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Linguaskill is a quick and convenient online test to help organisations check the English levels of individuals and groups of candidates, powered by Artificial Intelligence technology. It tests all four language skills - speaking, writing, reading and listening - in modules.

It provides accurate results within 48 hours and is easy to administer; you can administer the test at any time or place, even to candidates at home. Results are aligned to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR), the international standard for describing language ability.

Linguaskill is distributed through our network of authorised agents who run and administer the test. By becoming an agent, you can enhance the portfolio of services offered to your clients.

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Linguaskill is a quick and convenient online test to help organisations check the English levels of individuals and groups of candidates, powered by Artificial Intelligence technology. It tests all four language skills - speaking, writing, reading and listening - in modules.

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Avec le site OSCAR, vous pouvez réaliser un test de positionnement gratuit en anglais, allemand, espagnol, italien et français langue étrangère. Grâce à un test évolutif de 15 minutes, découvrez votre niveau et déterminez vos objectifs.

C'est très simple :

1. Rendez vous sur www.oscar-cel.com

2. Créez votre compte gratuitement

3. Faites le test (10-15 minutes)

4. Identifiez vos besoins et vos objectifs

5. Consultez vos résultats

Un conseiller prendra ensuite contact avec vous pour vous accompagner et vous conseiller dans votre projet.

Le Centre d'Études de Langues c'est plus de 11 langues enseignées en cours particuliers ou collectifs. Vous avez un projet ? Contactez-nous :

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Contenu des tests Linguaskill

Les tests Linguaskill from Cambridge sont des tests innovants, sur ordinateur. Ils évaluent la maîtrise de l'anglais selon l'échelle du Cadre Européen Commun de Référence pour les Langues (CECRL), du niveau A1 au niveau C1+. De ce fait, vous pouvez comparer vos résultats aux standards internationaux.

Vous choisissez le test qui vous convient le mieux :

Linguaskill General (lancé en octobre 2018) pour les situations de la vie professionnelle courante (métiers du tourisme par exemple)

Linguaskill Business (lancement 1er trimestre 2019) pour les situations de la vie professionnelle " business " (métiers commerciaux ou administratifs)

3 modules combinables sont disponibles :

Compréhension écrite et orale

Expression écrite

Expression orale

Nous vous recommandons de passer les trois modules, afin d'évaluer et de prouver votre maîtrise de l'anglais dans toutes les compétences langagières : vous parlez et comprenez l'anglais, à l'écrit comme à l'oral.

Pour les candidats avec des besoins spécifiques (liés par exemple à un handicap), des adaptations des sujets et/ou du format des épreuves sont possibles. Pour en savoir plus, consultez la page Special Requirements (en anglais)

Le contenu des trois modules

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Les tests Linguaskill from Cambridge sont des tests innovants, sur ordinateur. Ils évaluent la maîtrise de l'anglais selon l'échelle du Cadre Européen Commun de Référence pour les Langues (CECRL), du niveau A1 au niveau C1+. De ce fait, vous pouvez comparer vos résultats aux standards internationaux.

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Not sure which exam to take? Try our online test to find out which Cambridge English exam is right for you. It’s quick, free and gives an instant score.

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Preparing for Linguaskill

We have a range of resources to help candidates who are preparing for a Linguaskill test. Our resources will help you:

Familiarise yourself with the test

Free online sample tests

Use these online sample tests to familiarise yourself with the types of questions used on Linguaskill. These sample tests do not provide a result or save your answers.

Note: The Reading and Listening sample test is not adaptive and is shorter than a real test. The Speaking sample test requires a headphone set and microphone.

Preparation videos

Watch our series of preparation videos.

Top Tips

Read our top tips for Linguaskill, created by our assessment specialists to give you the best chance of succeeding in your test:

Top tips videos

This video series provides tips on how best to prepare for Linguaskill, and what to expect during the tests.

Official Quick Guide to Linguaskill

The official test preparation companion, the Linguaskill Quick Guide includes:

10 hours of familiarisation and practice of the test

information on the test structure and examples of every question type in the test

hints and tips on how to succeed in the test.

