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Resources for NCEA 1.4 (Aural)

Everything you need to get your NCEA level 1 students up to Achievement with Excellence level!

The Teachers’ Guide to Ear Training | Student Revision Guide | Ultimate Guide | Volume One | Volume Two
2002 Exemplar | Specials


The Teachers’ Guide to Ear Training

The Teachers' Guide to Ear Training

This book and CD package focuses on giving teachers strategies, techniques and exercises for teaching beginner ear training to their year 9-11 students. Rather than just being a resource with lots of testing exercises (like the ‘Ultimate Classroom Workbook’ series) this resource includes a method of teaching ear training to beginners.

Through a combination of learning about intervals, melodies and chord progressions students will quickly develop well-rounded and proficient musical recognition skills

This book and CD contains over 100 musical examples for developing your students’ ear training skills. Exercises can be either, teacher directed, student directed or peer-to-peer directed (co-operative learning). You, the teacher, will be able to monitor your students’ progress through a series of student self-evaluation exercises so you will know exactly how quickly to move on to new and more challenging exercises.

Also included is an end of course exam similar to what students will encounter in external national assessments.

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The Ultimate Student Revision Guide - Vol. 1

Formerly the "NCEA 1.4 (Aural Student Revision Guide"

This student guide is designed to assist NCEA level 1 students with their preparation for the NZQA external exam. The guide consists of:

20 Chord Recognition exercises (ten with melody and ten without).

10 General Perception exercises.

20 Melodic and Rhythmic notation exercises (all two-part melodies).

All 50 questions are accompanied by an assessment schedule which is modeled on the NZQA guidelines. The book is accompanied by an audio CD.

All musical examples have been specially composed and recorded for the Student Guide so there is no overlappng with the Ultimate Guide (which many teachers have purchased).

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Click here for a free sample of seven questions with MP3's in this zip file. Just download, upzip and you can view a sample question & answer guide and hear the accompanied audio files.

 


Ultimate Guide  

Here is the ultimate resource for teachers of NCEA 1.4 (aural).

There are over 170 pages of aural examples including 75 Melodic dictation, 28 General Perception and 40 Chord Recognition examples played by Violin, Cello, Oboe, Clarinet, Flute, Trombone, Trumpet, Guitar, Bass Guitar and Piano. They are in the form of question and answer sections with the accompanying audio on CD. All questions have been set out in the format which is used for the NZQA external exams.

In each section the questions start at a low level of difficulty building up to excellence level of difficulty. For example, the melodic dictation questions start out with all melodies using minim (or half-note) and crotchet (or quarter-note) rhythms with step-wise melodic figures. The examples steadily increase in difficulty employing quaver (or 1/8 note) rhythms and intervals of 3rds, 4ths & 5ths, 6ths and octaves and the time signatures of 3/4 and 6/8.

I am convinced that this resource combined with good teaching will enable any motivated student to gain achievement with excellence in the NCEA 1.4 external exam.

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Volume One

Two exams based on NZQA assessments and exemplars. This resource closely emulates the type and style and the level of difficulty of the questions that will be encountered in the NZQA external assessments. This resource comes on a CD-ROM and includes:

Student question booklet

Teacher assessment guide and answer booklet. The assessment guide has the modified assessment structure that will be employed in this year's NZQA external assessment.

Audio CD with aural questions - the audio recordings use real instruments such as violin, oboe, flute clarinet, trumpet, cello, trombone, guitar and bass guitar and have been recorded on Pro Tools LE.

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Click here for a free sample of a question with MP3 file in this 2.1 MB zip file. Just download, upzip and you can view a sample question & answer guide and hear the accompanied audio files.

 


Volume Two

Two further exams, one with a lower level of difficulty for the purpose of being used as a mid-year exam. This resource closely emulates the type and style and the level of difficulty of the questions that will be encountered in the NZQA external assessments. This resource comes on a CD-ROM and includes:

Student question booklet

Teacher assessment guide and answer booklet. The assessment guide has the modified assessment structure that will be employed in this year's NZQA external assessment.

Audio CD with aural questions - the audio recordings use real instruments such as violin, oboe, flute clarinet, trumpet, cello, trombone, guitar and bass guitar and have been recorded on Pro Tools LE.

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Click here for a free sample of a question with MP3 file in this 2.1 MB zip file. Just download, upzip and you can view a sample question & answer guide and hear the accompanied audio files.

 


2002 Exemplar by Duncan Ferguson 

One practise exam released in October 2002. This has been used by many teachers all around New Zealand in preparation for the 2002 NZQA NCEA 1.4 exam. Included are:

Student question booklet

Teacher assessment guide and answer booklet – please note the answer booklet has been updated to be consistent with the assessment guidelines for the upcoming 2003 NZQA external exam.

Audio CD with aural questions - some MIDI has been used in the compilation of this resource.

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Specials

 

Combo #1

Vol. #1 and Vol. #2

$90.00+GST (save $10)

Combo #2

Vol. #1 and Vol. #2 and 2002 Exemplar

$115.00+GST (save $10)

Combo #3

Vol #1 and #2 and Ultimate Guide

$235.00+GST (save $15)

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