CAE Exam Corner

Share Unreal Past An unreal past structure is one that considers impossible situations. While 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. Conditional Forms While

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

Share Using Inversion Inversion is a way of changing the information placed at the beginning of a sentence and in this post we will looked at a variety of ways how we can use inversion. Because it changes the focus on information it can be a very good way of emphasizing details. It’s also considered

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 This

Share  The Cambridge Advanced or CAE speaking exam is evaluated under a number of categories. Here we’ll take a look at what these categories are and how to explain the speaking scores for each of the categories. Speaking Scoring Categories The first thing to point out about all of the Cambridge exams is that the

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!