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13 Nov 2020

Fun, Cool Adjectives

TagsA1 Movers, A2 Flyers, adjectives, Pre A1 Starters, vo

Today, I’m going to share some fun, cool activities to practise adjectives. Adjectives are such a useful kind of word, and many of our students just don’t use enough of them, don’t you think? So, in this post, I thought...

26 Oct 2020

Webinar recording and post on the World of Better Learning

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsCambridge ELT blog, Cambridge Live Experience, recording, webinar

The post I wrote for the World of Better Learning and the recording of the webinar I gave in September as part of the Cambridge Live Experience are now available. I announced this webinar on this blog and shared the...

20 Oct 2020

Wording of questions in Cambridge Speaking Tests Part 1

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsA2 Flyers, A2 Key, A2 Key for Schools, A2 Key Speaking, B1 Preliminary, B2 First, B2 First for Schools, C1 Advanced, C2 Proficiency, speaking

In this post, I’m going to look at two areas related to the questions that typically appear in Part 1 of the Cambridge speaking tests: Question types and The wording of the questions. I’m also going to share a worksheet I’ve created...

19 Oct 2020

Personal questions in A2 Key, B1 Preliminary, B2 First speaking tests : Say three things

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsA2 Flyers, A2 Key for Schools, A2 Key Speaking, B1 Preliminary, B2 First, B2 First for Schools, speaking

Very often in Part 1 of the A2 Key, B1 Preliminary and B2 First speaking tests, candidates answer personal questions with very short answers. Let’s look at the breakdown of this part of the speaking test, taken from the B1...

16 Oct 2020

Interacting with Cambridge A2 Key Speaking Part 2

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsA2 Key, A2 Key for Schools, A2 Key Speaking, photos, speaking

In today’s post, I’m going to share ideas for getting students interacting with the task in Cambridge A2 Key Speaking Part 2. I wrote an analysis of this part in a previous post, which you can read here: About A2...

8 Oct 2020

Making language real

Posted ByAnne Robinson

Tagspersonalisation, speaking, vocabulary

This post about making language real follows on from my previous post, about Making grammar real. Let’s look at a vocabulary exercise from Prepare 3 page 35. What help could you give students with task 3? Suggestions Give your own...

7 Oct 2020

Making grammar real

Posted ByAnne Robinson

Tagscreativity, grammar, personalisation, vocabulary

As part of my webinar Make Language Real, I shared some ideas for making grammar real. I’d like to share them in this post. First of all, I shared a short review exercise from Prepare 3 Students’ Book page 30....

7 Oct 2020

Webinar recording: Make language real

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsA2 Key Speaking, grammar, personalisation, vocabulary

If you follow this link, you can watch and listen to the webinar: Make language real. I gave the webinar on August 26th for Cambridge University Press ELT Ukraine. I wanted to share ideas for bringing the language in coursebooks,...

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