Welcome back, it’s the second term, and after two weeks of non-stop eating and relaxing, it’s time to start thinking about exams!
This term’s mock exams will be on the following dates:
Saturday 11th February for FCE students, Leonor and Adrienne’s PET groups and adult PET classes.
Saturday 18th February for Pre-First groups, Eszter and Melissa’s PETs, adult FCE students and all CAE classes).
Remember – exams start at 10:00 sharp, PET lasts two hours, FCE and CAE four hours. See you then!
November is Thanksgiving time in the United States, which is where Melissa and Adrienne are from! So, to celebrate, this month’s competition is all about Thanksgiving Day. Just five questions, write your answers on a piece of paper along with your name and level, and hand it in. Deadline is Wednesday the 30th of November.
Good luck!
Well, it’s Hallowe’en in a few days’ time and, as everybody knows, after Hallowe’en comes something even scarier….. mock exams!!!!
Not true of course, the mock exams give you the students the chance to see what Cambridge exams are really like, and they also give us the chance to see how well you’re doing, how much progress you’ve made since last year, and when you’ll be ready to take the proper exams.
The exams will be held on the following dates:
Saturday 5th November: PET (Eszter and Melissa’s groups); Pre-First; CAE; Adult CAE; Adult FCE
Saturday 19th November: PET (Leonor and Adrienne’s groups); FCE; Adult PET
All exams kick off at 10:00 am, PET lasts around two hours, and FCE and CAE around four hours.
See you then and good luck!
Last Saturday PET and KET exams took place in the University of Jaen and I was asked to be an invigilator. the thing that struck me the most was the number of classrooms used, a total of 13, most of them for the PET exam. Getting the level B1 in a foreign language is a must if you want to graduate at University and that’s the reason for such a great demand this year.
Organizing an event like this is hard work. Invigilators help distribute the exam papers, help people find their seats in the room, make sure that everybody’s got pencils and rubbers, solve the possible doubts that come up and collect exams once the parts are over. I enjoyed the experience a lot, it was worth it.
Aarrggghhhh!! Don´t panic if you are one of the candidates to PET,FCE, CAE or CPE. We´re sure you’ll do well or at least you’ll do your best! Follow your teachers’ advice and instructions and you’ll be fine. Good luck for the speaking this weekend! and be on time.Europe – The Final Countdown
Just last friday 13th of May, I went to a one day course on Marketing organised by ACEIA in Seville and to my satisfaction it was not all about exposure, creativity or whatnot….ICT is there as well! It is all about giving our students and clients what they really appreciate…VALUE FOR MONEY…I know what I have to do, and that is to equip all of our classrooms technically speaking…Do you know what you are doing??
Objectives: What is your goal when you do an exam? Well, first of all you want to pass and, more specifically, you would like to get as good a mark as possible. If you want to get as high a mark as possible, you should probably do those parts of the exam that earn the most points first. For instance, in the FCE Reading paper, questions in parts one and two are allocated two points each, whereas questions in part three only get one point. Likewise, each question in part four of Use of English will be allocated two points if correct (one point is given if partly correct). Another thing to consider in all Cambridge exams is that incorrect answers are not given negative marks, so make sure you don’t leave any of the exam blank!
Practice Makes Perfect: Make sure you do as many past papers as possible in the specified time in order to know what to expect on the big day, and also to find out which areas you are weakest in.
Read the instructions! Telling a student to read the instructions might sound ridiculous, but it isn’t. Not doing so is one of the easiest way to make sure you fail!
Plan your writing! Many students have a quick look at the question and go straight into writing their compositions as if they are going to get extra marks for being first to finish. You should read the topics carefully and take five minutes to plan what you’re going to write before putting pen to the answer sheet.
Check! Always check your answers before handing in your answers sheet. Make sure what you have written makes sense and that you have done what you were supposed to do (i.e. did you read and follow the instructions?).
We are very excited in “The Cultural English Centre” because we’ve just had our first Skype session with our American penpals. Most of our PET students and some LS had the opportunity to see and talk to Rose and Tina’s students from Parker, Colorado. it happened to be very succesful, our students seemed to be quite happy so we’ll repeat that next year for sure.
I’d like to thank all the staff in the Cultural for their help and support and also to Rose and Tina for organizing everything there so well.
By the way it was snowing in Parker today , can you believe it? it was 30º C in Linares .
Congratulations to our students who took the PET exam in Granada in March – eight students, eight passes, well done! Now for FCE!
Congratulations to our students who passed their FCE exam in March. Well done, and you’ll be missed!
