Course curriculum

  • 1

    Module 1: Overview

    • Welcome Task

    • Course book

    • IELTS Marking Criteria

    • Video: Introduction

    • Video: Essay Features (BNT - TIDE - SS)

    • Homework Week 1

    • Video: Vocabulary
  • 2

    Module 2: Essay Introductions

    • Video: Writing Essay Introductions

    • Task Analysis Framework

    • Video: Essay Topics

    • Nouns and verbs and modal verbs

    • Video: Verbs

    • Video: Paraphrasing

    • Video: Introduction features

    • Video: Writing an Introduction

    • Sample Introduction - Masters essay

    • Homework Week 2

    • Video: Who is it?
  • 3

    Module 3: Body Paragraphs

    • Hierarchy of Meta-Linguistic Features

    • Video: Body Paragraphs

    • Video: Coherency and Cohesion

    • Video: Features of a Body Paragraph

    • Sentence types

    • Video: Grammar

    • Video: Creating Ideas

    • Video: Review

    • Homework Week 3
  • 4

    Module 4: Conclusions

    • Video: Conclusions

    • Video: The parts of a Conclusion

    • Sample Conclusion - Masters essay

    • Video: Language Features - IT

    • Video: recap Essay Features (BNT - TIDE - SS)

    • Rhetorical Structure

    • Homework Week 4

    • Video: Complex sentences

    • (draft) Levels of meaning - linguistics 101
  • 5

    Module 5

    • Video: Good luck