Assessing speaking

Practical tips on how to engage and motivate students
whether you are teaching online or offline

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Assessing Speaking online

This webinar looks into the most effective ways of assessing your students' Speaking skills online. It features practical ideas to evaluate your students' speaking progress and provide meaningful feedback to motivate your learners.
60min

The Primary Pod: using oracy skills for learning

A podcast conversation on the importance of oracy in the primary school classroom.

Making asynchronous speaking practice meaningful

This blog post looks at useful and meaning ways to use asynchronous speaking tasks in online teaching.

The aims of speaking activities

This blog post outlines an approach to planning speaking lessons based on course book activities.

Motivating learners with immersive tasks

A key part of encouraging speaking practice involves motivating learners – but how can you do this with activities? This blog post has the answer!

5 factors for successful speaking practice

A blog post with the five keys to create safe speaking environments, a key to help learners overcome their anxiety related to speaking in English.

Creating a safe speaking environment

A blog post with more information about safe speaking environments, as well as links to other Cambridge University Press whitepapers on speaking

Developing speaking skills remotely

This blog post explores the challenges of developing speaking skills in remote teaching - and how to overcome them!

Tips for teaching pronunciation online

Tips to work on the physical aspect of pronunciation when teaching online.

Essential tips for teaching pronunciation: from elementary to advanced levels, part 1

These blog posts explore the essentials of teaching pronunciation for learners of all levels.

Essential tips for teaching pronunciation: from elementary to advanced levels, part 2

These blog posts explore the essentials of teaching pronunciation for learners of all levels.

How to reduce the challenges of evaluating your learners

This webinar outlines some of the differences between formal and classroom-based assessment of speaking.
60min

The challenges and opportunities of using a paired format

This webinar will give an overview of different formats used in speaking assessment, with special focus on paired tests, which characterise the majority of the Cambridge English speaking tests. It also offers practical ideas for developing interactional Speaking skills in the classroom.
45min

Developing and assessing speaking skills for young learners

This webinar will give you lots of practical ideas to develop your young learners' speaking skills as well as how to assess them to ensure they are constantly improving. We will provide you with resources and activities to use in your classroom to give your young learners the confidence they need for their Starters, Movers and Flyers speaking exams.
45min

Developing Speaking skills: A focus on grammar & vocabulary

In this webinar we will focus on grammar and vocabulary and look at ways these can be developed so that your students can successfully demonstrate what they know and what they can do in their B1 Preliminary for Schools and B2 First for Schools speaking exams. It will include practical teaching ideas and resources to use in your classroom.
45min

Developing Speaking skills: A focus on discourse management

In this webinar we will focus on discourse management and look at ways we can help students improve their ability to structure what they say and communicate more effectively.
45min

Developing Speaking skills: A focus on interactive communication

In this webinar we will focus on interactive communication and oracy and look at how we can develop students' ability to express themselves clearly and appropriately so that meaningful communication takes place.
45min

Pre A1 Starters

Pre A1 Starters speaking test video 1

4min

Pre A1 Starters speaking test video 2

3min

Pre A1 Starters speaking test video 3

3min

A1 Movers

A1 Movers speaking test video 1

6min

A1 Movers speaking test video 2

5min

A2 Flyers

A2 Flyers speaking test video 1

6min

A2 Flyers speaking test video 2

6min

A2 Key

A2 Key speaking test video 1

8min

A2 Key speaking test video 2

9min

A2 Key for Schools speaking test video 1

6min

A2 Key for Schools speaking test video 2

6min

A2 Key for Schools speaking test video 3

7min

A2 Key for Schools speaking assessing speaking performance

B1 Preliminary

B1 Preliminary speaking test video

11min

B1 Preliminary for Schools speaking test video

10min

B2 First

B2 First speaking test video

15min

B2 for Schools speaking test video

15min

Assessing speaking performance at level B2

A guide to the assessment scales and criteria for B2 First and how to use them in your classroom.

B2 First for Schools speaking assessment scales

C1 Advanced

C1 Advanced speaking test video

15min

Assessing speaking performance at level C1

A guide to the assessment scales and criteria for C1 Advanced and how to use them in your classroom.

C1 Advanced speaking assessment scales

A chart with the assessment scales for C1 Advanced, so you can use the same criteria as our examiners when working with your students.

C2 Proficiency

C2 Proficiency speaking test video

18min

Assessing speaking performance at level C2

A guide to the assessment scales and criteria for C2 Proficiency and how to use them in your classroom.
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