PTEA RR Academic Connections L1

PTE Academic
Recommended Resources
Academic Connections Level 1
Pearson Longman, 2010
April 2012
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PTE Academic Recommended Resources
Introduction
This resource provides guidance for teachers preparing learners for PTE Academic. It maps each Unit of Academic Connections
Level 1 to subskills and communicative skills tested in PTE Academic. Using this guide, you can feel confident that you are providing
targeted skills development and item type-focused practice for your test takers.
The map has the following features:
Subskills and communicative skills

tested in PTE Academic
Unit name and skill focus
Unit 1
Pages
PTE Academic subskill

and communicative skill
PTE Academic items where this skill

is tested
Psychology:
First
impressions
and
attraction
2-3
using words and phrases

appropriate to the context
(Speaking)
Speaking: Describe image

Speaking: Re-tell lecture
Speaking: Answer short question
3-7
identifying the topic, theme

or main ideas (Reading)
Reading: Multiple choice, choose single answer

Reading: Multiple choice, choose multiple answers
Reading: Re-order paragraphs
Reading: Reading: Fill in the blanks
Reading: Reading & writing: Fill in the blanks

Listening: Highlight correct summary
Main ideas and

supporting
details
7-8
identifying supporting points or
examples (Reading)
Page location of practice activities
Item types where the subskill is tested
The page numbers are in approximately sequential order, but where a subskill is practiced at several points in one Unit these pages are
usually grouped.
The content of each Unit of Academic Connections has been designed so that learners will develop their language across the four
skills, and the integrated task (Speaking or Writing) that concludes each Unit builds on and synthesizes information and skills from the
entire Unit. Extracting individual activities or sub-sections in isolation is therefore not recommended, as the input material will often be
located earlier in the Unit.
A full description of the Academic Connections course books is available at the publishers website: www.longmanhomeusa.com
Academic Connections Level 1 can be purchased at: www.amazon.com
Each level of Academic Connections is supported and extended online, using the Access Code supplied with the book and the
Course Code provided to learners by you, the teacher. Learners and teachers register and login at www.MyAcademicConnectionsLab.
com. Each Unit has an online Checkpoint at regular intervals, extra practice activities, quizzes, and homework. You can login to the
Instructor section of the site and assign materials to the course schedule that reinforce the subskills taught. Students login and complete
the activities according to the schedule. Learners may also use MyAcademicConnectionsLab for self-study.

To supplement the materials in Academic Connections Level 1, you will find helpful material in the following publications:
Focus on Grammar: an integrated skills approach, Level 3. Marjorie Fuchs, Margaret Bonner, Miriam Westheimer, 3rd ed.
Pearson Longman, 2005
Contemporary Topics. Introductory. Cynthia Lennox, Jeanette Clement, 3rd ed. Pearson Longman, 2009
First Steps in Academic Writing. Longman Academic Writing Series, Level 2. Ann Hogue, Pearson Education ESL 2008
From Reading to Writing 1. Lynn Bonesteel, Pearson Longman 2010
Focus on Grammar: an integrated skills approach, Level 2. Irene E. Schoenberg, Pearson Longman 2005
How to teach listening. JJ Wilson, Pearson Longman, 2008
How to teach speaking. Scott Thornbury, Pearson Longman, 2005
Tips for Teaching Pronunciation: A Practical Approach. Linda Lane, Pearson ESL, 2010
Note: The indicated levels of the Academic Connections course books follow the publishers suggested levels.

Overview of PTE Academic

PTE Academic is a computer-based test of academic English, designed to provide information about the English language level of
test takers who wish to study or work in an English-speaking environment. It takes approximately three hours to complete, and is
administered in a single session. Test takers respond to between 70 and 91 individual tasks, across 20 different item types, in the four
communicative skills of speaking, writing, reading and listening.
Test takers register for a test and can view their results online. However, they must go to a test center to sit the test, under secure
conditions. PTE Academic uses automated scoring, providing greater reliability. Scores are usually available within five days, and test
takers indicate the programs that they wish their results to be sent to, after which the recognizing institutions securely download the
PTE Academic scores.
PTE Academic has three parts, with an introduction and optional break:
Part
Content
Time allowed
Intro
Personal Introduction
Not scored
Part 1
Speaking & Writing
77 93 minutes
Part 2
Reading
32 41 minutes
Optional Break
Break
10 minutes
Part 3
Listening
45 57 minutes
The item types in PTE Academic are:
Speaking
Writing
Reading
Listening
Read aloud
Summarize written text
Multiple choice, choose

single answer
Summarize spoken text
Repeat sentence
Write essay

multiple answers

multiple answers
Describe image
Re-order paragraphs
Fill in the blanks
Re-tell lecture
Reading: Fill in the blanks
Highlight correct summary
Answer short question
Reading and writing: Fill in

the blanks
Multiple choice, choose single

answer
Select missing word
Highlight incorrect words
Write from dictation
The score on each individual item

contributes to the overall score as well
as to scores on relevant communicative
skills. For speaking and writing tasks,
scores also contribute to the enabling
skills scores (grammar, oral fluency,
pronunciation, spelling, vocabulary,
written discourse). A typical score report
gives detailed information to test takers
and recognizing institutions.

