Occupational English Test (OET) Preparation Course
Program Overview
This comprehensive OET preparation program covers all four OET subtests: Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking. It focuses on developing healthcare-specific language skills, including understanding medical consultations, extracting relevant information, and communicating effectively with patients. The program is taught by experienced English language teachers specializing in medical and healthcare language assessments.
Program Outline
Outline:
OET Listening
- Understand the content of a consultation between a health practitioner and a patient/client.
- Extract relevant information in a consultation.
- Take notes while listening to relevant information.
- Understand the main ideas and important information in a number of short talks on various health-related topics that might occur in the workplace.
- Understand inferred meaning in a short talk, including recognizing the communicative functions of utterances and inferring the meaning of unfamiliar lexical items from the context.
- Complete various open-ended and fixed-choice tasks such as:
- Multiple-choice questions
- Sentence completion
- Short-answer questions
- Summary completion
- Lecture notes completion
- Table/flow-chart/mind-map completion
- Word replacement response
- Matching responses
OET Reading
- Source information from multiple texts.
- Synthesize information in a meaningful way.
- "Skim" and "scan" material to retrieve information quickly.
- Locate specific information in various short texts.
- Understand the conventions of different text types.
- Summarize information for a non-medical audience.
- Recognize and understand paraphrasing.
- Use appropriate spelling and word forms.
- Understand main ideas.
- Differentiate main ideas from supporting information.
- Identify the underlying theme of a paragraph or text.
- Recognize and understand paraphrase.
- Understand cohesion between parts of a text.
- Follow a complex argument that is made over several paragraphs.
OET Writing
- Record treatment offered to date and the issues to be addressed by the health professional, drawing selectively on the stimulus material presented in the case notes.
- Develop vocabulary related to health-related subjects.
- Communicate effectively using various grammatical structures and cohesive devices.
- Structure and write effective and professional letters including the appropriate use of vocabulary, tone, and organization.
- Write plainly and concisely.
- Develop presentation features (layout, punctuation, and spelling).
- Use proofreading techniques to pick up mistakes.
OET Speaking
- Ask and answer questions.
- Engage with various patient types (e.g., different ages, different health problems, different concerns).
- Use professional language to give explanations in a clear, simple, and appropriate manner.
- Rephrase ideas in different ways to help or persuade a patient.
- Reassure a worried or angry patient.
- Develop communicative effectiveness and maintain meaningful interaction.
- Develop intelligibility.
- Develop fluency.
- Develop vocabulary related to health-related subjects.
Teaching:
Murdoch College
Overview:
Murdoch College is a pathway program designed to prepare students for tertiary study at Murdoch University. It offers a supportive environment with dedicated staff to guide students towards success in their chosen field.
Services Offered:
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Guaranteed Pathway:
Murdoch College provides direct pathways into undergraduate and postgraduate programs at Murdoch University, subject to meeting university progression requirements. *Individual Attention and Support:
Students benefit from small class sizes, personalized care, and dedicated support services.Student Life and Campus Experience:
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On-Campus Experience:
Students experience university life from day one, with all classes held at Murdoch University's Perth campus. *Student Life:
Murdoch College provides information about campus location, accommodation options, life in Perth, and how to make the most of the student experience at both Murdoch College and the University.Key Reasons to Study There:
Guaranteed Pathway to Murdoch University:
Provides a clear path to a university degree.Individualized Support:
Offers personalized attention and support services to ensure student success.On-Campus Experience:
Allows students to experience university life from the start.Entry requirements:
The main aim of the Occupational English Test course is to prepare healthcare professionals for the OET test rather than to improve their general level of English. Therefore. the course is most appropriate for learners with a C1 or high B2 level of English. We are happy to advise you on whether or not we feel that your language skills are sufficiently advanced for this course. Those with a lower level can prepare for this course by taking more general language courses with IFG.
