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Special sale until the end of this year! If you are preparing your students for the A2 Key, A2 Key for Schools, B1 Preliminary or B1 Preliminary for Schools exam in 2019, take advantage of our current 20% discount on all the following books available in our Online Shop.  

Cambridge Assessment English is happy to provide schools that actively prepare candidates for the Cambridge English Exams with the logo below to help promote exam preparation courses. Have a look! If you are a Cambridge English Preparation Centre, you are welcome to use the preparation centre logo: Should you be interested  in using this preparation centre logo, please fill in this form.

Have a look at this new video produced by Cambridge Assessment English on the Cambridge English Qualifications. What do the Cambridge English Qualifications mean to all the test takers around the world and how are they produced?  

The set text question is in Part 2 of the Writing Paper and is one of four questions candidates can choose from during this part. Candidates should not attempt the optional set text question in Part 2 unless they have the necessary vocabulary and understanding of the text to answer the task set. Set texts for C2 Proficiency January 2018 – December 2019: Colm Tóibín: Brooklyn (any edition); film directed by John Crowley (2015) M.L. Stedman: The Light Between Oceans (any edition); film directed by Derek Cianfrance (2016)

Register now for the upcoming free Workshop with John Potts on the topic: “Developing and Assessing Writing Skills at C1 and C2”. (limited space) In this practical workshop teachers will establish and clarify the assessment scales that are applied to the Writing Component in C1 Advanced (CAE) and C2 Proficiency (CPE). In addition, a focus on activities will be incorporated that will help the learners to develop their writing skills. When: 20 September 2019 / 13.00 – 17.00

Linguaskill helps institutions test candidates easily and reliably. The test provides them with fast results which are aligned to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR), the international standard for describing language competences. We are pleased to share a major improvement to the speaking test for Linguaskill.   Before Until now Linguaskill it was needed to book speaking sessions at least 5 days in advance.

Have you not yet placed your book order for your class after the summer holidays? Have a look at our online shop and reserve the books for your students now! Preparation Centres get a 20 % discount. If you are one of our Cambridge English Exam Preparation Centres you have a 20% discount on all Cambridge University Press publications. Our Preparation Centres also profit from a lot of free material such as handbooks for teachers and leaflets.

This year we are celebrating our 30th Centre Anniversary. We would like to share some details of our history and thank everyone for this success! 1989 

The following gives you an insight into independent vocabulary learning. An interesting article from the Research Notes of Cambridge Assessment English. AIDA SAHUTOGLU ST GILES LONDON CENTRAL Introduction Nowadays, learner autonomy (LA) seems to be widely promoted in the EFL world through offering students a variety of independent learning strategies (LS).

The EnglishProfile.org was introduced at our annual Cambridge English Spring Seminar. In case you missed it, you now have the chance to get some video tutorials on this helpful online tool. English Profile enables instructors and educationalists to understand what the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) means for English. It portrays what parts of English are ordinarily learned at each CEFR level. This tells educators, educational programme designers, course-book writers, and test scholars what performance can be expected at which level.