Share In the Cambridge Advanced and Proficiency writing exams, the quality of answers depends on very good organisation of ideas and topics. In this post we’ll look at one aspect of writing that can help you do that – topic sentences. What are Topic Sentences? A topic sentence is a sentence, quite often at the […]
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Share Unreal Past An unreal past structure is one that considers impossible situations. While past conditional forms are the most obvious, there are also a number of other ways we can talk about such scenarios. We’ll take a look here at the variety of forms we can use and how we use them. Second Conditional
Share So how do you pick the right Cambridge exam for you? Well, you can take a Cambridge online test and see for yourself. It’s a good place to start and it gives you a good general idea of your level. What next? You need time to prepare. Even if you’re at about the right level, give yourself
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Share Nominalisations: Other words as nouns Nominalisation describes a word formation in which a verb (or other part of speech) is used as (or transformed into) a noun. We’ll take a look at why we use them and why these noun forms can be useful in formal writing. Explanation When we use verb forms it makes
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Share Using Inversion in English Using inversion in English is a way of changing the information placed at the beginning of a sentence and in this post we will look at a variety of methods we can use to do this. Because it changes the focus on information it can be a very good approach
Share Writing Paragraphs Paragraphs are a very important part of writing essays and other forms of writing as they help us to communicate information more clearly to a reader. In this diagram we show how we organise our ideas and how to write essay paragraphs, in English. Topic Sentences The topic sentence is the introduction
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Share We talk about Cambridge English exams on English Too. From time to time people ask questions about the IELTS exam, so in this post we’ll talk about comparing IELTS scores to the different Cambridge exams. What is IELTS? IELTS or the International English Language Testing System is the most popular English test for higher
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Share The Cambridge Advanced Writing Marking scheme covers fours areas and here we will take a look at how each one reflects what people have written. Each element is 5 marks, with a total of 20 marks for each writing task. The four areas are as follows. What is each component about? Content
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Share Speaking C1 Evaluation The Cambridge C1 Advanced or C1 speaking exam is evaluated under a number of categories. Here we’ll take a look at what these C1 speaking scores are and how each of the categories is used to arrive at these scores. C1 Scoring Categories The first thing to point out about all
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The Cambridge exams are a test of what you know, what you can write and what you can say. Here we’ll take a “fun” look at a few ways candidates can often try to show that knowledge. Some are great – some maybe not so much!
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