LISTENING SECTION terdiri atas empat bagian, yaitu:
Part I : Pictures
Part II : Question and Responses
Part III : Short Conversation
Part IV : Short Talks
READING SECTION terdiri atas tiga bagian, yaitu:
Part V : Incomplete Sentences
Part VI : Error Recognition
Part VII : Reading Comprehension
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Part I
Pictures/ Photograph
• Types of Statements in Pictures
– Characteristics:
• The statements are often in the present continuous
• The statements often use pronouns instead of names
• The statements are brief, rarely more than 6 words
• Contractions are often used
• The definite article the is often used.
• Test Focus
– Looking for the main idea
• Main idea describes what is happening
• Present Continuous and Simple Present frequently used
• Authentic material (pictures from newspaper, magazine, photographs) is preferred
– Distinguishing similar sounds
• Words that sound similar at the beginning
– Personal personnel
– Magnet magnate
– Respectively respectfully
– Than then
– Devise device
• Words that sound similar at the end
– Hand brand
– Cab tab
– Large charge
– Pay say
– Place pace
• Words that sound similar when combined with other words
– (They are) They’re their
– (He will) He’ll hill
– (We will) we’ll wheel
– Making assumptions
• An assumption what might happen next moment
• The action is not seen but can be guessed from the pictures
• Various structures that show future time might are used
• Structure for the future tense:
– The auxiliary will + the base form of verb
– The verb be going to
– The phrase be about to
– To infinitive
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Part II
Question Response
• To select the best response to a question
• Types of questions:
– Wh- questions
– Yes / No Questions
• Test Focus
– Distinguishing Wh- questions and Yes/No Question
– The response to Yes/No question is not always yes or no, but “no idea”, “not sure”.
• Identifying homophone
– Homophones: words that sound alike, but different meaning and spelling
– Distinguished not by pronunciation but by meaning in a context
• Ad (advertisement) and Add
• Did you see the ad in today’s paper?
• Did you add these numbers correctly?
• Board (leaders of a firm) and Bored (uninterested)
• The board is meeting in the conference room
• Everyone got bored at the meeting
• Recognizing Negative Meaning
– Negation: making meaning of a statement negative
• Not not all never nor not at all
• No neither not ever nobody no one
Part III
Short Conversation
• Conversation: A B A
• Types of Questions:
– The questions are often very short
• Who is talking?
• Where are they?
– The questions often ask for information
• When is the man’s vacation?
• What does the client want?
– The questions are often in simple past, simple present or present continuous
• Where are they going?
• Why did he leave the office earlier?
• Test Focus
– Listening for the main idea
• What are the speakers planning to do?
• Where are the speakers?
• Why did they move the vase?
– Understanding Wh- questions
• Mr Domingos left a message to the secretary
• Who left the message
• We should discuss the latest sales report
• What did they have to discuss?
• Test Focus
– Understanding modal verbs
• A Modal can express necessity, ability, possibility, obligation, conclusion, or intention.
– Can, could: ability, permission, possibility
– Will, would: intention
– Should: obligation, intention
– Must: obligation, necessity, conclusion
– May, might: possibility, permission
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Part IV
Short Talk
• A Short Talk is a monologue, and followed by two to three questions
• Types of questions:
– General questions
• Who is speaking?
• Where is the talk being given?
• What is the discussion all about?
– Specific questions
• How long will it take to Jakarta from Bandung by bus?
– Inference questions:
• What will happen next?
• How much do you have to pay if you buy 2 kilos of sugar?
• Understanding the whole context is very important to answer questions about main idea/general questions
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Part V
Incomplete Dialogue
• Test about grammar and vocabulary in the form of dialogue
• Test focus:
– Understanding affixes (prefixes and suffixes)
– Recognizing time maker
– Understanding the passive voice
– Identifying the correct prepositions
– Using relative pronouns
– Synonyms and antonyms
– Subject and verb agreement
– Pronouns
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Part VI
Error Recognition
• To identify an error from the four parts underlined and marked with A, B, C and D
• Focus on:
– Recognizing subject and verb agreement
– Using the correct verb tense
– Maintaining correct adjective placement
– Recognizing compound and complex sentences
– Identifying pronouns
– Understanding conjunctions
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Part VII
Reading Comprehension
• Kinds of passages:
– Advertisements
– Articles
– Time table
– Charts/graphs
– Calendar
– Forms
– Invoice
– Business / Travel documents
– Letters
– Fax
– Memos
• Types of questions:
– General / main idea questions
• The article agrees that …..
• The author believes that….
– Detail questions:
• What, who, when, where, how many, how much…
– Inference questions:
• What does the author imply?
• What do you think…?
– Purpose questions:
• Why was the letter written?
• What is the purpose of the memo?
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