Each item type tests a range of language subskills, which are mapped in this guide to activities in Academic Connections Level 1.
The PTE Academic subskills are:
Speaking
Writing
The speaking skills tested in PTE Academic include the

following:
The writing skills tested in PTE Academic include the

following:
speaking for a purpose (to repeat, to inform, to explain)

reading a text aloud
supporting an opinion with details, examples
and explanations
organizing an oral presentation in a logical way
developing complex ideas within a spoken discourse
using words and phrases appropriate to the context
using correct grammar
speaking at a natural rate
producing fluent speech
using correct intonation
using correct pronunciation
using correct stress
speaking under timed conditions
writing for a purpose (to learn, to inform, to persuade)

supporting an opinion with details, examples
and explanations
organizing sentences and paragraphs in a logical way
developing complex ideas within a complete essay
writing a summary
writing under timed conditions
using words and phrases appropriate to the context
using correct grammar
using correct spelling
using correct mechanics
taking notes while reading a text
synthesizing information
communicating the main points of a reading passage
in writing
taking notes while listening to a recording
communicating the main points of a lecture in writing
writing from dictation
communicating the main points of a reading passage
in writing
writing to meet strict length requirements
Reading
Listening
The reading skills tested in PTE Academic include the

following:
The listening skills tested in PTE Academic include the

following:
identifying the topic, theme or main ideas

identifying supporting points or examples
identifying a summary
identifying words and phrases appropriate to the context
identifying a writers purpose, style, tone or attitude
identifying the relationships between sentences and paragraphs
understanding academic vocabulary
understanding the difference between connotation
and denotation
inferring the meaning of unfamiliar words
comprehending explicit and implicit information
comprehending concrete and abstract information
classifying and categorizing information
following a logical or chronological sequence of events
evaluating the quality and usefulness of texts
reading a text under timed conditions
evaluating and synthesizing information
reading for information to infer meanings or find relationships
reading for overall organization and connections between
pieces of information
identifying specific details, facts, opinions, definitions or
sequences of events
matching written text to speech

identifying the topic, theme or main ideas

summarizing the main idea
identifying supporting points or examples
understanding academic vocabulary
inferring the meaning of unfamiliar words
identifying words and phrases appropriate to the context
comprehending explicit and implicit information
comprehending concrete and abstract information
classifying and categorizing information
following an oral sequencing of information
forming a conclusion from what a speaker says
predicting how a speaker may continue
identifying errors in a transcription
identifying a speakers purpose, style, tone or attitude
inferring the context, purpose or tone
comprehending variations in tone, speed, accent
identifying specific details, facts, opinions and definitions or
sequences of events
identifying the overall organization and connections between
pieces of information
evaluating and synthesizing information
Academic Connections and PTE

Academic Map
Level 1 High Beginner to Low Intermediate
CEFR Level A2 to B1
Unit 1
Pages


is tested
Psychology:
First
impressions
and
attraction
2-3

(Speaking)

3-7
identifying the topic, theme or

main ideas (Reading)

7-8

examples (Reading)

4-8
understanding academic
vocabulary (Reading)
Speaking: Read aloud

Listening: Highlight incorrect words
9-10

(Speaking)

10-11

main ideas (Listening)
10-11

(Listening)
Listening: Summarize spoken text

Listening: Multiple choice, choose multiple answers
Listening: Multiple choice, choose single answer
Main ideas and

supporting
details


Listening: Select missing word
Unit 1
Pages


is tested
10-11
taking notes while listening to a

recording (Writing)
12-13

examples (Listening)

vocabulary (Listening)
Speaking: Repeat sentence

Listening: Fill in the blanks
Listening: Write from dictation
13-17
writing for a purpose (to

learn, to inform, to persuade
(Writing)
Writing: Write essay
13-17
supporting an opinion
with details, examples and
explanations (Writing)
13-17
organizing sentences and

paragraphs in a logical way
(Writing)

13-17

(Writing)
(Writing)
Writing: Summarize written text
9-13
16-17


Unit 2
Pages


is tested
Ecology: The
web of life
20
27-28
identifying words and phrases

(Reading)

Organizational
structure
21-23
28-32


21-23
28-32
identifying the relationships

between sentences and
paragraphs (Reading)

20-23

23-26


28-32

examples (Reading)

22-26


Unit 2
Pages


is tested
30-31
taking notes while reading a

text (Writing)
32-33

recording (Writing)
34-36
speaking for a purpose (to

repeat, to inform, to explain)
(Speaking)
34-36
organizing an oral presentation

in a logical way (Speaking)

34-36

(Speaking)



Unit 3
Pages


is tested
Health:
Stress and
health
38-40
47
48-49

(Speaking)