Free online practice tests

Our practice tests help you get comfortable with the format and layout of the test while also providing you with feedback on the responses you have entered. You can take these practice tests as many times as you like.

Note: Linguaskill is an adaptive test that changes the questions based on your answers, to provide you with a score. Our practice tests are not adaptive - there are three tests available, at elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels.

Important information - please clear the cache on your computer before taking these practice tests, this will refresh the data that may have previously been entered.

Reading and Listening practice tests

Writing sample responses

We have examples of Writing responses for each level and test section. They demonstrate the content that needs to be written in order to achieve the different levels. Examiner commentary is given to explain the reasons behind why each level was achieved.

Writing assessment criteria

The Linguaskill Writing Assessment Criteria are a useful guide for teachers and students who want to understand more about how the writing test is assessed. However, please note that the writing test is marked using our AI Marker. This technology allows us to assess against a wider range of CEFR descriptors than is possible to include in examiner marked assessment criteria.
Linguaskill writing assessment criteria

Writing Practice

Want to practise your written English? Write & Improve gives you feedback in seconds.

This free online tool includes specific Linguaskill Business-related writing topics, it is a fantastic way to improve your writing skills.

Speaking Practice

Speak and Improve is a great way to practise your speaking skills and get used to the experience of taking an online speaking test like Linguaskill.

Learn and improve your English

Cambridge English Empower

Cambridge English Empower is a general course that covers all levels of the CEFR. You can choose a course to suit your needs, from A1-C1.
View a sample of the Empower book
A recommended course for Linguaskill, Empower offers:

a six-level, 80-120-hour English course

task types similar to those in Linguaskill, so candidates will be familiar with the question types

clear and easy off-the-page teaching

both online and offline resources.

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Resources to help you practice and prepare for the Linguaskill test, including online sample tests and tools, tips, videos and courses.

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Qui utilise Linguaskill ?

Exemples d'entreprises et d'établissements d'enseignement supérieur qui utilisent et acceptent Linguaskill :
En savoir plus
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Besoin de conseil ? Contactez notre équipe à Paris pour plus d'informations sur nos examens.
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Comment préparer Linguaskill | Cambridge English

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Exemples d'entreprises et d'établissements d'enseignement supérieur qui utilisent et acceptent Linguaskill : En savoir plus Contactez-nous Besoin de conseil ? Contactez notre équipe à Paris pour plus d'informations sur nos examens. Contactez-nous

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Préparation LINGUASKILL

Il est indispensable de se familiariser avec le LINGUASKILL avant de le passer. On évite ainsi les surprises et on se donne toutes les chances d'optimiser son score sans être dérouté par les formats de questions. C'est pour cela que nous avons créé le module LINGUASKILL Preview d'une heure environ (gratuit)

Pour les plus exigeants qui veulent améliorer leurs résultats, le LINGUASKILL Course a été conçu comme un kit de préparation complet avec examens blancs, fiches de préparation, entraînement systématique aux différents formats de questions. Le tout réalisable en ligne et à distance.
LINGUASKILL Preview (gratuit) LINGUASKILL Course

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Les examens d'anglais Lingaskill General et Business de Cambridge

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Linguaskill, ces certifications modernes, informatisées, adaptatives ont pris le leadership pour la formation continue, les entreprises et le CPF

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https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar/a1-a2-grammar/present-continuous

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar/a1-a2-grammar/present-simple

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How has sugar become such an important part of our diets? Find out more with Georgie and Neil and learn some useful vocabulary.

This week's question

Which English monarch loved eating sugar so much their teeth turned black?

Was it:

a) King Henry VIII?
b) Queen Elizabeth I? or,
c) Mary Queen of Scots?

Listen to the programme to hear the answer.

Vocabulary

a sweet tooth
a liking for sweet, sugary food and drinks

commodity
product or natural resource that can be traded, bought and sold

staggering
very shocking and surprising

fuel
substance such as oil, coal or wood, that is burned to provide heat or power

flood the market
release a lot of a particular product for sale, often at a low price

eating habits
the way a particular group of people eat, for example which types of food they eat, how much, and how often
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Note: This is not a word-for-word transcript.

