C2 Proficiency Quest

In this episode, we are going to talk about COVID-19. Since the rest of the world is talking about it, I said, "Oh well, let's make the most of it and learn to talk about health and illness." Vocabulary related to COVID-19 or health and illness: * access to healthcare * acute * alleviate * attack (the virus attacks...) * be in poor health * be/feel under the weather * Carrier * come down with * Community spread * Contagious * Containment * contract * cope * Coronavirus, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 * diabetes * droplets * Epidemic vs. pandemic * Fatality; deadliness * Fatality/Mortality rate; death toll * Flatten the curve * from person to person; person-to-person transmission * heart disease * high blood pressure * High-risk population * home remedies * immune system * Incubation period * infect * infected * Infectious * lethargy * Lockdown, isolate, isolation, self-isolate, quarantine, social distancing * Mitigation * Outbreak * positive (test positive or negative) * prevent * serious illness * Shortness of breath * spread * sweep the globe * Symptomatic/Asymptomatic * the WHO (abbreviation for the World Health Organization) * transmit * Underlying medical problems; pre-existing medical conditions * vaccine, vaccinate, vaccination * Waterborne; airborne — Do you need some extra practice? Or maybe you are looking for an English tutor to help you walk that extra mile. Either way, you can find your teacher on italki [https://www.italki.com/i/BEAFHe?hl=en]. And with this link, you'll get $10 when you spend $20 on the platform! (Only for new clients.) — Want to be on the show? Answer this short form [https://forms.gle/XD7iUGPP9m8M15mE6] to let me know. Follow the project on Instagram: @c2proficiencyquest Like C2 Proficiency Quest's Facebook page: facebook.com/C2-Proficiency-Quest-114237646798856 [http://facebook.com/C2-Proficiency-Quest-114237646798856] Share if you liked the episode, and don't forget to leave a comment! You can also send me a voice recording through Anchor or mail it to albastudiesenglish@gmail.com [albastudiesenglish@gmail.com] (and tell me if you'd like me to add it to an episode!) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/c2proficiencyquest/message

In this Episode, Rohit from GoGetter English tells us how to improve our speaking skills for the C2 Proficiency exam (CPE). Episode's links: https://gogetterenglish.es/ [https://gogetterenglish.es/] https://www.facebook.com/GogetterLang/ [https://www.facebook.com/GogetterLang/] https://www.instagram.com/gogetterenglish/ [https://www.instagram.com/gogetterenglish/] — Want to be on the show? Answerthis short form [https://forms.gle/XD7iUGPP9m8M15mE6]to let me know. Follow the project on Instagram: @c2proficiencyquest Like C2 Proficiency Quest's Facebook page:facebook.com/C2-Proficiency-Quest-114237646798856 [http://facebook.com/C2-Proficiency-Quest-114237646798856] Share if you liked the episode and don't forget to leave a comment! You can also send me a voice recording through Anchor or mail it toalbastudiesenglish@gmail.com [albastudiesenglish@gmail.com](and tell me if you'd like me to add it to an episode!) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/c2proficiencyquest/message

In this episode, we talk about memory, memories, forgetting and remembering. We will study some idioms, phrasal verbs, and collocations related to this topic, and we will also do some word formation practice. On top of that, given that we are talking about memory today, I'll share with you some of the strategies I use so as to remember new vocabulary and structures. — Want to be on the show? Answer this short form [https://forms.gle/XD7iUGPP9m8M15mE6] to let me know. Follow the project on Instagram: @c2proficiencyquest Like C2 Proficiency Quest's Facebook page: facebook.com/C2-Proficiency-Quest-114237646798856 [http://facebook.com/C2-Proficiency-Quest-114237646798856] Share if you liked the episode and don't forget to leave a comment! You can also send me a voice recording through Anchor or mail it to albastudiesenglish@gmail.com [albastudiesenglish@gmail.com] (and tell me if you'd like me to add it to an episode!) — Do you need some extra practice? Or maybe you are looking for an English tutor to help you walk that extra mile. Either way, you can find your teacher on italki [https://www.italki.com/i/BEAFHe?hl=en]. And with this link, you'll get $10 when you spend $20 on the platform! (Only for new clients.) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/c2proficiencyquest/message

In today's episode, we talk about the tasks in the C2 Proficiency speaking paper and their differences with those in the C1 advanced. I will also give you some quick tips on how to interrupt as well as disagree politely during the exam. — Want to be on the show? Answer this short form [https://forms.gle/XD7iUGPP9m8M15mE6] to let me know. Follow the project on Instagram: @c2proficiencyquest Like C2 Proficiency Quest's Facebook page: facebook.com/C2-Proficiency-Quest-114237646798856 [http://facebook.com/C2-Proficiency-Quest-114237646798856] Share if you liked the episode and don't forget to leave a comment! You can also send me a voice recording through Anchor or mail it to albastudiesenglish@gmail.com [albastudiesenglish@gmail.com] (and tell me if you'd like me to add it to an episode!) Episode's links: https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/Images/168194-c2-proficiency-teachers-handbook.pdf [https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/Images/168194-c2-proficiency-teachers-handbook.pdf] — Do you need some extra practice? Or maybe you are looking for an English tutor to help you walk that extra mile. Either way, you can find your teacher on italki. And with this link, you'll get $10 when you spend $20 on the platform! (Only for new clients) https://www.italki.com/i/BEAFHe?hl=en [https://www.italki.com/i/BEAFHe?hl=en] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/c2proficiencyquest/message

In this Episode, Christopher Walker from closelyobserved.com [https://closelyobserved.com/] offers us some guidance on how to improve our writing skills for the C2 Proficiency exam (CPE). About Christopher: Christopher Walker is originally from Leicester in England, but for the past decade, he has been living in Bielsko-Biala, a city tucked into the bottom corner of Poland close to both the Czech Republic and Slovakia. He runs a website at www.closelyobserved.com [http://www.closelyobserved.com/], and a YouTube channel called Closely Observed English [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO2CePuzjIWK3kWsYcYbb4w], which helps students learn more about English, and prepare for exams. He has also started another channel recently, Closely Observed Teaching [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClp0XqB_Kmw-LT12fpUKmUw], which, as the name suggests, focuses on the teaching side of EFL. He specializes in Exam Preparation, but he finds absolutely everything to do with English - the language and teaching - to be quite fascinating. He particularly enjoys using etymology to help students build their word power more effectively, whether they are studying for an exam or not. Episode's links: www.closelyobserved.com [http://www.closelyobserved.com/] Closely Observed English: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO2CePuzjIWK3kWsYcYbb4w [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO2CePuzjIWK3kWsYcYbb4w] Closely Observed Teaching: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClp0XqB_Kmw-LT12fpUKmUw [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClp0XqB_Kmw-LT12fpUKmUw] Formal and informal register: https://youtu.be/yHEyfKo18ds [https://youtu.be/yHEyfKo18ds] — Want to be on the show? Answer this short form [https://forms.gle/XD7iUGPP9m8M15mE6] to let me know. Follow the project on Instagram: @c2proficiencyquest Like C2 Proficiency Quest's Facebook page: facebook.com/C2-Proficiency-Quest-114237646798856 [http://facebook.com/C2-Proficiency-Quest-114237646798856] Share if you liked the episode, and don't forget to leave a comment! You can also send me a voice recording through Anchor or mail it to albastudiesenglish@gmail.com [albastudiesenglish@gmail.com] (and tell me if you'd like me to add it to an episode!) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/c2proficiencyquest/message