40-47


41-44


41-47

45
56-57
taking notes while reading a

text (Writing)
49-51

49-51
summarizing the main ideas

(Listening)

48-53
Coherence and
cohesion



Unit 3
Pages


is tested
51-52
following an oral sequencing of

information (Listening)

51-52


52-53


53-58

learn, to inform, to persuade)
(Writing)
53-58
53-58

(Writing)
47
53-58

(Writing)



10
Unit 4
Pages


is tested
Literature:
Folktales
60-61

(Reading)
Summarizing
61-62
72-74
identifying a summary (Reading) Reading: Multiple choice, choose single answer

63-64

(Listening)

63-66
64

recording (Writing)
65-66


65-66


67-72


67-74




11
Unit 4
Pages


is tested
70-71
75
following a logical or
chronological sequence of
events (Reading)

74-78

(Speaking)

74-78


75-78

(Speaking)


12
Unit 5
Pages


is tested
Chemistry:
Green
chemistry
80-81
83-84

(Reading)
82-83
95-97
(Writing)
83-89

85-87


85-87


88-89
comprehending concrete and

abstract information (Reading)

89-93


89-93

90
92

recording (Writing)
Synthesizing
information


13
Unit 5
Pages


is tested
93-94
classifying and categorizing

information (Reading)
94-97

(Writing)
94-97
94-97

(Writing)

94-97

(Writing)
Unit 6
Pages


is tested
Art history:
The art of
Marc Chagall
100-103

102
105-108
classifying and categorizing

information (Reading)

102
105-108
evaluating the quality and

usefulness of texts (Reading)

102
105-108
identifying a writers purpose,

style, tone or attitude
(Reading)
Fact and
opinion




14
Unit 6
Pages


is tested
103-108

103-104
following a logical or
chronological sequence of
events (Reading)

104-105


108-110


108-112

110-112
identifying a speakers purpose,

(Listening)

110-112



15
Unit 6
Pages


is tested
112-114
explanations (Speaking)

112-114

(Speaking)

112-116

(Speaking)
Unit 7
Pages


is tested
Marketing:
Niche
marketing
118-119

(Reading)

120
126-129

(Listening)

120-125
identifying a writers purpose,

(Reading)

120-125

examples (Reading)

120-125

Purpose


16
Unit 7
Pages


is tested
125-126


125-130

128-129
comprehending variations in
tone, speed, accent (Listening)

130-136

(Writing)
130-136

(Writing)
130-136

(Writing)



17
Unit 8
Pages


is tested

141-144

140-144


140-144
comprehending explicit and

implicit information (Listening)

140-144
forming a conclusion from what Listening: Multiple choice, choose multiple answers
a speaker says (Listening)
140-144

(Listening)

144-147


Communication: 138-139
Nonverbal
communication
Inference

18
Unit 8
Pages


is tested
144-149

144-147
comprehending explicit and

implicit information (Reading)

148-149
inferring the meaning of

unfamiliar words (Reading)

150-153

(Speaking)

150-153

(Speaking)

150-153
using correct stress (Speaking)

150-153
using correct intonation

(Speaking)

150-153
producing fluent speech

(Speaking)


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Subskills and communicative skills

Unit name and skill focus

PTE Academic subskill

PTE Academic items where this skill

using words and phrases

Speaking: Describe image

identifying the topic, theme

Reading: Multiple choice, choose single answer

Reading: Multiple choice, choose single answer

Main ideas and

Page location of practice activities

Item types where the subskill is tested

PTE Academic Recommended Resources

PTE Academic Recommended Resources

Overview of PTE Academic

Speaking & Writing

The item types in PTE Academic are:

Summarize written text

Multiple choice, choose

Summarize spoken text

Multiple choice, choose

Multiple choice, choose

Fill in the blanks

Reading: Fill in the blanks

Highlight correct summary

Answer short question

Reading and writing: Fill in

Multiple choice, choose single

The score on each individual item

PTE Academic Recommended Resources

The speaking skills tested in PTE Academic include the

The writing skills tested in PTE Academic include the

speaking for a purpose (to repeat, to inform, to explain)

writing for a purpose (to learn, to inform, to persuade)

The reading skills tested in PTE Academic include the

The listening skills tested in PTE Academic include the

identifying the topic, theme or main ideas

PTE Academic Recommended Resources

identifying the topic, theme or main ideas

Academic Connections and PTE

PTE Academic subskill

PTE Academic items where this skill

using words and phrases

Speaking: Describe image

identifying the topic, theme or

Reading: Multiple choice, choose single answer

identifying supporting points or

Reading: Multiple choice, choose single answer

Speaking: Read aloud

using words and phrases

Speaking: Describe image

identifying the topic, theme or

summarizing the main idea

Listening: Summarize spoken text

Main ideas and

PTE Academic Recommended Resources

Speaking: Re-tell lecture

PTE Academic subskill

PTE Academic items where this skill

taking notes while listening to a

Listening: Summarize spoken text

identifying supporting points or