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10 Feb 2026

Puzzle your way!

Tagsbooks, Fun for Movers, Fun for Starters, Puzzle your way

Puzzle your way to Starters, Puzzle your way to Movers and Puzzle your way to Flyers are out and available to buy on Amazon! After several months of hard work, I’m thrilled to be able to share this fantastic news!...

13 Nov 2025

About Pre-A1 Starters Digital Reading and Writing Task 1

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsDigital, Pre A1 Starters, Puzzle your way, Tips, young learners

What is tested in Pre-A1 Starters Digital Reading and Writing Task 1? Task 1 of the Pre-A1 Starters Reading and Writing is called Information posters. There are five questions. In each question, students see a poster with some text. On...

7 Oct 2025

About Pre-A1 Starters Digital Reading and Writing Part 3

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsCambridge English, Pre A1 Starters, Puzzle your way, Tips, young learners

What is Pre-A1 Starters Digital Reading and Writing? Students will do Pre-A1 Starters Digital Reading and Writing Test after the Pre-A1 Starters Listening Test. What do students have to do in Part 3 of Pre-Starters Digital Reading and Writing? In...

3 Sep 2025

Interacting with B1 Preliminary Reading Part 2

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsB1 Preliminary, classroom activities, reading

More than three years ago, I wrote about How to approach B1 Preliminary Reading Part 2. In today’s post, I’m going to suggest a few ideas for working on this task in class, and making it more interactive. To make...

23 Apr 2025

Fun practice for Pre-A1 Starters Reading and Writing Part 3

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsPre A1 Starters, spelling, Tips, young learners

Inspired by a request from a teacher for more resources to practise for Pre-A1 Starters Reading and Writing Part 3, I decided to write a post with some hands-on activities. I suggest using ready-made resources from Cambridge. For example, The...

12 Mar 2025

Creating photo speaking tasks for B2 First and C1 Advanced

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsB2 First, B2 First for Schools, C1 Advanced, Cambridge English, speaking

In this post, I’m going to share some ideas for creating tasks to practise comparing photos for Part 2 of the B2 First and C1 Advanced speaking tests. I suggest that prior to using the ideas below, you do the...

10 Mar 2025

Using mobile photos for the Cambridge speaking photo tasks

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsB2 First, B2 First for Schools, C1 Advanced, Cambridge, photos, speaking

An obvious resource to draw on to help students prepare for the photo tasks in the Cambridge speaking tests are mobile photos. Today, I’m going to share a lesson plan based around a short video advert. The idea is to encourage...

3 Mar 2025

Why do Cambridge and writers love rhetorical questions?

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsB2 First, B2 First for Schools, C1 Advanced, C2 Proficiency, questions, writing

Rhetorical questions are loved by everyone – writers, teachers and Cambridge examiners. too! Why is this the case? Just what are rhetorical questions? If we look up rhetorical question in the Cambridge Dictionary, we get this explanation: So, they are...

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