EFFORTLESS ENGLISH

PAPER TEST 01

Name: ……………Trần Tâm Đan…………………….

Score: ……/10

Exercise 1: RULE 4: Listen to the audio and choose the best answer. (5 points)
1. What is rule number 4 about?
A. Learn deeply
B. Study phrases, not a single word
C. Do not study grammar rules
D. Learn with your ears, not with your eyes
2. How many times do you need to listen to English again?
A. One time
B. Two times
C. So many times until you can deeply understand it
D. No need to listen again
3. How do most schools teach English?
A. Teach slowly
B. Put a lot of pressure to go fast, fast, fast
C. Allow students to choose how to learn
D. No pressure on students’ learning style
4. Should we listen to the same lesson set for 2 weeks?
A. No, just one day only.
B. No, it wastes your time.
C. Yes, we need to learn by heart the lesson to prepare for the test.
D. Yes, we definitely should.
5. Should we focus on difficult vocabulary instead of common verbs?
A. No, we should not. We should focus on the most common verbs, the most common
vocabulary, the most common English.
B. Yes. Difficult words help you get a higher score in the speaking test.
C. No. It is more challenging to learn difficult words.
D. Yes. Using difficult words shows your wide range of vocabulary.
Exercise 2: Listen to the audio and fill in the blanks. (5 points)
I can read English well but my (1) __speaking is bad___. Why is this and how can I change this?
What’s the reason for this? Schools. It’s the (2) ________traditonal old way_____________ of
learning. So in most English classrooms, you learn mostly with your eyes. The teachers write
English sentences on the board, then you write them in your notebook. You’re reading a
textbook (3) ______all the time______. When your teacher spoke English, maybe he or she
spoke in your language a lot. For example, a Japanese teacher might explain English but they
would speak Japanese, and then explain (4) ______English grammar_________ using Japanese.
So the problem is that in a normal English class, you’re actually not listening too much English.
And then (5) ______is worse_____ when you go home, what kind of homework did you usually
have? Usually it was (6) ______reading homework_________, right? Usually the teacher said,
do this exercise in the book, do this activity in the textbook. So you again we’re reading some
kind of English and then you were maybe writing something, and then you would give that to
your teacher. For your homework, (7) _____lots of eyes______, right? Lots of reading and
writing eyes and hands, but not with your ears.
The secret to speaking English well is to (8) ________develop great listening____________. You
have to learn with your ears, not your eyes. You should be listening to English 80% of your
study time. 80% of your focus should be on English listening, not on reading. Now later, when
you’re very (9) _____advance_____ and you speak very well, you can do more reading, you can
make the reading part, a bigger part, but right now, as you’re trying to improve your speaking,
you’ve got to focus a lot on listening. You need to be listening to English (10) ____at least one
hour_____ per day.