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21 Sep 2023

About Cambridge B1 Preliminary Reading Part 6

In Part 6 of the Cambridge B1 Preliminary (and Preliminary for Schools) Reading paper, candidates have to read a short text of between 120 and 150 words. There are six gaps which they have to complete with one word. Let’s...

19 Sep 2023

How to do well in Pre-A1 Starters Listening Part 4

Posted ByAnne Robinson

Tagslistening, Pre A1 Starters, Tips, young learners

Today, I’d like to share some tips for helping students do well in Pre-A1 Starters Listening Part 4. I analysed this task in a previous post about Pre-A1 Starters Listening Part 4. Let me share some tips to pass on...

8 Sep 2023

B2 First Essay Writing Checklist

Posted ByAnne Robinson

In this post, I’m going to share my Writing Checklist for the B2 First and B2 First for Schools essay. A while back, I shared the B1 Writing Checklists I’d created. But I hadn’t got round to sharing any of...

6 Sep 2023

B2 First Review Analysis and Checklist

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsB2 First, B2 First for Schools, Reviews, Tips

In today’s post, I’m going to analyse the review task which could appear in Part 2 of the B2 First and B2 First for Schools writing paper. As I said in my previous post, many students, including our teenage students,...

3 Sep 2023

Cambridge English: First Review Writing using tools from English Profile

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsB2 First, B2 First for Schools, Cambridge English, English Profile, grammar, resources, Reviews, vocabulary, writing

In this post, I share some activities and tips, based on English Profile. Writing a review In the past, this might not have been a ‘real-life’ skill for many of our students, but nowadays, with sites like Tripadvisor or Booking.com,...

28 Aug 2023

Writing different sentence types for A1 Movers Reading and Writing Part 6

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsA1 Movers, fun, Tips, writing, young learners

In Part 6 of the A1 Movers Reading and Writing test, students are asked to write two sentences of their own. Before this, (in questions 1-4), they are asked to compete two sentences and answer two questions (questions 3-4). For...

24 Aug 2023

About A1 Movers Reading and Writing Part 6

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsA1 Movers, writing, young learners

In Part 6 of the A1 Movers Reading and Writing Part 6, learners have to do three different things. They are given a big, colour picture where there are usually lots of things and some people. Let’s look at the...

20 Apr 2023

How to write an article for B1 Preliminary

Posted ByAnne Robinson

In this post, I’m going to share some tips on how to write an article for B1 Preliminary. You may find my checklists for B1 Preliminary Writing useful too. Let’s look at the B1 Preliminary for Schools sample writing task,...

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