Candidate preparation
You should look at all the Language Learning web pages to find:
- writing, reading, listening and speaking sample tests
- ways to practise your test taking skills
- information about specific English language areas which may be different to other languages
- some indication of what examiners look for when they are assessing your language
- Official UBELT Practice Tests.
Candidate preparation
This test is a communicative language test. Candidates should seek to extend their general language skills by practising their speaking with others, listening to British radio and television, reading newspapers and professional magazines in English and/ or attending general English classes.
All test topics and situations will be either professionally or personally familiar.
The test skills that are useful to practise are: reading and writing with a time limit, and writing notes of main information while listening, e.g. to the news. Candidates can get some language test familiarity by practising any kind of listening or reading test .
- if you are working in the UK, reading through documents and leaflets at your surgery will give you reading practice and useful vocabulary. Why not check the pronunciation of new language with your colleagues?
- UBELT have developed a number of profession specific Official UBELT Practice Tests. These practice tests have been written for candidates preparing for UBELT Tests.
Resources for dentists
- Department of Health Chief Dental Officer
- Dentist On The Web
- Bulletin Board for Libraries (UK Joint Academic Network)
- General Dental Council.
English language books and CD-ROMs specifically for dentists, which we have seen and which look very comprehensive are:
- 'Open Your English Wide!!!' by K. Studzinska-Pasieka and Marcin Otto (publisher is BESTOM, Poland) ISBN 83-902873-8-2. The publisher can be contacted directly at Bestom
- ‘English For Dentistry’ by Genowefa A. Wawer and Ewa Stańska-Bugaj (publisher is PZWL, Poland) ISBN 978-83-200-3523-0.
These books are very in-depth, so will require a lot of time.
Resources for doctors
English language books and CD-ROMs specifically for doctors, which we have seen and which look very comprehensive are:
- ‘Good Practice' by Marie McCullagh and Ros Wright (publisher is Cambridge University Press, England) ISBN 978-05-217-5591-7
- ‘Professional English in Use Medicine’ by Eric Glendinning and Ron Howard (publisher is Cambridge University Press, England) ISBN 978-05-216-8201-5.
These books are very in-depth, so will require a lot of time.
Resources for pharmacists
- Bulletin Board for Libraries (UK Joint Academic Network)
- Department of Health Chief Pharmaceutical Officer
- General Pharmaceutical Council.
English language books and CD-ROMs specifically for pharmacists, which we have seen and which look very comprehensive are:
- ‘English for Pharmacists' by Anna W. Kierczak (publisher is PZWL, Poland) ISBN 83-200310-7-9
- ‘Minor Illness or Major Disease?’ by Clive Edwards & Paul Stillman (publisher is Pharmaceutical Press) ISBN 08-536932-6-9.
These books are very in-depth, so will require a lot of time.
