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English Courses and Exams
Cambridge Course
Cambridge English Test Preparation
Description
The Cambridge English examinations are considered as highly reliable competency tests for both employment and study purposes.
Participants
You should do this course:
- if you wish to improve your English intensively for either employment or academic studies or
- if you are an international student for whom English is a foreign language and you require a certain Cambridge Certificate Pass as an entry qualifications for employment or other purpose or
- if you wish to have a formal qualification in English
Entry Requirements
Cambridge course or you can have your level of English assessed before you enrol.
You could also take preparatory studies in General English and enter a Cambridge course as soon as you have reached the necessary level of English proficiency.
Important examinations such need adequate preparation time! Students need to enrol for at least one semester (12 weeks) of full time study.
Length
- 9 or 10 weeks full time, beginning of the beginning of January every year.
- 12 weeks full time, beginning of the middle of March and middle of September every year.
Exam
Every course will usually end in an exam. (The exam fee needs to be paid separately.)
Application
Just email our student service to apply or receive further information about cambridge courses in Australia.
Courses preparing students for the following exams:
I) Preliminary English Test (PET)
Content
PET is the second level of the Cambridge examinations. Achieving a pass at this level indicates that the student has developed the English Language skills to cope in mainly predictable social and work situations.
The PET course will help you to communicate more clearly when you write and speak, and to understand English when you read and listen.
The PET course is very intensive and you need to work hard during the course. There is a lot of homework every night, which you must do!
Level
Intermediate level of English
Studies
- Reading: understanding public notices, brochures and instructions.
- Writing: completing forms, write letters, give information, report events, describe situations and express your opinions.
- Listening: listening to public announcements and conversations.
- Speaking: communicate better and more confidently.
- English: improve your grammar and accuracy, especially using prepositions and tenses.
- Vocabulary: greatly increase
II) First Certificate in English (FCE)
Content
The FCE is the most widely taken of all the Cambridge examinations. It is at the Upper-Intermediate English level, and aims to develop your skills in English to a level that is 'sufficient for public contact in employment in areas such as banking, airlines, catering, etc'.
Entry
You will have an entrance test.
Level
Upper Intermediate level of English
Studies
- Use of English: improve your grammar, increase your vocabulary, particularly phrasal verbs, idioms and expressions...
- Writing: Informal letters, formal letters, articles, reports, opinion type compositions, narratives
- Reading: read magazine articles to increase your reading speed, understanding of text organisation
- Listening: Short extracts, longer monologues, announcements, extracts from radio programmes/news
- Speaking: pronunciation, developing your spoken accuracy and fluency for conversational English
III) Certificate in Advanced English (CAE)
Content
This is the second-level course. It is more advanced and will develop a high level of English language competence to use English socially, at work or for study purposes.
Level
Advanced level of English.
Entry
All students MUST take an entrance test.
Studies
Like FCE on a higher level
IV) Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English
Content
This is the third-level course and highest general English Cambridge course. It is more advanced than CAE and will develop a high level of English language competence to use English socially, at work or for study purposes.
Level
Upper Advanced level of English.
Entry
All students MUST take an entrance test.
Studies
Like CAE on a higher level