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CAE
is an exam for advanced users of English. This exam is aimed
at people who can use written and spoken English for most
professional and social purposes. It is widely recognised
for work or study purposes.
The
Certificate in Advanced English or CAE is the advanced
general English exam provided by the University of Cambridge
as part of the University of Cambridge ESOL examination.
In
order to ensure our exams meet the needs of users, FCE and
CAE have recently undergone a review and the examinations
have been updated. The first session of the updated FCE and
CAE exams will take place in December 2008.
Bulletin
5, (PDF 134Kb) contains a summary of the updated FCE and
CAE specifications together with an overview of the review
process.
Bulletin
6, (PDF 117Kb) provides a more detailed description of
the Reading papers, along with a rationale for the changes
and advice on preparing students for the exams.
Bulletin
7, (PDF 121Kb) provides a more detailed description of
the Writing papers, along with a rationale for the changes
and advice on preparing students for the exams.
Bulletin
8, (PDF 121Kb) provides a more detailed description of
the English in Use papers, along with a rationale for the
changes, and advice on preparing students for the exams.
Bulletin
9, (PDF 934Kb) provides a more detailed description of
the Listening papers, along with a rationale for the changes
and advice on preparing students for the exams.
Bulletin
10, (PDF 938Kb) provides a more detailed description of
the Speaking papers, along with a rationale for the changes
and advice on preparing students for the exams.
Is
CAE for you?
Can
you...
use
English in an effective way for business or study purposes?
use English confidently and flexibly?
produce well-structured, clear pieces of writing on complex
issues?
If
this describes your skills now, or describes the level of
skills you are working towards, then CAE is the right exam
for you.
What will CAE do for you?
Cambridge
ESOL is a department of the world-famous and historic University
of Cambridge. Attaining one of its certificates is an achievement
and a reward in itself. However, there are many other benefits
to taking CAE:
a
CAE certificate is valid for life
CAE is truly international, recognised around the world
for business and study purposes
hundreds of employers, universities and government departments
officially recognise CAE as a qualification in advanced
English
passing CAE gives you the confidence to take on the Certificate
of Proficiency in English (CPE)
CAE's 'Can Do' skills give you the confidence to use English
in real situations.
What
will taking CAE help you do?
CAE
is at Level C1 of the Common European Framework of Reference
for Languages (CEFR) - an internationally recognised benchmark
of language ability. The framework uses six levels to describe
language ability from A1 to C2. 'Can Do' statements have been
used to describe these levels in terms of real skills with
language.
For
example, at C1 level, typical users can be expected to:
read
quickly enough to cope with an academic course
understand complex opinions
produce clear, well structured and detailed pieces of writing
express themselves well with a good degree of fluency
use English flexibly for social, professional and academic
purposes.
Your
preparation for CAE will give you these kinds of practical
language skills.
What does CAE involve?
CAE
has five papers:
Reading:
1 hour 15 minutes
You will need to be able to understand texts from publications
such as fiction and non-fiction books, journals, newspapers
and magazines.
Writing 1 hour 30 minutes
You will have to show you can produce two different pieces
of writing such as an article, a report, a proposal and a
review.
Use
of English Paper 1 hour
Your use of English will be tested by tasks which show how
well you can control your grammar and vocabulary.
Listening:
40 minutes
You need to show you can understand the meaning of a range
of spoken material, including lectures, radio broadcasts,
speeches and talks.
Speaking:
15 minutes
You will take the Speaking test with another candidate or
in a group of three, and you will be tested on your ability
to take part in different types of interaction: with the examiner,
with the other candidate and by yourself.
Supporting you
As
with all of Cambridge ESOL's certificates, there is a lot
of support to help you prepare for your exam.
Most
candidates prefer to take the preparation courses run by language
schools and universities.
You
can access a variety of support materials from the Resources
area of our website. These include a short booklet, Information
for Candidates, and sample exam papers, which include sound
files for the Listening test materials.
Many
publishers have produced a wide choice of books
and other aids to help you prepare for taking CAE. Ask
your local bookshop for details.
