This book is primarily intended for IELTS teachers and their students, but can be used in a range
of teaching situations.
IELTS Games and Activities: Speaking and Writing includes:
• IELTS familiarization: activities designed to help students build confidence
and awareness of the exam requirements
• Expressing your ideas: focus on finding different ways of talking about ideas
and arguments
• Writing Task 1: reporting factual data based on graphs, charts and images,
describing and comparing data, describing processes
• Writing Task 2: presenting a clear, well-structured argument, backing arguments up
with evidence and examples, analysing problems and offering solutions, exploring
causes and highlighting effects, weighing up advantages and disadvantages
• Speaking: a wide range of functional language to help students communicate
effectively and meet the requirements of the assessment categories