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Complete
IELTS Bands 4–5
Student’s Book with Answers
Guy Brook-Hart and Vanessa Jakeman

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Contents

Map of the units 4

Introduction 6
IELTS Academic Module: content and overview 7
1 Great places to be 8
2 People’s lives 17
Vocabulary and grammar review Units 1 and 2 26
3 Getting from A to B 28
4 It was all new once 37
Vocabulary and grammar review Units 3 and 4 46
5 Animal world 48
6 Being human 57
Vocabulary and grammar review Units 5 and 6 66
7 Literacy skills 68
8 Tourist attractions 77
Vocabulary and grammar review Units 7 and 8 86
9 Every drop counts 88
10 Building design 97
Vocabulary and grammar review Units 9 and 10 106
Speaking reference 108
Writing reference 112
Language reference 120
Word lists 132
IELTS practice test 142
Recording scripts 158
Additional material 175
Answer key 176

Acknowledgements 199

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Unit title Reading Listening Speaking

1 Great places to be Reading 1: The world’s friendliest city Listening: Booking a holiday apartment Speaking Part 1
• Table completion • Form completion • Answering questions about yourself
Reading 2: The happiest country in • Giving extra details
the world • Expressing likes and dislikes
• Note completion
2 People’s lives Reading 1: Freya Stark, explorer and Listening: Finding a travelling companion Speaking Part 1
writer • Predicting the answers • Correcting mistakes
• Flow-chart completion • Listening for signals to the answers • Giving reasons, results or
• Short-answer questions • Note completion consequences with because and so
Reading 2: Mau Piailug, ocean navigator
• True / False / Not Given

Vocabulary and grammar review Units 1 and 2

Map of the units

3 Getting from A to B Reading 1: The electric revolution Listening: A ship’s information Speaking Part 2
• Labelling a diagram announcement • Understanding the task
Reading 2: Traffic jams – no end in sight • Labelling a diagram • Structuring the talk
• Matching headings • Multiple choice • Introducing points
• Listening for synonyms and paraphrased • Ending the talk
ideas in questions • Using discourse markers
4 It was all new once Reading 1: Air conditioning Listening: At an exhibition Speaking Part 2
• Multiple choice • Sentence completion • Writing notes
Reading 2: Rubik’s Cube • Pick from a list • Giving reasons, examples and
• Summary completion consequences with because, so, for
example, for instance
• Talking for the full two minutes
Vocabulary and grammar review Units 3 and 4
5 Animal world Reading 1: The life of the European Listening: Information about a zoo Speaking Parts 1 and 2
bee-eater • Table completion • Paraphrasing
• Sentence completion • Labelling a map or plan • Expressing feelings
Reading 2: Humpback whale breaks • Coping strategies
migration record
• Pick from a list

6 Being human Reading 1: Making a change Listening: Successful people Speaking Part 3
• Yes / No / Not Given • Matching • The difference between Part 1 and
Reading 2: Reducing errors in memory • Pick from a list Part 3
• Summary completion with a box • Generalising
• Giving a full answer

Vocabulary and grammar review Units 5 and 6

7 Literacy skills Reading: Speed reading Listening: Applying for an online course Speaking Parts 2 and 3
• Matching information • Form completion • Orientating yourself to the Part 2 topic
• Table completion • Multiple choice • Introducing your opinions in Part 3 and
giving reasons

8 Tourist attractions Reading: Here today, gone tomorrow Listening: Welcoming visitors to a science Speaking Parts 1 and 2
• Summary completion museum • Using fact and opinion adjectives
• Matching features • Sentence completion • Keeping going / maintaining fluency
• Table completion

Vocabulary and grammar review Units 7 and 8

9 Every drop counts Reading: The burden of thirst Listening: Preparation for a talk on Speaking Parts 2 and 3
• Matching headings desalination • Choosing the best subject for Part 2
• Sentence completion • Matching • Structuring the talk – useful phrases
• Pick from a list • Flow-chart completion • Analysing the Part 3 questions
• Giving a relevant, full answer

10 Building design Reading: The Pompidou Centre Listening: A talk on a traditional Samoan Speaking Parts 2 and 3
• Multiple choice house design • Part 2 practice
• Matching sentence endings • Note completion • Answering a question on your talk
• Yes / No / Not Given • Discussing similarities and differences
in Part 3
• Using linkers to make a contrast:
although, even though, while, whereas

Vocabulary and grammar review Units 9 and 10

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Writing Vocabulary and Spelling Pronunciation Key grammar

