1 00:00:01,330 --> 00:00:07,480 ‫Firstly, if you've been working through all the lessons in this course and you've made it to this point, 2 00:00:07,900 --> 00:00:16,780 ‫a big congratulations to you because you have made it to the final section of L7 seven plus so massive. 3 00:00:16,780 --> 00:00:17,900 ‫Well done to you. 4 00:00:18,610 --> 00:00:25,930 ‫We're now going to concentrate all our studying efforts on the Alps reading section of the Alps test. 5 00:00:27,050 --> 00:00:33,920 ‫As always, in the first lesson, we're going to learn exactly what the ALT'S reading test is. 6 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:41,540 ‫You'll understand the structure of the reading test and you'll also know some other basic information 7 00:00:41,540 --> 00:00:42,910 ‫about this section. 8 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:48,530 ‫So let's have a look at a quick description of what the reading test is. 9 00:00:49,610 --> 00:00:57,740 ‫The ALT'S reading test simply measures your ability to read in English by locating information quickly 10 00:00:58,070 --> 00:01:01,220 ‫and understanding parts of a text. 11 00:01:02,130 --> 00:01:11,280 ‫So overall, the ELT's reading test is judging your ability to comprehend and understand tax, as well 12 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:14,610 ‫as locate information in a text quickly. 13 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:22,740 ‫Let's take a look at the overall basic information of what makes up the ELT's reading test. 14 00:01:24,380 --> 00:01:29,510 ‫So the reading test, all in all, will take 60 Minutes to complete. 15 00:01:30,910 --> 00:01:37,930 ‫There are three sections to the ALT'S reading test and there are a mix of question types, but will 16 00:01:37,930 --> 00:01:41,880 ‫be going a lot more into detail for the question types later. 17 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:50,440 ‫Each section will have between 13 to 14 questions that will bring you up to a total of 40 questions. 18 00:01:51,010 --> 00:01:56,360 ‫You must finish and answer your questions in the 60 minute time frame. 19 00:01:56,740 --> 00:02:02,380 ‫And many students do find the time frame of 60 minute quite difficult. 20 00:02:03,980 --> 00:02:14,120 ‫Time management is a crucial skill in the reading test, as with all parts of the test, the time limit 21 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:22,190 ‫is very strict and all, although 60 Minutes seems like a long time, remember that you have 40 questions 22 00:02:22,340 --> 00:02:23,660 ‫that you must answer. 23 00:02:24,230 --> 00:02:30,050 ‫Of course, if you do not answer some of the questions, it only means you won't score marks for the 24 00:02:30,050 --> 00:02:31,610 ‫questions that you missed. 25 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:38,840 ‫You have 60 Minutes to answer all these questions, and that does mean you're going to have to work 26 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:40,010 ‫very quickly. 27 00:02:40,820 --> 00:02:47,600 ‫But with practice, it is possible to answer all the questions and complete everything within the 60 28 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:48,690 ‫minute time frame. 29 00:02:49,370 --> 00:02:55,820 ‫I'm now going to go into a bit more detail into exactly what you are tested on. 30 00:02:56,240 --> 00:03:00,770 ‫And there are two main skills that I am reading really focuses on. 31 00:03:01,460 --> 00:03:07,030 ‫The first is locating key information, and that's called skimming and scanning. 32 00:03:07,490 --> 00:03:12,990 ‫It may be that you are looking through a text for a specific date or keywords. 33 00:03:13,550 --> 00:03:20,480 ‫This is either to retrieve information or to work out what the part of the text is going to be talking 34 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:20,880 ‫about. 35 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:29,150 ‫For example, if you saw the words football and sports in a large piece of text, you'd understand that 36 00:03:29,150 --> 00:03:33,110 ‫the text was going to be talking about something related to sports. 37 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:35,630 ‫This is called skimming and scanning. 38 00:03:36,380 --> 00:03:42,230 ‫It also will test you on your comprehension and understanding of a text. 39 00:03:42,380 --> 00:03:44,750 ‫And I like to call this reading for detail. 40 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:53,420 ‫Now, you won't have to read through pages and pages of writing in the alts reading test, but you will 41 00:03:53,420 --> 00:03:58,340 ‫have to read short paragraphs so that you can fully answer questions. 42 00:03:58,700 --> 00:04:01,430 ‫Again, this is called Reading for detail. 43 00:04:02,090 --> 00:04:09,410 ‫So these are the two main skills that will be focusing on locating key information, skimming and scanning 44 00:04:09,830 --> 00:04:14,950 ‫and comprehension and understanding of a text which is reading for detail. 45 00:04:16,630 --> 00:04:24,460 ‫Now, in my experience, students get very worried, if not the most worried about their alts reading 46 00:04:24,460 --> 00:04:26,200 ‫section of the test. 47 00:04:27,090 --> 00:04:33,510 ‫I believe that in a similar way to the ELT's listening test, where you can practice and practice and 48 00:04:33,510 --> 00:04:41,070 ‫get better at the actual test skills, that child's reading is kind of the same because you can learn 49 00:04:41,070 --> 00:04:47,530 ‫how to answer certain questions types and improve your skimming, scanning and reading for detail. 50 00:04:48,210 --> 00:04:52,890 ‫That's what will be working on in the final section of this course. 51 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:59,610 ‫Well, that brings us to the end of our first lesson on Alt's reading in the next lesson will be looking 52 00:04:59,610 --> 00:05:01,440 ‫at how you are scored. 53 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:02,450 ‫See you there.