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Next series of webinars for the LanguageCert Comunidad de Madrid project. 00:00:00
My name is Marios Mofetas. I'm the executive director here at LanguageCert. 00:00:07
And for those of you who have not joined a previous session, 00:00:11
let me share once again that we are very excited and very happy working with you on this project. 00:00:15
Here with me, I have Janet Golding. Janet is the lead academic consultant working with us. 00:00:22
and she's going to be the person doing the actual presentation this afternoon. 00:00:29
Before we start with this, though, we have together with us Nieves Buhalanthe from the Comunidad de Madrid. 00:00:35
Nieves, I'm so sorry if I did actually mispronounce your name, but many thanks for joining us today. 00:00:43
So please share a few words. 00:00:53
Oh, okay. Thank you very much, Marius, for your introduction. Yeah, just a few words. 00:00:54
se os va a presentar el formato de la prueba de nivel B2 que van a realizar vuestros alumnos 00:01:24
de cuarto de la ESO próximamente, a lo largo del mes de mayo y de junio. 00:01:32
Entonces, bueno, simplemente deciros que para cualquier consulta que podáis tener en relación 00:01:38
con la gestión 00:01:46
o la intendencia de estas pruebas 00:01:47
os dirijáis 00:01:50
a nosotros 00:01:51
a los asesores de referencia 00:01:53
de la subdirección que haremos 00:01:55
todo lo posible para 00:01:57
ayudaros en la organización 00:01:59
y el buen desarrollo de las pruebas 00:02:01
en vuestros centros 00:02:03
y nada más, simplemente 00:02:04
agradeceros de nuevo vuestra asistencia 00:02:07
y que esperamos que 00:02:10
os sea muy útil y provechosa 00:02:11
estas sesiones 00:02:13
that's all thank you very much. A quick word just for an 00:02:15
introduction because we've done several of these webinars we receive a lot of 00:02:25
questions regarding logistical aspects of the organization of the exams meaning 00:02:29
like dates, specific questions that have to do with the actual planning of the rooms 00:02:35
and our team will be in contact with your school if they haven't been already 00:02:40
ready like there's been a big focus this week for the on the primary schools 00:02:46
because they're going to start their exams first but please be assured that 00:02:51
if you have not and if you have not received information that you will 00:02:55
receive information within the coming days at least before I ask Janet to 00:02:59
present we have a small video from a Nigel Pike Nigel is the head of our 00:03:05
assessment strategy and so she'd like to say a few words I'll switch off my 00:03:11
camera then we'll hear we'll listen to the video and then we're going to reintroduce jack hello and 00:03:15
welcome to the seminar on the language cert isl examinations for teachers in the comunidad the 00:03:30
madrid project i'm very pleased to be able to introduce the seminar and start your introduction 00:03:37
to language cert my name is nigel pike and i've been heavily involved in english language testing 00:03:43
for over 30 years. I've been working for LanguageCert for the past five years as the 00:03:50
assessment strategy manager. I work closely with the LanguageCert assessment unit and advise on 00:03:56
the ongoing development of existing assessment products and the development of new tests. 00:04:02
To begin with today, I'd like to introduce PeopleCert and LanguageCert as organisations to you. 00:04:10
PeopleCert has been a global leader in certification for the past two decades 00:04:17
and delivers web and paper-based tests across 10,000 testing locations around the globe 00:04:21
and is present in virtually every country in the world. 00:04:27
The initial work of PeopleCert was to certificate professionals in areas like IT, project management and the like. 00:04:33
LanguageCert is a UK-based part of the PeopleCert organisation 00:04:42
and was set up around 10 years ago to develop and deliver high-quality language tests. 00:04:46
Tests are available in several languages, with LanguageCert partnering with renowned organisations worldwide. 00:04:52
For example, LanguageCert runs a test in Spanish, where we work together with the University of Salamanca. 00:04:59
English language testing, however, is the main focus of LanguageCert's work. 00:05:06
The English language examinations such as the IESOL examinations that will be used in your schools 00:05:15
are of high quality and are all accredited and regulated by Ofqual, the UK regulator of quality 00:05:21
examinations. The LanguageCert assessment staff are all highly qualified and very experienced 00:05:27
in developing tests in line with the CEFR specifications. In 2020 LanguageCert started 00:05:35
delivering secure English language examinations on behalf of the UK government. These examinations 00:05:43
are delivered worldwide and are used by the UK Home Office for visa and immigration purposes. 00:05:51
I think these examples of accreditation and high stakes use of our English language examinations 00:05:58
indicates the high quality and robustness of the IESOL test that will be used in the 00:06:04
Schools project in Madrid. All our examinations are carefully matched to the CEFR and we only 00:06:10
use the most experienced examination materials writers to develop our test materials. 00:06:17
The test materials are high quality and measure accurately and fairly at each of the CEFR levels 00:06:23
from A1 through to C2. The tests are of course subject to ongoing validation and research 00:06:30
activity. This activity is led by Professor David Coniam, who joined LanguageCert from 00:06:37
the Education University of Hong Kong. So, LanguageCert is, you could say, a relatively 00:06:44
young testing organisation with the highest quality staff and our examinations are used 00:06:52
worldwide in rapidly increasing numbers. In Spain, the LanguageCert ISOL examinations 00:06:57
