English Language Test Preparation

for Graduate Students

1. Course Description
This course is designed for graduate students who are preparing to take the English
test. It focuses on getting students to practice skills needed to achieve higher score.

2. Learning Objectives
1. To help students improve their English Listening and Speaking Skills for the test.
2. To help students revise functions and essential grammar points regularly in the
test.
3. To equip students with effective skills and strategies needed to undertake the test
with confidence.

3. Course Duration
 18-hour

4. Course Outline
No. Topic Lesson Hour

 Listening practice through a variety of questions

1. Listening and conversations (Short conversations and long 3
talks/monologues)
 Tips to improve and expand vocabulary
2. Vocabulary  Vocabulary guessing from context clues 3

 Structures such as Tenses, Part of Speech, Subject-

Verb Agreement, If Clauses, Passive Voice, Past &
3. Grammar Present Participles, Gerund & Infinitive, etc. 3
 Cloze structure
 Error detection
 Skimming and scanning techniques
4. Reading  Finding the Main Idea techniques 6
 Reading question types
 Interview
5.  1-minute speech
Speaking 3
 Extending answers
 Pronunciation
Total 18

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18-HOUR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEST PREPARATION FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS COURSE SYLLABUS