Cambridge Flyers
Cambridge Flyers is one of our top course in our Cambridge English Test. It’s your child’s start to mastering the English language.
- Ages: 2.5 to 12
- 2 to 3 Classes / week
- 1 hr / Class
Cambridge Flyers Description
Cambridge Flyers is created to introduce your child to everyday written and spoken English and is an outstanding way for them to gain further their English language skills.
Our course is designed around familiar topics with a focus on skills needed to communicate effectively in English through speaking, writing, reading, and listening. The course gives students the skills and confidence to progress to higher level English, such as Cambridge KET
Given that our groups are small to maximise the benefit for your child and we have the most successful Cambridge Flyers course in Hong Kong, the places are limited, and early booking is advised.
Cambridge Flyers can help your child achieve:
- Understand simple written English
- Communicate in familiar situations
- Understand and use basic phrases and expressions
- Interact with English speakers who talk slowly and clearly
Reasons to choose Cambridge Flyers:
- There is no pass or fail, every child is awarded a Cambridge English Certificate
- The exam uses real-life everyday scenarios to bring learning to life.
- The exam covers all major types of English (e.g. British English, American English)
Skills covered in Cambridge Flyers
- Reading
- Writing
- Speaking
- Listening
Internationally Recognised Certificate
- Globally recognised certificate
- Share with your school and other establishments
- Cambridge English exams are accepted for visa and study purposes in the UK, Australia, USA and Canada
*We make no guaranteed of class size, we reserve the right to change according to the environment
Excellent Results
Our learning centres has a reputation for excellence and quality and renowned for achieving 92% success rate in achieving desired results.
It remains one of the highest amongst its peers including other learning centres, kindergartens and primary schools in Hong Kong.
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Course Materials
Our experienced in house education experts has developed a curriculum specifically tailored for your child. These materials do not occur any cost to the parents.
For every lesson, we use different worksheets designed specifically to encourage your child to learn and master the English Language.
Course Feedback
As a learning centre, teachers and parents share responsibility for the success of your child. Our unique online feedback system allows parents to keep up to date online on how much progress your child is making.
After each lesson, our teachers will provide an up to minute report on how your child is progressing through the various stages of their learning. Our teachers will provide constructive feedback and any areas which need addressing for future lessons.
Cambridge Flyers Exam Key Questions & Answers
Any child who complete Cambridge Starters, Cambridge Movers and Cambridge English Flyers exams receive a certificate.
There is no pass or fail, every child is awarded a Cambridge English Certificate. Every child who takes the exam should feel that have achieved something significant. In the certificate, your child will see shields for Listening, Reading, and Writing, and Speaking.
The maximum number of shields is five. Five shields mean the child has done very well. One shield indicates the child took the exam and can still improve.
For the Reading and Writing exam, your child will need an ordinary pen or pencil.
Little Oxbridge will send the completed exams to Cambridge Assessment English. The papers are then marked very thoroughly by a team of highly qualified markers.
For the Listening exam, your child must remember to take coloured pencils or pens (red, blue, green, yellow, orange, pink, purple, black, brown, and grey) and an ordinary pen or pencil.
Little Oxbridge will send the completed exams to Cambridge Assessment English. The papers are then marked very thoroughly by a team of highly qualified markers. For the majority parts of the exam, spelling must be 100% accurate. In Part 2 some misspellings will be allowed for words which are not spelled out on the recording.
Your child does not require anything for the Speaking exam.
The Speaking Examiner marks the Speaking exam on the day and sends the marks to Cambridge Assessment English with the completed Listening and Reading and Writing papers.
Yes. There is a Cambridge Flyers word list available.
We use both British and American English words for the exams. The Listening exam contain both British and American accents and all through the exam answers given in either standard British English or American English are both accepted.
Cambridge Flyers Test Format
Cambridge Flyers is made up of three papers developed to help your child achieve mastery in English language. Please see below what the paper looks like.