are recognised by CRWI and ACLES for university graduation, Erasmus, Master's study and so on. 00:07:06
A majority of the regional governments accept Language Cert qualifications for recruiting 00:07:16
bilingual teachers, including Madrid, Catalonia, the Basque Country and Andalusia. The exams are 00:07:20
also accepted for public employment by several entities in Spain, including Correos and the Bank 00:07:30
of Spain. I hope that gives you some useful background to PeopleCert and LanguageCert. 00:07:35
Before our presenters go into more detail about the tests themselves, I'd just like to explain 00:07:45
briefly why I feel they are ideal for your students in the Madrid bilingual project. 00:07:50
I should say at this point that I have a personal attachment to Madrid, 00:07:57
as I taught in a state secondary school for a while back in the 1980s. 00:08:01
A long, long time ago, but a great experience. 00:08:05
And, in a previous job role, when I was Director of Assessment at Cambridge Examinations, I got to know the Madrid Project reasonably well. 00:08:11
I visited schools and went into classrooms to see the project in action. 00:08:21
I've always been so impressed by the Madrid Bilingual Project. 00:08:26
It is groundbreaking in so many ways and I'm sure brings many benefits to the students in the programme and to the Comunidad de Madrid. 00:08:29
The ASIL tests themselves are very suitable for school pupils. 00:08:43
They do not require much specific preparation at all compared to other English language tests. 00:08:48
And they very much focus on a skills based and communicative approach. 00:08:54
Your students will carry out realistic tasks and the test materials, especially at the higher levels, are very suitable for students following a clear classroom approach. 00:08:59
The examination materials are readily accessible to teenagers and the task types will be familiar from activities you use in the classroom, with a wide range of subskills being tested in speaking, listening, reading and writing. 00:09:12
So, to conclude my introduction to the seminar, I'd just like to express how honoured I feel 00:09:30
and LanguageCert feels to be able to play a role in such a prestigious project. 00:09:37
I hope the information you get in the seminar is useful and interesting and we look forward 00:09:44
to providing tests for your students. Thank you. Thank you Nigel. 00:09:50
A quick point, as I said before, and if you have any questions, we'll have a question at the end, 00:10:04
a question and answer session, and we'll be able to answer your questions. 00:10:13
As we've done in the previous webinars, there is a little box in the application 00:10:17
where you are able to start populating your answers. 00:10:23
Janet, we're ready for you once you're ready and prepared, and I hope you enjoy the presentation. 00:10:29
Thanks, Marius. Hello, everybody. I'm going to talk you through all you need to know about the IESOL B2 examinations. 00:10:34
And we're going to start with an overview. So the format, the marking criteria, the key features. 00:10:52
then we're going to have a detailed look at some practice paper samples so you know the types of 00:11:01
things that will come up in the exam then we're going to discuss the sort of support we offer 00:11:09
so how to prepare your students within this reasonably tight schedule that you have and then 00:11:15
consider some next steps and then we'll have an opportunity for you to ask questions so if you 00:11:21
want to ask any throughout using the chat box that's absolutely fine and then we'll come back 00:11:29
to those questions at the end of the presentation. So let's go. Starting first of all then with the 00:11:35
overview and just to mention to you there are two exams the learner has to take, a written exam 00:11:44
and a spoken exam. So we're going to look first of all at some key features of the written exam 00:11:52
and in fact as you can see here the written exam focuses on three skills and they're tested 00:12:01
separately so listening, reading and writing. And here are just some key characteristics of 00:12:09
the written exam. You'll notice when you have a look at the practice papers or handbooks or 00:12:18
other documentation, that we integrate grammatical items, lexical items within the testing of the 00:12:24
skills, i.e. within the sections in the exam paper, so they're not examined separately. 00:12:34
We feel the exam, as Nigel has mentioned, is very student-friendly and teacher-friendly. 00:12:42
You can use whatever material you currently prefer in your course books, your supplementary material, even things that you may have used preparing for other exams. 00:12:48
The basic point for our exams is they all calibrate to the Common European Framework descriptors. 00:12:59
So if you've got a book that's about B2, then we will be testing the sorts of things that you're already covering for B2, for example. 00:13:06
And our main focus, it's highly communicative and we're testing real life English skills and we use lots of different everyday contexts to do this. 00:13:15
Let's have a look now at the key features of the spoken exam. 00:13:31
Now, at this level, but actually every level, we have topics and four tasks that are based on practical experience and everyday subject areas. 00:13:36
So we start with personal information as a task, and this is where the candidate gives personal information and opinions and ideas. 00:13:46
Then they move on to a role play section with the idea that they communicate with the interlocutor. 00:13:56
And this is followed by an interactive task where the candidate exchanges information and opinions with the interlocutor. 00:14:05
finally the last thing they need to do is a long turn and this is where the candidate 00:14:14
speaks about a topic that's selected in fact by the interlocutor 00:14:21
