1 00:00:00,620 --> 00:00:04,730 So let's now move on to dates. 2 00:00:06,060 --> 00:00:06,420 Right. 3 00:00:06,450 --> 00:00:14,160 Another skill that you need for Section one is the ability to hear and write down a date correctly. 4 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:18,460 And also, of course, spell the moth that they're referring to. 5 00:00:19,090 --> 00:00:22,320 So you can write a date in different ways. 6 00:00:22,330 --> 00:00:27,040 You can write it as third March, March, third, March, third, three March. 7 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:29,970 1985. 8 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,180 Very often they'll say 1985 that way. 9 00:00:33,940 --> 00:00:37,240 2014, sometimes you'll hear it as 2014. 10 00:00:37,660 --> 00:00:43,330 So it's important to be familiar with the different ways the numbers are set or the dates are set and 11 00:00:43,330 --> 00:00:44,950 the numbers and dates are set. 12 00:00:45,130 --> 00:00:47,170 So let's go through a practice. 13 00:00:48,070 --> 00:00:49,300 Practice number one. 14 00:00:49,990 --> 00:00:54,250 I want you to listen to the audio and write the date that you hear. 15 00:00:57,710 --> 00:01:01,400 Test one training dates. 16 00:01:02,690 --> 00:01:03,620 One. 17 00:01:04,710 --> 00:01:08,760 The first day of the course is the 21st of September. 18 00:01:13,390 --> 00:01:14,320 To. 19 00:01:15,460 --> 00:01:19,690 I was born on the 1st of February, 1986. 20 00:01:25,490 --> 00:01:26,510 Three. 21 00:01:27,540 --> 00:01:32,100 I have an appointment with Dr. Andrews on the 31st of March. 22 00:01:38,270 --> 00:01:39,260 For. 23 00:01:40,460 --> 00:01:44,450 We're getting married in December on the 14th. 24 00:01:51,590 --> 00:01:52,760 Five. 25 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:57,830 I will fly into New York on the 11th of January. 26 00:02:04,790 --> 00:02:05,810 Six. 27 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:10,900 You need to come for an interview on the 7th of August. 28 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:16,170 Okay. 29 00:02:16,210 --> 00:02:18,010 Let's move on to practice that two. 30 00:02:23,700 --> 00:02:30,690 Training test one listening part one useful language times and dates. 31 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:35,460 Exercise four Listen and write the times or dates you hear. 32 00:02:36,930 --> 00:02:37,620 One. 33 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:42,800 He'll be arriving on the 3rd of August. 34 00:02:49,450 --> 00:02:53,620 So the classes are in the evening from 515 until 630. 35 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:05,200 And the last time the building was inspected was May 18th in 2018. 36 00:03:11,830 --> 00:03:16,300 If you're planning to travel to Queenstown, I'd suggest you go in autumn. 37 00:03:16,330 --> 00:03:18,760 The countryside is so beautiful. 38 00:03:25,180 --> 00:03:29,620 The course starts on March the 18th and runs until July the 27th. 39 00:03:32,550 --> 00:03:33,300 Six. 40 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:37,640 And the date for delivery. 41 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:41,240 Let me say it would have to be on the 8th of February. 42 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:45,160 Okay. 43 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:47,320 So here are the answers for practice. 44 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:50,830 Set one and practice set to 21st. 45 00:03:50,830 --> 00:04:00,850 September 1st, February 31st, March 14th, December 11th, January August 7th. 46 00:04:00,850 --> 00:04:03,310 Practice set two August 3rd. 47 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:06,700 515 is number two. 48 00:04:06,730 --> 00:04:08,620 May 18th is number three. 49 00:04:08,650 --> 00:04:10,210 Autumn is number four. 50 00:04:10,750 --> 00:04:15,190 July 27th is five and six is February 8th. 51 00:04:16,540 --> 00:04:16,760 Right. 52 00:04:16,790 --> 00:04:22,810 So one thing that you notice is when I'm writing the dates or the answers for the dates, you don't 53 00:04:22,810 --> 00:04:24,490 have any prepositions. 