Hello, #Vivers! Many students who take the Selectivity or the different access tests that we prepare take the English exams. The foreign language, in addition, is core throughout the entire secondary and high school educational section. Today, our English teacher, Sandra, will try to summarize, in 7 keys, some of the most important guidelines to be able to improve your grade in the English exams, whether you are a student in secondary school, baccalaureate, Selectivity EvAU, EBAU or PCE UNEDasiss, or access to Vocational Training cycles.
The 7 keys to improve in the EBAU or PCE UNEDasiss Selectivity English exams, access tests, secondary or baccalaureate
Tackling the study of the subject of English can be very easy if we use all the tools at our disposal. Luckily, we are very influenced by English thanks to music, cinema, or advertising; which will offer us many sources from which to acquire vocabulary and grammatical structures.
1. Grammatical structures
The first thing we must try to improve and acquire are precisely the gramatical structures. We will study them, and then we will try to fix them by performing exercises like the ones we propose in class and in the Virtual Classroom. There are also many pages where we can do exercises online and get the answers immediately.
2. Create sentences
It will also help us to try to create sentences using these new structures.
3. Increasing our vocabulary will help us a lot when preparing our Selectivity English exams
Another essential part of learning English is increasing our vocabulary. For this task it will be crucial that we try to stimulate our curiosity, and look in the dictionary for all the new words that appear in any area of our life. This can happen by watching a series in its original version, reading an article on a social network, playing video games or talking to a foreigner while we are traveling.
4. Create a vocabulary notebook
A good method to retain them is to write them down in a vocabulary notebook. This must be an individual tool and, to be truly useful, we must be constant. As for dictionaries, nowadays it is no longer necessary to have huge dictionaries at home, we can search for words the moment they appear with our mobile phones, if we have an internet connection. There are many online dictionaries, such as the Collins English Dictionary, which is a good option. However, I advise against the use of translators such as Google Translator, since didactically they do not offer us many possibilities for improvement.
5 Read
As we mentioned at the beginning, we can expand vocabulary through numerous ways such as watching series and movies in English, or by listening to music in English, but we must not forget that the most effective way is by reading. We can read readings graded by levels, newspaper articles or magazines on the Internet, without forgetting the exam models that will help us become familiar with argumentative texts. The last step to strengthen the learning of a new word is to try to use it, so it will be important to create your own texts whenever possible.
6. Improving our written expression is very important in our English Selectivity exams
In fact, another essential part of learning English is improving our written expression. We must try to ensure that our written text is separated by paragraphs of introduction, development and conclusion (we emphasize it because it is the most important of all). When we are asked to write, the first thing we must do is organize our ideas in a diagram, relating them to each other and ordering them hierarchically. By this we mean distinguishing whether an idea is primary, secondary or tertiary and whether these ideas give rise to others.
For example, the statement mobile phones are very useful It would be a primary idea that would need an explanation, some arguments that support it, that is, the secondary ideas. To find these arguments we must ask ourselves the reason for our statement. Thus, a possible secondary idea would be: They allow us to access large amounts of information in a matter of seconds and communicate with our peers immediately.. Tertiary ideas are usually examples that help us in our explanation: Numerous applications such as WhatsApp or Google Maps make our work and personal lives easier on a daily basis..
Position Why?
- Statement –> Explanation –> Example
7. The 4 c's
Let's make sure that the text maintains the 4 c's: coherence, cohesion, clarity and concision. Coherence means that it makes sense and is related to the topic at hand. By cohesion we mean that the text is united, that the ideas are well linked to each other thanks to the use of connectors and linking phrases, in short, that we have a feeling of unity when reading it even though we can distinguish different parts. It is also important that our text conveys clarity, that it is understood and that it does not go around the bush or be repetitive, that is, that it is concise. It will be very helpful for us to read texts similar to those we will have to create to familiarize ourselves with the structure that we must emulate.
We hope that this article has been useful to you and that it helps you so that your EvAU / EBAU / PAU or PCE Selectivity English exams, FP, secondary or baccalaureate access tests become increasingly successful.
If you want to put all these tips into practice, visit our page exam models. In it you will find EvAU / EBAU / PAU or PCE English selectivity exams from recent years with which you can practice and test your knowledge. And if you want to be up to date with the latest news about our school and the activities we carry out, visit our the profile of Instagram. See you at the Academy!