the exam is a really nice friendly arrangement it's actually one candidate and one interlocutor 00:14:26
so you don't do your exam with another candidate it's not pairs it's not groups so it's one 00:14:37
candidate with an interlocutor and I've mentioned this term already interlocutor you may be used to 00:14:43
perhaps a situation where there's an examiner in the room for us we have language cert highly 00:14:50
trained interlocutors they're monitored trained and standardized by us they facilitate the exam 00:14:57
but they don't mark the exam so the whole focus within that speaking test is on the interlocutor 00:15:03
working closely with the candidate to go through the different tasks and to give that candidate 00:15:13
the best opportunity to demonstrate what they know. And in fact, how do we mark? Well, we record 00:15:20
the test, so audio record the test, and then it's sent to be marked by independent and language 00:15:29
that train, monitors and standardise markers. OK, now let's have a look a bit more at the format, 00:15:36
the overall format at B2. So if you have a look at this slide, we have some information, 00:15:46
generic information about the written and the spoken and then some specific information about 00:15:52
the timings. So the written exam consists of listening, as we mentioned. This is taken first, 00:15:56
but it's within the whole exam paper for that day. And the candidate will look at working through 00:16:03
four different parts, 26 questions within the parts, and they are played, the listening texts 00:16:12
are played twice. And the listening takes about 30 minutes at this level. There then follows a 00:16:20
sectional reading and writing. The reading consists of four parts and 26 questions, 00:16:28
and the writing consists of two different tasks. The reading and writing part of the exam is 00:16:35
flexible, so if a candidate looks at the paper, those two sections, and feels that they are more 00:16:42
comfortable starting with the writing, they can. They can then go back to the reading. They can do 00:16:49
one writing task, one reading task if they want to. But obviously, they need to leave enough time 00:16:55
to complete all the different sections to make sure that they will be assessed as fully as 00:17:02
possible. And at this level, the reading writing section is two hours and 10 minutes. And by the 00:17:08
way, there's an extra 10 minutes for the whole paper for the candidate to do their final check. 00:17:16
And in fact, they have to transfer their answers to an answer sheet unless they've been writing their answers on there from the start. 00:17:22
So that gives a bit more time for any final checking and to transfer any extra answers onto the answer sheet. 00:17:31
For speaking, we've mentioned it's a one to one arrangement and it also has four parts. 00:17:41
And at this level, the candidate and the interlocutor work together during the test and it lasts for 13 minutes. 00:17:48
By the way, for the written part of the exam, just to let you know, candidates will need to write their answers in pencil on the answer sheet. 00:18:01
OK, now let's have a little look at the assessment side of things, because I know you'll be interested in that. 00:18:11
So we start then looking at the writing. Now, the writing is assessed with these four assessment criteria for both different tasks. 00:18:19
So you will get 12 marks maximum for one task and 12 marks maximum for another. 00:18:33
And if you have a look here, we've got task fulfilment, accuracy, range of grammar, accuracy and range of vocabulary, followed by organisation. 00:18:40
And these are typical terms and focus on criteria that you would see in other exams, in fact. 00:18:54
And each one of these criteria attracts up to three marks. 00:19:01
So if somebody gets zero, it's usually because nothing has been presented or it's an insufficient sample. 00:19:06
If somebody gets one, it's below the standard. 00:19:16
If they get a two, it's to the standard. 00:19:20
And if they get a three, it's above the standard. 00:19:25
And by the way, listening and reading attract one mark each. 00:19:29
OK, so if you have a look here, this sort of then refers to raw scores and scaled scores. 00:19:41
So listening, reading, writing attract 26, 26, 24 in that order. 00:19:48
And these are then scaled up by language cert to be out of 50 per skill. 00:19:56
The overall total score the candidate needs to get to is 150. 00:20:03
And the the actual pass mark is 50 percent overall. 00:20:09
And you can see here that somebody will get a pass for 75 upwards, a high pass with 101 upwards. 00:20:16
And unfortunately, a fail if they attract between zero and 74. 00:20:24
OK, let's move on to the speaking. Example, so the speaking a little bit different in that the candidate is marked holistically across the whole performance throughout the task. 00:20:32
So they'll still have these four assessment criteria, a little bit different, obviously, because we're testing speaking. 00:20:47
Twelve marks in total that are possible. And as you can see here, zero, one, two or three marks are possible. 00:20:53
So following on from the writing comments, we would say if people get a zero, then it's an insufficient sample, fails to meet the task requirements. 00:21:00
If they get a one, it's below the standard, often too limited and fails to meet most requirements. 00:21:13
If they get a two, it's to standard. So mostly OK, but perhaps some limited control. 00:21:21
And then three is given where it's above standard performance in that criteria and showing effective or sufficient range and control and so on. 00:21:29
And just to remind you of this in the speaking side of things, you've got task fulfilment and coherence, accuracy, range of grammar, accuracy, range of vocabulary and then pronunciation, intonation and fluency. 00:21:39
OK. If you'd like to know a little bit more about the specifics for this particular level, 00:22:02
