This page is for students in Australia who are studying for the TEG Level A1 examination

Anyone doing the TEG A1 exam will need to first read the syllabus and then work progressively through the study material. Alternatively your teacher may be working from a published textbook or a course, but the bottom line is you must know everything in the syllabus in order to pass the exam. For our local students we have provided some additional documents, as detailed below.

Here is the syllabus in Irish

Here is the syllabus in English

This document explains what you need for the online class, how to use the AnyMeeting software and also shows the timetable for our online classes between now and June 2016

Here is a zipfile of all the documents which make up the study material published by NUIM, it's a large file 66 MB. Use this file if you do not wish to download all the documents individually from the TEG website.

Here is a zipfile of all the audio in the study material, another large file 88 MB. Use this file if you do not wish to download all the audio files individually from the TEG website.

We can also provide students in Australia or NZ with a 3-CD set of all the documents and audio if you need it, but note that copyright in all the material is owned by National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM) and it may not be distributed for profit.

Here is an index to all the documents and audio files which make up the study material. Print this index double sided and staple it as a book so that you have the Irish titles on the LH page and the corresponding English titles on the RH page. Then use it as a checklist to confirm that you now have all the documents and audio files and can find your way around them easily. As it gets closer to the exam you can use this index as a revision aid.

The numbering scheme for the documents and audio included in our zipfiles (see above) is Topaic then hyphen then Bileog. For example, A1 08-07 means Level A1, Topaic 08 Bileog 07 which is entitled Stádas Oibre, or Work Status.

All of the study material provided by the NUIM is in Irish so here is a useful translation for the student instructions for all 14 topics in level A1. Most beginners will need to refer to this in order to get going but as you move ahead you should start to see repeated words and phrases and progressively reduce your reliance on it. Many thanks to Seán and Máire-Áine for their help.

CALLING ALL TEACHERS - If you are teaching an exam class anywhere in Australia or New Zealand and would like to take part in our monthly video-conference for Irish language teachers then please contact us via our facebook page.