Fukui Entrance English study plan
Fukui Entrance English · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 6 hours per week
Listening comprehension & Vocabulary and word knowledge
Build a 15-minute daily listening routine using short English audio (news clips, announcements, short dialogues) and log every session
Identify and drill 60 high-frequency academic and everyday vocabulary items drawn from your own listening notes
Practise shadowing 2-minute audio segments to improve sound recognition and connected-speech parsing
Train note-taking on numbers, times, dates, and place names, since these are common listening distractors
Your checkpoint
A listening log covering 7 days with 60 new vocabulary items and their example sentences
Listening comprehension & Reading comprehension (short passages)
Complete 4 timed short-passage reading sets (one passage each, 8 minutes per set) and mark every wrong answer with its cause
Summarise each short passage in one sentence of 15 words or fewer to force main-idea extraction
Match 40 listening question stems to their paraphrased answer choices to see how tests reword audio content
Review vocabulary from week 1 and add 40 new items from reading passages
Your checkpoint
A one-page error-cause table for 4 short-passage sets plus 40 new vocabulary cards
Listening comprehension & Reading comprehension (longer passages and information retrieval)
Work through 3 longer passages with information-retrieval tasks (tables, notices, schedules) under a 12-minute limit each
Practise scanning for specific data points before reading the whole text, and record how much time scanning saves
Listen to 3 longer monologues (3-4 minutes) and answer detail and inference questions without replaying
Combine listening and retrieval: take notes from spoken announcements and locate the same information in a written notice
Your checkpoint
A timed record sheet for 3 long-passage sets showing per-question time and accuracy
Reading comprehension (short passages) & Grammar and usage in context
Complete 6 short-passage sets at exam pace and reach 80% accuracy on main-idea and detail questions
Drill 50 grammar items in context, focusing on tense, agreement, articles, prepositions, and relative clauses
Rewrite 20 incorrect sentences from your grammar drills and explain each correction in one line
Re-read week 1-3 vocabulary and retire items you now answer instantly
Your checkpoint
A mid-point mock of reading plus grammar sections with a scored answer sheet and a written correction list
Grammar and usage in context & Sentence ordering and dialogue completion
Practise 40 sentence-ordering items, using connector and pronoun cues to justify each order
Complete 20 dialogue-completion tasks and identify the function of each missing turn (question, agreement, refusal, request)
Build a personal list of 25 discourse markers and show how each signals sequence or contrast
Re-do the grammar errors from week 4 and confirm each is now correct twice in a row
Your checkpoint
A cue-marker reference sheet with 25 connectors plus 40 solved ordering items with written justifications
Reading comprehension (longer passages and information retrieval) & Sentence ordering and dialogue completion
Complete 4 full long-passage and information-retrieval sets under strict timing and aim for 75% accuracy
Combine ordering and dialogue skills with long texts by sequencing 15 extracted paragraphs from articles
Practise predicting the next sentence in a dialogue from context before choosing an option
Review all error logs from weeks 1-5 and rank your three weakest question types
Your checkpoint
A weakness ranking report with 4 timed long-passage scores and 15 paragraph-sequencing answers
Writing / guided composition & Integrated language use across skills
Write 4 guided compositions (150-180 words) using a fixed plan: outline, draft, self-edit against a checklist
Apply a 10-point editing checklist covering task response, paragraphing, linkers, tense consistency, and spelling
Complete 2 integrated tasks that require reading a short text and writing a response that uses its content
Rewrite your weakest composition after feedback and compare the two versions side by side
Your checkpoint
A writing portfolio of 4 compositions with marked-up first and revised drafts
Listening comprehension & Reading comprehension (short passages) & Reading comprehension (longer passages and information retrieval) & Grammar and usage in context & Vocabulary and word knowledge & Sentence ordering and dialogue completion & Writing / guided composition & Integrated language use across skills
Sit 2 full timed mock exams under exam conditions and score every section
Review every wrong answer and assign it to a domain and an error cause
Re-drill the 30 vocabulary and 20 grammar items you missed most often across the plan
Finalise a one-page exam-day strategy sheet covering time allocation per section and checking routines
Your checkpoint
Two scored full mocks with a completed error analysis and a one-page exam-day strategy sheet
Milestones
Week 2: You can summarise any short passage in one sentence and your listening log shows 7 consecutive days of practice
Week 4: Reading plus grammar mock scores at least 70%, and your correction list shows fewer than 10 unresolved grammar errors
Week 6: Long-passage accuracy reaches 75% under timing, and you have a ranked list of your three weakest question types
Week 8: Both full mocks score at or above your target, and every wrong answer is mapped to a domain and cause