Trial Class Guideline

Students now can choose trial from following menu

1. Pronounciation "R & L" - Material

2. News Article CNN / VOA - Material

3. Eiken Trial - Material

In the trial, please confirm the followings and e-mail to admin

Student's Profiling (Style & Preferences)

Student's goal and target for studying English conversation

1) Goal

a) What is the Goal?

ex)

want to be able to watch movies without subtitles

want to be able to speak up in business discussion

want to keep current proficiency

b) Why do they want to achieve the goal?

c) By when do they want to achieve it?

d) Why they choose Value English (US)?

2) Student's test score

TOEIC: What is your TOEIC score?

Eiken: Do you have any Eiken certificate?

TOEFL: What is your TOEFL Score?

How to Perform Trial Class

Ask students, whether they prefer Free Talk or VOA

Please provide quick feedback/message to the student

1) Free Talk

Enjoy the conversation with the student

2) VOA

Please use the following article for the trial of Year 2009. Another article which you prefer to teach

Barack Obama’s Election Voted Top News Story of 2008

FYI (In case you need ideas, please refer to following link

How to organize a class using VOA articles - sample: Barack Obama’s Election Voted Top News Story of 2008

Follow Up(Feedback)

Please E-mail the student profile & message to the student in the following format

Student's goal and target for studying English conversation skills

1) Goal

a) What is the Goal?

b) Why do they want to achieve the goal?

c) By when do they want to achieve it?

d) Why they choose Value English (US) / How do they know Value English?

2) Student's test score & proficiency

a) TOEIC: What is your TOEIC score?

b) Eiken: Do you have any Eiken certificate?

c) TOEFL: What is your TOEFL Score?

d) your judgement of student's proficiency

Advance / Intermediate / Beginner

3) Preferences

How do you want to be fixed mistakes?

On spot, at the end of class, only when tutor find patterns in mistakes

How much do you want to speak out in the class?

lecture style (30% student talks) to discussion (70% student talks)

Choice: Free Talk / VOA

Message to the student

XX (summarize your message to student in 3-5 sentences)

Write an appealing message which attracts new students to our school!

******************************** NOT USED Older Version, UNDER CONSTRUCTION ****************************

体験後のフォローアップ質問を考える

発音コースどうですか？とか、もう一つ上の英検めざしてがんばってみてはどうですか？とか。

Concept

Approaches

refer to the 3rd party?

VOIM's placement test?

References to the 3rd parties

Versant

http://www.versant.jp/pdf/test_sample.pdf

http://www.versant.jp/test_content.html#02

T-SST sample

http://tsst.alc.co.jp/tsst/e/assessment.html

Types of Questions

Test-takers will hear questions that target functions of different levels of proficiency. Questions are randomly chosen from a large volume of recorded question pools.

Sample Questions

Please describe ( ).

Please talk about the last time you ( ).

Please compare ( ) with ( ).

TOEFL iBT

http://www.onlinenglish.net/TOEFL/ibt_speaking_guidelines_samples_tips.html

Links

Versant

http://www.versant.jp/e_about.html

T-SST

http://tsst.alc.co.jp/tsst/e/index.html

GTE

TOEFL iBT

TOEIC

The 1st draft

The 1st draft of our level check test as of Nov 25th.

Gina, please update followings. ( you can develop this contents as you want). I roughly include my idea also but you don't need to follow it. As long as it satisfy the criteria, it's ok.

Test 0 (5 min)

Ice breaker, get information about the student( background information such as: age,the place they are living,job,interests..etc.)

Goal & Output: get the sense of rough estimation on student proficiency level.

Test 1 (5 min)

1) Let the student do 2 min speech on "What is the goal to study English and taking classes at Value English"

2) Ask questions (3 min) if the student didn't clarify what, by when, why studying, how much (budget)

If the student's level is beginner, may be just start from Q&A.(Simple Questions will do if the student's level is beginner)

a.) Current issues and events are interesting topics that can arouse student's ideas.( Ask the student about the recent news he/she have watched/heard and let the student talk about it,After giving details,ask her/his opinions regarding the issue.)

Goal & Output: Get general impression on fluency, Delivery, Comprehension. Guess which class suit for the student

Test 2 (8 min)

Speech for high level student (you might want to use Eiken 1st grade test)

Picture description (you might want to use Pre-1st grade)

Simple Q&A session or simple picture description for beginner student.( Simple picture descriptions are okay as long as it is news related. e.g. Barack Obama and John McCain pictures,objects of interest in Japan...etc.)

Test 3 (7 min)

Feedback to the student

( I add some ideas to this draft.If it's possible,we need to provide materials like real objects to feed student's comprehension.)-