EFFORTLESS ENGLISH

PAPER TEST 01

Name: ………………………………….

Score: ……/10

Exercise 1: RULE 4: Listen to the audio and choose the best answer. (5 points)
1. What is rule number 4 about?
A. Learn deeply
B. Study phrases, not a single word
C. Do not study grammar rules
D. Learn with your ears, not with your eyes
2. How many times do you need to listen to English again?
A. One time
B. Two times
C. So many times until you can deeply understand it
D. No need to listen again
3. How do most schools teach English?
A. Teach slowly
B. Put a lot of pressure to go fast, fast, fast
C. Allow students to choose how to learn
D. No pressure on students’ learning style
4. Should we listen to the same lesson set for 2 weeks?
A. No, just one day only.
B. No, it wastes your time.
C. Yes, we need to learn by heart the lesson to prepare for the test.
D. Yes, we definitely should.
5. Should we focus on difficult vocabulary instead of common verbs?
A. No, we should not. We should focus on the most common verbs, the most common
vocabulary, the most common English.
B. Yes. Difficult words help you get a higher score in the speaking test.
C. No. It is more challenging to learn difficult words.
D. Yes. Using difficult words shows your wide range of vocabulary.
Exercise 2: Listen to the audio and fill in the blanks. (5 points)
I can read English well but my (1) _____________________. Why is this and how can I change
this?
What’s the reason for this? Schools. It’s the (2) _____________________ of learning. So in most
English classrooms, you learn mostly with your eyes. The teachers write English sentences on
the board, then you write them in your notebook. You’re reading a textbook (3) ____________.
When your teacher spoke English, maybe he or she spoke in your language a lot. For example, a
Japanese teacher might explain English but they would speak Japanese, and then explain (4)
_______________ using Japanese. So the problem is that in a normal English class, you’re
actually not listening too much English.
And then (5) ___________ when you go home, what kind of homework did you usually have?
Usually it was (6) _______________, right? Usually the teacher said, do this exercise in the
book, do this activity in the textbook. So you again we’re reading some kind of English and then
you were maybe writing something, and then you would give that to your teacher. For your
homework, (7) ___________, right? Lots of reading and writing eyes and hands, but not with
your ears.
The secret to speaking English well is to (8) ____________________. You have to learn with
your ears, not your eyes. You should be listening to English 80% of your study time. 80% of your
focus should be on English listening, not on reading. Now later, when you’re very (9)
__________ and you speak very well, you can do more reading, you can make the reading part,
a bigger part, but right now, as you’re trying to improve your speaking, you’ve got to focus a lot
on listening. You need to be listening to English (10) _________ per day.