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23 Nov 2021

Working on the Past Simple at A1 Movers

TagsA1 Movers, games, grammar, Tips, Wordlists

On the A1 Movers grammar and structures list in the A1 Movers Handbook, the Past simple positive, negative and question forms, as well as short answer forms and contractions appear on the list of grammar and structures. On the A1...

12 Oct 2021

Webinar recording: Moving up to B1 Preliminary

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsA2 Key, B1 Preliminary, Cambridge English, news, webinar

I was delighted to be asked to present the webinar: Moving up to B1 Preliminary for Cambridge English. The webinar focused on the areas of language and competency that students need to develop in order to move up from A2...

21 Sep 2021

B1 Preliminary Writing checklists

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsB1 Preliminary, resources, Tips, writing

In today’s post, I’m sharing some checklists to use with B1 Preliminary students. Getting students to check their answer once they’ve finished writing is always a struggle. So, to encourage them to do this, and hopefully reinforce the layout, language...

14 Sep 2021

Approaching a new (exam) task

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsB1 Preliminary, engaging with exam tasks, reading, speaking

When you’re preparing students for an exam, there will be tasks which will be new to them and may seem unrelated to real life. You don’t normally read a news story or article and answer multiple choice questions about it!...

26 Aug 2021

Beginning a new school year

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsTips

Today, I’m speaking for Cambridge University Press and Cambridge Assessment English at a conference for Ukraine, the Back to School conference. To start off my first session, I’m going to show teachers a letter and give them time to read...

16 May 2021

About A1 Movers Reading and Writing Part 4 and how to do well

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsA1 Movers, Reading and Writing, Tips

In this post, I’ll look at Part 4 of the A1 Movers Reading and Writing Test. Let’s look at a sample part 4 task, taken from Sample Papers 1, available here. In this part of the Test, learners have to...

3 May 2021

Taking a B1 Listening Part 1 question A LOT further

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsB1 Preliminary, listening, writing

In this post, I’m going to share some activities I created around a B1 Listening Part 1 monologue. The question I developed into a whole lesson (or more!) comes from the B1 Preliminary for Schools Listening Part 1. You can...

29 Apr 2021

Engaging with B1 Preliminary Listening Part 1

Posted ByAnne Robinson

TagsB1 Preliminary, Cambridge English, listening, resources, Tips

In this post, I’ll share some ideas for engaging with B1 Preliminary Listening Part 1. Activities for integrating the topic, getting students to use the language in situations that should be meaningful for them. And also, to take them ‘behind...

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