What is a Training Plan?
- It is a series of logically connected exam preparation tasks that you complete during the time you set for yourself.
- The Plan offers you virtual help at every stage, in every activity by experienced examiners.
- Each step forward builds on the experience and knowledge you have gained during the steps already completed.
Key Components for the Training Plan
1. Individual Sample Tasks with Exam and Preparation Tips (Task&Tips)
One of the key components of your Training Plan, is that you familiarise yourself with each exam task at your level. You should carefully study all the tips, suggestions and warnings you are given, BEFORE you try an exam task for the first time. Why?
Because...
- all the tips were written by teacher-examiners, who know both the exam tasks and the exam candidate students;
- every writing genre (email, essay, online comment, online article and review) has a separate sample task with specific tips about that genre;
- you can download the Task&Tips files to your mobile device, and then complete some of them without printing them, others by printing them.
And because...
- you can study the format and language of task instructions, which are the same in real exam tasks;
- the layout of the exam tasks is the same as in the paper-based exam for realistic exam practice and self-check (just a bit more colourful and attractive);
- despite being downloadable, the files are also easily printable, too, to best simulate the exam format.
And because the Tips help you to...
- use the most approriate and most successful approach, strategy to complete each task;
- organise your thinking about a task;
- focus on specific language forms (grammar and vocabulary) which may be important to understand or produce language effectively;
- find the best materials for your preparation.
2. Interactive E-Learning Course in 4 parts
This award-winning e-learning course, already tried and tested by more than 150 thousand learners, offers you intensive, yet often entertaining skills deveopment plus exam practice in reading, writing, listening and speaking. It works similarly to an exam preparation coursebook, but in a much more user-friendly online platform.
The e-learning course helps you to:
- try one real exam task of each test (e.g Reading) for that level;
- develop your writing abilities with several awareness-raising tasks, activities;
- develop the skills (e.g. reading for overall meaning, listening for specific information, telling a story in past tenses etc.) needed to complete an exam task;
- study and take advantage of practical exam- and preparation tips, added to the often amusing tasks;
- receive reliable feedback from experienced examiners on your writing, if you complete and upload you text in the course platform.
Click on the E-Learning Course button below if you wish to find out more detailed features of the 4-part E-learning Course.