because there are different mark schemes for different levels, do have a look at our qualification handbook and some other documents I'll mention later. 00:22:09
But I've given you a sort of generic understanding, I hope, of what we're looking for. 00:22:17
OK, and then just one more word on the spoken exam. 00:22:23
As I mentioned, there are 12 marks maximum and this is scaled up by language cert to 50 and then it's a 50 percent pass rate. 00:22:27
So you've got a pass at 25 to 34, a high pass at 35 and above and a fail would be zero to 24. 00:22:38
OK, so let's have a look now at some examples of results and certificates. 00:22:49
So when you're looking at this, it's a generic sample here, but you can notice here that we have a listening, reading, writing sample. 00:22:56
And so the statement of results will give fail, pass, high pass information, but it will also give a results analysis per skill, which will be helpful for teacher, parent and pupil, hopefully. 00:23:07
And then everybody that passes each exam, the written or the spoken, will get a certificate showing they've got a pass or high pass. 00:23:22
Now, let's look in more detail at the actual tasks in the exam. 00:23:36
We're going to look skill by skill and task by task. 00:23:43
So, first of all, I'm not sure if you would have had time yet to look at any practice papers or indeed our qualification handbook. 00:23:50
But for B2 listening, we're looking at, as we mentioned, four parts with 26 items. 00:23:59
We've got very familiar types of items, multiple choice, filling in gaps, the sorts of things that you would be using in course book material with your learners anyway. 00:24:07
So they should be quite familiar with these sorts of things. 00:24:18
And if you look here at the breakdown for each part, you'll notice that in part one, the candidate in the listening section needs to listen to seven short, 00:24:23
unconnected conversations, and then they have to answer a multiple choice question about each. 00:24:38
And there are two speakers that they listen to within the conversation. 00:24:43
In part two, they need to listen to longer, unconnected conversations. 00:24:49
Three, in fact. And then they have to answer multiple choice questions to each, actually, per conversation. 00:24:56
And the conversation they listen to has two speakers in it again. 00:25:04
In the third part, they actually listen to one person speaking and they have to complete a notepad with seven gaps using one to five words. 00:25:08
We will come back to this, but wherever we designate a maximum number of words, candidates need to do their utmost to complete in the parameters. 00:25:21
So no more than five words and short answers are expected. 00:25:31
it. Part four is where there is a conversation on the same topic, followed by six multiple choice 00:25:36
questions. And again, this time, like with part one or two, you will hear some conversation with 00:25:45
two speakers. Now, when you do B2 listening, it takes about 30 minutes. And there's some really 00:25:51
useful audio recordings and transcripts available within our practice papers on our website. So do 00:25:59
have a look at those. Let's have a look now at some samples. What I've done is put together some 00:26:05
samples from each different part. But for space and time purposes, we may not always show every 00:26:13
single part of that section. But this will give you a good enough idea to start with. So if you 00:26:19
recall, in part one, they will hear some short conversations twice, and they need to complete 00:26:28
each conversation. And they do this by choosing A, B or C. OK, now let's look at part two. 00:26:35
So part two has conversations that they hear twice and they need to choose the correct 00:26:53
answers for each conversation. So here's just a sample, not the full set of questions or indeed 00:27:02
conversations at this level, but this just gives you an idea. And then in listening part three, 00:27:09
we mentioned there's a notepad. Well, this is a situation where the candidate will hear somebody 00:27:17
talking twice, and then they need to complete the information on the notepad. And as I said earlier, 00:27:26
They need to keep to very short answers of one to five words. 00:27:32
And if they want to write their answers on the question paper, they can. 00:27:38
But they need to remember to transfer them to the answer sheet. 00:27:43
And then here is an example of part four. 00:27:49
So for listening at B2 part four, the candidates will hear a conversation and they will hear it twice. 00:27:53
and they need to choose the correct answers from A, B and C. As you see here, here's some 00:28:01
typical ones. Okay, now let's have a look at reading. So if you have a look here, we mentioned 00:28:07
earlier there are 26 items and four parts, typically multiple choice, matching, filling 00:28:20
in gaps, there's the sorts of things they would have done when they're doing reading skills 00:28:29
practice in class, so nothing unusual we hope, and four parts follow in this way. So the first one 00:28:33
is a text followed by six multiple choice questions. Part two is where there's a text 00:28:41
with six gaps and then there are seven sentences to choose from to fill in those gaps and one of 00:28:49
Those is an extra one. In part three, the candidates will see four smaller texts and they need to read them to find out the answers to the seven questions. 00:28:56
So they're matching the questions to the text. And we'll have a look at that in a moment. 00:29:10
And then finally, they would look at a longer text with seven open ended questions. 00:29:16
So basically, they need to complete the section by answering between one to five words. 00:29:21
So no more than five words and a short answer is required. 00:29:32
So let's have a look at some actual examples from practice papers. 00:29:38
So this one is an example of part one B2 level. 00:29:42
