Details
Listening
Extract relevant information from four audio passages and answer 40 questions. 30 minutes
Reading
Extract relevant information from three reading passages and answer 40 questions. One hour
Writing
Interpret and describe graphical information (in 20 minutes and 150 words)
Or
Write a letter responding to a given situation (in 20 minutes and 150 words)
and
Write a discursive or argumentative essay (in 40 minutes and 250 words). A total of one hour
Speaking
Participate in a speaking test consisting of three parts:
1. an interview
2. A long turn/ a description
3. A two way conversation
10-15 minutes
Outline
Key learning points:
Module 1:
- Anticipating the text
- Using picture/graphic clues
- Predicting from questions
- Identifying how many speakers
- Identifying relationships between speakers
- Predicting language according to relationships/topics
- Identifying reason/purpose of conversation
- Task: Identify the differences between spoken and written language
- Listening for Specific Information-
- Predicting the required words
- Identifying key words
- Identifying word classification
- Dates, times, numbers, names etc.
- Task: Form filling
Module 2:
- Orientation to the Text
- Using the text to make predictions about content
- Headings, titles; bold, underlined, italic words etc
- Using pictures, graphics, tables, graphs etc
- Identifying genre
- Identifying the audience
- Understanding paragraphs
- Task: Identify topic sentences
- Scanning for specific information and details-
- Understanding the layout
- Getting an idea of where information might be
- Increasing reading speed
- Getting the gist
- Checking predictions
- Task: Form filling and chart/table completion
Module 3:
- Describing facts and figures-
- Bar and pie charts
- Tables
- Describing trends-
- Line graphs
- Examining axis
- Summarizing data in a table
- Selecting important information
- Comparing data
- Grouping information
- Describing a process-
- Cohesion
- Sequencing
- Essay structure
Module 4:
- Planning a talk-
- Explaining how you feel or felt in the past
- Giving short answers to follow up questions
- Task: Part 2 of speaking
- Planning the talk-
- Approaching the topic
- Expanding ideas
- Signposts and cohesion
- Fluency
- Developing the main idea through sub-topics
- Task: Part 2 of speaking
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