This course provides optimum IELTS Academic preparation in the classroom and at home for students working in a band score of 4.5-5.5. Prepares students to tackle the exam with confidence - Exam tips, graded language and skills exercises develop students' exam technique. Exam challenge activities provide graded exposure to realistic exam practice and help students to assess their progress. Boosts fluency in Speaking tasks - Lively real-world infographics at the start of each unit encourage students to think critically about current topics and express their own ideas. Develops critical thinking - What do you think? questions encourage expression of ideas necessary to perform well in Speaking and Writing tasks. Writing File with analysis of model answers builds students' understanding of task requirements, and provides them with the structure and support to improve their Writing.

Study Skills File in the Student's Book features current research on the most effective ways to improve reading, writing, speaking and listening. Vocabulary File supports development of key vocabulary for the exam. Grammar File with explanatory notes and exercises builds students' confidence, and helps them to use language flexibly in Writing and Speaking tasks. Extra practice opportunities - The Student's Book includes a full practice test, as well as access to Online Practice, and another full practice test online. The Online Practice features grammar, vocabulary and skills exercises, 'speak and record' activities, plus extra exam practice tasks. Support outside class - Online Practice features automatic marking and feedback on answers, giving students extra support at home. It is also linked to the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, so students can check unfamiliar words at the click of a button. Teacher's Book - Contains an additional photocopiable lesson for each unit to develop the language and topics covered in the Student's Book.

Also includes a Speaking DVD showing students doing a mock Speaking exam, which teachers can play to reassure their class about what to expect on exam day.