The document provides an agenda and summary for an English language learning meeting. The agenda includes discussing English language testing, examples of accepted exams, and the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. It also covers parts of speech, including adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. Examples and exercises are provided for each part of speech. The document aims to improve participants' understanding of English grammar.

1. Basic English Grammar For English
Language Learners
Meeting #7
Hery Yanto The
English 3.0 Series, Summer 2012
July 9, 2012

2. English
Language
Testing
Meeting
#7
Part of
Speech II
AGENDA

3. Part I
English Language Testing

4. Examples of Widely Examples of Other
Accepted Exams Quality Exams
• Cambridge ESOL • Michigan Proficiency
Examinations Exams
• Test Of English for • Trinity College London
International Exams
Communication (TOEIC) • The Global TESOL
• Test of English as a Foreign Certificate
Language (TOEFL)
• Harvard Institute for
• International English
Language Testing System
English Language
(IELTS) Program
Types of English Language Testing

5. One of the admission One of the job
requirements qualifications
Why I have to take a language exam/testing?
Photo used from Univ. of Birmingham and Tesolexpressonline

6. • Design based on specific need of students/learners (job
qualification, university enrollment, etc.)
• Center the teaching and learning to skills and discourse
based on the need
• Ambiguity: English Testing Training is an ESP OR the
ESP should be added to the English Testing Training
• Known as English as a Foreign or Second Language, and
English for Academic Purposes
• Usually the learners are adults, and they are at the
intermediate or advanced levels
English for Specific Purposes (ESP)

7. Contents Strategies
English Testing Training Institute

8. • Level A – Basic User
• A1 – Beginner
• A2 – Elementary
• Level B – Independent User
• B1 – Intermediate
• B2 – Upper Intermediate
• Level C – Proficient User
• C1 – Advanced
• C2 – Mastery
Common European Framework of
Reference for Languages (CEFRL)

9. IELTS Bands

10. TOEFL iBT Scores

11. - The university
My score requires 5.5 for
Support
form IELTS.
institution? - The university has
an English
Life Long Training Program.
Learning? - I will continue to
- I got 5 for my IELTS. improve my
- I had difficulty on listening skill by
understanding watching movies.
conversations used in
the test.
- I am planning to apply Decision
to a university in the
UK next year.
My Score = Self Reflection + Make Decision

12. Part II
Part of Speech … Continue

13. • Adjectives modify nouns and pronouns by answering questions such as Whose?
Which one? What kind? How many?
• Adjectives should be close to the words they modify. Frequently, they appear
before the noun the noun they modify.
• The pop star was driving along the Freeway in his luxury car when
police pulled him over.
• In an ideal situation, John would play 20 or 25 minutes off the bench.
• Descriptive adjectives, designate qualities or attributes, may come before or after
the noun or pronoun they modify for stylistic reasons.
• Subject complements are adjectives that describe the subject and follow linking
verbs.
• The sick and poor lady no longer believed the drug could save her
life.
• The lady, sick and poor, no longer believed the drug could save her
life.
• No longer believing that the drug could save her live, the lady was
sick and poor.
Adjectives

14. • The woodpecker and the squirrel
seem hungry.
• They take good care of the little
cubs.
• My younger brother Chung is
short and cute.
• The downtown has colorful
building.
• He wrote a wonderful story.
Underline the adjectives

15. • The woodpecker and the squirrel
seem hungry.
• They take good care of the little
cubs.
• My younger brother Chung is
short and cute.
• The downtown has colorful
building.
• He wrote a wonderful story.
Solution: Underline the adjectives

16. • Adverbs modify verbs, other adverbs, and adjectives.
• Adverbs usually end in –ly.
• Adverbs can be placed at the beginning or end of a
sentence, or before the verb they modify, but they usually
should not be placed between the verbs and its direct
object.
• Normally it doesn’t rain much here.
• He is interested in writing generally.
• She had never sung better.
• Consequently, he is still running the business.
Practice Test:
http://www.examenglish.com/grammar/b1_adverbs.htm
Adverbs

17. Photo used from esl-galaxy
Free Download:
English Prepositions List from
EnglishClub.Com
Brighton is south of London.
The floor under the table.
The train went through the tunnel.
I am behind you on this thing.
Function:
To allow the noun or pronoun in
the phrase to modify another word
in the sentence.
Prepositions

18. • Your book is in the desk drawer.
• Mr. Jones went to the post office with
his wife.
• Kenneth looks like his mother.
• We can meet at three.
• I heard the news from the radio.
Underline the preposition

19. • Your book is in the desk drawer.
• Mr. Jones went to the post office with
his wife.
• Kenneth looks like his mother.
• We can meet at three.
• I heard the news from the radio.
Solution: Underline the preposition

20. • Conjunctions join words, phrases, or clauses and indicate their
relation to each other.
• Coordinating conjunctions join elements of equal weight or function.
• He was strong and healthy.
• The boys must have been tired, for they had been cleaning all day
long.
• Correlative conjunctions link sentence elements of equal value, but
they always come in pairs.
• Neither you nor I will go there today.
• He is not only an excellent professor, but also a well-known
researcher.
• Subordinators link sentence element that are not equal importance.
• Although I love you, I will not marry you.
• As if that is going to be of any use to me!
Practice Tests:
http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/conj01.html
Conjunctions
http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/conj02.html
http://a4esl.org/q/h/9901/gc-
connectives.html

21. • Expressions – Verbal communication
• They are not used in academic or business English,
except in a quotation of dialogue.
• Wow, that was amazing, Donny!
• What you have to do is just click, hold, drag, and drop it
here. You see how it works? Wii, pretty easy doesn’t it?
Interjections

22. • Oops…we forgot to bring
umbrella.
• Oh my, the game will be delay
because of the rain.
• Hurray, give the player a cheer!
• Wew! Finally you made it!
Underline the Interjections

23. • Oops…we forgot to bring
umbrella.
• Oh my, the game will be delay
because of the rain.
• Hurray, give the player a cheer!
• Wew! Finally you made it!
Solution: Underline the Interjections

24. • Send an email to the facilitator for enrolling to the course.
Write your full name and your country of origin. For
example: Ahmad Faisal, Nigeria.
• The facilitator email address is herythe@hotmail.co.uk
• Star to learn from the course website:
http://basicenglishgrammar.weebly.com
• Help us to improve the lesson/course by filling out a
survey here: BEG Survey
Closing Notes