Suggested by Mrs Houda RJAB, English Teacher, Tamaghza School, Tozeur, Tunisia
1) Reading comprehension:
- Read the questions carefully before reading the text.
- Do not waste your time looking for the answer of one question, if you don't understand a question move to the next.
- Write clear answers and do not write in more than the given space.
- Use quotation marks for the true/false questions.
- Skim the text to answer the questions, that is, do not read the whole details, read just to answer.
- Do not get frustrated when the text is long, the longer it is, the easier it will be.
- Do not spend more than 40 minutes for the reading comprehension.
2) Language:
- Read the whole paragraphs before starting the answers.
- Read the words before and after the blanks to know the right form.
- In the matching activity, (match the sentence parts from both columns to form a coherent paragraph...) read the ends of the first part and the beginning of the second parts.
- For the blank filling activity, read all the words in the box and categorise them according to their form: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs...
- Do not devote more than half an hour for the language activities.
3) Writing:
- Write short, clear sentences.
- Do not overuse linkers and use only the appropriate ones.
- Do not overuse "and".
- Do not copy ideas from the text.
- Do not repeat the words of the essay.
- Do not bother the corrector with extra ideas.
- Write only ideas which have relation to the topic of the essay.
- Follow the writing process.
- Do never let writing space blank spot.