ADVANCED (B2)


The Anglia Advanced English exam is mapped to B2 level on the Common European Framework of Reference and is an AIM Level 1 qualification on the UK National Qualifications Framework. This advanced test will assess your capabilities over the four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking (optional). This level includes an advanced English grammar test and includes the following English language skills:
  • increased vocabulary
  • inversion
  • verbs/structures followed by the past tense
  • hypothesis and deduction with modals
  • various uses of the infinitive after certain verbs
  • the perfect infinitive
  • more phrasal verbs
  • collocation and idiom

What does the candidate have to do in their Advanced test?
  • write a composition
  • write two forms of correspondence - formal and informal
  • read texts of different types
  • multiple choice questions
  • match answers
  • gap fill
  • sentence transformation
  • word transformation
  • note-taking
  • true/false/doesn’t say statements
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​Performance Indicators
The student has sufficient active vocabulary and structural understanding to:
  • write clear connected text on descriptive, narrative, imaginary or discursive topics
  • write correspondence, both formal and informal
  • understand and respond to the main points of a text on any topic, concrete or abstract
  • use language to perform any function likely to arise in a normal social or learning context
  • manipulate structures to create emphasis, and vary style and idiom
  • listen and respond to passages and questions in a variety of forms, delivered at a measured speaking pace​
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advanced essay

Part of the Reading, Writing, Listening exam is to write an essay. A good example of an essay at Adanced level can be found below.
GRAMMAR & STRUCTURES
WHAT ARE THEY USED FOR?
SOME EXAMPLES
VERBS
 
 
GP 31: Inversion
The inversion of subject and verb after certain negative adverbial introductions, e.g. never, rarely, hardly ever, not only, little, seldom.
Repeating messages, passing on information
Telling stories, jokes, checking facts.
- Never have I seen such a terrible film.
- Little did he know he would one day be Prime Minister.
- Not only was it raining, it was also cold.
GP 13: Verbs followed by the past tense.
I wish, it's about time, it's high time
Expressing hypothesis, regret, decision making and the need for decision making.
- I wish I had  € 1million.
- It's high time we did some work.
- It's about time he bought a new car.
GP 32: Deduction
Using modal verbs followed by the non-finite and perfect non-finite verbusing will
Expressing hypotheses and deductions in varying degrees of certainty.
- Jane will be in bed at this time of night.
- They should have heard the telephone.
- They must have gone out.
- He can't have finished his homework.
- If he had, he would have put it on my desk by now.
- John might be sitting in the theatre already.
GP 33: Infinitive 
After certain verbs
After certain adjectives
After question words
The perfect infinitive 
- I hope to hear from you shortly.
- We can't afford to give you a pay rise.
- I want you to do something for me.
- Its very difficult to explain.
- Tell me where to go/ how to get there/ what to say.
- I'd love to have met him.
- He doesn't seem to have done it.