Basic English Grammar For English Language Learners Meeting #7

Hery Yanto The

English 3.0 Series, Summer 2012

July 9, 2012

AGENDA

English Language

Testing

Part of Speech II

Meeting #7

Part I English Language Testing

Types of English Language Testing

Examples of Widely Accepted Exams

• Cambridge ESOL Examinations

• Test Of English for International Communication (TOEIC)

• Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)

• International English Language Testing System (IELTS)

Examples of Other Quality Exams

• Michigan Proficiency Exams

• Trinity College London Exams

• The Global TESOL Certificate

• Harvard Institute for English Language Program

Why I have to take a language exam/testing?

One of the admission requirements

One of the job qualifications

Photo used from Univ. of Birmingham and Tesolexpressonline

English for Specific Purposes (ESP)

• Design based on specific need of students/learners (job qualification, university enrollment, etc.)

• Center the teaching and learning to skills and discourse based on the need

• Ambiguity: English Testing Training is an ESP OR the ESP should be added to the English Testing Training

• Known as English as a Foreign or Second Language, and English for Academic Purposes

• Usually the learners are adults, and they are at the intermediate or advanced levels

English Testing Training Institute

Contents Strategies

Psychology

Drill

Test System

Language Skills

Language Knowledge

Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFRL)

• Level A – Basic User• A1 – Beginner• A2 – Elementary

• Level B – Independent User• B1 – Intermediate • B2 – Upper Intermediate

• Level C – Proficient User• C1 – Advanced• C2 – Mastery

IELTS Bands

TOEFL iBT Scores

My Score = Self Reflection + Make Decision

Decision

Life Long Learning?

Support form

institution?

My score

- I got 5 for my IELTS.- I had difficulty on

understanding conversations used in the test.

- I am planning to apply to a university in the UK next year.

- The university requires 5.5 for IELTS.

- The university has an English Training Program.

- I will continue to improve my listening skill by watching movies.

Part IIPart of Speech … Continue

Adjectives

• Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns by answering questions such as Whose? Which one? What kind? How many?

• Adjectives should be close to the words they modify. Frequently, they appear before the noun the noun they modify.

• The pop star was driving along the Freeway in his luxury car when police pulled him over.

• In an ideal situation, John would play 20 or 25 minutes off the bench.

• Descriptive adjectives, designate qualities or attributes, may come before or after the noun or pronoun they modify for stylistic reasons.

• Subject complements are adjectives that describe the subject and follow linking verbs.

• The sick and poor lady no longer believed the drug could save her life.• The lady, sick and poor, no longer believed the drug could save her life.• No longer believing that the drug could save her live, the lady was sick

and poor.

Underline the adjectives

• The woodpecker and the squirrel seem hungry.

• They take good care of the little cubs.

• My younger brother Chung is short and cute.

• The downtown has colorful building.

• He wrote a wonderful story.

Solution: Underline the adjectives

• The woodpecker and the squirrel seem hungry.

• They take good care of the little cubs.

• My younger brother Chung is short and cute.

• The downtown has colorful building.

• He wrote a wonderful story.

Adverbs

• Adverbs modify verbs, other adverbs, and adjectives.• Adverbs usually end in –ly.• Adverbs can be placed at the beginning or end of a

sentence, or before the verb they modify, but they usually should not be placed between the verbs and its direct object.• Normally it doesn’t rain much here.• He is interested in writing generally.• She had never sung better.• Consequently, he is still running the business.

Practice Test: http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/b1_adverbs.htm

Prepositions

Photo used from esl-galaxy

Free Download: English Prepositions List from EnglishClub.Com

Brighton is south of London.The floor under the table. The train went through the tunnel. I am behind you on this thing.

Function:To allow the noun or pronoun in the phrase to modify another word in the sentence.

Underline the preposition

• Your book is in the desk drawer.• Mr. Jones went to the post office with

his wife.• Kenneth looks like his mother.• We can meet at three.• I heard the news from the radio.

Solution: Underline the preposition

• Your book is in the desk drawer.• Mr. Jones went to the post office with

his wife.• Kenneth looks like his mother.• We can meet at three.• I heard the news from the radio.

Conjunctions

• Conjunctions join words, phrases, or clauses and indicate their relation to each other.

• Coordinating conjunctions join elements of equal weight or function. • He was strong and healthy.• The boys must have been tired, for they had been cleaning all day long.

• Correlative conjunctions link sentence elements of equal value, but they always come in pairs.• Neither you nor I will go there today.• He is not only an excellent professor, but also a well-known researcher.

• Subordinators link sentence element that are not equal importance.• Although I love you, I will not marry you.• As if that is going to be of any use to me!

Practice Tests: http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/conj01.htmlhttp://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/conj02.htmlhttp://a4esl.org/q/h/9901/gc-connectives.html

Interjections

• Expressions – Verbal communication• They are not used in academic or business English,

except in a quotation of dialogue.• Wow, that was amazing, Donny!• What you have to do is just click, hold, drag, and drop it

here. You see how it works? Wii, pretty easy doesn’t it?

Underline the Interjections

• Oops…we forgot to bring umbrella.

• Oh my, the game will be delay because of the rain.

• Hurray, give the player a cheer!• Wew! Finally you made it!

Solution: Underline the Interjections

• Oops…we forgot to bring umbrella.

• Oh my, the game will be delay because of the rain.

• Hurray, give the player a cheer!• Wew! Finally you made it!

Closing Notes

• Send an email to the facilitator for enrolling to the course. Write your full name and your country of origin. For example: Ahmad Faisal, Nigeria.

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