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What Is CAE? Level C1

The document provides information about the Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) exam and what is required to achieve a C1 level of proficiency. It states that to obtain a C1 level, students must incorporate English into their daily lives through extensive reading, listening, speaking and writing activities. They must also keep detailed vocabulary notebooks organized by theme and be able to express opinions using natural phrases. Regular homework is assigned, including exercises from an online platform on Mondays and essays on Wednesdays. The types of writing assessed in the CAE exam are also listed.

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What Is CAE? Level C1

The document provides information about the Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) exam and what is required to achieve a C1 level of proficiency. It states that to obtain a C1 level, students must incorporate English into their daily lives through extensive reading, listening, speaking and writing activities. They must also keep detailed vocabulary notebooks organized by theme and be able to express opinions using natural phrases. Regular homework is assigned, including exercises from an online platform on Mondays and essays on Wednesdays. The types of writing assessed in the CAE exam are also listed.

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What is CAE?

Level C1
Can understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts, and recognise
implicit meaning. Can express him/herself fluently and spontaneously
without much obvious searching for expressions. Can use language flexibly
and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Can produce
clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled
use of organisational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices.

Students must be able to produce natural-sounding English.


This doesnt mean just speaking grammatically correctly!
To achieve this, students need to focus on identifying collocations and
phrases that a native speaker uses, and when to use them
appropriately.
A student cannot make it through CAE without accomplishing this, but
they can still pass FCE.

To move up to C1, you must:


Incorporate English into your life: read, listen, watch, write, speak
Be aware of language when you are reading, listening and speaking.
Be active when you do these activities, its no good just watching or
reading.
Keep very detailed vocabulary notebooks organised by theme.
Form opinions about subjects and be able to express these opinions
using phrases a native would use, both orally and written.
The key is organisation
Note books one should be JUST for vocabulary and language
structures
Single words are no use to us
We need chunks of language; even whole sentences.
This is what we call COLLOCATION.
I will help you with recognising them, but you must also start
collecting and recording this language.
Course book
Get to know it well. Skim through it and check what all the topics and
grammar points to be covered are.
Use the resources it has to help you:
Writing reference
Grammar section USE IT FOR THE HOMEWORK EXERCISES!
Exam focus
Marking guidelines
Homework
1. Exercises on Monday possibly from an online platform
2. Essay on Wednesday
Writing homework
To practice writing the various formats required by the CAE (see note
below)

It makes you use the language we study in a creative way, thus


helping you remember it.
To help you form opinions in English about the topics you need to be
able to discuss.
Writing tasks require detailed and considered responses.
Your ideas must be good!
Every piece of writing homework is a chance for you to do your own
research into the topic, looking for ideas and language you can use to
express those ideas like a native.

Types of writings for CAE


Part 1 = Essay
Part 2 = (letter/email; proposal; report; review

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