So as we mentioned, they've got this text to have a look at and then. 00:29:47
Let me just show you the typical questions or multiple choice. 00:29:54
OK. And then in reading part two, remember, we said they have to use sentences that are given to them to complete the text and choose the correct one. 00:30:04
one, obviously, for each gap. There's an extra one. So here's the actual text. 00:30:21
And then just for space purposes, if we look on the next page, you'll see typical 00:30:28
statements that need to go back in the text, and there's always an extra one. 00:30:34
Okay, let's have a look at part three. Remembering we said there are four different pieces of reading 00:30:49
to do. So here you've got some samples. And then the candidate needs to look at these questions, 00:30:55
the seven questions, and answer which of those texts, A, B, C, or D, will answer these questions. 00:31:13
And then finally, you get a longer piece of reading. So this just gives you an example 00:31:27
at B2 of that and then if you have a look here the questions you have to answer you are required 00:31:33
to write a maximum of five words for each question. Okay now let's have a look at the 00:31:49
writing at this level. So at B2 level the candidate will have two tasks to complete, 00:32:04
both are mandatory. Part one will require them to write between 100 and 150 words and 00:32:11
in a more neutral or formal manner the audience, the person you're writing to will be clearly 00:32:20
specified in the question paper in the rubrics and they will need to cover three content points 00:32:29
which again are within the rubric. And then in the second piece of writing they do, 00:32:37
they need to complete 150 to 200 words and it's informal. 00:32:42
Again, they'll get a specified reader, whereas the first one is a public audience. 00:32:49
This one could be a friend or somebody else, but it's for an informal piece of writing. 00:32:56
And there'll be two points to cover in your piece of writing. 00:33:03
So let's have a look at some examples taken from our current practice papers. 00:33:09
So for the first part here, you've got to write a review. 00:33:15
Covering these three things and you get some information here to read first to help you. 00:33:22
And then here's a typical one for part two. 00:33:34
So here you're describing someone famous you'd like to meet, why you'd like to meet them and what you would like to find out from them. 00:33:38
Now, you'll notice here in particular, just in the example, you have some space for writing your answer. 00:33:47
Candidates need to be trained to remember that they can write anything they like here. 00:33:55
mind maps, bullet points, an original version, something they want to correct, but they must 00:34:02
transfer the final version to the answer sheet. The question paper will not be marked, only the 00:34:10
answer sheet. But there's plenty of space on this question paper for people to write things 00:34:17
that will help them focus, to get their ideas, brainstorm them, put them in an order, 00:34:22
but they must remember to put both final versions on the answer sheet in pencil. 00:34:28
OK, now let's move on to the spoken exam. 00:34:34
And if you recall, there are four parts, giving personal information, role playing, an interactive task and speaking about a topic chosen by the interlocutor. 00:34:39
And as we said earlier, it's a 13 minute exam. Now, let's look at some samples from our practice papers. 00:34:56
What I would like to point out to you is it might be a little bit different to what you used to with spoken samples and practice papers with other boards. 00:35:09
With us, the actual paper will show you the whole thing. 00:35:16
It will show you all the interlocutor instructions, the detail, the choices they might have. 00:35:21
But in the exam, the candidate will not see the exam paper. 00:35:27
OK, so every level starts with the interlocutor asking the candidate to spell their family name and to say which country they're from. 00:35:35
Then the candidate at this level will ask the sorry, the interlocutor will ask the candidate up to five questions, one from each set. 00:35:47
Now, we haven't got the full number of questions here just for space purposes, but you could get the area where you live, photography, money management, personal comfort, et cetera, et cetera. 00:35:58
And then there will be a number of questions and the interlocutor will choose one from up to from one from each of these topics up to five within the time, 00:36:11
because each section in this speaking test has to adhere to a certain timing for standardisation purposes. 00:36:22
But that's not for the candidate to worry about. That's something the interlocutor deals with. 00:36:30
And then let's have a look at a typical part two. So as you would recall, we're doing role plays in part two. 00:36:34
And the interlocutor will choose two situations. Situation A, which is an example where the interlocutor initiates discussion. 00:36:44
And a situation B, where the candidate initiates the discussion. 00:36:57
If there's any time which is entirely left up to the discretion of the interlocutor, there might be the opportunity to do a third situation, but everybody will do one situation A and one situation B. 00:37:05
And don't forget, by the way, throughout the role playing, the candidate is themselves. 00:37:22
It's only the interlocutor that's playing a role. 00:37:28
Now, let's have a look at an example of part three, which, as I mentioned, is an interlocutor candidate interactive task. 00:37:31
So they are exchanging information with each other. And in fact, it's a bit like a brainstorming, if you like, in that they're working together, making decisions. 00:37:44
They could be agreeing and disagreeing. Depends what what the task is asking you to do. 00:37:54
But there's no special way to do it. There's no magic answer. It's just working through the task sheets. 00:38:01
