Practice makes perfect: creating your own exam materials for the classroom

Dear Gulshat

Cambridge English Language Assessment invites you to join us for our new webinar - Practice makes perfect: creating your own exam materials for the classroom the next topic in our programme of webinars for 2013.

Exam preparation materials need to develop the skills which are tested in any specific exam task.  This practical session will briefly analyse a selection of tasks from Cambridge English Language Assessment exams to identify the skills and strategies being tested in the tasks.

The webinar will begin by identifying the specific skills tested in different exam tasks, such as multiple choice, gap fill and sentence completion. The presenter will show how different types of task are constructed in order to test these skills effectively, using examples from Reading, Listening and Use of English papers.

The presenter will explain how distraction is used in reading and listening tasks, and there will also be examples from Use of English tasks. The strategies students are expected to use in exam tasks are real-life skills, and at this point the presenter will give some practical hints on the most effective strategies for students to use when approaching different types of exam task.

To register for this webinar, click on your preferred date and time:

Monday 15 April 2013, 14.00 - 15.00 (UK time)

Wednesday 17 April, 10.00 - 11.00 (UK time)

If you have missed any of our previous webinars, you can watch recordings and download the slides from our Teacher Support site. Topics include the revised Cambridge English: Proficiency, Cambridge English: First for Schools, Cambridge English: Key for Schools, Cambridge English: Advanced Speaking, Cambridge English: Preliminary for Schools, How are Cambridge English Writing papers marked?, Introducing theTeaching Knowledge Test (TKT), How can assessment support learning? A Learning Oriented Approach, How the Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) Writing paper is assessed, and Words for Work: teaching speaking skills for the workplace.