Hello and welcome to Zenith corporate school English in today's lesson and we'll be looking at an overview
of the aisle to test so what is aisles aisles or the International English Language Testing System is
an international standardized test of English language proficiency for non native English language speakers
so if you want to work or study in a country where English is the language of communication for example
in the UK you need to take Iles.
It is also necessary for immigration So next let's look at who the test is for.
If you plan to enrol at a university or college apply to business organizations or register for a visa
from government agencies in countries such as the United Kingdom Australia New Zealand or Canada.
The ice tests can help you reach your education career or life goals
so let's get to the test both of you in detail out evaluates or checks your English on the basis of
receptive and productive skills.
The receptive skills are listening reading while the productive skills are writing and speaking so in
other words the listening and reading part.
How to show what you have the knowledge of English that you have in you and how you're able to understand
this language.
But the writing is the result part.
So you have to write and prove what knowledge you have and how you can apply them in writing and in
speaking.
The exam is both for the general test so those who are writing for the purpose of work.
That is the general test and academic test.
Those who are writing for study purposes though let's get to the full parts of the tests.
You are going to have listening for 40 minutes and you are going to have reading for 60 Minutes the
writing part also is for 60 Minutes whilst the speaking part is for 11 to 14 minutes depending on the
exam and the examiner and how long you take to speak in this course will be dealing mainly with the
speaking part the listening reading and writing part takes place on the same day of the test for the
speaking could be on a different day depending on your exam center
so let's look at the island band score.
What does it mean that band simply means the monks that are giving during except how are they calculated.
So all Ireland scores are between zero and nine.
You can also get a point five score.
For example seven point five or eight point five you will get a band score from each skill which are
listening reading writing and speaking and also you will get an overall score which is the average of
all the skills.
Let's look at a table and see an example.
So here we have listening.
Let's assume you took the exam and you have eight point zero in listening.
Seven point five in reading.
Eight point zero in writing an eight point zero.
In speaking the overall score would be the average of your listening reading writing and speaking so
when you add everything together and divide by four you will get approximately seven point eight.
So what happened is that these seven point eight will be rounded off to the nearest whole number which
is eight point zero so that is how the scores the eye advance course are calculated so let's see the
scores here.
We have scores ranging from five to nine and what they mean.
So nine means that you are an expert user you have a range of vocabulary you speak fluently with very
very low mistakes so you are an expert user and a is a very good user you have not so frequent mistakes
and you speak fluently too with a range of vocabulary seven is a good user you have frequent mistakes
but you have a range of vocabulary and you also speak fluently and six is a competent user five means
modest user so this means you have frequent mistakes your vocabulary range is not so much and you also
try to speak fluently so next let's look at that.
I'm speaking because in this course we'll be focusing only on the I speak in the speaking part consists
of Part 1 which is a brief introduction and conversation with Examiner Then you get to part to where
you are given a topic to speak on in one to two minutes you have one minute to prepare.
And part 3 which will be a discussion based on the topic you spoke about in Part 2.
So what next.
Now you know about the test.
It's time for us to begin our next aim is to muster Part 1 then part 2 and top 3 will take it step by
step so that when we are done you will be sure to perform excellently during the speaking test.
So in the next video we'll begin with one where we will master the vocabulary and that gets us Part
1 speaking for now.
Thank you very much for listening and see you at the next video.