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Feeling frustrated with your exam preparation? Don’t know where to start?

I teach a lot of students preparing for exams and some of them get stuck in test-test-test mode, rather than doing tasks and activities that actually help them improve. They lose time searching for exam materials and feel like they’re getting nowhere! There are a lot of online resources out there in cyberspace, but it can be a challenge to sort out the good from the bad. And the free ones from those that that cost an arm and a leg!

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Why should I care about all those dead people?

Sample FCE / CAE article: – for analysis of style

Why should I care about all those dead people?

Think back to when you were at school…. Do you remember sitting in class, listening to your teacher drone on and on about some boring dead author? I do!  I loved reading, but I hated learning about classic writers because the teachers failed to make them seem relevant in any way. (more…)