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A British Crown dependency off the coast of France. Also, a kind of buttonless, pullover shirt. An athlete's uniform shirt, also called a kit in British English. A colloquial term for the state of New Jersey Jesse (often as Big Jesse, derogatory insult for a man) Non-macho, effeminate, sometimes gay. A male name (uncommon in the UK).
A CEFR level for the overall exam. [7] The candidate's overall score is averaged from the individual scores for each paper (Reading and Writing, Listening and Speaking). Cambridge English: Key is targeted at CEFR Level A2, but also provides reliable assessment at the level above A2 (Level B1) and the level below (Level A1).
Comparison between the exams Cambridge English: Young Learners and the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. Cambridge English: Young Learners, formerly known as Young Learners English Tests (YLE), is a suite of English language tests that is specially designed for children in primary and lower-secondary school.
Cambridge Assessment English or Cambridge English develops and produces Cambridge English Qualifications and the International English Language Testing System ().The organisation contributed to the development of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), the standard used around the world to benchmark language skills, [2] and its qualifications and tests are aligned with ...
Passive vocabulary (also called receptive vocabulary) Vocabulary that students have heard and can understand, but do not necessarily use when they speak or write. Passive Opposite of active; the false assumption that the language skills of reading and listening do not involve students in doing anything but receiving information. Peer correction
The O grade was equivalent to a GCE Ordinary Level pass which indicated a performance equivalent to the lowest pass grade at Ordinary Level.. Over time, the validity of this system was questioned because, rather than reflecting a standard, norm referencing simply maintained a specific proportion of candidates at each grade, which in small cohorts was subject to statistical fluctuations in ...
Regular verbs have identical past tense and past participle forms in -ed, but there are 100 or so irregular English verbs with different forms (see list). The verbs have , do and say also have irregular third-person present tense forms ( has , does /dʌz/ , says /sɛz/ ).
Late Old English borrowed some grammar and core vocabulary from Old Norse, a North Germanic language. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Then, Middle English borrowed vocabulary extensively from French dialects , which are the source of approximately 28% of Modern English words , and from Latin , which is the source of an additional 28% . [ 14 ]