Preparation course for the OGE in English for grade 9 - free course from Foxford, training 60 lessons, date: December 4, 2023.
Miscellaneous / / December 06, 2023
Who will benefit from the course?
The course is suitable for students who want to prepare for the OGE from scratch: work through all the parts, pass the exam with a high score and enter a specialized class.
What knowledge does the course provide?
Development of speaking, listening, writing skills, as well as the ability to work with text and tasks in a test format.
How the training works
The groups have curators who help organize preparation. Students watch webinars and then consolidate the material in workbooks and on author’s test versions of the OGE.
Cooking from scratch
We make sure to repeat and structure the entire high school English language program.
Practice OGE tasks
Solve unique trial versions of the OGE, compiled according to the recommendations of FIPI and receive feedback.
No panic or stress
All the necessary topics for passing the OGE-2023 are in one program.
1. Course teacher: Irina Ganina
🔥 The average result of students on the OGE is 4.8 out of 5.
🔥 Graduate of the English-language master's program at the University of Turku, Finland.
2. The training is suitable for anyone who wants to get a good certificate
The course is suitable for students who want to work through all parts of the OGE in English: test, listening, speaking and writing.
Preparation will help you get a good certificate, which is important for entering a specialized class or college.
3. The course provides practice in solving absolutely all OGE tasks.
The course allows you to develop speaking, listening, writing skills, as well as the ability to work with text and tasks in a test format.
You can supplement your learning with language practice in a mini-group.
4. We manually check samples and homework
We do not leave the written part assignments for self-testing - this is done by OGE experts.
We check “for real”, like in an exam, and as a result you receive detailed feedback. All this is for the sake of speed of preparation and your results.
5. A personal curator will answer questions within two hours, 24/7
The curators understand the program and the subject, so they can easily answer your questions about the course and homework - at any time.
They know well how difficult it can be to prepare and understand your worries.
The most important task of a tutor is to help you cope with stress and fear before exams.
The lesson lasts 2 academic hours. Classes are held online on Mondays from 18:00 to 20:00 and Saturdays from 16:00 to 18:00 (Moscow time).
OGE expert. Holder of CPE Cambridge, IELTS and TOEFL certificates. Graduate of the master's program at the University of Turku.
Speaking
The section discusses the main aspects of preparation for the oral part of the OGE in English.
- Training in etiquette dialogue: the ability to start, maintain and end a conversation
- Training in dialogue-questioning: interviewing skills
- Training in dialogue - encouragement to action: requests, advice, invitations
- Training in dialogue - exchange of opinions: expressing a point of view, emotional assessment of events
- We learn to talk about ourselves, our family, friends, plans for the future
- We learn to make short messages, describe events, phenomena
- We learn to convey the main content of what we read and saw
- We learn to express our attitude to what we read and hear
Listening
The section provides extensive listening practice in exam format.
- We learn to understand the main content of simple authentic texts (weather forecast, announcements at the station) and highlight significant information at the airport,
- Learning to determine the theme of the sounding text; highlight the main facts, omitting the secondary ones
- We train the skill of using language guesswork and context
Reading
The section discusses approaches to completing exam reading tasks, as well as their features.
- Learning to read authentic texts of different genres with an understanding of the main content
- Training in reading texts with selective understanding of necessary/interesting information
- Learning to identify a topic (including by title), highlight the main idea
- Learning to establish a logical sequence of the main facts of the text
- We learn to use various methods of semantic processing of text: linguistic guesswork, analysis
Letter
This section examines the format of written assignments in the OGE in English and strategies for preparing for them.
- Learning to write a personal letter in response to a stimulus letter
- Training in a personal letter to ask the addressee about his life and affairs, to communicate the same about himself, to express a request
- Learning to express gratitude and requests
- Training in personal writing to use speech etiquette formulas adopted in the countries of the language being studied
- Analysis of common mistakes
Practicing exam topics
The section provides for practicing lexical topics to successfully pass the exam.
- We study the basic meanings of lexical units serving situations within the framework of the main school topics
- We study the basic methods of word formation (affixation, compounding, conversion)
- We study the meanings of cliche speech etiquette cues characteristic of the culture of the countries of the language being studied
- Training in spelling skills based on the studied lexical and grammatical material
Practicing grammar
The section provides for practicing grammatical topics for successfully passing the exam.
- Practicing the ability to recognize and use various grammatical tenses in speech
- Practicing the ability to recognize and use the initial it (It's cold) in speech. It's winter).
- Practicing the ability to recognize and use the phrase there is/are in speech
- Practicing the ability to recognize and use prepositions in speech
- Practicing the ability to recognize and use degrees of comparison of adjectives in speech
- Practicing the ability to recognize and use articles in speech (definite, indefinite, zero)
- Practicing the ability to recognize and use passive voice in speech
- Practicing the ability to recognize and use phrasal verbs in speech
- Practicing the ability to recognize and use modal verbs and their equivalents in speech (can/be able to, may, must, have to, should, shall, need, could, might, would)
- Practicing the ability to recognize and use pronouns in speech (personal, possessive, stressed, reflexive, demonstrative)
- Practicing the ability to recognize and use various means of communication in a text in speech to ensure its integrity
- Practicing the ability to recognize and use adverbs in speech (many/much, few/a few, little/a little)
- Practicing the ability to recognize and use quantitative and ordinal numbers in speech
Exam Strategy
This section is devoted to performing trial versions of the exam and discussing possible approaches to them.
- Review of specific task strategies
- Training based on task completion time
- Performing practice tests