Neil
Hello. This is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I'm Neil.

Georgie
And I'm Georgie. Would you like a cup of tea, Neil?

Neil
Oh, yes thanks, Georgie - with milk and three sugars please.

Neil
Yes, but I can't say 'no' to sugar. Just as our addiction to oil is causing a climate emergency, our addiction to sugar is causing a health emergency for our bodies. Sugar gives us an instant hit of the chemical hormone, dopamine, making us feel good, but in the long run causing obesity, tooth decay, and diseases like diabetes.

Georgie
But how did our addiction to the sweet stuff begin? That's what we'll be discussing in this programme and, as usual, we'll be learning some useful new vocabulary as well. Anyway, here's your tea, Neil... I just put one sugar.

Neil
Thanks, Georgie, I'll give it a try. Now before we go on, I have a question for you. Sugar cane, which grows naturally in Asia, Africa and the Americas, first came to England in the 11th century. Back then it was an expensive luxury item, affordable only to kings, queens and the very rich. So, which English monarch loved eating sugar so much their teeth turned black?

Was it:

a) King Henry VIII?

b) Queen Elizabeth I? or,

c) Mary Queen of Scots?

Georgie
I know Henry VIII was very unhealthy, so I'll guess it's him.

OK, Georgie, we'll find out the answer later in the programme. Just now, I compared sugar to oil as the world's most important commodity. A commodity is a product or natural resource that can be traded, bought and sold. Today, economies, governments and wars are based on controlling oil, but in earlier centuries, the same was true of sugar.

Georgie
For four hundred years, sugar, along with coffee and tobacco, was grown in slavery plantations and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe. By the time slavery was ended in 1834, the demand for sugar in Europe and the United States was at a record high. Here's professor of international history, Ulba Bosma, explaining more to BBC Radio 4 programme, Thinking Allowed:

Professor Ulbe Bosma
Sugar was already an extremely important commodity in the 16th and 17th and 18th century, and in the 19th century we see a staggering growth of sugar consumption in Europe and the United States. And with that, sugar became the fuel for human bodies, whereas oil became the fuel for vehicles in the 20th century.

Professor Bosma talks about the staggering growth in the popularity of sugar. The adjective, staggering, means shocking or surprising. Just like oil became the fuel for machine engines, sugar became the fuel for the human body. Fuel is a substance that is burned to provide heat or power.

Georgie
Trading companies had become rich selling sugar grown using slave labour. When people began to realise the health problems of sugar in the 20th century, these companies needed new ways to sell their product, and began using sugar in food which had previously contained none, food like bread, cereal and yogurt. Here's Professor Bosma again, taking up the story for BBC Radio 4's, Thinking Allowed:

Professor Ulbe Bosma
You can flood the market with a certain commodity, with sugar in this case, but that still does not mean that people will consume it, so the eating habits of people had to change. People until the early 19th century they had a few spoons of sugar per week, but not a kilo which people consume today in many countries in the world...

Sugar companies flooded the market with their commodity. If you flood the market, you make a lot of your product available for sale, often at a low price.

Neil
Instead of one or two spoons of sugar per week, people started eating kilos, with results we see around us every day - worldwide, obesity and heart disease have tripled in the last 50 years. What's more, because sugary food is cheaper, it's often the poorest in society who are worst affected.

Georgie
Hmm, maybe it's time to try having your tea without any sugar, eh, Neil? And to reveal the answer to your question: which English monarch's famous love of sugar turned their teeth black? I guessed it was the notorious overeater, Henry VIII...

Neil
Bye!

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This is the second of four exercises to practise making all forms of the past simple.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/intermediate/unit-1/tab/grammar Did all that -   To be continued – send exercises https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-simple-present-continuous-1.html https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/intermediate/unit-1/session-2

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar/a1-a2-grammar/present-continuous

https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar/a1-a2-grammar/present-simple