Syllabus: CAE Speaking Success!
CAE Speaking Success! comes in 12 Units each containing:
- easy-to-remember strategies to ensure you won’t dry up in the exam
- recordings of advanced non-native speakers applying the strategies and offering an achievable model for you to aim for
- use of the CAE assessment criteria to evaluate the speaker’s performance, giving you a clear understanding of the exam requirements
- error correction activities to help you avoid the language mistakes made at advanced level.
Unit 1: Giving Full Answers to Questions
- The REDS method (Part 1,4)
- Functions: Explaining reasons and results
- Language awareness: Determiners
- Topic vocabulary: Food
Unit 2: Showcasing your English
- Focus on accuracy (Part 1,4)
- Functions: Expressing likes and dislikes
- Language awareness: Word order
- Topic vocabulary: Hobbies and interests
Unit 3: Focus on Fluency
- How to maintain fluency (Part 1, 2, 3, 4)
- Functions: Using fillers
- Language Awareness: Countable and uuncountable nouns
- Topic vocabulary: Education
Unit 4: Structuring your talk
- Organising the Part 2 response (Part 2)
- Functions: Comparing and contrasting
- Language Awareness: Dependent prepositions
- Topic vocabulary: Technology
Unit 5: Getting your talk started
- Essential points for Part 2 introductions (Part 2)
- Functions: Expressing opinions and feelings
- Language Awareness: Verb patterns
- Topic vocabulary: Holidays
Unit 6: Speculating about visuals
- Responding to the Part 2 task in full (Part 2)
- Functions: Speculating
- Language Awareness: Relative pronouns
- Topic vocabulary: Transport
Unit 7: Commenting effectively
- Answering the comment question effectively (Part 2)
- Functions: Commenting
- Language Awareness: Modal verbs
- Topic vocabulary: Shopping
Unit 8: Managing the Part 3 task
- Managing the discussion (Part 3)
- Functions: Summarizing
- Language Awareness: Give make and take
- Topic vocabulary: Accommodation
Unit 9: Working together in Part 3
- The ACE method (Part 3)
- Functions: Modifying levels of agreement
- Language Awareness: Vague language
- Topic vocabulary: Communication
Unit 10: Effective timing in Part 3
- Completing the Part 3 task in full (Part 3)
- Functions: Suggesting
- Language Awareness: Questions
- Topic vocabulary: Family
Unit 11: Ending in style
- Responding to Part 4 questions effectively (Part 4)
- Functions: Giving examples
- Language Awareness: Tenses
- Topic vocabulary: Work
Unit 12: Troubleshooting CAE Speaking
- Responding to tricky questions
- Dealing with mistakes
- Feeling lost for words
- Confirming understanding
- Dealing with interruptions
- Practising pronunciation
- Topic vocabulary: Revision tests (x5)