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UoPeopleに正式に入学するために、英語のスコアを提出するか英語のコースを取る必要がある。
英語のコースをFailした時のバックアッププランとして、Duolingo（デュオリンゴ）試験のスコアを提出することで、入学要件を満たすことができるため、テストについて調査する。
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How to PREPARE for DUOLINGO ENGLISH TEST in 30 Days!(Link)
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Introduction
Hi, Friends!,
In this video, we’re gonna talk about how you can prepare for the Duolingo English Test in just 30 days.I’m going to give you seven useful tips or strategies to help you prepare quickly for this exam.
So if you’re taking exam soon, this video gonna be very helpful for you.
We will jump into tip number one in a second.
But I want to say if you’re new to this channel, Hi, I’m Teacher Luke from DETREDAY.COM.
Our Website has lots of tools and information to help you prepare for the tuning go English test.
So if you need to study more, I recommended visiting our website, there is a link below in the description.
And tip number one then is to learn the structure the test.
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be gonna do
=be going to do
するつもりである
We will jump into tip number one in a second.
1番目のヒントについては、すぐにでも紹介します。
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要旨／英語
- How you can prepare for the Duolingo English Test in just 30 days
- They introduces seven useful tips or strategies to help us prepare quickly for this exam
- The teacher is Mr.Luke from DETREDAY.COM
- Their website has lots of tools and information
要旨／日本語訳
- たった30日でDuolingo英検の対策ができる方法
- この試験のために素早く準備するのに役立つ7つのヒントや戦略が紹介されている
- 講師はDETREDAY.COMのLuke氏
- 同社のウェブサイトにはたくさんのツールや情報がある
TIP1 STRUCTURE OF TEST
So the first thing you should do it you only have 30 days to prepare for the exam is to learn the structure of the test.
Because the Duolingo English test is a bit different than the other exams like the TOEFL or IELTS, it’s different in a few key ways.
Firstly, it’s a mixed skills test.
So all of the questions are in one section. They are not separated by skills like on the IELTES and TOEFL.
Next, there are 10 different question types on a test, which are graded, and two, which are ungraded.
And another key point you should know is that the Duolingo test is an adaptive test, which means that the questions are tailored to your level as you go through the test.
So for example, if you keep doing well, then the questions will get harder and harder.
So that’s important to know, if you notice that your questions are getting more and more difficult, then maybe that’s a good thing.
Maybe you’re doing well on the test.
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in a few key ways
いくつかの重要な点で
if you keep doing well, then the questions will get harder and harder
うまくやれば、問題はどんどん難しくなる
your questions are getting more and more difficult
あなたの質問はますます難しくなっています
Maybe you’re doing well on the test
もしかしたら、テストがうまくいっているかもしれない
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要旨／英語
- To prepare for the exam is to learn the structure of the test
- The Duolingo English test is a bit different than the other exams like the TOEFL or IELTS
- All of the questions are in one section
- The questions are tailored to your level as you go through the test
要旨／日本語訳
- 試験対策は、試験の構造を学ぶこと
- Duolingoの英語テストは、TOEFLやIELTSのような他の試験とは少し異なっている
- すべての問題が1つのセクションで出題される
- テストが進むにつれて、あなたのレベルに合った問題が出題される
TIP2 LEARN THE METHODS
The next thing you should do if you only have 30 days is to learn some methods.
Now for some of the different questions on this exam, there’s not really a method or a strategy you can use to improve your score, like on the vocabulary ones, you either know the answer, or you don’t.
So the best thing to do is just to improve your English or in this case, improve your vocabulary.
But for some of the other questions, there is a method or strategy you can use which can help you to do better on those questions.
And if you only have 30 days to prepare, I recommend you practice these methods.
PRACTICE THE METHODS
Let me give you an example.
Here we’ll talk about a simple structure or method you can use for writing about a photo.
For this question type you have one minute to describe the photo in at least one sentence, but I recommend you try to write more than one sentence.
So here’s a simple Structure you can memorize sentence number one, you give a general overview of the photograph.
For example, this picture shows two young women holding hands in a green field.
Sentence two, can talk about who is doing what or what is where you can go into more detail here.
A woman on the right is taking a photo with her camera and laughing loudly.
And sentence three, if you have enough time, you can speculate something like they must be best friends.
As you can see here, leaning a method or a structure for answering this type of question will be greatly beneficial on the exam because you will know how to structure your answer even before you’ve seen the photograph, then you can concentrate solely on what is in the photo.
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要旨／英語
- The next thing you should do if you only have 30 days is to learn some methods
- Originally, the best thing to do is just to improve your English, improve your vocabulary
- But, there is a method we can use which can help us to do better on those questions
- We only have 30 days to prepare, they recommend us practice these methods
- PRACTICE THE METHODS
- We will know how to structure our answer even before we’ve seen the photograph, then we can concentrate solely on what is in the photo
要旨／日本語訳
- 30日しかないのなら、次にすべきことは、いくつかの方法を学ぶこと
- 元々、一番いいのは英語力を上げること、語彙力を上げることだけ
- しかし、そのような問題でより良い結果を出すために使える方法がある
- 私たちには30日しか準備期間がないので、これらの方法を実践することを勧められている
- 方法を練習する
- 例：写真を見る前から答えの構成がわかっているので、写真に写っているものだけに集中することができる
TIP3 PRACTICE EVERY DAY
Practice every day. So the point here is that you want to be able to apply the methods I’ve just taught you into your answer easily and quickly.
