Course details
Course highlights
- Track people and events
- Understand who did what, sequence and simple cause.
- Read context
- Use surrounding sentences to identify meaning, reference and missing information.
- Record answers accurately
- Control common spelling, singular and plural forms, and basic sentence form.
- Compare pictures
- Use position, appearance, action and quantity to explain differences.
- Connect a story
- Describe a picture sequence with time order and simple linking.
- Extend personal answers
- Develop yes, no or one-word responses into clear sentences.
- Diagnose by skill
- Compare Listening, Reading and Writing, and Speaking.
- Reuse corrected language
- Apply improved words and sentences in a new story, picture or conversation.
- Prepare for Flyers
- Increase text length, answer completeness and independent expression.
Course content
- Listening
- About 25 minutes across pictures, short conversations and information matching.
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- 5 parts
- About 25 questions
- Names, places, details and sequencing
- Reading and Writing
- About 30 minutes across vocabulary, sentences, dialogue and short stories.
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- 6 parts
- About 35 questions
- Vocabulary, grammar, dialogue and story comprehension
- Speaking
- A one-to-one examiner interaction with differences, story description and personal questions.
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- 4 parts
- About 5–7 minutes
- Picture comparison and story sequence
- Result
- There is no pass or fail; the certificate reports performance in each skill with shields.
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- Listening shields
- Reading and Writing shields
- Speaking shields