RMIT English Worldwide, Melbourne

Established in 1968, RMIT English Worldwide Melbourne is part of the commercial arm of RMIT University and is one of Australia's most prestigious language institutions. Since opening in 1996, the IELTS Test Centre at RMIT English Worldwide in Melbourne has grown to become the largest test center in Victoria and the third largest test center in Australia. Currently more than 4,000 students undertake IELTS test at RMIT English Worldwide with great success.

The RMIT English Worldwide IELTS Preparation Course

The RMIT English Worldwide IELTS Preparation course assists students in developing the skills required to succeed in the IELTS test. RMIT English Worldwide's new course effectively

meets the needs of students facing increasing pressure to achieve test scores. The course aims to improve participants' test taking strategies in order to maximize their chances of success in the IELTS test.

Course Participants

The course is aimed at students who are planning to take the IELTS test for either academic or other purposes and whose English language level is already close to the score they hope to achieve on the test.

Course Content

The course covers the four skill areas of Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing, which directly correspond to the four modules making up the IELTS test. Preparation courses for both General Training and Academic modules are offered.

The course integrates:

• training in specific test taking skills


• training in linguistic structures specific to IELTS test tasks


• opportunities to practice IELTS type tasks


• practice test tasks under exam conditions


• training in reviewing and self-evaluating test performance.

The Teaching Kit includes:

Student licences

each kit will be sold with multiples of 10 licences / users

licences will last for 6 weeks from the date the licence key is entered by the user administrator

for each user site, the system will generate sequential pre-determined student ID's and Passwords. It is possible for sites to have overlapping licences

The RMIT English Worldwide IELTS Preparation Teaching Kit has been designed to meet the need of English language providers by providing an up-to-date, high quality course designed for flexible delivery.

The Teaching Kit provides the following key benefits to English Language providers:

a high quality course developed by experienced English language teachers, course designers and IELTS examiners.

an innovative combination of 20 hours of textbook-based, and 20 hours of computer-supported tuition, as well as 10 hours of computer-based supplementary, independent learning materials (IELTS Interactive Practice).

flexible class teaching arrangements. The computer-supported material can be delivered with or without instruction and supervision by teaching staff.

flexible delivery as either a stand-alone course or integrated within existing English language programmes.

flexible delivery as either full or a variety of part time modes.

computer-based materials that are easy to install and use.

the computer-based materials only need to be installed once. Additional licences are purchased from RMIT English Worldwide without having to obtain A new Teaching Kit

Course books

one hard copy of the Student and Teacher course books

CD ROMS

CD 1: print files for the Student and Teacher books

CD 2: audio exercises for classroom use

CD 3: computer-based course material for Installation on institutional intranet

User Manual

detailed User Manual for installation and delivery of the course

System Requirements

The system server minimum requirements for installing the computer based component are:

Intel Pentium III 600 or faster

256 MB of memory

Windows NT 4 with service pack 5 or

Windows 2000 with service pack 4

Cost

The Teaching Kit is dispatched on receipt of order and payment