CAEL Preparation 125

Contents

1-0 Overview

1-1 CAEL Assessment Overview

Reading

1-1 Reading: Format and Content

1-2 Skills Overview

1-3 Key Reading Strategies

1-4 Reading 1: Forecasting Consequences

1-5 Reading 2: Forecasting Benefits

Use of English

1-1 Editing Abbreviations and Symbols

1-2 Common Errors #1

1-3 Common Punctuation Problems

Listening

1-1 Listening: Format and Content

1-2 Skills Overview

1-3 Key Listening Strategies

1-4 Lecture

Speaking

1-1 OLT: Format and Content

1-2 Skills Overview

1-3 Speaking Strategies for the OLT

1-4 Task 1: Speaking Skills

1-5 Task 1: Make a Short Presentation

Writing

1-1 Writing: Format and Content

1-2 Key Writing Strategies

1-3 Essay Structure Overview

1-4 CAEL Essay Checklist

1-5 Timed Essay Writing

1-6 Sample Essay

Contents

2-0 Overview

Reading

2-1 Skills: Predicting and Identifying

2-2 Reading 1: Zebra Mussels

2-3 Reading 2: Pest Control Methods

Use of English

2-1 Fragments and Run-on Sentences

2-2 Sentence Variety

2-3 Common Errors #2

Listening

2-1 Skills: Predicting and Identifying

2-2 Lecture

Speaking

2-1 Task 2: Relay Lecture Information

2-2 Task 2: Speaking Skills

Writing

2-1 The Outline

2-2 The Thesis Statement

2-3 Timed Essay Writing

2-4 Sample Essay

Contents

3-0 Overview

Reading

3-1 Reading Skills: Understanding

3-2 Reading 1: A Shield to Earthly Life

3-3 Reading 2: Ozone Hole Debate

Use of English

3-1 Commonly Misspelled Words

3-2 Common Errors #3

3-3 Control of Verb Tenses

Listening

3-1 Listening Skills: Understanding

3-2 Lecture

Speaking

3-1 Task 3: Speaking Skills

3-2 Speaking Task 3: Academic Document

Writing

3-1 Body Paragraphs

3-2 Paraphrasing and Quoting

3-3 Timed Essay Writing

3-4 Sample Essay

Contents

4-0 Overview

Reading

4-1 Skills: Summarizing and Synthesizing

4-2 Reading 1: Motivation – An Overview

4-3 Reading 2: Motivation Theory

Use of English

4-1 Transitions: Types of Conjunctions

4-2 Academic Writing Register

4-3 Common Errors #4

Listening

4-1 Skills: Summarizing and Synthesizing

4-2 Lecture

Speaking

4-1 Tasks 4 and 5: Speaking Skills

4-2 Task 4: Quote from an Academic Text

4-3 Task 5: Explain a Choice

Writing

4-1 Transitional Devices

4-2 Conclusions

4-3 Timed Essay Writing

4-4 Sample Essay