Writing Task 1 • Collocations and prepositional Sentence stress 1 Present simple and present
• Describing pie charts and bar charts phrases • Stressing the words which answer continuous
• Selecting key features • percent v. percentage the question or give new information
• Using accurate data • Spelling: Making nouns plural

Writing Task 2 • Working out the meanings of words Verbs + –ed Past simple
• Discussing advantages and disadvantages • Spelling: Changes when adding –ed
• Analysing the task
• Planning an answer
• Writing an introduction
• Opening paragraphs
• Using linkers: also, and, but and however

Writing Task 1 • Topic vocabulary: renewable Word stress 1 Making comparisons

• Describing tables and charts energy, zero emissions, vehicle, etc.; • Using a dictionary
• Comparing data and selecting key points commuter, congestion, smog, etc.
• Writing in paragraphs • make and cause
• Writing an overview • Spelling: Changes when adding –er
and –est to adjectives
Writing Task 2 • Topic vocabulary: design, device, Chunking 1 Present perfect
• To what extent do you agree or disagree? output, etc.; attempt, assemble, • Using natural pauses to help the
• Brainstorming ideas experiment, etc. listener
• Avoiding irrelevance • What type of word is it? 1
• Organising your ideas • Spelling: Using and misusing double
letters

Writing Task 1 • Topic vocabulary: diet, prey, breed, Sentence stress 2 Countable and uncountable nouns
• Summarising two charts etc. • Stressing words which carry
• Comparing bar charts • What type of word is it? 2 meaning or express feeling
• Grouping information • Prepositions in time phrases
• Analysing the task and planning an answer • Words that give directions
• Spelling: Small words often
misspelled
Writing Task 2 • Topic vocabulary: conventional, Intonation 1 Zero and first conditionals
• Answering a single question novelty, donate, etc. • Indicating that you have or haven’t (if/unless)
• Analysing the task and brainstorming ideas • Word building finished your answer
• Planning an answer • Expressing opinions and feelings
• Word formation and spelling changes
• Spelling: Suffixes

Writing Task 1 • raise or rise? Word stress 2 Prepositions to describe graphs

• Describing trends • Spelling: Forming adverbs from • Stressing the correct syllable
• Using verb and noun phrases adjectives
• Using the correct tense
• Writing an overview
Writing Task 2 • tourism or tourist ? Chunking 2 Relative pronouns: who, which,
• Answering two questions • Spelling: Introductory and linking • Improving overall fluency that, where
• Analysing the task phrases
• Planning and writing about both parts
• Writing a conclusion

Writing Task 1 • Topic vocabulary: filter, pressure, Intonation 2 The passive

• Summarising a diagram marine, etc. • Showing that information is new or
• Planning an answer • effect, benefit, advantage and interesting
• Ordering the information and using time disadvantage • Ending a point
markers: when, after, next, then • Spelling: Some common mistakes
• Comparing two diagrams
• Beginning and ending an answer and
writing an overview
Writing Task 2 • Topic vocabulary: traditional, Sentence stress 3 Modal verbs
• Discussing opposing views and giving your features, construct, etc. • Showing a contrast
opinion • Word choice
• Analysing the task and brainstorming ideas • Guessing the meaning of words
• Deciding on your own view • Improving vocabulary use
• Structuring an answer • Spelling: Proofreading your essay
• Proofreading an answer for spelling and for common spelling mistakes
punctuation mistakes