| Paper | Content | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| Listening (about 25 minutes) | 5 parts / 25 questions | a maximum of five shields |
| Reading & Writing (about 40 minutes) | 7 parts / 44 questions | a maximum of five shields |
| Speaking ( 7-9 minutes) | 4 parts | a maximum of five shields |
| Part 1 | |
| What’s in Part 1? | A big picture which shows people doing different things. Above and below the picture, there are some names. Your child will have to listen carefully to a conversation between an adult and a child and draw a line from each name to the correct person on the big picture. |
| What should children practise? | Listening for names and descriptions. |
| How many questions are there? | 5 |
| Part 2 | |
| What’s in Part 2? | A short conversation between two people. There is a form or a page of a notebook with some missing words (gaps). Your child will have to listen to the recording and write a missing word or number in each gap. |
| What should children practise? | Listening for names, spellings and other information. |
| How many questions are there? | 5 |
| Part 3 | |
| What’s in Part 3? | Two sets of pictures. On the left, there are some pictures of people and their names, or other named places or objects. On the right, there is a set of pictures with letters but no words. Your child will have to listen to a conversation between two people and match each of the pictures on the right to one of the named pictures on the left. |
| What should children practise? | Listening for names, spellings and other information. |
| How many questions are there? | 5 |
| Part 4 | |
| What’s in Part 4? | Five short conversations. There is a question and three pictures for each conversation. Your child will have to decide which picture shows the right answer to the question and put a tick in the box under it. |
| What should children practise? | Listening for specific information. |
| How many questions are there? | 5 |
| Part 5 | |
| What’s in Part 5? | A big picture. Your child will have to listen carefully to a conversation between an adult and a child. The adult asks the child to colour different objects in the picture and to write a simple word. Your child will have to follow the instructions. |
| What should children practise? | Listening for words, colours and specific information. |
| How many questions are there? | 5 |
| Part 1 | |
| What’s in Part 1? | Fifteen words and ten definitions (sentences that describe or explain ten of the fifteen words). Your child will have to write the correct word next to each definition. |
| What should children practise? | Reading short definitions and matching to words. Writing words. |
| How many questions are there? | 10 |
| Part 2 | |
| What’s in Part 2? | A short conversation between two people. Everything that the first speaker says is printed on the question paper, with gaps for the second speaker’s answers. For each gap, your child will have to choose the correct answer from a list (A–H). |
| What should children practise? | Reading and completing a continuous dialogue. Writing letters. |
| How many questions are there? | 5 |
| Part 3 | |
| What’s in Part 3? | A text with some missing words (gaps) in it (a noun, adjective or verb). Next to the text there is a box with words in it. Your child will have to choose the correct word from the box for each gap and copy it. For the last question, children have to choose the best title for the text from a choice of three possible titles. |
| What should children practise? | Reading for specific information and gist. Copying words. |
| How many questions are there? | 6 |
| Part 4 | |
| What’s in Part 4? | A text with some missing words (gaps). Next to the line where each word is missing, there is a choice of three possible answers. Your child will have to decide which answer is correct and copy the word into the gap. |
| What should children practise? | Reading and understanding a factual text. Simple grammar. Copying words. |
| How many questions are there? | 10 |
| Part 5 | |
| What’s in Part 5? | A complete story, and seven sentences about the story. Each sentence has a gap which children have to complete using one, two, three or four words. |
| What should children practise? | Reading a story. Completing sentences. |
| How many questions are there? | 7 |
| Part 6 | |
| What’s in Part 6? | A text from a letter or diary with five gaps. Your child will have to write the missing word in each of the five gaps. There is no list of words to choose from. |
| What should children practise? | Reading and understanding a short text.. |
| How many questions are there? | 5 |
| Part 7 | |
| What’s in Part 7? | Your child will write a story based on three pictures. |
| What should children practise? | Writing short stories. |
| How many questions are there? | 1 |
| Part 1 | |
| What’s in Part 1? | The examiner will greet your child and ask their name and age. Then they look at two pictures. The pictures are similar but they have some differences. The examiner will ask your child to describe four differences in the pictures. |
| What should children practise? | Describing differences between pictures. Talking about colour, size, number, position, how people/things look, what people are doing, etc. |
| Part 2 | |
| What’s in Part 2? | Your child and the examiner each have two similar pictures (for example, pictures of two different classrooms). The examiner has information about one picture, and you child has information about the other picture. First, the examiner asks your child questions about one picture, and then your child asks similar questions about the other picture. |
| What should children practise? | Answering questions with short answers. Asking questions to get information. |
| Part 3 | |
| What’s in Part 3? | The examiner shows four pictures which tell a story and tells your child about the first picture. Your child has to continue the story and describe the other three pictures. The title of the story and the name(s) of the main character(s) are provided. |
| What should children practise? | Understanding the beginning of a story and then continuing it. Describing pictures. |
| Part 4 | |
| What’s in Part 4? | The examiner asks the child some questions about him/herself (for example, school, weekends, friends and hobbies). |
| What should children practise? | Understanding and responding to personal questions. |
Cambridge Flyers Exam Preparation
To make your child as comfortable as possible before taking Cambridge Flyers exam, we suggest the following exam preparation: –
- Ensure your child to stay up to date, show them the relevant exam papers. When children are prepared, they will feel more confident and achieve better results.
- Encourage your child to attend more English lessons at our learning centre and practice more at home. A child will feel more confident when they can find answers to their questions about the exam when a teacher is present.
In the Cambridge Flyers Listening exam:
- The recordings are played twice. If your child misses something the first time they listen, there will be another opportunity to hear the answers.
- The most important part of colouring a picture is not how well it is done. Your child just needs to find the right part of the picture and use the right colour.
In the Cambridge Flyers Reading & Writing exam:
- Ensure your child writes clearly.
- The answers usually are very short, and words can be copied from a word box or from part of the text, so your child does not need to write the whole sentence apart from last parts of Movers and Flyers.
In the Cambridge Flyers Speaking Exam:
- Our examiners at our learning centre are very friendly. They are very experience and encouraging. Your child should feel relax and enjoy the speaking part of the exam. Suggest to your child to use words they are familiar to communicate with, for example, ‘Yes please’, ‘Thank you’, Pardon?’
- If you child does not understand something, they can ask our friendly examiner to repeat what they said. They can use words such as, ‘Can you please repeat?’.
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- Internationally recognised certificates
- Exams divided into 3 stages: Starters, Movers & Flyers
- Exams can be taken from age 4
- There is no pass or fail, every child is awarded a Cambridge English Certificate