Pre A1 Starters case studies
Pre A1 Starters · Put your knowledge to work in context.
Pre A1 Starters is the first of three Cambridge English Qualifications for young learners. It is designed for children taking their first steps in English, introducing them to everyday written and spoken English and helping them build language skills and confidence. The Pre A1 Starters case studies are 5 cases and about 3,462 words.
1The name that sounded right: exact transcription in Listening Part 2
You teach a Saturday class of nine children aged 7-8 who have been learning English for about 15 months. You run a full Pre A1 Starters Listening mock.
733 words, about 4 min2Colouring the wrong shoe: two-attribute instructions in Listening Part 4
Listening Part 4 of a Pre A1 Starters mock asks children to colour five objects in a park scene. The recording says: 'Can you see the shoe?
704 words, about 4 min3Is 'sitting' wrong? Marking one-word picture answers
Pre A1 Starters Reading and Writing Part 5 shows a living-room picture with three questions. In the picture a man is in an armchair with an open book, a girl is at the table with a cake, and two cats are asleep on the sofa.
716 words, about 4 min4Three cats or two: quantity and prepositions in tick-or-cross
In a Pre A1 Starters Reading and Writing Part 1 practice, children look at a garden picture and write a tick or a cross for five sentences. The picture shows two cats under a tree, a boy on a red bike, a ball on a table, a girl wearing a blue hat, and three birds in the tree.
743 words, about 4 min5The eight-second silence: judging a Speaking test from a whole performance
You are preparing Yuki, aged 7, for a Pre A1 Starters Speaking test in six weeks. She moved from Japan eight months ago and has had 14 months of English.
566 words, about 3 min