To
help you prepare for CAE, we provide teachers with their own
website so they can download sample exam papers, handbooks,
and other teaching support material.
The
Academic Module is intended for those who wish to
enrol in universities and other institutions of higher
education .
The
General Training Module is intended for those planning
to undertake non-academic training or to gain work
experience, or for immigration purposes.
IELTS
is accepted by most Australian, British, Canadian, Irish,
New Zealand and South African academic institutions,
by an increasing number of academic institutions in
the USA, and by various professional organizations.
It is also a requirement for migration to Australia
and Canada.
As
developed below, communication happens at many levels (even
for one single action), in many different ways, and for all
beings, and some machines. Many or all, fields of study dedicate
some attention to communication, so when speaking about communication
it is very important to be sure about what kind of communication
one is speaking about, mainly: what type of things are
communicated, between what agents and with what
kind of results.
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Need something to keep your students busy in the multimedia lab? Why not assign online homework from ESLgold.com? (We have vocabulary study and quizzes, grammar and pronunciation exercises, speaking practice, etc.) Or choose games and activities to make the learning process more fun. Also, look into our expanding selection of English teaching Software and CD-ROMs. You'll find a virtual gold mine of materials at the click of a mouse.
For Students
ESLgold.com gives you the opportunity to practice your English language skills in many ways. If you're a beginner, you can start by checking out our vocabulary pages, where you can see, hear, and say new words in English. If you need some help with grammar, listening, or reading, you can look through hundreds of pages of explanations, examples, and exercises or browse through the quiz links section. If you want some conversation practice, you can find a study buddy, tutor, or teacher in our speaking partner program.
All materials on ESLgold.com are free of charge and organized by skill and level for quick and easy access. In addition to its free online resources, ESLgold provides you with recommendations for great textbooks, and even an online book exchange, where you can buy and sell used books.
Looking for a great place to study English? We have a huge list of schools in the U.S.A., Canada, Australia, and other areas, where you can find the perfect English course for yourself, your children, or your friends and colleagues.
Advanced
Level English Reading Comprehension Skills - English reading
comprehension skills and quizzes for advanced level learners
includes reading comprehension practice, intensive, extensive,
skimming and scanning reading techniques.
Advanced
Level Writing in English - English advanced level writing
help designed to help improve upper level English writing
skills including essay and letter writing.
The
sounds of English
There is a system of symbols
for writing the sounds of English. We have a guide
to these symbols and also videos to show how to pronounce
each of the sounds. There
are also activities to practice identifying the difference
between certain sounds which may sound similar.
Features
of English
Information about different
elements of English pronunciation,There
are also interactive and downloadable exercises to
help you build your understanding of these areas.
Quizzes
Interactive quizzes to test
your knowledge of and help you learn about English
pronunciation.
Programmes
Three radio programmes from
2005 on the topic of pronunciation. You can download
the full programmes along with the script and audio
examples.
Business Communication:communication used to promote a product, service, or organization; relay information within the business; or deal with legal and similar issues. It is also a means of relying between a supply chain, for example the consumer and manufacturer.
Business Communication can also refer to internal communication. A communications director will typically manage internal communication and craft messages sent to employees. It is vital that internal communications are managed properly because a poorly crafted or managed message could foster distrust or hostility from employees.[1]
Business Communication is a common topic included in the curricula of Masters of Business Administration (MBA) programs of many universities. AS well, many community colleges and universities offer degrees in Communications.
There are several methods of business communication, including:
Web-based communication - for better and improved communication, anytime anywhere ...
e-mails, which provide an instantaneous medium of written communication worldwide;
Reports - important in documenting the activities of any department;
Presentations - very popular method of communication in all types of organizations, usually involving audiovisual material, like copies of reports, or material prepared in Microsoft PowerPoint or Adobe Flash;
Social
network analysis maps relationships between individuals
in social
networks.
Network
analysis, and its close cousin traffic
analysis, has significant use in intelligence. By
monitoring the communication patterns between the network
nodes, its structure can be established. This can be
used for uncovering insurgent networks of both hierarchical
and leaderless nature.
