SERIES GUIDE Use this guide as a quick reference to the contents of Study English Series CRITERIA EPISODE Episode One IELTS Assessment Criteria Episode Two Writing Task Response TASK RESPONSE/ QUESTION TYPES writing criteria checklist; band descriptors analysing writing task 2; strategies; writer’s position; essay topic areas Episode Seven The Speaking Test Episode Ten Vocabulary for Speaking LEXICAL RESOURCE GRAMMATICAL RANGE AND ACCURACY PRONUNCIATION writing criteria checklist; band descriptors speaking criteria checklist; band descriptors writing & speaking criteria checklist; band descriptors (W & S); word forms writing & speaking criteria checklist; band descriptors (W & S); quantity words overview; speaking criteria checklist; band descriptors introductory paragraph: guidelines synonyms sentence types: simple, compound, complex nominal groups; nominalisation; apposition question tasks, topics and requirements for writing task overview of the interview; topics; sample questions Episode Eight Speaking Fluently Episode Nine Speaking Coherently FLUENCY AND COHERENCE essay & paragraph structure; TS, SS, DS sentences; transition & reference words/ phrases; linking ideas; synonyms Episode Three Coherence and Cohesion in Writing Episode Four Sentence Types Episode Five Vocabulary Range Episode Six Question Tasks and Topics in Writing COHERENCE AND COHESION topic vocabulary: health, media preparing notes (Part of the interview) using fillers; speaking smoothly and continuously language functions: disagreeing, summarising, comparing, contrasting (Part of the interview) language functions: expressing an opinion, speculating, giving a suggestion cause, effect and result language structures grammatical structures (Part of the interview) topic vocabulary: health emphasising a point transition and reference words; conjunctions for linking ideas; verb tenses (Part of the interview) circumlocution; clarification word forms; synonyms, opposites & hyponymy; collocations; formal/ informal language word stress Page of CRITERIA EPISODE TASK RESPONSE/ QUESTION TYPES COHERENCE AND COHESION FLUENCY AND COHERENCE LEXICAL RESOURCE Episode Eleven Grammatical Range in the Speaking Test GRAMMATICAL RANGE AND ACCURACY structures for comparing & contrasting; dependent prepositions using intonation to express meaning; rhythm & sentence stress Episode Twelve Intonation Episode Thirteen Reading Skills and Question Types Episode Fourteen General Training Reading Episode Fifteen Listening for Signpost Words Episode Sixteen Listening for Numbers Episode Seventeen Talking about Festivals and Celebrations Episode Eighteen Labelling and Describing an Object Episode Nineteen Labelling a Flow Chart Episode Twenty Giving examples PRONUNCIATION skills: scanning, previewing, skimming, identifying main ideas; question types – strategies skills: scanning, recognising synonyms/paraphras es, following instructions; question types – strategies signpost words in conversations, talks, discussions, lectures numbers in different contexts cause-effect language organising a talk in Part of the interview skills: skimming, scanning, using language clues; question types skills: skimming, scanning, listening for specific information; understanding sequencing; question types signpost words and phrases functions of signpost words & phrases practise identifying signpost words written & spoken forms of measurements using numbers practise listening out for numbers topic vocabulary: festivals, celebrations words & expressions for describing objects, maps & other pictorial information active/passive structures language features for describing processes & procedures; active/ passive structures extending your answers in the interview words & phrases for giving example grammatical structures for giving examples practise identifying words & phrases to introduce examples Page of CRITERIA EPISODE TASK RESPONSE/ QUESTION TYPES COHERENCE AND COHESION FLUENCY AND COHERENCE Episode Twenty One Talking about the Family Episode Twenty Two Talking about Holidays and Leisure Time Episode Twenty Three Talking about Food Episode Twenty Six Giving Advice GRAMMATICAL RANGE AND ACCURACY topic vocabulary: family relations question types in Part of the interview question types in Part of the interview answering questions in Part of the interview topic vocabulary: holidays, vacation, leisure time answering questions in Parts & of the interview topic vocabulary: food, meals checking cohesion in your writing checking spelling topic vocabulary: giving advice PRONUNCIATION practise identifying family relations gerunds & infinitive verbs forming words using prefixes, suffixes; compound words; changing word forms Episode Twenty Four Word Formation Episode Twenty Five Grammar Checklist LEXICAL RESOURCE practise identifying prefixes and suffixes checking your writing for common grammar & punctuation errors grammar for giving advice: verb tenses, modals, conditional Page of