H ow to pass the E C L exam? Teaching methods, supplementary materials Sza Szabó Szi Szi lvi lvi a P hD managing directordirector- SZABÓ Nyelviskola/Language School és Fordítóiroda/Translation Fordítóiroda/Translation Agency Kft., Nyíregyháza E C L -ele -elea ar ning ni ng pr oj ect lea leader
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PTE – annually 1000-1500 students cannot take over their university certificates At BA level training, old university-college training 20-24% - final report •
National average: 30-40%
How to prepare for the ECL exam? - Teaching methods -
ECL practice and topics books - ECL e-learning project
Teaching methods - with language teacher - at Language School (one to one, group, skype) - e-learning - self-studying - immersion course = native environment (abroad)
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Gift for languages
What do I learn from the first language teacher? •
What foundations do I get?
Brainstorming task Can you learn a foreign language on your own? •
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you have to deal with language learning every day revise and practise listen to foreign language TV and radio channels continually
Four skills – Listening (Éva Páli) ”It
is certainly one of the most difficult tasks because it is not easy to understand a native E nglish speaker. It is easier for those who have continually been listening to language CDs, songs with lyrics, which are not so much liked by parents, English language TV programs since they were beginners. Understanding original, spoken English texts, requires a lot of practising while preparing for the exam.”
Brainstorming task •
Why is listening skill the most difficult?
Please turn back to your brainstorming partners and discuss this question as well for just 3 minutes.
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HOW TO PASS THE ECL EXAM? - methodological book (B1, B2, C1) specifications, objectives, topics, bilingual (EN-HU) explanations it highlights the most frequent mistakes made by learners when solving the tasks related to the individual skills the ‘wrong, unacceptable’ answers are all actual mistakes made by real test takers we provide detailed explanations why no points were given at the written and oral exam at the end of our book we give a summary of exam tips and useful advice (see Exam Tips) the Testing Glossary offers a collection of expressions and explanations related to language exams CD it also gives advice on how to improve learners’ current language competence at the given level
Frequent task types of reading and listening comprehension at the ECL exam •
Short answers to questions
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Multiple choice task with 3-4 options
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Completing unfinished sentences
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Matching titles and text segments
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Banked gap filling, inserting words or phrases back into a text from given options (sentence, paragraph) Matching any type of information with the text
No: grammar test and translation task at the written exam
Frequent task types/text types of written communication at the ECL language exam At the writing tasks you can get any of the following genres: informal letter, letter of complaint, e-mail, blog entry, essay, composition. For each text type four or five bullet points of instructions are given on what aspects the composition should follow in its content.
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ECL- elearning website on level B2
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