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Let's get ready for the Versant Placement Test! **Answer key at the bottom of the description** Practice part B of the test: Repeats In this task, candidates are asked to repeat sentences that they hear verbatim. The sentences are presented to the candidate in approximate order of increasing difficulty. Sentences range in length from three words to 15 words. The audio item prompts are spoken in a conversational manner. Examples: Get some water. Let’s meet again in two weeks. Come to my office after class if you need help. To repeat a sentence longer than about seven syllables, a person must recognize the words as spoken in a continuous stream of speech (Miller & Isard, 1963). Highly proficient speakers of English can generally repeat sentences that contain many more than seven syllables because these speakers are very familiar with English words, phrase structures, and other common syntactic forms. If a person habitually processes five-word phrases as a unit (e.g. “the really big apple tree”), then that person can usually repeat utterances of 15 or 20 words in length. Generally, the ability to repeat material is constrained by the size of the linguistic unit that a person can process in an automatic or nearly automatic fashion. As the sentences increase in length and complexity, the task becomes increasingly difficult for speakers who are not familiar with English sentence structure. Because the Repeat items require candidates to organize speech into linguistic units, Repeat items assess the candidate’s mastery of phrase and sentence structure. Given that the task requires the candidate to repeat full sentences (as opposed to just words and phrases), it also offers a sample of the candidate’s fluency and pronunciation in continuous spoken English." (https://www.pearson.com/english/versa...) Audios taken from Oxford's Speak Now ESL program. This video was made for educational purposes only. ________________________________________________________________________________________ Answer key: 1. How about pizza? 2. I'm pretty tired. 3. I'm going to help Sylvia move. 4. Norah is very outgoing. 5. I work in a coffee shop on weekends. 6. Have you ever tried Mexican food? 7. Would you like mashed potatoes, french fries or steamed rice? 8. It can get really stressful at times. 9. It's kind of a fun job if you enjoy selling things. 10. I wish I had a different boss. 11. I prefer to let customers take their time. 12. I've always enjoyed working in a place like this. 13. I really should move and live closer to my work. 14. Something really embarrassing happened to me on Saturday. 15. This guy is always bothering to try to get people to buy things. 16. I'm ready for Friday's current events quiz. I bet you did well! Copyright disclaimer I believe all content used falls under the remits of Fair Use, but if any content owners would like to dispute this I will not hesitate to immediately remove said content. It is not my intent to in any way infringe on their content ownership. If you happen to find your art, images, music or text in the video, please let me know and I will be glad to credit you. Business email: aprenderinglesdlc@gmail.com