Friday, November 13, 2015

FCE and CAE Planning

Planning Tips

Phrases to start informal letter paragraphs, including
It was ? to hear from you
I’m sorry to ?

7 pieces of advice for all your writing
- what? is king
- obey what?
- be the what? not "a student"
- write to whom?, not (usually) the teacher
- make it look right from where?
- Ex-?
- use what intelligently?


Synomyms
Hope/b---/tr---
Shocked/disa----
Matter/sub----
Ask/req___

Advice for formal letters
What are some of the magic words for making your paragraphs flow?
"Answer me, then we can organise our trip." In an informal letter?
Abbreviations "BTW" and emoticons ";-)" Appropriate?
"Kisses" Nice or nasty?

Collocations for Advanced
Categ---- d----
Dee--- reg---
Sinc---- ho-----
Tot--- rej----
Bad News conversion
I can’t
---------------, I'm ----- I have to ----- you it ----- ----- we ---- not be able to...

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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

PET Test Practice

Links to three tests:

Link 1
Link 2
Link 3



Monday, November 9, 2015

Advanced and Proficiency Writing Correction Activity

Click to view the .ppt

Can you see the pros and cons of the various extracts?

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Wednesday, November 4, 2015

PET Speaking

Thinking about PET Speaking?

Go here for some advice:

Introducting the test
Exam English



Thursday, October 29, 2015

Advanced Essay

Excellent advice for Part 1 of the Writing test here.

Link.


Wednesday, October 28, 2015

PET Reading Practice

Go here for some material to help your assessments:
Exam English


Monday, October 26, 2015

First Essay

A full page of advice on writing essays at First.

Link.