids’ EFL to IELTS for adults
Duration: 18 weeks
Length of sessions: 90 minutes
Time commitment: 2.5 hours every week
Commencement date: TBD
Study group: 20 participants/ class
Mentor: 100% UK qualified Teacher Trainers and IELTS Examiners
Language of instructions: 100% in English
Course features: online delivery via Moodle, Zoom and Padlet.
All registrants will be awarded a 3.000.000 VND voucher upon completion to join all accredited courses at HEW London Hub
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Course description & objectives:
A 45-hour comprehensive professional development course tailored for educators moving from child-focused teaching to facilitating English learning for adolescents and young adults preparing for the IELTS test. The course blends practical methodology, foundational TESOL principles, and IELTS-specific strategies with experiential learning, reflection, and peer feedback.
Participants will explore classroom management for older learners, develop grammar and vocabulary strategies, gain fluency in instructional language, and build confidence in preparing students for standardised assessments like IELTS. The course is delivered in three practical modules, each capped with formative assessment via IELTS Mock Tests. At least 90% attendance and active participation required.
Progression: Following the final IELTS Mock Test, participants who have scored a minimum of band 7.0 in each of the test’s components and successfully completed the course will have a guaranteed place on the Introduction to Teaching IELTS course.
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Course outline:
The course begins with participants taking the IELTS Mock Test #1
Module 1: Moving Towards Teaching Adult Learners
Objective: Build foundational teaching skills for adult ESL contexts by focusing on classroom language, learner assessment, and basic teaching practices.
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Week 1: Starting a Course / Assessing Students
Focus: Speaking and introductions – culture in education
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Week 2: Effective Language Learning & Classroom Instructions
Focus: Listening and speaking - presentations
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Week 3: Understanding Classroom Language
Focus: Speaking and reading – paraphrase in IELTS
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Week 4: Sentence Building and Structure
Focus: Writing and speaking – complex sentence structures
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Week 5: Learning Vocabulary Strategically
Focus: Reading and speaking
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Week 6: Mini-Lesson Design and Delivery
Focus: All skills
Teaching Task 1
IELTS Mock test #2
Module 2: Exploring Skills for IELTS
Objective: Deepen pedagogical knowledge and teaching strategies across the four core language skills in adult ESL and IELTS contexts.
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Week 1: Principles of Adult ESL
Focus: Speaking and reading
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Week 2: Teaching Listening and Speaking
Focus: Listening and pronunciation
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Week 3: Teaching Grammar Effectively
Focus: Writing and reading – paraphrasing in IELTS
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Week 4: Reading Strategies for ESL
Focus: Reading strategies and speaking – group discussions
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Week 5: Writing Pedagogy
Focus: process/product writing approach
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Week 6: Lesson Planning & Microteaching
Focus: Integration of all skills
Teaching Task 2
IELTS Mock test #3
Module 3: Teaching IELTS Foundation
Objective: Equip teachers with techniques, strategies, and resources to effectively teach IELTS foundation-level learners.
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Week 1: Intro to IELTS Speaking and Listening
Focus: Speaking part 1, Listening parts 1 & 2
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Week 2: IELTS Reading & Writing Introduction
Focus: Reading techniques, Writing task types
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Week 3: Support extended speech and complex listening tasks
Focus: Speaking Part 2, Listening Parts 3 & 4 and note-taking
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Week 4: Essay Planning and Paragraphing
Focus: Writing paragraphs, text structure
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Week 5: Advanced Speaking and Writing Practice
Focus: Speaking Part 3 & Task 1 Writing
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Week 6: Course Review and Assessment
Focus: All skills
Teaching Task 3
IELTS Mock test #4
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Course features:
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online delivery, connect with your course mates and tutors on Moodle and Padlet throughout the course and 6 months after course completion (follow-up)
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Course duration:
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Duration: 18 weeks
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Length of sessions: 90 minutes
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Time commitment: 2.5 hours every week
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Course schedule:
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contact us 0904327893 (Zalo)
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Our teacher trainers:
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Roisin Diamond has been teaching English for nearly ten years in Ireland and overseas. She is qualified to teach EAP, OET and IELTS and has also led CPD workshops and teacher training. She is a speaking examiner for Cambridge and a speaking and writing examiner for Oxford international group. She has recently qualified with an associate certificate in instructional design for digital courses. Roisin has codesigned this course and works at MTS as an IELTS tutor and teacher trainer as well as an Instructional Design Lead.
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Martin Thomas has been an English language teacher for over 25 years in both state and private schools in Hungary, Spain, Italy and the UK. He now specialises in IELTS preparation. He has written a range of English materials for Pearson and Macmillan and co-authored two IELTS books on Writing Tasks 1 & 2. Martin works for MTS as an EFL/IELTS teacher and teacher trainer, course designer and content creator.
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Course fee:
Course fee includes:
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18 weeks of studying
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a hard copy of the certificate sent directly from the UK (free delivery in Vietnam only)
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a pdf certificate sent to your registered email
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a notarised translation of the certificate in Vietnamese
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10.000.000 VND Master Scholarship with VNC
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1.000.000 VND HEW's accredited course scholarship
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HEW London's special gifts (please see your options in the X part below)
TOTAL: 400 GBP (≈ 14.000.000 VND)
Please note that course fee is not transferable to other parties and is not refundable within 45 days of the scheduled course start date and we only deliver hard copies at no extra costs to Vietnam at the moment. Please contact us if you would like your certificate to be shipped to another country.
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INSTALMENT PLAN AVAILABLE: Please contact us via our Vietnam hotline 0904 327 893 (Zalo/ Whatsapp/ Viber) for further details.
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