┃Read in less than 6 minutes (excluding activities) How good are you at multitasking? Can you do two things at the same time? The idea is that the brain ‘splits’ its focus so that we can perform two tasks at once, or at least...
┃Read in less than 7 minutes I always tell my students that Listening Part 3 is kind of like a marathon. Do you know what I mean? It’s long (in fact it’s the longest listening task) and it takes strength and endurance to get through it. In this blog...
┃Read in less than 4 minutes (excluding listening tasks) In Advanced Listening Part 2, there are eight sentences about a recording, each with a gap. The sentences focus on specific information mentioned in the recording. You’ve got to complete the gap...
┃Read in less than 8 minutes (excluding activities) Have you ever read any of the books or watched any of the films/series about Sherlock Holmes? If not, there are apparently over 30K adaptations of the books, so you’ve got a pretty good choice if you...
┃Read in less than 5 minutes (excluding activities) Part 4 is a discussion between you, your partner, and the examiner. The examiner asks you and your partner questions related to the topic you talked about in Part 3. While there isn’t a list of prescribed...
┃Read in less than 7 minutes In this part of the Speaking test, you are given a mind map and written prompts. The examiner then gives you instructions for the task which you discuss with your partner for about two minutes. Let’s look at an example: The...