2-0 Overview

2-1 Skills: Predicting and Identifying

Students learn about listening skills related to predicting and identifying information in the lecture.

2-2 Lecture

A post-listening vocabulary exercise prepares students for a lecture on the topic of pest control; students listen to the lecture while answering questions.

2-1 Skills: Predicting and Identifying

Students learn about reading skills related to predicting and identifying information in Reading 1 and 2.

2-2 Reading 1: The Zebra Mussel

A post-reading vocabulary exercise prepares students for this timed reading.

2-3 Reading 2: Biological and Integrated Control of Pests

A post-reading vocabulary exercise prepares students for this timed reading.

2-1 Task 2 Speaking Skills

Students learn about speaking skills that will help them with Task 2.

2-2 Task 2: Relay Information from a Lecture

Students practice the second speaking task of the OLT.

2-1 The Outline

Students learn how to develop an effective outline.

2-2 The Thesis Statement

Students learn how to develop an effective thesis statement.

2-3 Timed Essay Writing

Students practice writing an essay based on the listening and reading sections of this unit.

2-4 Sample Essay

Students examine an essay written by a CAEL test taker with the help of the CAEL essay checklist.

2-1 Sentence Fragments and Run-on-Sentences

Students learn about these common sentence structure errors and how to avoid them.

2-2 Sentence Variety

Students learn about complex, compound, and compound-complex sentences.

2-3 Common Errors #2

Students practice the identification and correction of common writing errors.