Spotlight on First and Advanced - Cambridge English Exam Preparation Course

Spotlight on First and Spotlight on Advanced are fully comprehensive exam-preparation courses that have been revised to be in line with the Cambridge English exam.

Key features of the Student’s Book:
The Writing guide includes a complete set of writing models covering all the main genres from the exam, and a bank of useful expressions for each writing task. - Beautiful design, engaging photos and fascinating texts motivate students to study.
- Eight National Geographic video lessons with the new Ideas generator syllabus provide a launching pad to help students generate ideas and form opinions. The strategies include mindmapping a topic, seeing things from another person’s point of view, asking yourself ‘wh’ questions and making connections. Teaching students how to have ideas is particularly useful for those who struggle with what to say or write when answering exam questions.
- A realistic Speaking test video and worksheets prepare students to deal with this test. The video shows real students completing all four parts of the Speaking test. Accompanying worksheets in the Student’s Book provide the printed test materials and the examiner’s script. Carefully-designed activities help students to recognise and analyse effective performance.
- Exam Spotlights give essential advice and equip students with the key exam strategies.
- A two-page writing section in every unit ensures that all the exam writing tasks are thoroughly covered, and offers tips and checklists to help students produce top-grade writing.
- Word-building and learning strategies, including phrasal verbs, collocations, etc., build students’ vocabulary.
- Concise explanations, extensive examples and practice activities cover all the grammar students need.
- A review section after every two units uses exam tasks to consolidate the grammar and vocabulary from the units, as well as offering valuable further exam practice.
- A new complete Practice test in the Student’s Book provides additional realistic practice of the whole First exam.
- The Grammar reference includes complete explanations and integrated practice materials so that students can do more form-based practice.
- The Writing guide includes a complete set of writing models covering all the main genres from the exam, and a bank of useful expressions for each writing task.