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20 Jan 2017

Resources for Cambridge English: Advanced

TagsC1 Advanced, Cambridge English, English Profile, resources

I thought I’d share the list of resources I’ve put together for preparing students for Cambridge English: Advanced. I shared many of these with teachers at my seminars in San Sebastian last week on this exam. There are so many resources...

13 Jan 2017

Collated ideas from Cambridge English: Advanced Reading and Use of English seminar

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsC1 Advanced, Cambridge English, Cambridge English Seminars, reading

Today’s seminars on the Cambridge English: Advanced exam in San Sebastian were full of sharing ideas. So, thought I’d share a few of them in this post! I started the first session (I did two this morning) by asking teachers...

11 Dec 2016

Get your students to bring English into the classroom

Posted ByAnne Robinson

Tagsfun, grammar, spelling, vocabulary

English is all around. Certainly here in Spain. Walk into any big clothes shop, and you’ll find English on the front of so many T-shirts. (Of course, the problem is, that not all the spelling or grammar is correct! I...

5 Dec 2016

Cambridge English Development Programme 2017

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsCambridge English, events, Teacher Training

In 2016, I began a new stage in my career – being a tutor on the Cambridge English Development Programme. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience and ‘connected’ with a lot of great teachers all over Spain. At the end of...

29 Nov 2016

8Way Thinking Questions for Describing photos in Cambridge English: Preliminary Speaking

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsB1 Preliminary, Cambridge English, conferences, creativity, speaking

In many ways, the describe-the-photo-task in the Cambridge English: Preliminary Speaking Test is probably one of the most difficult tasks of any of the speaking tests in the Cambridge English Language Assessment exams. Finding enough things to say about a...

18 Nov 2016

Barcelona here I come!

Posted ByAnne Robinson

Just checking the last details before I get in the car to drive to Bilbao, then fly to Barcelona. No flights to Barcelona from Santander today at the right time unfortunately! I’m really looking forward to the Exams Catalunya Conference....

17 Nov 2016

Classroom Wait time, Think time and Rehearse Time

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsCambridge English, conferences, creativity, fun, questions, speaking

Recently the subject of wait time has cropped up again and again when I’ve been researching the subject of questions and questioning in the classroom. When I asked teachers at my session in the ACEIA conference in Seville to say...

14 Nov 2016

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Resources for Cambridge English: Advanced

Collated ideas from Cambridge English: Advanced Reading and Use of English seminar

Get your students to bring English into the classroom

Cambridge English Development Programme 2017

8Way Thinking Questions for Describing photos in Cambridge English: Preliminary Speaking

Barcelona here I come!

Classroom Wait time, Think time and Rehearse Time

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