Wobridge Academy

IELTS course

Pre-IELTS

For complete beginners, or anyone rebuilding their English from the ground up before starting exam preparation.

Starting level
You have never studied IELTS, or you studied English some time ago and no longer feel sure of your grammar and pronunciation.
Target on finishing
Working towards band 4.5 — enough of a foundation to join an exam class without starting over.

Band 0.0 – 4.5

Fee
3,500,000 VND
Duration
3 months
Format
Group class, 3–5 students
Mock tests
1 mock test
Pre-IELTS students at Wobridge Academy working through grammar exercises with their teacher

Who it is for

Who this course is for

These four groups describe the people already on this course. If none of them quite fits you, that is fine — the consultation is there to say which course does.

Outcomes

What you come away with

Not the syllabus listed a second time, but what is left once the course has finished.

A Wobridge teacher working on pronunciation with a small group of Pre-IELTS students
Pre-IELTS classes are kept to 3–5 students so every one of them gets their pronunciation corrected in the lesson.
  • Sentences that are actually correct

    A firm grip on tenses and on simple and complex sentences — enough to carry a whole idea and be understood straight away.

  • Pronunciation nobody has to guess at

    From final sounds and word stress through to sentence intonation — the part that decides your Pronunciation score later on.

  • Vocabulary that follows the exam topics

    Words are learnt by the topics IELTS actually asks about, so they are ready to use the day you join an exam class.

  • A clear picture of what IELTS asks

    You will understand the four skills and how they are marked, so you can choose your next course on evidence rather than instinct.

Syllabus

What you study

Everything the course covers, grouped. The order and the weight of each part are adjusted after each student's entry test.

How we teach

The six steps behind every Wobridge course

These six steps apply to every course we run, on every programme. What changes from course to course is how much weight each step carries — noted directly under the list.

  1. Entry assessment

    A test across all four skills before placement, so we know where a student stands and what is missing.

  2. Learning path

    The target broken into stages with checkpoints, rather than a single number waiting at the end of the course.

  3. Practice

    Every lesson includes work done in class; theory never occupies a lesson on its own.

  4. Feedback

    Writing and speaking marked against the assessment criteria of the exam being prepared, with each fault attached to a named criterion.

  5. Progress tracking

    Results are recorded skill by skill through the course, so it is visible which part is moving and which is not.

  6. Mock test

    A paper sat in the real format and to the real timings, then talked through afterwards.

On this course. On Pre-IELTS the first two steps run noticeably slower: the entry test looks for gaps in the foundations rather than measuring a band, and most of the time that would go on exam papers goes on grammar and pronunciation work instead.
Two Pre-IELTS students practising in pairs during the Speaking part of the lesson
Every lesson sets aside time for paired speaking practice before the teacher gives feedback to the whole class.

Details

Course details

Fee
3,500,000 VND
Duration
3 months
Format
Group class, 3–5 students
Mock tests
1 mock test
Class size
3–5 students

The fee covers the whole course — there is no separate charge for materials or for the mock test.

What is included

  • Group class of 3–5, so the teacher can follow every student
  • One mock test in the same format as the real paper
  • Homework marked and returned with comments
  • Advice on your next course at the end, based on your actual results

Side by side

How it compares

This table reads from the same data as the details above, so the numbers can never disagree.

CourseBandFeeDurationFormatMock tests
Pre-IELTS0.0 – 4.53,500,000 VND3 monthsGroup class, 3–5 students1 mock test
IELTS Academic 4.5 – 7.04.5 – 7.06,500,000 VND3 monthsGroup class, 3–5 students1 mock test
IELTS Academic 7.0+7.0 – 8.5+8,500,000 VND3 monthsOne-to-one1 mock test
IELTS General 1:1from 15,000,000 VND3 · 6 · 12 monthsOne-to-oneBy package

Next step

Not sure this is the right course?

A one-to-one consultation measures where you are now, agrees a target and recommends the course that fits — before you pay for anything.