Welcome to Intensive Entry Program
This website contains additional information, reading and exercises to help you succeed in IELTS. Click on the appropriate week below to find out more.
IEP Week 1 : Studying in Australia
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| AWL sublist 1 crossword |
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| AWL sublist 1 crossword |
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| Word forms: body language |
| Word forms: professional education |
| Prepositions: exchange opportunities |
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IEP Week 2 : Medical issues
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| Skill development | |
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| Extended reading | |
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IEP Week 3 : Cultural issues
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| AWL sublist 4 crossword |
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| Word forms: Australian families | |
| Review: subject - verb agreement | |
| Review: Articles - a, an or [nothing] |
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| Strategies for reading academic texts |
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| Sixty years of Indian Democracy: An unfinished project - Niraja Gopal Jayal at Sydney Ideas |
IEP Week 4 : Work and business
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| AWL sublist 10 crossword |
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| Notorious confusables | |
| More notorious confusables | |
| Except/Accept and Affect/Effect |
| Extended reading | |
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| Soaring dragon busy tigers: answer key | |
| Battle of the giants | |
| Battle of the giants: answer key |
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IEP Week 5 : Education
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| AWL sublist 5 crossword | |
| AWL sublists 1-5 review gap-fill: The University of Sydney |
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| Word forms: Standard English | |
| Review your use of connectors | |
| Identifying independent clauses | |
| Independent Clauses II |
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| International education: Pre-module discussion |
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| ERIC: Educational Resources Information Center (database) | |
| British Education Index (database) |
IEP Week 6 : Science and technology
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| AWL sublist 7 crossword |
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| Word forms: Cloning - questions and answers | |
| Parallelism exercise 1 | |
| Parallelism exercise 2 | |
| Parallelism exercise 3 |
| Listening | |
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IEP Week 7 : Environmental issues
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| Featured listenings | |
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| Climate change: the truth will remain elusive - If climate change sparks a global collapse this century, future historians are unlikely to acknowledge what caused it, says Norwegian scholar Jorgen Randers |
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| Reading skills for academic study: Efficient reading skills | |
| Academic writing: Features of academic writing |
IEP Week 8 : Tourism
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To sleep, perchance to dream Why do we and other animals sleeps? Presented by Professor Keith Kendrick, a Behavioural Neuroscientist who is currently Head of the Neurobiology Programme and Laboratory of Cognitive and Developmental Neuroscience at The Babraham Institute, Cambridge. Tapescript and lecture notes available.
IEP Week 9 : Legal issues
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| AWL sublist 9 crossword |
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| Sentence-combining skills exercise 2 | |
| Writing concise sentences | |
| Eliminating wordiness |
| Listening | |
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IEP Week 10 : Marketing
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| Avoiding comma splices 2 | |
| Repairing run-on sentences | |
| Avoiding run-on sentences: Practice exercise 1 | |
| Avoiding run-on sentences: Practice exercise 2 |
| Listening | |
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This link contains both the lecture and a tapescript to make understanding the lecture easier |
IEP Week 11 : Agricultural issues
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| AWL sublist 6 crossword | |
| IELTS practice: Vocabulary for describing trends |
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| Fragments and Run-on Sentences | |
| Sentence fragments: Practice exercise 1 | |
| Sentence fragments: Practice exercise 2 | |
| Sentence fragments: Practice exercise 3 |
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| Effects of our growing population: Pre-module discussion |
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