54 00:04:25,360 --> 00:04:27,580 Don't write prepositions. 55 00:04:27,970 --> 00:04:35,650 You don't have to say the 21st of September, because if you do that very easily, you can violate the 56 00:04:35,650 --> 00:04:38,730 minimum amount of words, right? 57 00:04:38,740 --> 00:04:47,200 If if the directions, say, write one word and or a number and you write the 21st of September, you 58 00:04:47,200 --> 00:04:48,850 have written three words. 59 00:04:49,180 --> 00:04:51,220 So don't write prepositions. 60 00:04:51,220 --> 00:04:53,740 Don't write articles is not necessary. 61 00:04:53,740 --> 00:04:54,700 Don't do it. 62 00:04:55,330 --> 00:04:55,460 All right. 63 00:04:55,510 --> 00:04:56,560 We have a question. 64 00:04:58,590 --> 00:05:02,880 You cannot abbreviate because Luna they are testing spelling. 65 00:05:04,270 --> 00:05:09,130 Remember that that was the first that was the first law to ask me the question. 66 00:05:09,490 --> 00:05:13,630 We can write can we write Jewel or Sep for July or September? 67 00:05:13,630 --> 00:05:18,280 And I've told I just told Luna, remember, the first thing that we tested was spelling. 68 00:05:20,020 --> 00:05:20,410 Right. 69 00:05:20,410 --> 00:05:26,410 So they need to see that you can spell September, not abbreviate September. 70 00:05:26,410 --> 00:05:28,870 You cannot abbreviate any answers. 71 00:05:28,900 --> 00:05:30,040 I take that back. 72 00:05:30,430 --> 00:05:37,540 If you're writing something like meters, you can put M or kilometers you can put k m those are the 73 00:05:37,540 --> 00:05:41,470 those are the only exceptions when you're dealing with that with that situation. 74 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:43,030 Good question. 75 00:05:43,270 --> 00:05:44,830 A lot of people ask that question. 76 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:50,470 But, you know, what you're asking to do is a violation of the first skill that they test, which is 77 00:05:50,470 --> 00:05:51,070 spelling. 78 00:05:51,310 --> 00:05:51,670 All right. 79 00:05:51,670 --> 00:05:55,570 So now we get to move on to measurements, right? 80 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:59,380 Listen to the sentence and write the number that you have heard. 81 00:05:59,380 --> 00:06:02,050 You're going to have to write down measurements, which are also numbers. 82 00:06:02,470 --> 00:06:06,880 But very often in section one, you have to write some type of measurement. 83 00:06:08,050 --> 00:06:11,170 You go right 25 meters or you can just write 25. 84 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:12,580 That's fine. 85 00:06:12,970 --> 00:06:16,420 British and American spelling styles are accepted. 86 00:06:17,450 --> 00:06:22,490 Don't add the word of the unit if it's already in the question. 87 00:06:26,840 --> 00:06:32,810 So please listen to practice, said one, and write what you write exactly what you hear. 88 00:06:33,530 --> 00:06:34,400 Test one. 89 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:37,220 Training measurements. 90 00:06:38,790 --> 00:06:39,720 One. 91 00:06:40,680 --> 00:06:44,970 Mount Everest is 8850 metres high. 92 00:06:49,060 --> 00:06:50,020 To. 93 00:06:51,110 --> 00:06:55,850 It's 658 kilometres from Wellington to Auckland. 94 00:06:59,340 --> 00:07:00,330 Three. 95 00:07:01,150 --> 00:07:04,480 John is 180 centimetres tall. 96 00:07:09,330 --> 00:07:10,290 For. 97 00:07:11,430 --> 00:07:15,210 Mix the sugar with 150 grams of flour. 98 00:07:19,130 --> 00:07:20,300 Five. 99 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:23,840 Highway 62 kilograms. 100 00:07:28,690 --> 00:07:29,740 Six. 101 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:35,960 The desk I bought is one metre 65 centimetres across. 102 00:07:40,820 --> 00:07:41,320 Och. 103 00:07:41,330 --> 00:07:47,240 And another scale in terms of measurements or numbers or anything like that is being able to predict. 104 00:07:47,660 --> 00:07:53,510 So very often you can look at a question and predict what they're going to be talking about. 