![]() ![]() Take the example above about why products become best sellers. You aren't expected to be an expert in the topic. You get 10 seconds to gather your thoughts before you have to start talking. DO listen - you'll have to join the discussion. When your speaking test partner is talking, don't speak. I created a structure for the BEC Higher exam that you could adapt. Could you talk intelligently about this for 120 seconds?ĭevelop a strategy that will let you talk for 2 minutes in a coherent way. You have to talk about a topic - on your own - for TWO MINUTES. This is a bit different from what you're used to doing at CAE. You know, like you'd do in your own language. Anything that helps you manage the discussion. Phrases like 'shall we talk about the next picture?' are still relevant. It's also still important to take turns, to be a good listener, and to make sure you follow the task. As such, there are lots of the same skills needed - speculating, negotiating, comparing, agreeing and disagreeing etc. This is like the collaborative task in CAE. Now some tips for each section, the most important being the speaking test. Get words from your passive vocabulary into your active vocabulary. Oh, and important tip 2: Activate new vocabĪll those words you're learning? USE them. Read the news in English, read The New Yorker, read The Economist. ![]() That all leads us to the first, most important tip:Ĭreate a little English bubble that you can live in at least a few hours a week. You'd better buy some flashcards.Īs you'd expect, the reading texts are longer, and the listening texts are harder and faster. Dependent prepositions, phrasal verbs, idioms - oh, lordy! Hundreds of high-level new words. What you do get with Objective Proficiency is tons of vocabulary exercises. (It's also great for vocabulary, but if you don't have 6 months to prepare just do the grammar units.) ![]() If your grammar isn't rock solid, go and buy Destination C1 and work through it. ![]()
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