A1 Movers flashcards
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- Draw-lines task
- In A1 Movers Listening Part 1, learners hear five names and draw a line from each name to the person it belongs to in a large picture.
- Write-word-or-number task
- A1 Movers Listening Part 2: learners look at a picture of places or objects and write a word or a number next to each one as they hear it.
- Matching-by-letter task
- A1 Movers Listening Part 3: two sets of pictures are shown, for example people and activities, and learners write a letter in each box to pair the items.
- Tick-the-box task
- A1 Movers Listening Part 4: each question offers three pictures labelled A, B and C, and learners tick the picture that matches the dialogue they hear.
- Colour-and-write task
- A1 Movers Listening Part 5: learners colour objects in a picture as instructed and write one word; the colour word must be spelled correctly to score.
- Two-play rule
- In Cambridge young learner listening papers every recording is played twice, so each dialogue, instruction and answer is heard a second time before the test moves on.
- Confirmed-answer distractor
- A wrong option mentioned early in a dialogue before the speaker settles on the real answer; in A1 Movers listening the second speaker's final choice is normally correct.
- Listening paper length
- A1 Movers Listening lasts about 25 minutes and has five parts with 25 questions, each worth one mark, with no marks removed for wrong answers.
- Find the differences
- A1 Movers Speaking Part 1: the learner compares two similar pictures and describes what is different, using colours, sizes, numbers, positions and present continuous verbs.
- Picture-story task
- A1 Movers Speaking Part 2: the learner tells a story from four pictures, linking the events with words such as first, then, after that and finally.
- Odd-one-out task
- A1 Movers Speaking Part 3: the learner looks at sets of four pictures, names the one that does not belong and explains the reason for the choice.
- Personal-questions part
- A1 Movers Speaking Part 4: the examiner asks about the learner's own life, such as home, school, family, free time, last weekend or last holiday, and the learner replies.
- Speaking assessment scales
- A1 Movers speaking is rated by the examiner on four criteria: Vocabulary, Grammar, Pronunciation and Interaction, each marked on a scale from zero to five.
- Examiner's example
- In every part of the A1 Movers Speaking test the examiner gives one example answer first, so the learner hears exactly what kind of response is expected.
- Speaking paper length
- A1 Movers Speaking lasts five to seven minutes and is a one-to-one interview in four parts between one learner and one examiner.
- Interaction criterion
- One of the four A1 Movers speaking criteria; it rates how well the learner answers, responds to the examiner, asks for repetition and keeps the exchange going.
- Definition-matching task
- A1 Movers Reading Part 1: learners read five short definitions and choose the matching word from a box, writing it on the line; extra distractor words are included.
- Yes/no sentence task
- A1 Movers Reading Part 2: five sentences describe a picture and the learner writes 'yes' when a sentence is true and 'no' when it is false.
- Picture-story completion
- A1 Movers Reading Part 3: a story is told in pictures with text, and learners complete sentences about it using one, two or three words from that text.
- Three-option cloze
- A reading task in which a short text has numbered gaps and each gap offers three word choices, A, B or C; A1 Movers Reading Part 4 uses this format.
- Word-box cloze
- A text with numbered gaps where the missing words are copied from a box of options; A1 Movers Reading Part 5 uses this, with one word per gap.
- Picture-question task
- A1 Movers Reading Part 6: learners look at a picture and write one-word or short answers to printed questions about what people are doing and where things are.
- Reading and Writing paper
- A1 Movers Reading and Writing is a single paper of about 30 minutes with six parts and 35 questions, every question being worth one mark.
- One-mark marking rule
- In A1 Movers Reading and Writing each correct answer scores one mark and wrong answers lose nothing, so a learner can attempt every question safely.
- No separate writing paper
- A1 Movers has no free-writing paper; writing is assessed inside the Reading and Writing paper and in the spelling required in Listening Parts 2 and 5.
- One-word answer rule
- Across A1 Movers, written answers are a single word or a short phrase of up to three words; full sentences are never required of the learner.
- Spelling accuracy
- In A1 Movers a written word is marked correct only if it is spelled exactly right, while numbers may be written as digits such as 15 or 20.
- Irregular past forms
- Common irregular past simple verbs expected at A1 Movers include went, saw, had, took, made, bought, ate, came, gave, ran, swam and wrote.
- Plural spelling rules
- Nouns take -s normally, -es after s, sh, ch or x, and consonant plus y becomes -ies, as in baby to babies; irregular plurals include children, men and feet.
- Comparative forms
- Short adjectives add -er, as in taller, bigger and easier, while longer ones take more, as in more interesting; irregular comparatives are good to better and bad to worse.
- Capital letters rule
- In A1 Movers writing, sentences begin with a capital letter and end with a full stop, and names of people, days and months are also capitalised.
- Contractions
- Short forms such as don't, can't, I'm, it's and we're appear in A1 Movers texts and carry the same meaning as do not, cannot, I am and it is.