COURSE OUTLINE

 

 LISTENING 

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Extract relevant information from four audio passages and answer 40 questions. 30 minutes

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Getting Ready to Listen

• Understanding the context

• Using the correct spelling

• Writing numbers

 

Following a conversation

• Identifying the speakers

• Identifying the functions

• Understanding the categories

 

Recognizing Paraphrase

• Identifying distractions

• Recognizing paraphrase

• Selecting from a list

 

Places and Directions

• Describing a place

• Following directions

• Labeling a map

 

Listening for actions and processes

• Understanding mechanical parts

• Describing an action or process

• Describing a process

 

Attitude and opinion

• Identifying attitudes

• Persuading and suggesting

• Reaching a decision

 

Following a Lecture or Talk

• Identifying the main ideas

• Understanding how ideas are connected

• Understanding an explanation

 

Contrasting Ideas

• Signposting words

• Comparing & contrasting ideas

• Using notes to follow a talk

 

 READING 

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Extract relevant information from three reading passages and answer 40 questions. One hour.

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Reading Strategies

• Using the features of reading passages

• Skimming the passage and speed reading

• Global understanding

 

Descriptive passages

• Scanning for detail

• Using words from passages

• Notes/flow charts/diagram completion

 

Understanding the main ideas

• Identifying the main idea

• Understanding the main points

• Identifying information from the passage

 

Locating and Matching information

• Identifying types of information

• Locating and matching information

• How ideas are connected

 

Discursive passages

• Discursive passages

• Identifying theories and opinions

• Matching features

 

Multiple-choice questions

• Understanding longer pieces of text

• Different types of multiple-choice

• Identifying a writer’s purpose

 

Opinions and Attitudes

• Argumentative texts

• Identifying the writer’s views/claims

• Identifying grammatical features

 

General training Reading

• The General Training Reading paper

• Dealing with multiple texts

• Understanding work-related texts

 

 WRITING 

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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.

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Describing a chart, table or graph

• Understanding graphs, tables & charts

• More complex charts

• Improving your task achievement score

 

Comparing & Contrasting graphs & tables

• Avoiding repetition

• Comparing and contrasting data

• Grammatical Accuracy

 

Describing Diagrams

• Understanding a diagram

• Coherence and Cohesion

• Lexical Resource

 

Describing Map

• Describing a map

• Describing changes in place

• Grammatical Accuracy

 

A Letter

• Understanding the task

• Improving your score

• Checking and correcting

 

Getting ready to write

• Understanding the task

• Planning and organizing your ideas

• Writing an introduction

 

Expressing your ideas clearly

• Linking ideas – cohesion

• Lexical resource – avoiding repetition

• Expressing a personal view

 

Checking and correcting

• Developing your ideas correctly

• Grammatical accuracy

• Assessing your language

 

 SPEAKING 

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Participate in a speaking test consisting of three parts:

1. an interview

2. A long turn/ a description

3. A two way conversation

 

The speaking test

• Getting ready to speak

• Talking about familiar topics

• Using the right tense

• Grammatical range and accuracy

 

Giving a talk

• Understanding the task

• Improving Fluency and Coherence

• Organizing your notes and your talk

 

Talking about abstract topics

• Talking about abstract topics

• Agreeing and disagreeing

• Improving your lexical resource score

 

Checking, correcting and assessing

• Dealing with problems

• Pronunciation, intonation and “chunking”

• Assessing yourself and improving your score