• ONLINE RESULTS RELEASE DATES (.pdf format)
  
  
• CAMBRIDGE ESOL NEWSROOM

Here you can also find early announcements such as:

• Changes to the syllabus of an exam
• Changes following an exam review process
• Our centre's next annual September teaching seminar
• Swiss Cambridge ESOL conferences
• and helpful information for teachers, schools and candidates
  

Saturday, 18 September 2010

The seminar will be dedicated to the following area:

FCE / CAE
Part 1 - Assessing Speaking
Part 2 - Focusing on developing the effective communication skills tested

Registration closed

• Teacher’s Notes which explain in detail how to use the Student Worksheets in class
• Student Worksheets which can be photocopied or printed
• Set of candidate visuals to use in class for realistic Speaking test practice
• DVD showing real students taking a PET Speaking Test so that students can see what they will have to do on the day of the test.

• KET, PET, KET (S) & PET (S)
• FCE, CAE & CPE
• BEC PRELIMINARY, BEC VANTAGE AND BEC HIGHER

• KET & KET for Schools
• PET & PET for Schools
• FCE, CAE & CPE
• BEC Preliminary, BEC Vantage & Higher

Each pack contains:

• Ten copies of each of the exam papers
• Speaking Test materials, which include candidate visuals and interlocutor scripts
• Teacher booklet containing answer keys, mark schemes and sample answers for Writing, tapescripts for the listening paper, and the assessment criteria and a copy of the Cambridge ESOL Common Scale for the Speaking paper
• Resource Booklet with photocopiable answer sheets, so the packs can be reused with different groups of students
• CD with audio recordings for the Listening paper.

The new packs are cheaper than it would have been previously to buy 10 papers plus a CD.  The new packs also contain additional features such as removable visuals for the Speaking tests, in colour where  relevant (they were previously only supplied in black & white and were not in a format that could be readily used), and photocopiable answer papers, so the packs can be reused time and time again with different groups of students.

• Different options to choose from: Test Mode (in exam conditions) or Learner Mode (with additional help during the test)
• Full practice test for Reading, Writing, Listening and Use of English (where relevant)
• Automatic scoring for Reading, Listening and Use of English
• Sample answers for Writing
• Detailed score report and answer feedback for candidates.

The latest version of Top Tips for FCE now comes with an interactive CD-ROM, but retains the features that make it the best selling Cambridge ESOL publication to date.  Written by Cambridge ESOL examiners with many years’ experience of setting and marking FCE, Top Tips for FCE provides candidates with essential advice (‘tips’) for each of the five FCE papers and comes in a convenient A5 format which is easy to use.

Students can work through the book and then practise what they have learned by trying the real exam paper on the accompanying CD-ROM (including the recordings for the Listening paper and the answers).  The CD-ROM also includes a video of real students taking the test.

Top Tips for PET, FCE and CAE can be purchased on the Cambridge ESOL eShop site.

Cambridge ESOL exams are increasingly being used in primary and lower secondary education around the world. Cambridge ESOL is therefore now offering a range of exams which are specially tailored to suit the interests of school pupils from approximately 15/16 and under. KET and PET for Schools exams follow exactly the same format and have identical task types to the existing standard KET and PET. The difference is that the content and treatment of topics has been particularly targeted at the interests and experience of students of a younger age. Teachers handbooks as well as promotional leaflets are available upon request.

The benefits to students include:

• It is felt that to specially tailor the exam content to suit the interests of pupils will in turn increase their motivation to learn English.
• Because it is based on familiar topics and situations, KET and PET for schools give pupils the confidence to use their English.
• Greater enthusiasm to carry on learning.

The latest Cambridge ESOL Newsletter for teachers is now available.

Newsletter 31 includes the following features:

• Online community for English teachers goes live
• Advanced exam is "English for university" choice
• Research Notes focus on quality assurance
• Ensuring the quality and accuracy of speaking test assessment
• New English Profile book to give insight at "C" levels

Check out the following Website where you can find the latest and previous issues of Cambridge ESOL's newsletter:

www.cambridgeesol.org/about_us/newsletters.htm

If you wish to be placed on the mailing list for the Cambridge first Newsletter, which is issued several times per year, contact Cambridge ESOL Information either by e-mail:
ESOLinfo@CambridgeESOL.org or Fax 0044 1223 46 02 78.

The new Cambridge ESOL Teacher Support website has now been launched. The website provides an invaluable, user-friendly resource for all teachers preparing candidates for Cambridge ESOL exams. New features include:

• an interactive file-sharing area which allows you to download materials such as lesson plans, rate and comment on other people’s materials and their own upload teaching materials
• a new ‘Advice for Teachers’ section offering teaching tips and strategies for every paper of each exam
• an events areas that allows you to search for events according to location and exam
• an online booking form for teacher seminars
• discussion forums where you can interact with other teachers as well as directly with Cambridge ESOL
• links to publishers and published materials for each exam
• access to handbooks for each exam, sample papers, exam reports and further information on teaching awards.

Visit the website now at www.teachers.cambridgeesol.org