Are you struggling to make essay writing more engaging for B2 and C1 exam students with fun writing activities? Often, the challenge with teaching writing lies in making learning these skills enjoyable. That’s where creative writing activities like this one come into play. We’ve developed a dynamic activity called the consequences essay-writing game, designed to […]
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Often the difference between a pass and a fail in B1 exams is the minor details such as choosing the right words in B1 fixed phrases, dependent prepositions and collocations. These can be challenging because you have to notice the individual words. You may understand the phrase perfectly when reading or listening, but when it
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Dependent prepositions exercises are a pain in the neck for many who are preparing for a Cambridge exam. Prepositions pop up all over the place in Cambridge exams, especially in Use of English Part 2, the open cloze task, whether it is B2 or C1 level. While we often focus on phrasal verbs, which include
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Past simple is a grammar point which you start to learn early on, but can take some time to use well. There are about 200 irregular verbs to learn as well as different forms for positives, negatives and questions. By the time you are ready to take a B1 official exam like the Cambridge Preliminary
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With the Christmas season and the New Year upon us, it’s time to start thinking about what Christmas activities we can use in class. With this seasonal activity, we can practise the new Preliminary (PET) Reading Part 4, which is a gapped text. The text itself is one of my childhood favourites, Rudolph the Red-Nosed
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Giving advice is such a key area of functional language. It’s useful in real life and it’s useful for official exams. For the collaborative task in Trinity ISE II and ISE III, it’s essential! This is one of my favourite activities to practise giving advice in a fun and communicative way at B2 level. Your
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Like it or not, emoji are part of our modern lives 😉. Kids and grandparents 👴👵 alike love 💖 them. So let’s use emoji to encourage our student to write 👍✍. With these materials, we explore how to write a story for the Preliminary (PET) Writing Part 2, using emoji as a tool to promote
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Have you ever taught the present perfect and past simple to a B1 group? I definitely have! This is one of my favourite activities to practise present perfect and past simple. Your students ask and answer questions, but the twist is that they have to lie. Then, using their powers of deduction, they have to
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Word formation is probably the easiest part of Cambridge exams to gamify (from the root word GAME of course). Use any of these word formation games as a quick intro or filler for your classes. Most of them require little to no preparation so you can keep them in your bag of TEFL tricks for
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Reading Part 1 of the PET exam consists of 5 questions. The candidate has to read the information on short notes or signs and decide the correct answer from 3 multiple choice options. Learning how to do PET Reading Part 1 is the first step on your student’s road to passing their exam. It is
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