TEST TOPICS

テスト出題内容

EPT® 出題内容

1. 以下のような簡単な質問を2.3題問われます。(発言内容の審査ではなく発音チェックのための質問です。)
What is your number? 【 → My number is ~ .】
What is the date today? 【 → Today is ( month )(date), (year ).】
2. アルファベットをゆっくりと読み上げます。
3. 短い会話文を読み上げます。
4. 初見の英文(約100ワード強)を30秒間黙読した後、音読します。
5. 課題文を読み上げます。

課題文

掲載期間

2023年11月 〜 2024年2月 の課題文を掲載しています。
※ 次回試験の課題文は 2024年3月1日 に更新予定です。

課題文

次の①、②、③の何れかが課題文として出題されます。

  • ① Grandparents Andrew and Amanda loved their grandparents very much and would go every summer to Seattle to spend several weeks with them. They would go camping and to the beach in grandpa and grandma’s motorhome. One of grandpa’s favorite keepsakes was a photo I had taken of him walking hand in hand with my daughter, Amanda, when she was older. Last year, my daughter had the wonderful idea of re-enacting a photo that they had taken with grandpa and grandma twenty years earlier when they were young children. So, we did just that. At the time, no one knew that grandpa would unexpectedly die in less than a year. So now, those two photos, taken twenty years apart, are very precious and wonderful reminders of the great love my children had for their grandpa and grandma.
    (by Dr. Glen Baker)
    参考音声:
    • アメリカ発音男性

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  • ② Mt. Rainier National Park Ascending to 14,410 feet Mount Rainier is the tallest mountain in Washington State and the Cascade Mountain range. The area around Mt. Rainier is a very beautiful and scenic area to visit. Mt. Rainier is an active volcano and is the most glaciated peak in the contiguous United States, having 26 glaciers, and it is the source of five major rivers. It was in 1899 that President William McKinley established Mt. Rainier National Park as America’s fifth national park. There are many beautiful alpine meadows and lakes and the park includes abundant wildlife. Growing up in the Seattle area, Mt. Rainier was always very visible to me and was one of my favorite places to visit. My family would go there often to camp and to hike on the many mountain trails.
    (by Dr. Glen Baker)
    参考音声:
    • アメリカ発音男性

    • アメリカ発音女性

  • ③ The Summer Palace A number of years ago I was living in Beijing, China where I was principal of a large International Private School. One of my favorite places to visit was the beautiful Beijing Summer Palace which is said to be the best-preserved imperial garden in the world, and the largest of its kind still in existence in China. It is listed as a World Heritage site, a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design. The highlights of the park include Kunming Lake, the Long Corridor, Longevity Hill, the Marble Boat, and the Garden of Virtue and Harmony. There is also a famous and beautiful 17-hole bridge. It is 150 meters long and looks like a long rainbow above the blue water. The paths along the lake lead you under shady trees or along a narrow-roofed colonnade known as the Long Corridor, that contains magnificently painted ceilings.
    (by Dr. Glen Baker)
    参考音声:
    • アメリカ発音男性

    • アメリカ発音女性

EPT® basic 出題例

初見文はありません。単語パートは、例題のような単語が(記載の数)出題されます。

例題

  • 1)What’s your number?
  • 2)What’s the date today?
  • 3)Read the alphabet aloud. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
  • 4)Read the minimal pairs aloud.(15 pairs) 【EXAMPLE】
    (1) wrong – long (2) map – mop (3) win – wing
    (4) hard – heard (5) shell – sell (6) been – bean
    (7) age – edge (8) fear – hear (9) couch – coach
    (10) work – walk (11) pull – pool (12) very – berry
    (13) said – sad (14) learn – lean (15) path – pass
  • 5)Read the words aloud.(15 words) 【EXAMPLE】
    (1) Japan (2) themselves (3) Tuesday (4) February (5) hungry
    (6) manager (7) delicious (8) theme (9) yellow (10) 1:40
    (11) excuse (12) regular (13) voice (14) leisure (15) chicken
  • 6) Read the conversation aloud. 【EXAMPLE】
    A: I’m home!
    B: Hey, how was your day?
    A: It was great, I ran into John during lunch.
    B: Oh, you did? I haven’t seen John in a long time!
    How is he doing?
    A: He is doing well. He just moved into a new apartment in Boston!
  • 7) Read the phrases aloud. (10 phrases) 【EXAMPLE】
    (1) in the morning (2) by the way (3) looks good
    (4) open your heart (5) make an appointment
    (6) beautiful flowers (7) pretty woman
    (8) a phone call (9) heavy rain and strong wind
    (10)sightseeing tour
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