Proficiency Testbuilder [antikvár]

THE PROFICIENCY TESTBUILDER The Proficiency Testbuilder is more ttian a bool< of Practice Tests. It is designed not only to enable students to practise doing tests of exactly ttie kind ttiey will encounter in ttie exam itself, but also to provide them with valuable further practice, guidance and explanation.This will enable them to prepare thoroughly for the exam and increase their ability to perform well in it. The Proficiency Testbuilder contains: Four complete Practice Tests for the Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English These tests reflect the level and types of question to be found in the real exam. Further Practice and Guidance pages These follow each paper or section of paper of each test. For Reading Comprehension, Use of English and Listening Comprehension, they contain exercises, questions and tips directly related to each paper or section. These encourage students to draw their own conclusions as to what the answers in the test should be.Their step-by-step approach enables students to develop and apply the right processes when answering questions in the exam. For Composition and for Use of English Section B they contain suggestions and assessments of authentic sample compositions and summaries. For Interview, there is practice in talking about pictures and passages, exercises for vocabulary development and suggestions for useful language. Key and Explanation This contains full explanations of every answer in the Tests and Further Practice and Guidance pages, together with a great deal of further information relevant to them. For questions where candidates must choose from a number of options, there are highly detailed explanations not only of the correct choice but also of why the other choices are incorrectThere is also a guide to examiner's assessment criteria for papers 2 and 5 on page 176. How to use the Proficiency Testbuilder Teachers and Students who have the edition with key can use the book in these ways: • Simply follow the instructions Clear directions are given as to the order in which to do things, enabling you to work through the book page by page. If you do this, you: 1 Complete the whole of or a section of each Paper, perhaps under exam conditions. 2 Complete the Further Practice and Guidance page or pages which follow this. 3 Return to the relevant part of the test and check, and possibly change, the answers given, as a result of what has been learned from doing the Further Practice. • Vary the order You may wish to do some of the Further Practice and Guidance pages before answering the questions to which they apply or immediately after them, rather than completing the whole paper or section first. In addition, teachers may wish to do the Further Practice and Guidance pages as discussion or painwork, or ask students to prepare them before class.