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Introduction

• a Language reference section which clearly explains

all the areas of grammar covered in the book and
which will help you in the IELTS exam.
Who this book is for • a complete IELTS practice test
Complete IELTS Bands 4–5 is a short course of 50–60 • ten photocopiable word lists (one for each unit)
classroom hours for students who wish to take the containing vocabulary found in the units. Each
Academic module of the International English Language vocabulary item in the word list is accompanied
Testing System (IELTS). It teaches you the reading, writing, by a definition from the Cambridge Learner’s
listening and speaking skills that you need for the exam. It Dictionary (CLD).
covers all the exam question types, as well as key grammar • complete recording scripts for all the listening
and vocabulary which, from research into the Cambridge material
Learner Corpus, are known to be useful to candidates doing
• a CD-ROM which provides you with many interactive
the test. If you are not planning to take the exam in the near
exercises, including further listening practice
future, the book teaches you the skills and language you
exclusive to the CD-ROM. All these extra exercises
need to reach an intermediate level of English (Common
are linked to the topics in the Student’s Book.
European Framework (CEF) level B1).
Also available are:
What the book contains • two audio CDs containing listening material for the
In the Student’s Book there are: ten units of the Student’s Book plus the Listening Test
in the IELTS practice test. The listening material is
• ten units for classroom study, each containing: indicated by different-coloured icons in the Student’s
• sections on each of the four papers in the IELTS Book as follows: CD1, CD2.
exam. The units provide language input and skills
• a Teacher’s Book containing:
practice to help you to deal successfully with the
tasks in each section. • step-by-step guidance for handling all the
activities in the Student’s Book
• a range of enjoyable and stimulating speaking
activities designed to enable you to perform to the • a large number of suggestions for alternative
best of your ability in each part of the test and to treatments of activities in the Student’s Book and
increase your fluency and your ability to express suggestions for extension activities
yourself. • advice on the test and task types for teachers to
• a step-by-step approach to doing IELTS Writing tasks. pass on to students
• key grammar exercises relevant to the exam. When • extra photocopiable materials for each unit of the
you are doing grammar exercises, you will sometimes Student’s Book, to practise and extend language
see this symbol: . These exercises are based on • complete answer keys, including sample answers
research from the Cambridge Learner Corpus and to Writing tasks
they deal with the areas which cause problems for • complete recording scripts for all the listening
students in the exam. material
• vocabulary related to IELTS topics and spelling • five photocopiable progress tests, one for every
exercises. When you see this symbol by an two units of the book
exercise, the exercise focuses on words which IELTS • a topic-based word list of words/phrases and
candidates often confuse or use wrongly in the exam. their definitions taken from each unit.
• a unit review. These contain exercises which revise • a Workbook containing:
the grammar and vocabulary that you have studied in • ten units for homework and self-study. Each unit
each unit. contains full exam practice in one part of
• Speaking and Writing reference sections which explain the IELTS Reading and Listening papers.
the tasks you will have to do in the Speaking and • f urther practice of the grammar and vocabulary
Writing papers. They give you examples, together with taught in the Student’s Book
additional exercises and advice on how best to approach • a n audio CD containing all the listening material
these two IELTS papers.
for the Workbook.

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IELTS Academic Module: content and overview

part/timing content test focus
LISTENING • four sections • C andidates are expected
approximately • 40 questions to listen for specific
30 minutes • a range of question types information, main ideas and
opinions.
• S ection 1: a conversation on a social topic, e.g. someone making • There is a range of task types
a booking which include completion,
• Section 2: a monologue about a social topic, e.g. a radio report matching, labelling and
• Section 3: a conversation on a study-based topic, e.g. a multiple choice.
discussion between students • Each question scores 1 mark;
• Section 4: a monologue on a study-based topic, e.g. a lecture candidates receive a band
score from 1 to 9.
Students have ten minutes at the end of the test to transfer their
answers onto an answer sheet.
The recording is heard ONCE.
READING • three sections • C andidates are expected
1 hour • 40 questions to read for / understand
• a range of question types specific information, main
ideas, gist and opinions.
• Section 1: a passage with 13 questions • Each section contains
• Section 2: a passage divided into paragraphs with 13 questions more than one task type.
• Section 3: a passage with 14 questions They include completion,
matching, paragraph
At least one passage contains arguments and/or views. This is headings, True / False / Not
usually Section 3. Given and multiple choice.
• Each question scores 1 mark;
candidates receive a band
score from 1 to 9.
WRITING • two compulsory tasks • C andidates are expected to
1 hour write a factual summary and
• T
ask 1: a 150-word summary of information presented in a discursive essay.
graphic or diagrammatic form • Candidates are assessed on a
• Task 2: a 250-word essay presenting an argument on a given nine-band scale for content,
topic coherence, vocabulary and
grammar.
Candidates are advised to spend 20 minutes on Task 1 and 40
minutes on Task 2, which is worth twice as many marks as Task 1.
SPEAKING • three parts • C andidates are expected
11–14 minutes • one examiner + one candidate to be able to respond to
questions on familiar and
• P art 1: The examiner asks a number of questions about familiar unfamiliar topics and to
topics such as the candidate’s studies/work, hobbies, interests, speak at length.
etc. • Candidates are assessed on a
4–5 minutes nine-band scale for fluency,
• Part 2: After a minute’s preparation, the candidate speaks for vocabulary, grammar and
two minutes on a familiar topic provided by the examiner. pronunciation.
3–4 minutes
• Part 3: The examiner and the candidate discuss some general
questions based on the theme of the Part 2 topic.
4–5 minutes
All candidates who take the test receive an Overall Band Score between 1 and 9 that is an average of the four scores for
each part of the test. For information on courses, required band scores and interpreting band scores, see www.ielts.org.

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