Showing posts with label B2First. Show all posts
Showing posts with label B2First. Show all posts

Tuesday, 11 August 2026

Upcoming Cambridge SE training in Tokyo - B2:First & C1:Advanced

Looking forward to running this #B2First & #C1Advanced #SpeakingExaminer training session for Kawaijuku JP026 Sept 12-13th in #Tokyo

Need a roomful of chalkface professionals to work with! Please check out the recruitment details below - can you walk the walk and talk the assessment talk? All applications welcome if you meet the MPRs - no 'native-speaker' bias.

https://lnkd.in/grrDFcrd

Great chance to put assessment learning into practice in your own teaching environment; great chance to network & work with educators from a wide variety of teaching backgrounds - language schools, high schools, corporate, universities, with an international outlook.

What is B2:First? https://lnkd.in/gXwyWB_T

What is C1:Advanced? https://lnkd.in/geKYvfT6


Now you know! Come & join the Tokyo team - recognised globally.



Saturday, 18 April 2026

Jim's awayday in Tokyo - challenging examiners

Limited thinking time for Speaking Examiners to consider lexical resource components (words!) into CEFR bands...if only there were a website for that? https://lnkd.in/gH_AYdaQ

Speaking Examiners vs CEFR on Wordwall
Interesting disagreement about 'brass' - common in Japan as it is a 'club activity' in JHS/HS (brass band)...and in Yorkshire our number one obsession (money!), and my age group who loved The Pretenders/Chrissie Hynde! High end phrasal verb 'brassed off', idiom 'brass neck', or 'top brass'.

Here's the link https://lnkd.in/gn5efxzT - if you can beat the high score & live in Japan/teach English, get in touch about joining the SE team ;)

Thank you to Chris & the JP040 SE team for your patience with my attempts to spice up/gamify certification & re-invent the assessment wheel. 

Saturday, 18 September 2021

The Magnificent Seven

 

B1:Preliminary & A2:Key successes
Although it's been a pretty crappy year with travel restrictions, health scares etc, it's been a tremendous one academically, for our teens at Luna.

Every one of Luna's students who took a Cambridge examination this year was successful. That didn't just happen by chance! They have been studying hard, reading lots, and applied a positive attitude to class activities as well as homework.


A2:Key - firsts in both their schools
  • Lifetime achievement at A2:Key for Schools
  • Lifetime achievement at B1:Preliminary for Schools
  • Lifetime achievement at B2:First
Each of these students began their formal assessment journeys with our Cambridge Young Learners programme, having taken one, if not all three levels previously. Very solid foundations, and step by step progress with "Can Do" motivation...wanting to show off their English language skills (and not being forced).

Gold Standard - B2:First
Some of our learners smashed their test first time trying - very impressive! Others needed a second or even third attempt to reach their goal, which in many ways is even more inspiring as many would just give up or lose heart. 

Missing candidate, chuffed sister & mum!
And we applaud our students who are have made their own choices in their studies/English learning, and have a clear idea of their road ahead...be it using English to study medicine at university, or not stressing out over centre exams next year but aiming for Canada instead. Others intending to be the first in their school to get the next level as well. Whatever your motivation, it's clearly powerful...and we hope inspires your peers to push themselves in 2022. 
If at first you don't succeed...

Well done all of you - very proud school/Cambridge Assessment English Centre owner!

Register for your next Cambridge exam with Luna International, offering exams 
Tokyo, Nagoya, Nagano at 
 





Friday, 28 August 2020

"It's examining, but not as we know it, Jim"

Speaking Examiners at arm's length
Cooperating SEs
A couple of months ago, we were able to run a Cambridge Speaking Examiner certification session in Chikusa, Aichi, with participants very aware of the need to be safe - wearing masks throughout, being socially distanced and not sharing materials, as well as sanitising hands etc.

With recent spikes in Nagoya and Tokyo, we've unfortunately had to cancel a couple of these workshops - sensible, if inconvenient, and reassuring to all that safety is at the top of our considerations.

We are hoping that we'll be able to provide all our examiners with the professional support they'll need to safely deliver speaking tests in the next couple of months, as we try our best to run the exam sessions we are commited to. 

For JP004/Luna's YLE open sessions in Tokyo, Nagoya & Matsumoto >> 

For JP004/Luna's A2:Key & B1:Preliminary sessions in Nagano >> 

For JP004/Luna's B2:First sessions in Tokyo & Nagoya >>