Now, if you notice here, the interlocutor will have a task sheet and they will give the candidate a different task sheet at this level. 00:38:09
the candidate will only see their task sheet and then once the activity has finished 00:38:19
the task sheet will be taken back by the interlocutor but just regarding the whole thing 00:38:31
the there is no choice with this task by the way there will be one particular rubric 00:38:37
so the interlocutor will read aloud the rubric and then they will give the candidate at this left 00:38:43
less at this level 20 seconds just to have a quick think about things and to have a look at the list 00:38:52
and then they will start together any time in fact with any of these tasks part one two three or four 00:38:58
if the candidate needs to ask a repetition or clarification they absolutely should feel 00:39:06
comfortable to do so because it's a normal effective part of communication so they mustn't 00:39:12
worry about that. Okay now let's have a look at a sample of part four. Now part four is like a mini 00:39:18
presentation for the candidate so they've got to present ideas about a topic in a logical way. 00:39:27
So the interlocutor will have a choice of three topics and based on what you as the candidate and 00:39:34
the interlocutor talked about already, and based on you as the candidate anyway, the interlocutor 00:39:43
will choose the most appropriate topic for you out of three options. So, for example, here they've got 00:39:50
in part four, you're going to talk about something for two minutes. Your topic is some festivals in 00:39:59
your country. Now, there's a procedure involved with this before you start speaking. So, the 00:40:05
candidate is given a piece of paper and a pen or a pencil and the interlocutor will repeat the topic 00:40:12
and then the candidate is given 30 seconds to think about what they're going to say and maybe 00:40:19
think about the order they're going to present it. The interlocutor will then tell them when to start 00:40:26
so they give their long term and then the interlocutor will thank the candidate and ask 00:40:33
some follow-up questions like these ones, which will be based on the same topic. Okay, so hopefully 00:40:41
that's given you a bit of an idea, a bit of a flavour of what tasks will come up. And as I 00:40:56
mentioned, I'll mention again in a moment that the practice papers are really handy to have a look at 00:41:04
from our website. So let's move on now to talk a bit further about how we can support you with 00:41:08
preparing your candidates for these B2 exams. So I've mentioned them a lot so far, but as you can 00:41:20
imagine, the practice papers are really, really handy when you're new to an exam, both you and 00:41:29
the candidate to have some reassurance to get familiar with what might come up, but also the 00:41:36
timings, the layout, the answer sheet and how that looks. So, you know, it's very helpful for you 00:41:42
to be able to look at these. You might want to do one as a mock. You might want to focus on the 00:41:50
time management side or exam etiquette tips with your candidates. Basically, the format is if you 00:41:55
have the written one, for example, you will have a question booklet. You'll have transcripts for 00:42:04
the listening, the audio recordings for the listening, which is great because you don't 00:42:10
always get those with practice tests, and there will be a key. Now that key is helpful actually 00:42:14
because, you know, we were talking about the maximum number of words. You can see just by 00:42:21
looking at the keys what we're asking for, the different alternative answers, and it might make 00:42:26
it clear for you and for the candidate to realise why it's not four sentences that are required 00:42:32
there. And most importantly, I would say is, if you look on the right hand side here, this sample 00:42:38
of an answer sheet, because the quicker they get used to what one looks like, the less stress 00:42:45
they'll be in the exam. Now, as we mentioned, if you're doing the written paper, you certainly 00:42:50
are at leisure to write on the question paper, anywhere on it, anything you need to, to help you 00:42:56
write your answers. But you must, as a candidate, leave enough time to put your answers on the 00:43:02
actual answer sheet. And as we mentioned, they have to be in pencil. To find out more about where 00:43:08
to look for this practice material, I'll just put a link direction if you like. So you go to the 00:43:17
preparation section of our website, then you look for practice material, and then you go to the 00:43:23
iESOL section. You'll find lots of useful information, including these practice papers. 00:43:30
In addition, there are some other very useful documents that will be helpful for you when you're preparing your learners. 00:43:35
So if you look at the front on the left here, first, the qualification handbook, there's a speaking one and a written one. 00:43:45
And everything you need to know about the assessment side is in there. 00:43:52
competencies for the level format and features assessment information topics that come up for 00:43:56
the level functions grammar items it's all in there also that are very helpful for you for 00:44:05
the written is the qualification overview and the written performance booklets and there'll be 00:44:13
sample scripts in there that you can have a look at and see how we mark and what we give the learner 00:44:19
and then the assessing speaking performance is also really helpful because it will give you 00:44:24
the descriptors and the mark schemes for the particular levels and then I highly recommend 00:44:31
the document on the right hand side preparing learners for the speaking exam because there 00:44:37
are activities assessment information examiner tips and extra practice papers as well so there's 00:44:43
