A2 Key and B1 Preliminary (KET, PET) · Cambridge English
B1 Preliminary (PET)
Papers, samples and curriculum documents for this course.
Course units and learning goals
These lessons teach selected course objectives. Check the remaining coverage gaps; the material is not a complete preparation programme.
R.1-2 · Preliminary reading: notices and needs matching
- Interpret the main message of five short texts (Part 1)
- Match five people’s detailed needs to eight texts (Part 2)
- requirement
- A condition that must be satisfied
- suitability
- How well an option meets the stated needs
R.3-4 · Preliminary reading: detailed meaning and cohesion
- Understand detail, inference, attitude and global meaning in a longer text (Part 3)
- Restore five sentences using discourse links in a gapped text (Part 4)
- cohesion
- Links that connect sentences into a text
- reference
- A link from a word to the person or idea it represents
R.5-6 · Preliminary reading: lexical and open cloze
- Choose six vocabulary answers from four options (Part 5)
- Supply six single words using grammatical context (Part 6)
- determiner
- A word such as the or this that specifies a noun
- collocation
- A common combination of words
W.1 · Preliminary writing: responsive email
- Write an email of about 100 words addressing supplied notes
- Use appropriate communicative conventions
- Organise and control B1 language
- communicative achievement
- How the writing fulfils its communicative purpose
- development
- Relevant detail explaining a main point
W.2 · Preliminary writing: article or story
- Choose one of the article and story tasks and follow its instruction
- Develop relevant ideas and engage the intended reader
- Organise a coherent article or narrative in about 100 words
- genre
- A type of writing such as article or story
- resolution
- The event that resolves a story’s problem
L.1-2 · Preliminary listening: detail and short-extract meaning
- Identify key information in seven visual-choice items (Part 1)
- Understand gist, attitude or specific information in six short extracts (Part 2)
- attitude
- A speaker’s evaluation or feeling
- extract
- A short part of spoken or written material
L.3-4 · Preliminary listening: notes and longer interviews
- Complete six factual note gaps with the allowed answer form (Part 3)
- Understand detail, attitudes and opinions in a longer interview (Part 4)
- monologue
- Speech by one speaker
- interviewee
- The person answering interview questions
S.1-4 · Preliminary speaking: description, decision and discussion
- Respond to personal questions (Part 1)
- Describe one colour photograph for about one minute (Part 2)
- Discuss options with a partner and extend a topic discussion (Parts 3–4)
- discourse management
- Organising connected speech clearly
- speculation
- A cautious interpretation of uncertain information
Preparing for this qualification
- Reading 45 min: 6 parts, 32 items. Writing 45 min: compulsory email plus article/story choice, about 100 words each. Listening about 30 min: 4 parts, 25 items. Speaking 10–12 min per pair: 4 parts. Use live performance for speaking.
Teaching coverage still needed
- Live speaking observation, sample audio integration and a larger range of reading/writing task variants remain. Human scales, not exact-string grading, are required for productive tasks.
Specifications and sample documents
Course materials
Course preparation
Documents are available. Board-specific notes, assessments and interactive past-paper practice are not yet available for every course.
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