Teaching for test success How we‟ll do this • Introduction: teaching & test preparation • CYLE test overview – general teaching tips • Section-by-section teaching guide • Apply metho
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Special Edition:
The Curriculum
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FAMILY AND FRIENDS SPECIAL EDITION
The following chart correlates Family and Friends Special Edition
to Vietnamese and International benchmarks Oxford University Press designed the Family and Friends Expansion Portfolio to support the course and prepare students to achieve these assessment
Grade 2 A0 2 Stars Starters
Grade 3 A0 – A1 3 Stars Pre-Movers
Grade 4 A1 – A2 4 Stars 2 Badges Movers Grade 5 A2 3 Badges Flyers
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Professional Development
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Trang 4Workbook International Exams
Professional Development
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Trang 5Grade 1 Total Vocab: 174 words
Grade 2 Total Vocab: 317 words
CYL Starter words: 443 words
Selective covers: 212/443 words
(48%)
Grade 1 Total Vocab: 174 words Grade 2 Total Vocab: 317 words Grade 2 Expansion Portfolio
Total words: 422 words
CYL Starter words: 443 words Intensive covers: 372/443
words (84%)
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What we‟ll focus on
How to teach English effectively to prepare
your students for international test success
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How we‟ll do this
• Introduction: teaching & test preparation
• CYLE test overview – general teaching tips
• Section-by-section teaching guide
• Apply methods to the TOEFL Primary
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• Familiar with test format
• Willing to ‘have a go’ not
fear of making mistakes
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Analytical process
1 Study the test yourself
2 Analyze language, skills tested in each section
3 Find or design classroom activities to train the same language and skills
4 Find material in your coursebook to train
these skills / fit these activities
5 Familiarize students with the test format
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Analytical process
1 Study the test yourself
2 Analyze language, skills tested in each section
3 Find or design classroom activities to train the same language and skills
4 Find material in your coursebook to train
these skills / fit these activities
5 Familiarize students with the test format
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“ [you] don’t have to teach to
the exam If you teach well and
use your materials well, with
variety, your students will do well
in the exam.”
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• Total length = approx 45 minutes
• 3 Sections („Skills‟)
Parts
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Analytical process
1 Study the test yourself
2 Analyze language, skills tested in each section
3 Find or design classroom activities to train the same language and skills
4 Find material in your coursebook to train
these skills / fit these activities
5 Familiarize students with the test format
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• The recordings are played twice If candidates miss something the first time they listen, there will be another chance to hear the answers
• It isn‟t important how well candidates colour or draw parts of a picture They just need to find the right part of the picture, use the right
colour and make a drawing recognisable
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Trang 19http://www.cambridgeenglish.org/exams/young-All Cambridge Yong Learners English test samples taken from:
http://www.cambridgeenglish.org/exams/y oung-learners-
english/starters/preparation/
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Analyze language and skills
• Task: Match names (draw lines)
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Analyze language and skills
• Task: Writing names and numbers
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FAFSE materials and activities
• Materials
– Most Lesson 1 Dialogues and
Words, Lesson 5 Reading
pages
• Example activities
– p.68: How do you spell that?
– p: 14, 16: Picture Dictation
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• A: Hello What‟s your name?
• B: My name‟s Sally
• A: How do you spell that?
• B: S-A-L-L-Y What‟s your name?
• A: My name‟s Tony
• B: How do you spell that?
• A: T-O-N-Y
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Presentation name Presenter Name and Date
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Analyze language and skills
• Task: Listen and choose correct picture
• Language required
– Linking questions with answers
– Wide variety of lexis
• Skills required
– Listening for detailed information
– Predicting language from pictures
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FAFSE materials and activities
• Materials
– Any pictures, especially Lesson 5
„Listening‟ and 6 „Reading‟
• Example activities
– p 33: Predict words from pictures – p 33: Making questions from
pictures
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Analyze language and skills
• Task: Locate, color things, write
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• Extra tip: Students can write the color
on the side of each of their crayons
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Reading and Writing
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Writing test:
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• It will be helpful to make sure your
students can write clearly
• Answers are generally very short and
words can most often be copied from a word box or from parts of the text, so
candidates don‟t need to write complete sentences
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Analyze language and skills
• Match pictures with words and
– Recognizing vocabulary from both
words and pictures
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FAFSE materials and activities
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DRAW AND WRITE!
