ENGLISH TODAY NATIVE TEACHER AGENCY JAKARTA

General English

English Today's General English Course consists of four language skills:

Listening measures the ability to understand short conversations and longer talks in English as it is spoken in North America. This section tests comprehension of main ideas, supporting ideas, important details, and inferences. You will both see and hear the questions before the answer choices appear.

Structure measures the ability to recognize language that is appropriate for standard written English. The language tested is formal, rather than conversational. When topics have a national context, they refer to US or Canadian history, culture, art, or literature. However, knowledge of these context is not needed to answer the questions.

Reading measures the ability to understand short passages similar in topic and style to academic texts used in North American colleges and universities. You will read a variety of short passages on academic subjects and answer several questions about each passage.

Writing measures the ability to write in English on an assigned topic. This include the ability to generate and organize ideas, to support these ideas with examples or evidence, and to compose in standard written English a response to the assigned topic. You will not have a choice of topics and you must write on the topic you are assigned. You must choose whether to type your essay on the computer or to handwrite on the answer sheet provided.