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PET
is an exam for people who can use everyday written and spoken
English at an intermediate level. It covers all four language
skills — reading, writing, listening and speaking. Preparing
for the exam is a popular way to develop and improve your
language skills because it provides practical language practice
in a variety of everyday work, study and leisure situations.
PET
reflects the use of language in real life, such as understanding
signs and announcements, and is accepted by many employers
as proof of ability to use English in clerical, secretarial
or managerial jobs. It is also widely accepted for use in
jobs where spoken English is necessary such as tourism, retail,
construction, manufacturing and engineering.
Is
PET for you?
Can
you use English to:
deal
with everyday events?
read simple textbooks or magazine articles?
write letters on familiar subjects?
take notes in a meeting?
If
this describes your skills now, or describes the level of
skills you are working towards, then PET is the right exam
for you.
1. Making career choices and decisions – the traditional
focus of careers interventions. The changed nature of work
means that individuals may now have to revisit this process
more frequently than in the past.
2. Managing the organizational career – concerns the
career management tasks of individuals within the workplace,
such as decision-making, life-stage transitions, dealing with
stress etc.
3. Managing 'boundaryless' careers – refers to skills
needed by workers whose employment is beyond the boundaries
of a single organisation, a workstyle common among, for example,
artists and designers.
4. Taking control of one's personal development – as
employers take less responsibility, employees need to take
control of their own development in order to maintain and
enhance their employability.
Now
that the job-for-life covenant between employer and employee
has been superseded by an insecure and uncertain job market,
career management has become a necessary survival skill rather
than being an activity pursued by Ivy League alumni or people
born with a silver spoon in the mouth. Job security is now
based on knowledge, skills and added-value rather than length
of service or loyalty to an employer. Career management is
nothing more than a small investment of time, money and energy
to protect the major source of revenue—one's job.
The
Academic Module is intended for those who wish to
enroll in universities and other institutions of higher
education .
The
General Training Module is intended for those planning
to undertake non-academic training or to gain work
experience, or for immigration purposes.
IELTS
is accepted by most Australian, British, Canadian, Irish,
New Zealand and South African academic institutions,
by an increasing number of academic institutions in
the USA, and by various professional organizations.
It is also a requirement for migration to Australia
and Canada.
Writing
began as a consequence of the burgeoning needs of accounting.
Around the 4th millennium BC, the complexity of trade and
administration outgrew the power of memory, and writing became
a more dependable method of recording and presenting transactions
in a permanent form (Robinson, 2003, p. 36)
Active
listening is an intent
to " listen for meaning", in which the listener checks with the speaker
to see that a statement has been correctly heard and understood.
The goal of active listening is to improve mutual understanding .
Active
Listening International Online Training Program
On Intractable Conflict: Conflict Research Consortium,
University of Colorado, USA
Empathic
listening skills How to listen so others will feel
heard, or listening first aid (University of California).
Download a one hour seminar on empathic listening and
attending skills.
Volcanoes
by the Sea
Read the story. Click the "LISTEN" button at the
bottom of the page to hear the story. When you are done,
click the "NEXT" button.
A
detail from Madonna des Kanonikus Georg van der
Paele by Jan
van Eyck .
It
is a means of language
acquisition , of communication, and of sharing information and ideas. Effective readers use decoding skills
(to translate printed text into the sounds of language),
use morpheme , semantics , syntax and context cues to identify the meaning of unknown
words, activate prior knowledge ( schemata
theory ), use comprehension , and demonstrate fluency during reading.
Other
types of reading may not be text-based, such as music
notation or pictograms. By analogy, in computer
science , reading is acquiring of data from some sort of computer storage.
Although
reading print text is now an important way for the general
population to access information, this has not always
been the case. With some
exceptions , only a small percentage of the population
in many countries were considered literate before the Industrial
Revolution .
View
full components listing for Cambridge Preliminary English
Test Extra
Corporate Author Cambridge ESOL
Four
authentic PET papers from Cambridge ESOL with extra
guidance and exam tips, plus CD-ROM. Cambridge Exams
Extra is a new series providing authentic past papers
from Cambridge ESOL, plus a wealth of extra material
for use in the classroom or for self-study. This title
contains four complete PET past papers from Cambridge
ESOL, a useful exam overview and helpful guidance on
tackling each part of each paper. The accompanying CD-ROM
contains the same four papers that appear in the book,
giving students the option of trying out the PET in
electronic format.
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Cambridge
Grammar for PET provides complete coverage of the grammar
needed for the Cambridge PET exam, and develops listening
skills at the same time.
It
includes the full range of PET exam tasks from the Reading,
Writing and Listening papers, and contains helpful grammar
explanations and a grammar glossary.
Louise
Hashemi
Barbara Thomas
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