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Analyze language and skills
• Task: Decide if sentences are
true or false
• Language required
– Variety of lexis and prepositions
– Short descriptive sentences
• Skills required
– Understanding information at
sentence level
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FAFSE materials and activities
• Materials
– Comprehension questions
– Big pictures with lots of details
– Words from Lessons 1 and 3
• Example activities
– p 74, 76: 2 True 1 False
– p 72: Tricky True or False
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elephant
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snake
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parrot
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tiger
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FAFSE materials and activities
• Materials
– Comprehension questions
– Big pictures with lots of details
– Words from Lessons 1 and 3
• Example activities
– p 74, 76: 2 True 1 False
– p 72: Tricky True or False
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four
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• 1 Oanh has five dolls no
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• 2 Thi has long, red hair yes
• 3 Oanh‟s favorite doll is Khoa no
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Analyze language and skills
• Task: Spell words from given
letters
• Language required
– Variety of basic lexis
– Knowing spelling of words
• Skills required
– Recognising words from pictures
– Letter recognition and spelling
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FAFSE materials and activities
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Analyze language and skills
• Task: Cloze
• Language required
– Very general
• Skills required
– Reading silently and quickly (timing)
– Understanding meaning from
context
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FAFSE materials and activities
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Analyze language and skills
• Task: Describing a picture
• Language required
– Numbers
– Nouns and verbs ( present
continuous not introduced until
• Skills required
– Answer questions about quantity
– Know verbs and answer questions
about what people are doing
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FAFSE materials and activities
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• Examiners are helpful and friendly They are
experienced and encouraging people Candidates should try to relax and enjoy this part of the test
Suggest they try to use phrases that they know for communicating, for example, „Good morning‟,
„Pardon?‟ „Yes, please‟, and „thank you‟
• If candidates don‟t understand something, they can ask the examiner to repeat what they said Suggest they say: „Sorry, can you say that again?‟
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Analyze language and skills
• Task: Find things in a picture
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Analyze language and skills
• Task: Place cards/objects on a
picture
• Language required
– Nouns and prepositions
– Understand sentence level
instructions
• Skills required
– Listen for nouns and prepositions
– Place objects in correct place
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– p 74: Doll under the Desk!
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Analyze language and skills
• Task: Name and briefly describe objects
• Language required
– Basic nouns
– Colors and basic adjectives
• Skills required
– Understand simple questions
– Answer simple questions
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FAFSE materials and activities
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Analyze language and skills
• Task: Identify an object and its
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Analyze language and skills
• Task: Answer questions about
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FAFSE materials and activities
• Materials
– Questions about students
– Some Grammar Lesson 2, Skills
Lessons 5 & 6
• Example activities
– p.84: Question Chain: About Me! – P.81: Change the Question
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How we‟ll do this
• Introduction: teaching & test preparation
• CYLE test overview – general teaching tips
• Section-by-section teaching guide
• Apply methods to the TOEFL Primary
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Analytical process
1 Study the test yourself
2 Analyze language, skills tested in each section
3 Find or design classroom activities to train the same language and skills
4 Find material in your coursebook to train
these skills / fit these activities
5 Familiarize students with the test format
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• Familiar with test format
• Willing to ‘have a go’ not
fear of making mistakes
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Grade 2
• Grade 1 training highlights
• Localization: Changes from FAF > FAFSE
• Correlating FAFSE with Cambridge YLE and TOEFL Primary
• How to teach English effectively to prepare your students for international test success
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Grade 2