Thinking about new test formats

[Mister Micawber]

I've started thinking about various test formats-- in particular, what our software can handle and/or what Slava can create. For instance, could we implement a test like this?--

http://www.englishforums.com/English/CaeQuizCantStopUnavoidable/wddbc/post.htm
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Native English teacher at Mister Micawber's

[Torsten]

Hello Charles,

Thank you very much for this suggestion which is excellent. We are going to start a major overhaul of our site in January 2011 and we will incorporate CAE reading comprehension tests in the new version.

In the meantime, I'd like to continue working on the ESL Test Guidelines you and Alan have started. There are a lot of very valuable ideas and we now need to reorganize the information including those test question samples you suggested in your PDF document.

I will also answer your other post regarding the direction english-test.net is going to take in the future. In the meantime, I'd like to thank you for all your useful input. I really appreciate that.

Talk to you soon,
Torsten

TOEIC short conversations: A client wants to speak to his accountant on the phone

[Mister Micawber]

[Torsten]

Hi Charles,

It will be sufficient if we simply add your examples and explanations to Alan's Guidelines.

TOEIC short conversations: A catering customer orders food by phone

[Mister Micawber]

OK, I'll try to polish some corners and get it back to you all for review ASAP.
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Native English teacher at Mister Micawber's

[Torsten]

Sounds great, Charles. I look forward to your next submission.

TOEIC short conversations: An employee ask her co-worker for small change

[Mister Micawber]

It would also be good to include the publication date with other test information submitted (I hadn't thought of this when I sent you the updated guidelines). Would the Author Tool software be able to record that initial submission date automatically? And even revision dates?
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Native English teacher at Mister Micawber's

[Torsten]

Hi Charles, many thanks for bringing this up. I've added the feature to our 'to-do-list'.

TOEIC short conversations: A customer books a flight to Tokyo.