Презентация "Международные экзамены по английскому языку"

Country and version of English

Structure of the exams

Level framework

Validity results

Exam Dates and Locations

Price exam

Country and version of English

IELTS (International English Language Testing System)

the United Kingdom

New Zealand

Australia

British English

TOEFL ( Test of English as a Foreign Language)

the United States

Canada

American English

Structure of the exams

Listening

TOEFL

IELTS

60 – 90 minutes

30 minutes

The recordings are heard only once.

The recordings are heard only once.

American accent

A range of accents: British, Australian, New Zealand, American and Canadian

Questions are not previewed before listening.

Multiple-choice questions

Test-takers make notes of what they listen to.

30 seconds to preview questions Test takers answer the questions while they listen.

Different question types (multiple choice, matching, diagram labeling, sentence completion, and short answer)

2-3 conversations students encounter in daily university life

4-6 university lectures.

4 recordings:

1 – a conversation between two people set in an everyday social context.

2 - a monologue set in an everyday social context

3 – a conversation between up to four people set in an educational or training context

4 - a monologue on an academic subject, e.g. a university lecture

Reading

TOEFL

IELTS

60 minutes

60 minutes

3-4 passages of academic content taken from university-level textbooks 

3 passages of general interest taken from books, journals, magazines and newspapers

Multiple-choice questions

Range of question types

( multiple choice, identifying information, identifying the writer’s views/claims, matching information, matching headings, matching features, matching sentence endings, sentence completion, summary completion, note completion, table ompletion, flow-chart completion, diagram label completion and short-answer questions)

Writing

TOEFL

IELTS

50 minutes

60 minutes

Typed using a keyboard

Paper-based

2 tasks

Task 1

2 tasks

Task 1

Integrated Writing

Describe some visual information (graph, table, chart, diagram) in your own words (describe and explain data, describe the stages of a process, how something works or describe an object or event)

Hear a short recording and read a short passage. Summarize and compare the information you got from these two sources.

150 words in 20 minutes

150-225 words in 20 minutes

Task 2

Task 2

Independent Writing

Write an essay in response to a point of view, argument or problem

Give your opinion on the given topic

250 words in 40 minutes

300 words in 30 minutes

Speaking

TOEFL

IELTS

20 minutes

11 – 14 minutes

Answered into a microphone

Recorded

Face to face with a single examiner

6 Tasks

On the same day as the rest of the test

Recorded

2 independent tasks

3 Tasks

On another day

Always the third part of the exam

Part 1  - the examiner will ask you general questions about yourself and a range of familiar topics, such as home, family, work, studies and interests. This part lasts between 4 and 5 minutes.

Answer opinion questions on familiar topics

A week before or after the rest of the test

Part 2  - you will be given a card, which asks you to talk about a particular topic. You will have 1 minute to prepare before speaking for up to 2 minutes. The examiner will then ask one or two questions on the same topic.

4 integrated tasks

Part 3  - you will be asked further questions about the topic in Part 2. These will give you the opportunity to discuss more abstract ideas and issues. This part of the test lasts between 4 and 5 minutes.

• Two integrated tasks: Read, listen, answer a question by combining information from the text and the talk
• The other two tasks: Listen, then answer a question about what you heard

Level framework

TOEFL

IELTS

0 -120 scores

0-9 band scores

Total score – sum

Reading 29

Total score – average

Reading 8

Writing 25

Listening 24

Writing 7

Listening 5

Speaking 25

Speaking 6

Total: 29+25+24+25=103.

Total: (8+7+5+6)/4= 6.5

Level framework

Location, Dates, Validity, Price

TOEFL

Location

IELTS

City: Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Vladivostok, Perm,

Dates

City: Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Voronezh

30-40 times a year

Validity

30-40 times a year

Two years

Price

Two years

260$

262$