105 00:07:53,510 --> 00:07:55,010 So like for number one. 106 00:07:55,130 --> 00:07:57,340 So can you tell me how long the curtains are? 107 00:07:57,350 --> 00:07:58,730 We're talking about length. 108 00:07:59,390 --> 00:08:02,150 Number two, approximately how tall are the trees? 109 00:08:02,180 --> 00:08:03,980 Now we're talking about height. 110 00:08:04,970 --> 00:08:07,670 What would the charge for that be? 111 00:08:08,270 --> 00:08:09,560 We're talking about what? 112 00:08:10,220 --> 00:08:11,900 What are we talking about for number three? 113 00:08:12,170 --> 00:08:12,890 What are we. 114 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:14,510 What are they asking you about for number three? 115 00:08:14,510 --> 00:08:16,040 Currency cost. 116 00:08:17,630 --> 00:08:18,170 Right. 117 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:21,110 Number four, how heavy is the furniture? 118 00:08:21,140 --> 00:08:22,430 They're asking about weight. 119 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:26,980 Do you know how far across the screen is? 120 00:08:26,980 --> 00:08:28,660 We're talking about distance. 121 00:08:30,020 --> 00:08:30,590 Right. 122 00:08:30,830 --> 00:08:31,340 I'm sorry. 123 00:08:31,370 --> 00:08:33,180 Do you know how far across the screen is? 124 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:34,050 It's not distance. 125 00:08:34,070 --> 00:08:34,620 What is that? 126 00:08:34,640 --> 00:08:35,720 What's number five? 127 00:08:38,630 --> 00:08:39,830 Number six is distance. 128 00:08:39,830 --> 00:08:41,600 But what is number five asking for? 129 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:44,100 No. 130 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:47,320 Is that width exactly. 131 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:48,460 Is asking for width. 132 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:54,430 So very often by looking at a question, you should be able to predict what you need to listen for in 133 00:08:54,430 --> 00:08:55,720 terms of a measurement. 134 00:09:02,370 --> 00:09:07,920 So the answers are for practice, said one 8850. 135 00:09:07,920 --> 00:09:10,140 Number to 658. 136 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:12,360 Number three, 180. 137 00:09:12,540 --> 00:09:14,370 Number four, 150. 138 00:09:14,670 --> 00:09:16,620 Number five, 62. 139 00:09:16,650 --> 00:09:18,900 And number six, 1.65. 140 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:30,710 Now, another skill that you really have to work on for section number one relates to paraphrasing and 141 00:09:30,710 --> 00:09:43,430 synonyms and the the entire exam consistently test on paraphrasing and synonyms in increasing difficulty. 142 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:46,170 In six one is really easy. 143 00:09:46,560 --> 00:09:53,130 So you might see a question like photos can be placed in a folder with the name and then for a number 144 00:09:53,130 --> 00:09:57,840 and then with the passage they say, So I could have one call, one called. 145 00:09:57,840 --> 00:09:59,310 And the name are what? 146 00:09:59,310 --> 00:10:00,960 Those are synonyms. 147 00:10:01,680 --> 00:10:03,000 Those are synonyms. 148 00:10:03,660 --> 00:10:11,340 So you're not going to always hear you're not going to always hear the same word in the question. 149 00:10:11,340 --> 00:10:17,730 Very often it's going to be, in fact, most of the time is going to be some type of direct paraphrase, 150 00:10:17,730 --> 00:10:21,660 direct synonym or some type of contextual paraphrasing. 151 00:10:24,260 --> 00:10:28,790 Another example photos which are very fragile, will be scanned by. 152 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:34,510 No in the passage when they're speaking, the says no, if any. 153 00:10:34,510 --> 00:10:39,940 Look, particularly fragile again particularly in vary are synonyms. 154 00:10:40,090 --> 00:10:41,500 We do them by hand. 155 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:42,560 Right. 