a lot there. I think you'll find it all useful and you can access from the same place as I mentioned 00:44:50
with the practice papers. Okay, and then we move on to what to do next now that you've heard 00:44:57
this presentation. So we suggest that you watch and listen the seminar recording again. It will 00:45:07
be sent to the Consellera Educacion website, usually the day after the presentation, but 00:45:15
they're all up there for you to have a look at. You need, as we've mentioned, to look at the 00:45:23
practice papers and qualification handbooks on our website. There are lots of other materials 00:45:29
on our website, but we realise time is tight, so those are the most important ones. But you might 00:45:35
want to look at the FAQs, you might want to have a look at our YouTube channel and absolutely 00:45:40
the academic support team is here for teachers. So if you have any other academic questions 00:45:47
please do get in touch with Paul or myself, we are the academic support team. 00:45:54
Here are some key details for you, we've got the email address for Paul and myself at the academic 00:46:01
support team, the website address. And then if you're interested in seeing us or following us 00:46:09
on Facebook or LinkedIn, please do so. And on that note, I would like to say thank you so much 00:46:17
for your attention. And we will move over in a moment to any questions you've asked already. 00:46:27
And any you may wish to ask by putting them in the chat box now. 00:46:35
Thank you, Janet. 00:46:39
Thank you. 00:46:46
Letting you catch your breath after this session. 00:46:48
I'm going to take a quick lead in answering a few of the questions as I read them in the chat box. 00:46:51
The team is working. 00:46:57
I'm starting with the last one, which is, again, one of the logistic nature. 00:46:59
The team is working until quite late each evening. 00:47:03
So you can expect answers on logistical questions quite late in the afternoon. 00:47:07
and they're working hard to try and accommodate the various needs for the exam scheduling. 00:47:14
The adaptability of the exam materials, we've taken extra care to adapt the materials to the 00:47:23
age groups and the educational background of candidates. This is more of a case for the 00:47:30
12-year-old candidates for the primary school, but also for the 15-year-olds on the B2 level 00:47:37
that we're speaking about here today. 00:47:42
In the very common question, 00:47:48
we need to have an FAQ on this, Janet, 00:47:51
on the listening part three. 00:47:53
The people need to answer with three words. 00:47:56
Is that the one correct? 00:48:00
Wherever you've got your requirement of the words, 00:48:04
you need to stick to that. 00:48:07
I have checked that if you went over one word in either the reading section like this or the listening, that's OK, but no more than that. 00:48:08
So but it's absolutely the way those things are written. 00:48:19
It would absolutely be enough to produce that number of words. 00:48:23
So candidates need to get in the practice of supplying short answers to both reading and listening texts. 00:48:29
and in particular for this exam, for the ones that we ask them to look at. 00:48:37
Okay. 00:48:45
Another question that I can see here. 00:48:46
As Janet explained, the spoken part and the written part are completely independent exams. 00:48:49
So a candidate can receive the appropriate marks to pass one and not the other. 00:48:54
Obviously, in order to achieve the full level, they need to pass both exams and all four skills. 00:48:59
But the candidates will receive a statement of results for both parts of the exams with specific points on each of the criteria. 00:49:04
The 10-minute rules is usually announced by the invigilators as well as the 15-minute mark before the exam. 00:49:15
but we do suggest that you explain these things to the candidates so that they know what to expect 00:49:24
because one of the interesting things about this exam is that the candidate has the ability to 00:49:32
shift his or her time according to its own her own needs so they can use the 10 minutes 00:49:37
in any way they deem appropriate in reality i'm also just having a bear with me everybody 00:49:42
yes we will check with the 00:49:54
with the 00:49:59
about the links 00:50:01
and 00:50:03
resend it to all of you 00:50:06
the links for the webinar 00:50:07
or the links for the practice papers 00:50:11
no the links for the webinar 00:50:13
yeah 00:50:15
there's one certificate for writing and one for speaking 00:50:16
correct 00:50:19
we do not know 00:50:20
there's a there's a good question about the uh special request uh special considerations 00:50:23
request uh you did well to reach out to the team that has contacted you and also 00:50:30
reach to the community to the team there to speak to them about this i don't know if you 00:50:36
send it on time or what is anything specific about it but please send this information over 00:50:43
somebody's asking about spelling mistakes in listening or reading at this level it's actually 00:50:51
the same whichever level but um as long as we understand what you mean we're not testing writing 00:50:57
in those uh listening reading sections so you would still get the mark if it's the correct answer 00:51:02
even if it's felt incorrectly i just want to go back i've just got a practice paper in front of 00:51:09
me to do a listening part three and obviously it's one to five words so if you produced six words we 00:51:14
would give you the mark but there's a bigger picture here trying to train your learners to give 00:51:22
up to the number that we require and actually if you do it's a really good tip although I say so 00:51:27
myself if you get a chance to have a look at the keys for the practice papers on the website you'll 00:51:34
see some examples of this and you'll see most of the time it's one or two words that would make 00:51:40