Link
analysis is a subset of network analysis, exploring
associations between objects. An example may be examining
the addresses of suspects and victims, the telephone
numbers they have dialled and financial transactions
that they have partaken in during a given timeframe,
and the familial relationships between these subjects
as a part of police investigation. Link analysis here
provides the crucial relationships and associations
between very many objects of different types that are
not apparent from isolated pieces of information. Computer-assisted
or fully automatic computer-based link analysis is increasingly
employed by banks and insurance agencies in fraud detection, by telecommunication operators in telecommunication
network analysis, by medical sector in epidemiology and pharmacology,
in law
enforcementinvestigations,
by search
engines for relevance rating (and conversely by the spammers for spamdexing and by business owners for search
engine optimization), and everywhere else where
relationships between many objects have to be analysed.
Social
network analysis views social relationships in terms of nodes and ties. Nodes are the individual actors within the
networks, and ties are the relationships between the actors.
There can be many kinds of ties between the nodes. Research
in a number of academic fields has shown that social networks
operate on many levels, from families up to the level of nations,
and play a critical role in determining the way problems are
solved, organizations are run, and the degree to which individuals
succeed in achieving their goals.
In
its simplest form, a social network is a map of all of the
relevant ties between the nodes being studied. The network
can also be used to determine the social
capital of individual actors. These concepts are often
displayed in a social network diagram, where nodes are the
points and ties are the lines.
Interpersonal communications is usually defined by communication scholars in numerous ways, usually describing participants who are dependent upon one another and have a shared history. Communication channels, the conceptualization of mediums that carry messages from sender to receiver, take two distinct forms: direct and indirect.
Direct channels are obvious and easily recognized by the receiver. Both verbal and non-verbal information is completely controlled by the sender. Verbal channels rely on words, as in written or spoken communication. Non-verbal channels encompass facial expressions, controlled body movements (police present hand gestures to control traffic), color (red signals 'stop', green signals 'go'), and sound (warning sirens).
Indirect channels are usually recognized subconsciously by the receiver, and are not always under direct control of the sender. Body language, comprising most of the indirect channel, may inadvertently reveal one's true emotions, and thereby either unintentionally taint or bolster the believability of any intended verbal message. Subconscious reception and interpretation of these signals is often described with arbitrary terms like gut-feeling, hunch, or premonition.
Context refers to the conditions that precede or surround the communication. It consists of present or past events from which the meaning of the message is derived, though it may also, in the case of written communications, depend upon the statements preceding and following the quotation in question. Immediate surroundings may also color the perceived meaning of words; normally safe discourse may easily become contextually ambiguous or offensive in a restroom or shower hall. These influences do not constitute the message by themselves, but rather these extraneous nuances subtly change the message's effective meaning. Ultimately, context includes the entire world, but usually refers to salient factors such as the following:
Physical milieu: the season or weather, current physical location and environment
Situational milieu: classroom, military conflict, supermarket checkout
Cultural and linguistic backgrounds
Developmental progress (maturity) or emotional state
Complementary or contrasting roles: boss and employee; teacher and student; parent, child, and spouse; friend or enemy; partner or competitor
While information
visualization concentrates on the use of computer-supported
tools to explore large amount of abstract data, knowledge
visualization focuses on the transfer or creation of knowledge
among people. Beyond the mere transfer of facts, knowledge
visualization aims to further create or transfer insights, experiences, attitudes,
values, expectations,
perspectives, opinions,
and predictions by using various complementary visualizations.
Dynamic forms of visualisation such as educational
animation have the potential to enhance understandings
of systems that change over time.
Persuasion
Technology is technology that can be used for presenting or promoting a point
of view. Any technology designed and deployed for those
purposes can be considered a persuasion technology. Such aids
are regularly used in sales, diplomacy, politics, religion, military
training and management,
and may potentially be used in any area of human interaction.
Persuasion technology is related but not identical to "persuasive
technology," which focuses on the use of computers to change
attitudes and behaviours.
