Cambridge C1 Advanced (CAE)

The CAE Course offered by Everyday English prepares candidates thoroughly, either in small groups or individually, for ALL of the five CAE examination papers.

In order to provide candidates will the best chance of passing the CAE, the Everyday English CAE preparation course concentrates, not only on grammar and vocabulary, but also on the strategies necessary to do well in each of the five papers.

Training in reading strategies, listening techniques, dictionary skills, and advice on effective speaking are all vital components of the course.

For further details please contact us.

ALTE Framework Guide - Level C1 (ALTE 4)

Listening/Speaking

• General Ability
  CAN contribute effectively to meetings and seminars within own area of work or keep up a casual conversation with a good degree of fluency, coping with abstract expressions.
• Social & Tourist
  CAN keep up conversations of a casual nature for an extended period of time and discuss abstract/cultural topics with a good degree of fluency and range of expression.
• Work
  CAN contribute effectively to meetings and seminars within own area of work and argue for or against a case.
• Study
  CAN follow abstract argumentation, for example the balancing of alternatives and the drawing of a conclusion.

Reading

• General Ability
  CAN read quickly enough to cope with an academic course, to read the media for information or to understand non-standard correspondence.
• Social & Tourist
  CAN understand complex opinions/arguments as expressed in serious newspapers.
• Work
  CAN understand correspondence expressed in non-standard language.
• Study
  CAN read quickly enough to cope with the demands of an academic course.

Writing

• General Ability
  CAN prepare/draft professional correspondence, take reasonably accurate notes in meetings or write an essay which shows an ability to communicate.
• Social & Tourist
  CAN write letters on most subjects. Such difficulties as the reader may experience are likely to be at the level of vocabulary.
• Work
  CAN handle a wide range of routine and non-routine situations in which professional services are requested from colleagues or external contacts.
• Study
  CAN write an essay which shows ability to communicate, giving few difficulties for the reader.