For IELTS teachers · Free · CC BY 4.0
Free IELTS teaching materials
Five printable resources for Writing classes, written by the IELTS.international team. Print them, adapt them and share them. All we ask is a credit line.
- Rubric · 4 A4 pagesIELTS Writing Task 2 marking rubric for teachersA plain-English teaching rubric for the four Task 2 criteria at bands 4 to 8, based on the public band descriptors, with a marking grid for one class.Open and print
- Question bank · 4 A4 pagesIELTS Writing Task 2 question bank: 20 practice promptsTwenty original Task 2 questions, four for each question type, with a planning box for students.Open and print
- Worksheet · 4 A4 pagesCommon grammar mistakes in IELTS Writing: correction worksheetTwenty sentences to correct across articles, word forms, prepositions, subject–verb agreement and punctuation, with an answer key.Open and print
- Worksheet · 3 A4 pagesIELTS paraphrasing worksheet: synonym swap vs restructureTeaches the difference between swapping words and rebuilding a sentence, with a spot-the-problem task and model answers.Open and print
- Lesson plan · 3 A4 pagesLesson plan: a 60-minute IELTS Writing lab sessionA timed plan for running Task 2 practice with a whole class in a computer lab, using one class join link, plus a student handout.Open and print
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What these are not
- Not official IELTS material, and not endorsed by the IELTS partners. Nothing here is copied from official tests, Cambridge books or other publishers.
- The rubric is our own teaching wording based on the public band descriptors. It is not the descriptors text. For that, see the official IELTS scoring guide.
- Credit is the only condition. You do not need to link to us from a website to use them in class.
Marking a whole class?
The teacher workspace drafts a band for each criterion on every essay, and you review it before students see it. It is how the lab-session lesson plan is meant to run.