Articles on English Language Examinations (Page 1)

The most important things to do in class when teaching IELTS Speaking.

A big list of advice on how to teach IELTS Academic Writing Task 2

A big list of vital tips on how to teach IELTS Academic Writing Task 1, in order of usefulness

How to prepare for and teach Aptis Speaking Part One personal questions

Teaching tips and classroom practice ideas for the question-response tasks in TOEIC Listening Section Two

Teaching tips and stimulating classroom activities for Cambridge First Certificate Reading and Use of English Part Four (writing sentences with the same meaning), with 11 key word sentence transformation games.

Hints and classroom activities for the last part of the Cambridge English: First (FCE) listening test

Exam tips and stimulating classroom activities for the Cambridge First Certificate Listening Part Two fill the gaps task.

Teaching tips and classroom activities for the essay task in the updated FCE exam from January 2015.

Games that are great practice for all three parts of the IELTS Speaking exam, either separately or together.

Exam tips, self-study tips and stimulating classroom activities for the Cambridge First Certificate fill the gaps with one word task.

How to present and practise useful language for the Cambridge FCE collaborative task.

How to make sure Cambridge FCE students get what they most need and the teacher finds out what you need to from day one

Ways of teaching students how to improve their listening scores, and teaching them other useful stuff while they try to improve their listening scores.

How to present and practise useful language for the Cambridge FCE comparing pictures long turn task.

What to teach students about the personal questions part of Cambridge FCE Speaking and how to practise it.

What students need to do near the beginning of the IELTS Speaking paper and how to prepare them to do so.

A look at the second part of the IELTS Speaking Test

How to start the new school year teaching IELTS classes

What you should do before teaching an EFL exam class for the first time.

Tips for helping students with this section of the IELTS exam

Ideas for teaching the IELTS Academic Reading Paper

Ideas for teaching question 3 of the IELTS Academic Reading Paper

Tips for TOEIC teachers about the photograph part of the Listening paper

A look at how to write a good language test.