Bruno Carvalho & Jhony Balisa

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 Open Classes Schedule

• 27/04 Session 1 – General Tips + FAQs

• 25/05 Session 2 – Reading & Listening

• 15/06 Session 3 – Writing

• 29/06 Session 4 – Speaking

• 06/07 Session 5 – Ideas to boost your confidence

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 Your tutors
Jhony Balisa has been working in education for 10 years.
He holds the C2 – Proficiency and CELTA certificates from
Cambridge Assessment English. He has worked as an
English teacher, coordinator, and educational consultant.
He currently works as an educational specialist at CNA.

Bruno Carvalho is an educational specialist at CNA.

He holds a B.A. in Languages, the C2 – Proficiency
and CELTA certificates from Cambridge Assessment
English. He has experience of over 10 years in English
Language Teaching.
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 To better enjoy this session

• Remember to take notes

• Make sure your microphone is on mute
• Use the chatbox to ask questions to our moderator and tutors
• Don’t forget to drink water/coffee/tea

• Find a comfortable place and limit distractions around you

• Avoid multitasking. Really listen
• Be respectful
• A link will be available for all the resources at the end of this session
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Reading & Listening – Before the test

Reading & Listening – Overview

Listening – During the test

Reading – During the test

Reading & Listening – Wrap up

Final considerations
Reading & Listening – Before the test
Listening Tips
• Listen for pleasure:
Streaming platforms: movies, TV
series, Podcasts, interviews, music,
TV programs, etc.
• Guided study
CNA Net, CNA regular classes,
CNA extra activities, use English to
talk to your classmates and
teachers, etc.
Reading Tips
• Read for pleasure:
Books, the News, follow your
favorite celebrities’ social media
accounts, magazines, short stories,
etc.
• Guided study
CNA Net, CNA regular classes,
CNA extra activities, create a
vocabulary journal,
Reading & Listening – Before the test

Guided test study

Take mock tests to get familiar with the
listening test format
Try to learn from
your mistakes.
 Reading & Listening – Quiz
1 Remember, Linguaskill is / isn’t an adaptive test. Some questions might be easier and some more difficult.

2 If you don’t know an answer to a question, never / always leave it blank.

3 You can / cannot change your answer to any question on the same screen.

4 You can / cannot go back to a previous screen, except for the writing test.

5 The reading / listening test is first and the reading / listening test is second.

6 There will / won’t be either a progress indicator or a timer on the screen.

7 The more / fewer questions you answer, the better. That’s why it is important to keep a good pace.
Reading & Listening test – Overview

Adaptive - Artificial Intelligence technology Fast results –

within 72 hours
 Listening test

In Linguaskill, you can click play when you’re ready and

you can listen twice
 Listening - Listen and select
• Read the instructions carefully before listening.
• Look at all the pictures attentively OR read the answers
carefully before playing the audio track. You can listen
twice.
• Listen for the first time and choose the correct option.
With pictures
• Listen again and check your answer.
• Be mindful of distractors. What are they?

A distractor is when an alternative

but incorrect answer is included in
the recording.

Without pictures
 A: Right, so, you need to book
some flights, is that right?
B: Yes, for me and my family.
We’re going to Scotland for
my sister’s wedding.
A: Oh, lovely! When’s the
What date will they leave? wedding?
B: It’s on 21st July.
a) 18th A: That should be wonderful,
but I assume you’ll want to fly
b) 19th in earlier? What about
the 20th or even the 19th?
c) 20th B: It will have to be the 18th.
d) 21st I’ve actually got to attend a
special dinner on the 19th.
During the listening test – Extended listening
Candidates listen to a longer recording and answer a series of multiple-choice questions based on it.
The questions are in the same order as the information they hear in the recording.

• Read the instructions and the answers carefully before

listening.
• Look out for key words in questions and options
• Don’t freeze up if you miss some information.
• Try to grasp what differentiates one answer from the
others.
• Listen for the first time and choose the correct option.
• Listen again and check your answer.
• Be mindful of distractors. Key words of each
alternative may be mentioned in the audio.
 Attention!
Hearing a word in the alternative doesn’t mean this
is the correct one. You need to focus on the detail of
the extract
Reading test
 Reading – Read and select
Candidates read a notice, label, memo or letter containing a short text and choose the sentence or
phrase that most closely matches the meaning of the text. There are three possible answers.

• Quickly read the text to understand the overall

meaning
• Identify the pieces of information in the text
• Carefully read through the options
• Eliminate the ones you’re sure do not sumarize the text
• Pay close attention to the option you chose and check
if it covers all pieces of information in the text
 Reading – Gapped sentences
Candidates read a sentence with a missing word (gap) and choose the correct word to fill the gap.
There are three or four choices for each gap.

• Read the entire sentence to understand the overall meaning

• Check if you can identify the answer even before seeing the options
• Choose the option which best collocates with another word in the
sentence
• If unsure, decide which options are clearly wrong
• Before submitting, read the sentence to make sure it sounds correct
 Example of collocation

Even though I ran as fast as I

could, I ________ the bus

a) Lost
b) Took
c) Got
d) Missed
 Reading – Multiple-choice gap-fill
Candidates choose the right word or phrase to fill the gaps in a text. There are three or four choices
for each gap.

• Quickly read the text ignoring the gaps to get a • Pay attention to the surrounds of the gap.
general understanding • If unsure, decide which options are clearly wrong
• Try to think of what word could fit in the gap before • Before submitting, read the sentence to make sure it
checking the alternatives sounds correct
 Reading – Open gap-fill
Candidates read a short text in which there are some missing words (gaps) and write in the missing
word in each gap.

• Quickly read the text ignoring the gaps to get a general

• Watch out for spelling mistakes
understanding
• If your answer is a verb, make sure the verb agrees with
• Try to think of what part of speech could
the subject (e.g. She HAS –not She have)
fit the gap (e.g. a verb, a noun, an adjective, adverb etc)
• Don’t leave any unanswered gap
• Write only one word.
 Reading – Extended reading
Candidates read a longer text and answer a series of multiple-choice questions. The questions are in
the same order as the information in the text.

• Read the text quickly to get a general

understanding of what it’s about
• Read the questions and try to answer them
without looking at the options.
• When reading the questions, spot for key
words.
• Look at the options to see which best matches
your own answer
• Check that the other options are clearly wrong.
 Reading and Listening – Wrap Up
1 Remember, Linguaskill is /isisn’t an adaptive test. Some questions might be easier and some more difficult.

2 If you don’t know an answer to a question, nevernever

/ always leave it blank.

3 You can /can

cannot change your answer to any question on the same screen.

4 You cancannot
/ cannot go back to a previous screen, except for the writing test.

5 The reading / listening test is first and the reading

listening / listening test is second.
reading

6 There will will

/ won’t be either a progress indicator or a timer on the screen.

7 The more / fewer questions you answer, the better. That’s why it is important to keep a good pace.
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