{PET : PRELIMINARY ENGLISH TEST ( 10th Level ) KET : A2 EXAM FORMAT PET : B1 USEFUL LINKS : www.cambridgeenglish.org/exams www.examenglish.com www.flo-joe.co.uk KET / PET {KET VOCABULARY LIST PET VOCABULARY LIST SAMPLE TESTS DOWNLOAD KET & PET Teaching Tips :
1. Tell students to always read the
instructions for test questions very carefully. They will get useful information which will help them understand what the text is about or understand who the speakers are and what they are talking about. 2. Have students look at the listening transcripts to see how the questions work – all the possible answers are mentioned, but only one is the right answer. 3. Encourage students to keep a vocabulary notebook organized by topic. They can draw pictures, or write translations, definitions and example sentences to help them remember the words. 4. Get students to practise reading texts quickly all the way through at first to get a general idea of their meaning without worrying about unknown words. 5. Encourage students to practise guessing the meaning of words from context. Tell them to work out what kind of word it is from the grammar (e.g. verb, noun) and use the whole sentence to guess the meaning. 6. Students need to be able to spell basic words correctly in the exam, so spend some time working on spelling practice. You can give regular spelling tests and have students make posters to remind them of the spellings of tricky words. 7. Give students plenty of practice at writing postcards and emails so they get used to the phrases used to start and end letters. 8. Show students how the questions use paraphrasing – they say the same things as the texts but use different words. Highlight parts of the texts or dialogues where this happens so students know they need to listen or read for the meaning rather than exact words. 9. Remind students that they will hear each dialogue twice, so they will have a chance to check their answers or listen again if they missed something. 10. Reduce student’s stress about the exam by giving them as much information about it as you can: show them the sample answer sheets show them the photographs of the speaking test in the Student’s Book and show them the speaking test video on this website conduct mock speaking tests with other teachers taking the role of the examiner do practice tests under exam conditions to recreate the time pressure use the practice tests to show students how well they are doing http://www.exams.richmondelt.com/tea chers-area/target-ket/exam-teaching- tips/