quite enough sense to get the answer and that would apply also for the reading where you've 00:51:46
also got a requirement in part four to give in this case a maximum of five words so again look 00:51:51
at the keys and you'll see the type of not just the answer that's acceptable but the way it's 00:52:01
written how many words etc okay and in terms of um um in terms of the type of the writing essays 00:52:06
janet i don't know if you have a list of what it is just for um for me to the best thing to do 00:52:18
there's a combination with this so we gave you the overview but the best thing to do is look in the 00:52:26
writing handbook for the all the different genres but obviously don't forget we're also testing the 00:52:31
functional side of things and the ability to follow the instructions that cover the number 00:52:38
of points you need there's a really good exemplification in the qualification overview 00:52:42
just bear with me a minute just bear with me and you know it's a quick one to read it's not 00:52:49
something that's going to take you hours and hours so the qualification overview will help as well 00:52:59
albeit the handbook is a detailed document but i mean everything you need is in there but um 00:53:03
you know there's other documents like the assessing the writing performance that 00:53:10
you can have a look at and you'll see samples of what's asked about as well 00:53:14
i don't see any more questions maria teresa we have seen your request we'll try and 00:53:18
and have a look at this that's for computers 00:53:30
you do need to have equipment to play mp3s in each room that you're going to have listening 00:53:34
so i've got one here about the speaking part so in the speaking so part one part two and part 00:53:45
four the candidate doesn't choose it the interlocutor has the choice from a number of 00:53:58
items so obviously when people look at practice papers including candidates they can look at all 00:54:05
the options but in the exam they just need to listen to the examiner sorry the interlocutor 00:54:13
the only time they'll be given anything is the task sheet in part three but other than that they 00:54:20
just have to listen and they can ask a repetition or clarification any time in the test but it is 00:54:26
up to the interlocutor and the way we train them um is to facilitate guide and choose the most 00:54:33
appropriate questions for the person in front of them from the options they have i'm just checking 00:54:38
maris have you seen anything there's another question that if we allow teaching staff from 00:54:52
the schools to be in the in the examination rooms in general no is the answer 00:54:59
if there's something that some members of your staff come and help might be the case but in 00:55:04
general the teachers are not allowed in the in examinations room um i'm just oh yes somebody 00:55:12
mentioned is the spoken exam recorded yes it's audio recorded and then it's sent back 00:55:21
electronically to language 00:55:28
for markers to mark it. 00:55:30
So not video recorded, but audio 00:55:32
recorded. 00:55:35
And there's no extended 00:55:38
certification, so the candidate 00:55:40
does the B2 exam 00:55:42
will only get, if successful, 00:55:44
a B2 certificate or not. 00:55:46
They will not get a B1 00:55:48
or a C1. 00:55:49
Somebody's asked how many ticks 00:55:58
are there listed. I think you mean how many marks. 00:56:00
So it would be, in rule marks, it would be 26 00:56:01
it's because you've got and the same for readings you've got 26 marks for reading 26 for right 00:56:03
for listening but don't forget they get scaled up by language cert but the raw marks that you've 00:56:09
got 26 questions and there's a mark for each both for listening and for reading just checking 00:56:16
I think I've covered what I can see Maris I don't know if there's anything else you can see there 00:56:29
No, but I've spoken with many of the colleagues from the bilingual project, 00:56:35
so do send them questions or do send the team a question. 00:56:43
We're working hard to try and address them. 00:56:47
All questions that have to do with data protection, consent, the special considerations, 00:56:49
we'll work with the team to try and address all your questions. 00:56:57
I'm not 100% sure it's the last question. 00:57:07
if we're going to send the certificates and the statements to the schools? 00:57:09
I believe yes, but let me just double-check this for me to give you the appropriate and accurate information. 00:57:12
I think we tried our best to answer all the questions before passing the answers. 00:57:25
The students will not have extra paper. 00:57:31
They can use the exam paper to write their answers before they move into the answer sheet. 00:57:34
Yes. Use the question paper in whatever way would help you. 00:57:42
But remind the learners if they're not used to using answer sheets, they absolutely need to leave time. 00:57:47
Don't leave it all to the last minute because there's no way you could write your full versions of your writing task, for example, at the end. 00:57:54
So they need to find ways and strategies of managing their time effectively so they have all their answers on the answer sheet by the end. 00:58:01
Thank you very much all for your kind answers, your kind attention. 00:58:14
Yes, the kind of students need to bring their own pencils to the exams. 00:58:24
And as far as the equipment for the exams, you will speak with a team that will contact you on the logistics. 00:58:28
Essentially, a computer with some speakers or a device that you use for your listening file. 00:58:34
the team will come with USB sticks 00:58:42
to play the Epi3s. 00:58:45
Thank you very much all for your attention 00:58:53
and have a great evening. 00:58:55
Thank you everybody. All the best. Very good 00:58:57
luck to your learners. 00:58:59
Bye. 00:59:00
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