How to write an essay for Cambridge C1 Advanced (CAE) - with a video, slideshow, and more.

Some sample Cambridge C1 Advanced essays, written by me and my students.

My Cambridge exam preparation course teaches you phrasal verbs and gives lots of practice of exam situations. Do it fast the week before your exam, or do it slowly and really absorb all the new vocabulary. Either way it’s great!

You’ve been sending in questions about the FCE and CAE exams and here are my answers.

Learn 13 common and useful English idioms.

Some common horse idioms, their meanings, and some ideas of how you could use them in your exam to make your English sound horse-ome.

Dropping an idiom into your conversations from time to time will help you fit in and certainly help you pass your Cambridge exams.

In this article we focus on four audio recordings from real-life CPE students, with detailed feedback and analysis from the experienced teacher and examiner Helen Ingram.

A collection of those neat pictures and infographics that people circulate on Facebook.

A little trick that you find helpful when doing sentence transformations. It doesn't work all the time, but it can be quite helpful.

A student asked me to rate his speaking level. I didn't have time to Skype with him so I asked him to send me some audio files. Here's my feedback.