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Everything you need to teach PTE

Explore our range of resources to support lesson planning, scoring, and classroom teaching.

Official coursebooks

Our courseware supports learners and teachers prepare for PTE. It develops language skills and test strategies across speaking, writing, reading, and listening, and provides teachers with ready-to-use resources to guide lessons and track progress.

Front cover of New edition: Official Guide to PTE Academic

New edition: Official Guide to PTE Academic

Includes everything teachers need to know to become familiar with the test structure and task types, manage a computer-based test, and develop preparation strategies. Available in an eBook or print version.

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Front cover of New edition: PTE Academic Expert: B1

New edition: PTE Academic Expert: B1

A step-by-step approach to preparing your learners for PTE Academic by developing their language awareness and understanding of the test at B1/B1+ levels. Includes access to online practice and additional resources.

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Front cover of New edition: PTE Academic Expert: B2

New edition: PTE Academic Expert: B2

A step-by-step approach to preparing your learners for PTE Academic by developing their language awareness and understanding of the test at B2/B2+ levels. Includes access to online practice and additional resources.

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Front cover of New: PTE Core Preparation Course: 8-9

New: PTE Core Preparation Course: 8-9

A 20-hour digital learning course supporting test takers with the general English skills assessed in the PTE Core test. Designed for learners targeting CLB level 8-9. Includes additional teacher resources to support with lesson planning and delivery.

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Free practice materials

Smart Prep provides a wide range of free, skill-specific materials to help you prepare your learners toward test success:

  • Guided Practice Tests: get your learners to practice individual skills or all skills combined.
  • Study Plan: follow a step-by-step guide to help you structure your learner's preparation.
  • Online courses: access videos and practice tasks to help you get to know the test.
  • Test tip documents: equip your learners with strategies for tackling every question type.
  • Test format videos: understand the test structure, format and question types to better prepare your learners.

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PTE Academic Offline Practice Test

Download our free PTE Academic Offline Practice Test, designed to help learners prepare effectively for every question type, including Summarize Group Discussion and Respond to a Situation.This resource includes multiple sample questions, audio prompts, and sample responses. 

Simply download the ZIP folder and share it with your learners for independent practice, or select specific questions to use in class for targeted teaching.

Download PTE Academic Offline Practice Test (ZIP, 39.5MB)

PTE Academic preparation course outline

This free course outline PDF will help you to design a preparation course for PTE Academic. It includes suggested focus areas for lessons, structured around the communicative skills of listening, reading, speaking, and writing, plus their sub-skills.

Download prep course outline (PDF, 0.46MB)

Lesson plans

Get expert test-taking strategies for each PTE Academic question type with our lesson plans. Each one takes you through a five-step approach to introducing and practicing authentic question types.

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Academic collocations

Collocations – pairs of words that occur regularly together – are a natural part of the English language, and natural use of collocations are an indication of a person’s general English proficiency.   

Our comprehensive Academic Collocation List can help learners increase their proficiency in academic English, and support PTE teachers in their lesson planning.

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Explore the Getting started with PTE Core Teacher Guide

Set your learners up for success with the help of our Getting started with PTE Core Teacher Guide. It contains a detailed analysis of question types along with prep strategies, and support on how to plan a PTE Core syllabus.

Download the guide (PDF, 6.7MB)

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Where next?

Smart Prep

Access both free and paid-for preparation resources for your learners, split by skill. All you need to do is set up a free myPTE account.

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Lesson ideas

Get lesson plan ideas with expert test-taking strategies for each question type, including a five-step approach to introducing and practicing authentic question types.

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