Skills development

The exercises below are made available to support the systematic development of the participants' reading and listening comprehension skills at the C1 level.

Originally, participants have one week to complete the tasks, which are released progressively throughout the training programme.

Why it's so crucial to enhance listening and reading skills?

In language learning, we distinguish between two types of skills: receptive and productive ones. As shown below, receptive skills provide the foundation for the development of productive skills.  (The source: conference speech by Katarzyna Drausal, May 2026)

Reading comprehension

Listening comprehension

The source of all of the materials from this section:

Teacher's resources. (2020). English File. Fourth edition. Advanced. Oxford University Press.