Ensuring English Language Proficiency

The City School is an English speaking school system and all instruction is in English in every school.

To hire the highest quality teachers, our teacher recruitment process requires an English Language Proficiency Test. For this purpose, we require all of our academic and non-academic faculty to take English Language Assessment. These on-line tests examine English speaking, listening, reading and writing proficiency. You can prepare for these tests using the links below, which we highly recommend.

In each section, examinees will encounter content and questions targeted to varying levels of proficiency.

 

A   GRAMMAR  — 10 MINUTES/ TWO PARTS

Part 1.  Thirteen fill-in-the-blank, multiple-choice questions testing the examinee’s familiarity with key features of English structure; questions range from beginner to advanced.

Part 2.  Twelve multiple-choice questions where the examinee selects the part of speech with incorrect English structure; questions range from elementary to advanced.

B   LISTENING — 20 MINUTES/ THREE PARTS

Part 1.    Four high-beginning to low-intermediate level short conversations of two to three sentences, each followed by one multiple-choice question.

Part 2.    One two- to three-minute intermediate-level conversation, followed by four multiple-choice questions.

Part 3.    One four-minute upper-level lecture, followed by six multiple-choice questions.

C   READING — 20 MINUTES/ TWO PARTS

Part 1.    One intermediate-level passage of about 250 words in length, followed by four multiple-choice questions.

Part 2.    One upper-level paragraph of about 450 words in length, followed by six multiple-choice questions.

D   WRITING — 25 MINUTES/ TWO PARTS

Part 1. Write an informal email or letter using 70 words.

Part 2: Write a persuasive essay using 200 words.

E    SPEAKING — 5 MINUTES/ TWO PARTS (PLUS ONE MINUTE WARM-UP SECTION)

Part 1: Speak for 45 seconds on a topic

Part 2: The examinee is asked to express his or her thoughts on the topic, with 45 seconds to prepare and 60 seconds to speak.

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