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?
XX
b) Why do they want to achieve the goal?
XX
c) By when do they want to achieve it?
XX
d) Why they choose Value English (US) / How do they know Value English?
XX
2) Student's test score & proficiency
a) TOEIC: What is your TOEIC score?
XX
b) Eiken: Do you have any Eiken certificate?
XX
c) TOEFL: What is your TOEFL Score?
XX
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
XX
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
XX
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.)-