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Meri: Well, Cambridge certificate simply have specific tasks. There's no point in complaining about it - if you want to do the certificate, you simply have to learn how the tasks look and adapt yourself.
In speaking, you have to introduce yourself and in each task, there is interaction with the interlocutor and one task itself is a dialogue between you and your partner - in FCE it's terrible with the pictures, I personally hated it, it tied my hands, and I had problems with the time limit, but in CAE there is a normal dialogue.
Only one task in CAE is about the pictures and that's trying to test your improvisation skills and ability to talk independently. Of course, it's not a simulation of a real situation and it is a little annoying, but you practice it twice if you have no problems with talking out of the blue, five times, if you tend to get nervous and you do it fine.
Dara: Find mistake is not there anymore, at least I think so. Certainly, it's not in the CAE.
Of course you need paragraphs, in every normal text you need paragraphs, if you don't do paragraphs, the mean literary competition judge Mivka eats you alive :) But I've never heard of some special paragraphs for Cambridge writing and I've just had a course for CAE and did a ton of writings. :) However, yes, you need to learn all the kinds of tasks and their formal style.
I think that for any job besides the more qualified ones in English speakig countries and those working only with the language, FCE is OK. If you'd like to be a translator, interpretor or anything near to this, the only thing you get with FCE is a very condescending tone and "thank you, darling, come back later, once you are more qualified" :)) CAE is better, but CPE is the only thing, that really has at least some value in this field to more employers. |