When you take the test, you don’t want to be using a method for the first time.
Instead, you want to have already done it hundreds of times, so you know how to do it exactly.
This will save you valuable minutes when you take the exam.
So how can you practice? Well, there are two ways on the Duolingo English test, you can take an official practice test, which gives you a score at the end.
That’s great. Another way to practice is to use the practice platform I’ve made on my website. Here you can practice all of difficult question types lots and lots of times, and you can check your answers immediately.
I think this is probably when the best way to prepare for this exam.
There is a free and a paid version, you can find a link to it below in the description.
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How to PREPARE for DUOLINGO ENGLISH TEST in 30 Days!(Link)
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>> www.10fastfingers.com
TIP4 TO UNDERSTAND CRITERIA
Tip number four is to understand the scoring criteria.
So this tip is really important for the speaking and writing questions.
So the production sub score. If you want to get a good score in production, I highly recommend you look at this scoring criteria.
So let’s take a look together.
So this is the scoring criteria for the speaking of writing questions.
Like I mentioned, the first two are all about grammar point three and four are about your vocabulary.
Point five is about task relevance.
So the quality of your answer six is your fluency in writing and speaking.
And number seven is about your pronunciation.
This of course is only for the speaking questions. So understanding the criteria here is really important because now you know what you need to do to get a good score.
Let’s take a look at those first two points. Again, the ones about grammar is talking about grammatical accuracy.
So how correct is your grammar and the grammatical complexity?
Do you use a range of simple and complex sentences?
So you’re watching this video in English so I can assume that your English is pretty good.
So your simple sentences are probably great, but I see a lot of students making mistakes or completely avoiding complex sentences.
But if you want to get a good score, you need to use them well. So let me show you some quick examples here.
So what is a complex sentence?
Well, a complex sentence is basically linking two ideas or two simple sentences together. When making a complex sentence, you want to use one of these subordinating conjunctions.
That’s a fancy word for these words here on the screen. Basically, they link ideas together. So for example, let’s say you have these two ideas.
Many students like playing sports, other students prefer making art. Now these are two simple sentences, but you want to make him complex. So you would use one of these subordinating conjunctions.
These two simple ideas show a contrast.
And these subordinating conjunctions are used to show contrast, we need to use one of these subordinating clauses to link these ideas together.
Although many students like playing sports, other students prefer making art.
The subordinating conjunction is although, and it shows a contrast between my two ideas.
Notice here I did use a comma. So when you’re using a subordinating conjunction at the start of your sentence, you need to use a comma before your second idea.
You could also put this subordinating conjunction in the middle of the sentence like this, many students like playing sports, whereas other students prefer making art.
If you put this subordinating conjunction in the middle of the sentence, you do not need to use a comma.
So that’s what a complex sentences you basically link two ideas together using a subordinating conjunction.
There are other types of complex sentences as well, such as compound sentences.
I’ve made videos on that in the past, go and check my old YouTube videos, but for today, you need to remember that you need to include at least one of these in each of your speaking and writing answers if you want to get a good score in production.
So if you only have 30 days to prepare for this exam, I recommend you study this carefully.
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TIP5 TO IMPROVE YOUR VOCABULARY
Tip number five is to improve your vocabulary. Of course, improving your vocabulary is so important to improve your English and get a good test score.
But it’s especially important for the Duolingo test because the Duolingo exam has two question types, specifically related to vocabulary.
We have the read and select and then the listen and select these question types test your vocabulary directly, which is unlike the other exams like the IELTS and TOEFL.
So for the Duolingo English test, you need to learn new vocabulary you need to learn how they are spelt and how they are pronounced.
Of course, learning the pronunciation will help you with the listen and select question.
So how can you learn new words easily? Well, unfortunately, there’s not really a simple solution to this.
Reading is probably the best way and taking notes of any new word.
You see, after you’ve written it down in your notepads go on to an online dictionary and listen to how it’s pronounced that will help you improve your listening and your speaking another way is to test yourself by using Word Lists.
The Oxford Learner’s Dictionary has lots of word lists you can use at different levels to test yourself.
So just go through each one and see how many you know at each level.
Again, this can be found at Oxford learner’s dictionary.com It’s a fantastic resource to improve your vocabulary.
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TIP6 IMPROVE YOUR TYPING SPEED
Next tip is to improve your typing speed.
Now on the Duolingo English test, you do have to type quite quickly for the writing questions for the describe a photo one, you only have one minute to write at least one sentence, but you should at least write two in my opinion.
And then in the other writing question, you have to write at least 50 words in five minutes.
But again, you should try to write more. So if you’re quite slow at typing, then this could hurt your potential to get a good score.
Because you can’t write enough a great website I use a lot to improve my typing speed is called 10. fast fingers calm on this website, you can improve your typing speed by competing with yourself or against others by typing out all of the words that they give you.
It’s a fun way to improve your typing speed.
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TIP7 KNOW THE SCORE YOU NEED
And the last tip is to know the score you need to get not every university or institution want the same score.
So it’s important to know what score you’re aiming for before you take the exam. You can find this by going to the Duolingo test website. When you go to the Duolingo test website, click on institutions who accepts the test.
And here you can type the name of your university. For example, if you want to go to Warwick University in the United Kingdom, click on the link and then you can see the requirements you need to get into this university.
So an overall score of 115 with no less than 90 in each of the sub scores.
So those were seven tips to help you study. I recommend you now watch this video here to practice all the questions and see some sample answers.
I hope this was helpful. Thank you very much and see you soon. Bye!
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