Roy Norris – Getting Ready for B2 First

on 25.05.2021 at 10:33

What’s the best way to prepare my students for the transformation exercise in the Use of English paper?
What tips can you give for the Listening paper?

If you have questions like this about the Cambridge B2 First exam, you might find the answers you need in this one-hour question and answer session with Roy Norris, author of Ready for B2 First 4^th edition and Straight to First.

I’ll be addressing your concerns about preparation for the exam based on 20 years of coursebook writing and many more of teaching.
Roy Norris

WATCH THE SESSION BELOW:

Roy Norris worked for many years as a teacher and teacher trainer at IH Madrid, and also spent nearly two years as Director of Studies in Vilnius, Lithuania.
He has been writing for Macmillan since 1999, and is the author of Ready for B2 First (now in its 4th edition), Straight to First and Straightforward Advanced, and co-author of Ready for Advanced.

Watch below Roy’s first webinar on preparing students for the B2 First exam:

Roy Norris – Vocabulary teaching at B2 First: criteria for selection
Frequency is clearly important when deciding which vocabulary to teach in preparation for the B2 First exam, and there are some useful tools available to help us. But a number of additional factors need to be taken into account, and Roy Norris considers these as well. He uses examples from the new edition of Ready for B2 First to help explain why we teach what we teach.