The Cambridge C1 Advanced focuses on language development to improve your English level, before you take the exam. 

During the course you will:

• Be given the exam techniques and test-taking strategies that you need to pass the exam
• Have a full practice exam during the course and receive feedback and advice from your teacher
• Discuss and debate a wide range of topics to improve your fluency and accuracy
• Write about various topics with appropriate style and language
• Follow complex listening that involves multiple speakers
• Develop your key skills by reading a variety of challenging texts
• Extend your range of language to help in each part of the exam

What can I do next?

• Book and take your Cambridge exam at IH London. We are an accredited Cambridge English
  exam centre.
• Use your new English skills for study, work and travel
• Apply to higher education
• Get that promotion or start a new career
• Progress to the Cambridge C2 Proficiency level

• 15 or 20 group lessons with your teacher and classmates
• A wide range of motivating materials, including digital resources and coursebooks
• Access to our online learning platform and a range of self-study materials 
• Regular targeted support from your teacher to help you achieve your learning goals
• Mock test experience to best prepare you for the exam   
• Opportunities to attend additional free English lessons with trainees
• Social activity programme  – see our weekly calendar for more details and prices
• Access to the library and computers
• Exam fees are not included in the course price

*By the end of the course you will be better able to…   

Spoken Interaction 

• Give clear, detailed descriptions on a wide range of subjects and develop your ideas during the conversation  
• Invite others to give their views on how to proceed and use turn-taking strategies to keep the conversation flowing  
• Ask for clarification when something is unclear or use strategies to work out the meaning or context without help 

*Some course outcomes may vary depending on your starting level of English and personal learning goals. 

Spoken Production  

• Give a clear, prepared presentation, giving reasons in support of or against a particular point of view and giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options 
• Express yourself confidently and fluently 
• Use complex grammar to compare and contrast ideas  
• Vary intonation and place sentence stress correctly in order to express difference in meaning 
•  Identify and use formality appropriate to the circumstances   

Listening 

• follow complex interactions between multiple speakers in group discussion or debate 
• Identify key information to help predict answers to exam style questions 
• Identify the speaker’s mood, tone etc. 
• Use a range of techniques follow a long text and identify key information  
• recognise a wide range of idiomatic expressions and colloquialisms, appreciating register shifts   

Reading 

• Scan quickly through long and complex texts, locating relevant details 
• Read for detailed information in texts to answer exam style questions  
• Make predictions about text content from headings, titles or headlines.  
• Predict the meaning of unknown vocabulary 
• Read critically, questioning conclusions and evidence presented   

Writing 

• Write clear well-structured texts with detailed supporting evidence  
• Write several different types of writing, e.g. essays, reports, reviews, letters and emails 
• Use a complex language to link ideas in academic writing  
• Use a range of cohesive devices in writing to engage the reader 
• Identify task questions and write appropriate responses using a relevant examples 

Life Skills   

• Set learning goals and plan your personal progress  
• Use critical thinking skills 
• Apply study skills and strategies outside the classroom and after your course ends 

*Some course outcomes may vary depending on your starting level of English and personal learning goals.