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Help your child

practise English
Activities you can try at home to help your
child when they are learning English

These activities are designed for learners


taking A2 Key for Schools, B1 Preliminary
for Schools and B2 First for Schools
Activities to try at home
Cambridge English Qualifications test all four skills – speaking, writing, reading and
listening – and help your child develop the skills they need inside and outside the
classroom. Here are some ideas your child can try at home to practise English and
prepare for their exams. These activities are designed for learners taking A2 Key for
Schools, B1 Preliminary for Schools and B2 First for Schools.

Reading Speaking

• Encourage your child to read different kinds of texts, • Many of our Speaking tests ask children to speak
both fiction (e.g. short stories and cartoons) and about pictures. You can practise this at home in a
factual (e.g. news articles, magazines and brochures). fun way. One person can see a picture and describes
it. The other person listens and draws what’s being
• Support your child to find English language reading
described. At the end, compare the drawing with the
materials related to their favourite topics, whether
original picture.
that is football or fashion.
• Encourage your child to record themselves speaking
• Read stories that have been made into films. Discuss
in English. For example, when they are reading aloud
the differences between the story and the film.
or making videos. Encourage them to notice how
Which do they prefer?
they speak and make corrections.

Writing Vocabulary and grammar


• Encourage your child to practise lots of different
• Practise the words in our free vocabulary lists by
types of writing. For example, holiday postcards,
playing charades or PictionaryTM.
emails, short stories, diary entries, blog posts or
online reviews. • If learning English seems very challenging, break it
down into smaller tasks. For example, your child
• Is your child looking forward to a new movie, music
shouldn’t try to learn lots of new words in one go.
album or a sports event? Ask them to summarise
Focus on a few new words every week.
the highlights and choose how to present it. For
example, they could write a short story, make a
scrapbook with labels, or write a newspaper article.
Download materials to practise vocabulary:
Listening cambridgeenglish.org/key-for-schools/
prepare
• Try doing some of your child’s favourite activities in
cambridgeenglish.org/preliminary-for-
English. For example, watch a TV series in English,
schools/prepare
listen to English-language songs, watch a sports
match with English commentary, listen to an cambridgeenglish.org/first-for-schools/
audiobook in English, or play some board games prepare
in English.
• Ask your child to think about their favourite song
lyrics. What would they put in the music video for
this song? Then watch the official video. Are the
ideas the same or different?

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Get learning resources

Official Cambridge English Support your child on their English


preparation materials language journey

We have everything your child needs to improve Help your child practise a range of different skills and
their English, every step of the way. Access a wide feel prepared for their exams. We have lots of free
range of coursebooks and practice tests in print and games and learning activities for children, and advice
digital formats. and tips for parents.
cambridge.org/gb/cambridgeenglish/official-exam- cambridgeenglish.org/learning-english
preparation-materials

A2 B1
Key for Schools Preliminary
for Schools
Trainer Trainer
Six Practice Tests with answers
and Teacher’s Notes
Six Practice Tests without answers

Second edition
Second edition

WITH AUDIO
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For the revised exam from 2020


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a Cambridge English Qualification to travel, apply for
jobs, or get a place at an international university.

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