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Cambridge exams

michigan exams

ielts

We prepare students for B2 and C2 level exams. More specifically:

• University of Cambridge Certificates: Cambridge English First and Cambridge Proficiency
• University of Michigan Certificates: ECCE and ECPE
• IELTS: The international English language testing system (IELTS) is the world’s most popular English language proficiency test for higher education and global migration.

For the B2 and C2 exams, students are required to display a different level of competence in the four language skills. Below is an analysis of the different levels of linguistic competence as proposed by the Common European Framework fo Reference (CEFR).

LANGUAGE SKILLS

B2 LEVEL: Independent User
What can a candidate do at this level?

C2 LEVEL: Proficient User
What can a candidate do at this level?

Listening skills

Can understand standard spoken 
language, live or broadcast, on both 
familiar and unfamiliar topics normally encountered in personal, social, academic or vocational life. Only extreme background noise, inadequate discourse structure and/or idiomatic usage influences the ability to understand. 

Has no difficulty in understanding any 
kind of spoken language, whether live or broadcast, delivered at fast native 
speed. 
Can understand any native speaker 
interlocutor, even on abstract and 
complex topics of a specialist nature.
The sound quality can be poor, or audibly distorted. 

Reading skills

Can read with a large degree of 
independence, adapting style and 
speed of reading to different texts and 
purposes, and using appropriate 
reference sources selectively. Has a 
broad active reading vocabulary, but 
may experience some difficulty with low frequency idioms. 

Can understand and interpret critically 
virtually all forms of the written 
language including abstract, structurally complex, or highly colloquial literary and non-literary writings. 
 Can understand texts written in a very colloquial style and containing many idiomatic expressions or slang. 

Speaking skills

Can give clear, detailed descriptions 
and presentations on a wide range of 
subjects related to his/her field of 
interest, expanding and supporting 
ideas with subsidiary points and 
relevant examples. 
Can carry out an effective, fluent 
interview, departing spontaneously from prepared questions, following up and probing interesting replies. 

Can converse comfortably and 
appropriately, unhampered by any 
linguistic limitations in conducting a full social and personal life.Can hold his/her own in formal 
discussion of complex issues, 
putting an articulate and 
persuasive argument, at no 
disadvantage to native speakers

Writing skills

Can write an essay or report which 
develops an argument systematically 
with appropriate highlighting of 
significant points and relevant 
supporting detail.
Can write an essay or report which 
develops an argument systematically 
with appropriate highlighting of 
significant points and relevant 
supporting detail.

Can produce clear, smoothly flowing, 
complex reports, articles or essays 
which present a case, or give critical 
appreciation of proposals or literary 
works
Can provide an appropriate and 
effective logical structure which helps 
the reader to find significant points. 

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