Useful links for online practice for both CAE and CPE

*CPE Official  site:

http://www.cambridgeesol.org/exams/cpe/index.html#tab1

*Online Practice for all Papers:

Practice CPE Tests: Flo-Joe: Online Practice Tests to take with answer key online
http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/cpe/students/tests/index.htm

Flo-Joe CPE web page: With tips and resources such as word banks and a forum
http://www.flo-joe.co.uk/cpe/students/index.htm

More practice tests to do online: 

Exam English: Online Practice Tests to take with answer key online
http://www.examenglish.com/cpe/index.php

Esl Lounge: Online Practice Tests to take with answer key online

https://www.esl-lounge.com/proficiency.php#use-of-english

English Revealed: Online Practice Tests to take with answer key online

https://www.englishrevealed.co.uk/cpe.php

*Reading Papers Practice:
Oxford House

https://oxfordhousebcn.com/en/passing-c2-proficiency-a-guide-to-reading-part-5/

https://oxfordhousebcn.com/en/passing-c2-proficiency-a-guide-to-reading-part-6/


*Grammar Practice:

https://www.examenglish.com/cpe/CPE_grammar.htm

https://www.esl-lounge.com/reference-grammar.php


https://englishexams.co.uk/englishexams/test-my-english





*CAE ONLINE PRACTICE LINKS:
*Official site:https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/exams-and-tests/advanced/preparation/ 
*Practice Tests: 
https://www.examenglish.com/CAE/cae_use_of_english1.htm
https://www.flo-joe.co.uk/cae/students/tests/
https://www.englishrevealed.co.uk/cae.php
http://www.hibernia-institute.cz/on_line_testy/cae/
https://www.english-in-chester.co.uk/e-learning/lesson/cambridge-exam-practice-cae/
https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/advanced.php
https://www.greenwichcollege.edu.au/cambridge-cae-use-of-english-task-1


*Links to some online Newspapers for everyone: 

http://www.carmenlu.com/sixth/reading/newspapers6.htm

Active and Passive Vocabulary

Linguists claim that it’s possible to deal with texts that have 30-40% unknown words. This enables us to engage with difficult material, when it comes to listening and reading, with the goal of general comprehension. What we need to learn to do is to try to infer the meaning of words which we do not productively know from the context which surrounds them. In short, what you need is not to depend on the meaning of every single word when it comes to listening and reading comprehension.

What we will be aiming at at CPE level is a graded knowledge of words:

• "The active vocabulary obviously consists of words that we know 'better' than those that constitute our passive vocabulary. The same distinction holds for native speakers, who also actively use only a subset of the words they are familiar with. Another instance of graded knowledge of words is the fact that, even as native speakers, we often only know that we have heard or read a certain word before, but do not know what it means."
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  (Ingo Plag, Word-Formation in English. Cambridge University. Press, 2003)

It is observed that an undergraduate student has 3,000 to 5,000 active vocabulary whereas the same student has 5,000 to 10,000 passive vocabulary.

Good language learners must know the difference between vocabulary which they only need for recognition purposes and the words which they need to produce the language they are learning.

They should also be aware of:

*the frequency of use of the words and the need to concentrate on acquiring high-frequency words.

*the applicability of words related to different contexts – selection of vocabulary items is very important because not everything can be  learnt!

*the register of the words they are learning in order to use them or link them to the appropriate situations.

*the associations and connections which exist among the words they learn to recognize or to produce: word families, word formation principles, derivations, connotation and collocations are  features which are learned at advanced levels of language learning.

*the need to guess or infer the meaning of new words from their context to enable themselves to aim for comprehension with autonomy and confidence.

Reading practice for the weekend!

In part 3 of the CPE reading test you read a text with 7 paragraphs missing. Decide the order of the missing paragraphs. You should complete this activity in 20 minutes.


https://www.examenglish.com/cpe/cpe_reading_part3.htm


In part 4 of the CPE reading test you read a long article and answer 7 multiple choice questions. This text is about Imelda Marcos. You should complete this activity in 20 minutes.


https://www.examenglish.com/cpe/cpe_reading_part4.htm