Have you already used all the ISE Foundation sample Reading and Writing exams? There aren’t many practice exams on the official Trinity College London webpage, and it’s easy to use them up quickly. So here is an ISE Foundation practice reading and writing exam for you to use!
In the download below, there is a whole ISE Foundation practice reading and writing exam. The four parts are:
- Task 1 – long reading
A long reading task about global warming, which comes under the topic area of ‘The Natural World’. This has 15 questions – 5 paragraph title matching questions, selecting 5 true statements, and completing 5 sentences with words from the text.
- Task 2 – multi-text reading
There are three reading texts about cycling, which comes under the topic area of ‘Hobbies and sports’. This section also has 15 questions – 5 multiple matching questions, selecting 5 true statements, and completing the summary notes from a word bank of options.
- Task 3 – reading into writing
In this task, the student uses the three texts from task 2 to write an article about cycling. Again, this is the topic area of ‘Hobbies and sports’.
- Task 4 – extended writing
The students have to respond to a prompt and write an essay about their favourite book. This is the topic area of ‘Hobbies and sports’.
How to use the ISE Foundation Practice Reading and Writing Exam
The ISE Foundation practice reading and writing exam can be used in a number of different ways:
- Use it in class to help students develop the reading and writing skills they need to do well on the exam. You might want to split it up and use it across several lessons. You can teach students what they should do to do well, e.g. in the long reading questions 1-5, try looking at the topic sentence and matching this with the titles.
- Use it as a practice exam to see your students’ progress – are they ready for the exam yet? Make sure you do it under exam conditions so that you can see how they would perform under similar circumstances. Information about the scoring and what this means can be found in Trinity’s Practice exam materials and how to use them file.
- Use the ISE Foundation practice reading and writing exam as an end-of-term exam so that you can give your students a grade for the term.
Download the file by clicking on the button below:
File: ISE Foundation Practice Reading and Writing Exam 1
Why not try our ISE Foundation conversation question cards and the Independent listening tasks to do a Speaking and Listening exam too?