Generally,
persuasion technology is used to augment a human face-to-face
or voice interaction, particularly in a selling or other situation
where the persuader or 'seller' seeks to gain an edge on the
recruit or 'buyer'. In this general sense, 'sellers' can be
those promoting any particular , and 'buyers' anyone they
attempt to recruit. Political or religious views can be (and
often are) promoted using the same general methods and technologies.
Research
Reports are business reports
produced by business research firms (and commercial and investment
banks) by their financial
analysts. The reports are designed to dig out the important
pieces of companies operational and financial reporting to
paint a picture of the future of companies to assist debt
and equity investing. The "estimated" quarterly earnings numbers
of publicly owned companies are spelled out in these reports
to the investment community.
The purpose of a Business report is to communicate information to assist in the business decision making process. Some reports might propose solutions for business problems or might present relevant information to assist in the problem solving process. A Business plan is a kind of report which serves to communicate the Business model, Business management model and the commercial objectives of a business.
In general when writing a business report the following steps have to be followed
1. Preparing to write the business report
2. Determining the scope of the report
3. Understanding the Target Audience
4. research to collect supporting information
5. formatting and organizing the report
Body
Language is a broad term for
forms of communication using body movements or gestures instead of, or in addition to, sounds, verbal language, or
other forms of communication. It forms part of the category
of paralanguage,
which describes all forms of human communication that are
not verbal language.
This includes the most subtle of movements that many people
are not aware of, including winking and slight movement of the eyebrows.
In addition body language can also incorporate the use of facial
expressions.
Paralanguage,
including body language, has been extensively studied in social
psychology. In common parlance and popular
psychology, the term is most often applied to body language
that is considered involuntary, even though the distinction
between voluntary and involuntary body language is often controversial.
For example, a smile may be produced either consciously or unconsciously.
Lying:
Face turned away, no eye contact, or looking to
the left (fabricating information). Also wiping
hands on trousers to get rid of sweat or fidgeting
with hands
Aggression:
Clenched fists, squaring of shoulders, stiffening
of posture, tensing of muscles
Anxiety:
Massaging temples, different than normal breathing
rates, hunched shoulders, nervous head movements
Equal
Opportunity is a descriptive
term for an approach intended to provide a certain social
environment in which people are not excluded from the
activities of society, such as education, employment,
or health
care, on the basis of immutable traits. Equal opportunity practices include measures taken
by organizations to ensure fairness in the employment process.
Weaver
v NATFHE (now part of the UCU) race discrimination
case. An Industrial Tribunal in the UK upheld a trade
union’s decision not to assist a woman lecturer
who brought a case of racial harassment against a fellow
worker in a college of further education because he
could lose his job. The Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld
the decision and extended the decision to cover complaints
of sexist harassment.
Images:
Had enough? All too much? Stressed out? Relaxed and
enjoying a break? Disgusted? Pity? The messages we send
out with our bodies as well as in traditional types
of medium can make a difference how that message is
received and interpreted. Copyright: Margaret Rutkaliska, stock.xchng and Glenn Jenkinson, stock.xchng
Contains
four complete tests for the updated Cambridge
Certificate in Advanced English (CAE) examination
from Cambridge ESOL to be introduced from December
2008. Cambridge University Press is the only official
publisher of past papers from Cambridge ESOL.
These official papers provide candidates with
an excellent opportunity to familiarise themselves
with the updated content and format of the CAE
examination, to be introduced in December 2008.
Attractive
colour visual material for Paper 5 is included
with each test, enabling students to prepare thoroughly
for the paired interview (Paper 5). This 'with
answers' edition also contains a comprehensive
section of keys, transcripts of the recorded material,
a guide to each paper and an insight into marking
procedures and grading, with sample answers, making
it ideal for self-study.
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Advanced
Grammar in Use Second edition is a fully updated
version of the highly successful grammar title.
This new revised edition focuses specifically
on the complexities of grammatical choices that
advanced students need to appreciate. It also
includes a comprehensive Basic Grammar Reference
so students can easily review their understanding
of language areas they have previously studied.
This
new edition is designed to be flexible. The book
is available both with and without answers making
it ideal for use in the classroom or for self-study.
The 'with answers' version of the book is also
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