Training for the Cambridge/IDP IELTS:
Example from GELC IELTS contracts in Tashkent
(GELC staff photo)



Materials from the IELTS Themes Training Programme





Materials from the IELTS Focus Training Programme



IELTS Themes
Training Programme

Imagine being able to practice language in a totally immersive English environment, where you can speak when you WANT to speak, and say WHAT you really want to say.  

Now imagine that you have all the support of your fellow trainees, because all of them are in the same position... This practice environment is trainer-guided, but student-centered - and feels as natural as when you learned your first - native - language.

This is the pedagogical approach taken with the IELTS THEMES programme... Week by week, session by session trainees are immersed into a healthy and productive language learning environment, one that also happens to cover every theme of the IELTS international English language testing system.  It is a method where the 'testing system' has also become a very enjoyable English learning system!

IELTS Focus
Training Programme



Whether you prefer the word 'intensive', 'express', or 'rocket', the IELTS FOCUS training programme has been designed for trainees that are ready to speak - a lot!

Over the span of 18 weeks, trainees are totally immersed into an IELTS world, as they practice every theme and every possible question that could be found in Parts 1, 2 and 3 in the speaking section of the international test.

There are 160 Part 1 'Short Answer' question cards - and trainees will encounter all of them, in terms or either answering a particular card - or listening to another group member answer. Likewise there are 80 Part 2 'Monologue' cards - that will also be all encountered over the span of 18 weeks.  Finally, there are 30 full IELTS 'mock tests' that also introduce topics found in the Part 3 'Discussion' section of the IELTS speaking test.


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Certifications in
training IELTS

2020
- Cert in Teaching Pronunciation -
London Teacher Training College


2021
- Teaching IELTS Preparation -
Premier TEFL


2021
- IELTS Preparation -
UCI


2022 -
Scoring Speaking & Writing -
IDP (Inter Development Programme)


2022 -
Teaching Listening & Speaking -
EBC Trinity


2022
- How to Teach Speaking -
British Council


2022 -
How to Teach Pronunciation -
British Council


2023
- Teaching English Pronunciation -
Bridge Education


2023
- Teaching Eng Academic Writing -
OPEN / U.S. State Department


2024
- Teaching IELTS Academic -
Cambridge Assessment Training


2024 - Teaching IELTS Speaking -
Cambridge Assessment Training


2024 - Teaching IELTS Preparation -
Bridge Education


2024
- IELTS Teacher Training -
International House
  Recommendations for
training IELTS


2009 - ACE TKB English Centre, Taipei City, Taiwan (2007 - 2009)


2014 -
Nanjing Institute of Industrial Technology (2013 to 2014)

(NIIT campus & training gallery)


2024 - From February to July - 2024, I taught at SpringBoard Education in Laos, also officially The National IELTS Test Centre... I was in charge of the IELTS Preparation Programme, which also involved conducting 'pre' and 'mock' tests before the real test. 
An interesting SpringBoard gallery can be found here.