156 00:10:42,560 --> 00:10:44,270 So the answer, of course, would be hand. 157 00:10:44,540 --> 00:10:50,240 But you want to be able to you should be able to recognize very and particularly as being synonyms of 158 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:50,900 each other. 159 00:10:53,710 --> 00:11:00,940 And one last example in the question, it says it may be possible to remove an object from. 160 00:11:01,570 --> 00:11:05,050 It should say from a photo or change the. 161 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:11,170 And in the past as they're using what alter alter the background. 162 00:11:11,350 --> 00:11:19,690 So for section one, you have to be aware and be ready for paraphrasing and synonyms. 163 00:11:19,690 --> 00:11:21,220 You must be ready for that. 164 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:29,800 Now, sometimes they'll give you a combination of skills. 165 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:31,120 So. 166 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:37,710 They'll have paraphrasing or matching question, language and passage context, which is basically a 167 00:11:37,710 --> 00:11:39,090 type of paraphrasing. 168 00:11:39,510 --> 00:11:44,190 And also, they will combine that very often with switching up the word order. 169 00:11:44,550 --> 00:11:47,040 So I'll give you an example of what I'm talking about. 170 00:11:47,730 --> 00:11:53,610 So here we have the question where it says before the order is sent, blank is required. 171 00:11:54,210 --> 00:12:00,180 Now, in the passage when they're speaking, it says, then we'll let you know how much it is. 172 00:12:00,450 --> 00:12:05,070 And once we receive the payment, we'll send the parcel off to you. 173 00:12:05,550 --> 00:12:09,480 So the language about sending is at the end of the sentence. 174 00:12:09,780 --> 00:12:12,090 Is that the end of the sentence in the passage? 175 00:12:12,270 --> 00:12:15,090 However, in the question is at the beginning of the sentence. 176 00:12:15,090 --> 00:12:16,140 So what do they do? 177 00:12:16,170 --> 00:12:18,090 They switched up the word order. 178 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:19,780 Right. 179 00:12:19,780 --> 00:12:21,310 They switched up the word order. 180 00:12:22,490 --> 00:12:23,390 So. 181 00:12:24,620 --> 00:12:31,280 And here also the language in yellow we have required and the language here in the passage in yellow 182 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:34,430 is a contextual paraphrasing of required. 183 00:12:34,490 --> 00:12:42,260 And once we receive the payment, the context of that tells us that payment is required is not a direct 184 00:12:42,260 --> 00:12:43,280 synonym they're using. 185 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:45,350 It's not a direct paraphrase they're using. 186 00:12:45,350 --> 00:12:49,010 They're expecting you to be able to tell that from context. 187 00:12:50,090 --> 00:12:56,840 They're testing your ability to understand context, but in section one, you find this right, you'll 188 00:12:56,840 --> 00:12:58,910 find a combination of things. 189 00:12:59,690 --> 00:13:02,120 So again, you've got to be aware of that. 190 00:13:02,660 --> 00:13:05,900 So this is why this is why practice is so important. 191 00:13:06,680 --> 00:13:09,440 A lot of students don't practice the right kind of way. 192 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:14,460 They'll take a practice test, then they'll do another one, then they'll do another one, then they'll 193 00:13:14,460 --> 00:13:15,390 do another one. 194 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:21,840 And they think that by some miracle of just doing test after test after test, they're going to they're 195 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:22,920 going to get better. 196 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:24,960 That's not how you get better. 197 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:33,240 You get better by, for example, after you take a test, after you do a section, you go back and you 198 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:37,350 look at the paraphrasing and the synonyms that they're using. 