In this episode of the Swoosh English OET Podcast, UK English teachers Scott and Una discuss Part B of the OET Listening section. They provide an overview of the entire OET Listening, as well as a specific method for Part B to help you prepare. They also discuss sample questions and actual tips that you can use before, during and after the exam itself! HIGHLIGHTS: 01:46 OET Listening format | 08:03 Method for Part B | 19:05 Final tips.

In this episode of the Swoosh English OET Podcast, UK English teachers Scott and Una discuss Part A of the OET Listening section. They provide an overview of the entire OET Listening, as well as a specific method for Part A to help you prepare. They also discuss sample questions and actual tips that you can use before, during and after the exam itself! HIGHLIGHTS: 01:46 OET Listening format | 08:03 Method for Part A | 19:05 Final tips.

In this episode of the Swoosh English OET Podcast, UK English teachers Scott and Una discuss one skill that students need to master for OET Reading: Scanning! They discuss how scanning helps you to find particular details and rule out incorrect answer options quickly and efficiently! HIGHLIGHTS: 01:40 Recap: Skimming vs Scanning | 03:42 Tip #1: Identify what you are looking for | 07:29 Tip #2: Identify key terms | 09:21 Tip 3: Recognize paraphrasing.

In this episode of the Swoosh English OET Podcast, UK English teachers Scott and Una discuss a specific skill that students need to have to ace the OET Reading: skimming! They discuss the relevance of this skill and the most important things to look out for, including headings, layouts and topic sentences! HIGHLIGHTS: 02:07 What is skimming? | 03:25 How to skim in the OET Reading? | 09:38 Topic sentence.

In this episode of the Swoosh English OET Podcast, UK English teachers Scott and Una discuss Part C of the OET Reading section. They discuss what this section is all about, what you need to do to prepare for it and some top strategies to find specific details and the gist of a text! HIGHLIGHTS: 04:00 Overview of OET Reading Part C | 06:53 Scoring and how to approach this task | 17:49 Recognizing referencing & phrases to detect meaning from | 23:42 Additional resources & tips.

In this episode of the Swoosh English OET Podcast, UK English teachers Scott and Una discuss Part B of the OET Reading section. They discuss what this section is all about, what you need to do to prepare for it and some top strategies to find specific details and the gist of a text! HIGHLIGHTS: 04:00 Overview of OET Reading Part B | 06:42 Scoring and how to approach this task | 13:05 Recognizing paraphrasing and other distractors | 15:00 Questions that relate to specific details and gist |...

In this episode of the Swoosh English OET Podcast, UK English teachers Scott and Una discuss Part A of the OET Reading section. They discuss what this section is all about, as well as a method to answer the questions within the given time limit. Keep reading to understand what you need to do to get a minimum grade of B and much more in this episode! HIGHLIGHTS: 03:56 Overview of OET Reading Part A | 07:36 OET Reading Part A Scoring | 10:57 Method | 18:34 Extra tips.

In this episode of the Swoosh English OET Podcast, UK English teachers Scott and Una discuss the OET Reading and Listening sections. They share OET-specific tips to improve your listening and reading score, as well as your overall English comprehension. Read on to learn these simple study hacks and much more! HIGHLIGHTS: 03:34 OET Reading tip: Read medical journals | 07:10 Listen to medical podcasts | 09:50 Read newspapers and websites | 12:23 Listen to YouTube videos | 15:36 Access graded...

In this special episode of the Swoosh English OET Podcast, UK English teachers Scott and Una discuss Scott's experience as an interlocutor for the OET exam. They go through some questions about the exam, share encounters and provide actual tips to help you become more ready and comfortable on the day of your exam! HIGHLIGHTS: 01:50 What is the role of an OET exam interlocutor? | 05:20 The biggest challenge for an interlocutor | 07:52 How can you best serve the candidate? | 09:02 OET Speaking...

In this episode of the Swoosh English OET podcast, Scott and Una discuss the verb tenses and how important they are! They go through four tenses - Present, Present Perfect, Present Continuous, Past Simple, and the different situations where you can use them.

In this episode of the Swoosh English OET Podcast, UK English teachers Scott and Una discuss grammar in the OET Writing. In particular, they talk about articles and connectors which are areas where students commonly make mistakes. HIGHLIGHTS 01:21 Tip 1: Add articles to the case notes! | 11:50 Tip 2: Connectors | 15:59 Tip 3: Create a sample letter under timed conditions like in the OET where you only have 45 minutes.

In this episode of the Swoosh English OET Podcast, UK English teachers Scott and Una discuss the OET Writing Task and how to use, read and understand the case notes. This podcast gives you a clearer idea of how to approach the task, how to delve into the notes and expand on them later. HIGHLIGHTS 01:43 Overview of OET Writing | 07:31 Scoring criteria | 09:59 First thing to do | 12:11 Analyzing the case notes | 19:18 Expanding the case notes in your letter.

In this episode of the Swoosh English OET Podcast, UK English teachers Scott and Una discuss the 6 OET Writing criteria, namely: purpose, content, conciseness and clarity, genre and style, organization and layout and language. What does each criteria assess? Listen on to get the answer to this question and a lot more! HIGHLIGHTS: 01:22 | The 6 criteria of the OET Writing 05:49 | Content 08:59 | Conciseness and clarity 12:31 | Genre and style 16:30 | Organization and layout 19:43 | Language...

In this episode of the Swoosh English OET Podcast, UK English teachers Scott and Una discuss the OET Writing Task which, as most of you know, involves writing a letter. This letter can be a discharge letter, advice letter or most commonly, a referral letter. Learn the best practices to help make sure that you can successfully take the OET on your first try! You can prepare beforehand by practicing your English writing and also apply useful test-taking tips that will be discussed today....

This is the debut episode of the Swoosh English OET Podcast with UK English teachers Scott and Una. Today, they discuss some tips to improve your reading and writing skills!  A fundamental understanding of the English language is the best way to get the marks you want in the OET.