IELTS1 studyguide

SERIES GUIDE
Use this guide as a quick reference to the contents of Study English Series 1
EPISODE / THEME
Episode One
Electronic crime
TECHNOLOGY/LAW
Episode Two
Vitamin D
MEDICINE
Episode Three
Company growth
BUSINESS
Episode Four
Rising dollar
BUSINESS
Episode Five
Global warming
ENVIRONMENT
Episode Six
Greenhouse gases
ENVIRONMENT
Episode Seven
Enviro-loo
ENVIRONMENT
Episode Eight
Crocodile tourism
TOURISM
Episode Nine
ADHD
MEDICINE
Episode Ten

Solar house
ARCHITECTURE
Episode Eleven
Recounting the past
MEDICINE
Episode Twelve
Carbon cycle
ENVIRONMENT
Episode Thirteen
Under the sea
SCIENCE

GRAMMAR

WRITING

modals: opinion and attitude

VOCABULARY

PUNCTUATION / SPELLING

PRONUNCIATION

word building; formal/ informal;
vocabulary strategies

spelling rules

syllable stress

formal/informal

impersonal language;
prepositions for describing
data

describing data

adjectives, nouns, verbs,
adverbs for describing data

comparative adjectives

comparing data

per cent vs percentage

referents and noun phrases

cause and effect relationships

cause and effect language;
adjectival endings
(nationalities)
passive voice

word stress; sentence rhythm

per cent vs percentage

per cent vs percentage

spelling of nationalities

pronunciation of nationalities

describing a process
IELTS Speaking test
assessment; linking: C+V or
V+V

relative pronouns
abbreviations; acronyms; Latin
abbreviations
conjunctions: coordinating,
subordinating

connecting ideas

past tenses: simple vs
perfect; sentences types:
compound, complex

describing past events

phrasal verbs

describing a cycle; writing tips

definite/indefinite articles

abbreviations, acronyms

complex sentences (commas)

weather patterns

articles

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EPISODE / THEME
Episode Fourteen
Junk DNA
MEDICINE
Episode Fifteen
Sea floor
SCIENCE
Episode Sixteen
DVT
MEDICINE
Episode Seventeen
Water and aging
MEDICINE
Episode Eighteen
Salinity
ENVIRONMENT
Episode Nineteen

Weather report
SCIENCE
Episode Twenty
Torres strait
GEOGRAPHY
Episode Twenty One
Watching birds
SCIENCE

GRAMMAR

PUNCTUATION / SPELLING

PRONUNCIATION

VOCABULARY

AusE, BE, AE

stress: verb, noun

participial adjectives

numbers

stress; numbers

prepositions of place

rules for capitalisation

conditionals

prefixes (opposites); suffixes
(forming adjectives)

royal order of adjectives

approximation

speculation using modals,
adverbs, phrases

paragraph structure;
definition

phrasal verbs; contractions;
coordinating conjunctions

informal spoken and formal
written English; linking words;
repetition

transition signals;
Australian/British/American
English

describing a process

AusE, BE, AE; weights,

measures

continuous tenses

Episode Twenty Two
Finance report
BUSINESS
Episode Twenty Three
Octopuses
SCIENCE &TECHNOLOGY
Episode Twenty Four
Perfect Siesta
SCIENCE - PSYCHOLOGY
Episode Twenty Five
Copyright
LAW
Episode Twenty Six
Archaeology
ARCHAEOLOGY

WRITING

sentence stress patterns

describing numerical data

cardinal, ordinal, Arabic,
Roman, decimals, fractions,
currencies, dates, zones;
prefixes (numbers)

describing appearance or
character of people or
animals

physical features, shapes,
behaviour, character, body parts

comparatives: as…as

present tense; editing

writing a technical/
information report; writing
definitions

its/it’s; subject-verb
agreement

classifying & summarising

technical vocabulary

rules for writing numbers

telephone numbers, fractions,
decimals

similar sounds
commas, apostrophe, hyphen,

colon, semicolon

intonation

editing

‘-ed’ endings
rd

‘s’ endings: plurals, 3 per.
sg. present tense

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