199 00:13:37,530 --> 00:13:41,280 You look at what skills are being tested in that question. 200 00:13:41,550 --> 00:13:50,130 You have to really practice analyzing right, analyzing wrong and right and wrong answers. 201 00:13:50,430 --> 00:13:52,020 That's how you get better. 202 00:13:52,500 --> 00:13:56,430 Not by just mindlessly taking test after test. 203 00:13:58,270 --> 00:14:07,330 And then we have another example of of paraphrasing below a photo which is not correctly in blank, 204 00:14:07,330 --> 00:14:14,560 cannot be fixed in the passage that says, oh, and talking of fixing photos, I've got a few that aren't 205 00:14:14,560 --> 00:14:19,240 properly in focused aren't properly, not correctly. 206 00:14:20,500 --> 00:14:26,950 Can you make that better that that says down there below I can't see because my zoom my zoom thing is 207 00:14:26,950 --> 00:14:27,730 blocking me. 208 00:14:29,530 --> 00:14:29,730 Right. 209 00:14:30,060 --> 00:14:33,910 So there we have some a good example of paraphrasing. 210 00:14:34,170 --> 00:14:34,470 All right. 211 00:14:34,470 --> 00:14:35,910 Now we have a question. 212 00:14:40,330 --> 00:14:42,150 Somebody asked me, Can you write as an answer? 213 00:14:42,160 --> 00:14:43,810 1.5 across? 214 00:14:44,530 --> 00:14:46,030 Yeah, that would probably be fine. 215 00:14:46,750 --> 00:14:48,220 Somebody asked me that question. 216 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:50,640 Okay. 217 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:54,260 Let's go ahead and. 218 00:14:56,220 --> 00:15:00,360 Go to another skill now, another skill that they're testing a section one. 219 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:02,760 And again, this skill. 220 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:11,640 Gets tested more and more and more as you progress from Section one to Section four. 221 00:15:12,090 --> 00:15:16,920 And that is a longer lead in, a longer lead in. 222 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:19,140 And now they're doing this more in section one. 223 00:15:19,140 --> 00:15:23,760 They didn't use to do it a lot in Section one, but now they're doing it a lot more. 224 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:32,010 What I mean by a longer lead in is up here where it says employee, hello, picture rep, can I help 225 00:15:32,010 --> 00:15:32,430 you? 226 00:15:32,730 --> 00:15:35,490 That's, that's the beginning of the conversation. 227 00:15:36,210 --> 00:15:38,460 And then look how many exchanges they have. 228 00:15:38,460 --> 00:15:44,070 Employee, woman, employee, woman, employee, woman, employee, woman. 229 00:15:44,070 --> 00:15:49,530 And then when we get to the last part where the woman is speaking, then we get to the answer for question 230 00:15:49,530 --> 00:15:50,310 number one. 231 00:15:51,810 --> 00:15:52,350 Right? 232 00:15:52,500 --> 00:15:54,270 So what are they testing here? 233 00:15:54,930 --> 00:15:58,320 They're testing your ability to follow a conversation. 234 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:04,950 They feel like, you know, you should be able to do this at the basic level of English and you should 235 00:16:04,950 --> 00:16:07,650 be able to do this at the more advanced level of English. 236 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:13,650 At the basic level of English, at the basic level of English, which which is what section one represents. 237 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:17,940 The lead in is shorter. 238 00:16:18,660 --> 00:16:25,110 And then when you get to section four, the lead in is actually a little bit longer and has more difficult 239 00:16:25,110 --> 00:16:26,700 vocabulary involved. 240 00:16:27,060 --> 00:16:32,280 But this is something else they're testing the long lead in. 241 00:16:32,700 --> 00:16:37,530 And sometimes you have more, more and more talking, more discussion between questions. 242 00:16:37,830 --> 00:16:42,330 So that's something they're testing on following the conversation.