Textbooks for exam preparation

IELTS

• Objective IELTS (CUP)
• New Insight into IELTS (CUP)
• Insight into IELTS Extra (CUP)
• Step Up to IELTS (CUP)
• Common Mistakes at IELTS (CUP)
• Cambridge Vocabulary for IELTS (CUP)
• Cambridge Grammar for IELTS (CUP)
• Action Plan for IELTS (CUP)
• Cambridge IELTS 1-6 (CUP)
• IELTS Preparation and Practice (OUP)
• IELTS Masterclass (OUP)
• IELTS Practice Tests (OUP)
• On Course for IELTS (OUP)
• Focus on IELTS Foundation (Pearson Longman)
• Focus on IELTS (Pearson Longman)
• Focus on Academic Skills for IELTS (Pearson Longman)
• Focus on Skills for IELTS Foundation (Pearson Longman)
• IELTS Practice Tests Plus (Pearson Longman)
• IELTS Foundation (Macmillan)
• IELTS Foundation Study Skills (Macmillan)
• IELTS Graduation (Macmillan)
• IELTS Graduation Study Skills (Macmillan)
• IELTS Testbuilder (Macmillan)
• IELTS Testbuilder 2 (NEW) (Macmillan)
• Tips for IELTS (Macmillan)
• Improve your IELTS skills (Reading Skills, Listening and Speaking Skills, Writing Skills) (Macmillan)

Key English Test (KET)

• Objective KET (CUP)
• Common Mistakes at KET (CUP)
• Cambridge Key English Test Extra (CUP)
• Cambridge Key English Test 1-4 (Past Papers) (CUP)
• KET Practice Tests (OUP)
• KET Practice Tests Plus revised Edition  (Pearson Longman)
• KET Testbuilder (Macmillan)

Preliminary English Test (PET)

• Objective PET (CUP)
• Insight into PET (CUP)
• Common Mistakes at PET (CUP)
• Cambridge Exams Extra PET (CUP)
• Cambridge Grammar for PET (CUP)
• Cambridge Vocabulary for PET (CUP)
• Cambridge Preliminary English Test 2-5 (Past Papers) (CUP)
• PET Masterclass (OUP)
• PET Practice Tests (OUP)
• PET Practice Tests Plus 1 (Pearson Longman)
• Going for Gold Intermediate (Pearson Longman)
• PET Practice Tests Plus 2 (Pearson Longman)
• Ready for PET (Macmillan)
• PET Testbuilder (Macmillan)

First Certificate in English (FCE)

• Objective First Certificate (CUP)
• New Progress to First Certificate (CUP)
• Making Progress to First Certificate (CUP)
• Complete First certificate (CUP)
• Cambridge Grammar for First Certificate (CUP)
• Cambridge Vocabulary for First Certificate (CUP)
• Cambridge First Certificate in English (Past Papers) (CUP)
• First Certificate Masterclass – updated for the revised exam 2008(OUP)
• New Success at First Certificate (OUP)
• First Certificate Knockout (OUP)
• Countdown to First Certificate New Edition 2008 (OUP)
• First Certificate Practice Tests, New Edition 2008 (OUP)
• Fast Class (OUP)
• FCE Result 2008 (OUP)
• First Certificate Skills: Use of English (OUP)
• Activate! 2008 (Pearson Longman)
• Premium 2008 (Pearson Longman)
• First Certificate Practice Tests Plus New edition 2008 (Pearson Longman)
• FCE Gold Plus 2008 (Pearson Longman)
• Expert FCE New edition 2008 (Pearson Education)
• Ready for FCE (New Edition – 2008) (Macmillan)
• Laser FCE (New Edition – 2008)
• First Certificate Language Practice (Macmillan)
• First Certificate Testbuilder (Macmillan)
• Rising Star (Macmillan)
• First Certificate Star (Macmillan)
• First Certificate Passkey (Macmillan)
• Skills for First Certificate Series (Reading, Listening and Speaking, Writing, Use of English) (Macmillan)

Certificate in Advanced English (CAE)

• Objective CAE (CUP)
• Common Mistakes at CAE (CUP)
• Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (CUP)
• CAE Practice Tests, New Edition 2008 (OUP)
• CAE Result 2008 (OUP)
• CAE Practice Tests Plus New Edition 2008 (Pearson Longman)
• CAE Gold Plus (Pearson Longman)
• Expert CAE New Edition (Pearson Longman)
• Longman Practice Exams for the CAE (Pearson Education)
• Ready for CAE (New Edition – 2008) (Macmillan)
• Advanced Language Practice (Macmillan)
• CAE Testbuilder (Macmillan)

Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE)

• Objective Proficiency (CUP)
• New Progress to Proficiency (CUP)
• Common Mistakes at Proficiency (CUP)
• Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English 1-5 (Past Papers) (CUP)
• Proficiency Masterclass (OUP)
• Towards Proficiency (OUP)
• CPE Practice Tests (OUP)
• New Proficiency Gold (Pearson Longman)
• New Proficiency Passkey (Macmillan)
• New Proficiency Testbuilder (Macmillan)

Business English Certificate Preliminary (BEC Preliminary)

• Business Benchmark 1 (CUP)
• Cambridge BEC Preliminary 1-3 (Past Papers) (CUP)
• Working in English (CUP)
• Business Venture 1 & 2 / BEC 1 (OUP)
• Business Basics / BEC 1 (OUP)
• BEC Vantage Masterclass (OUP)
• BEC Practice Tests (OUP)
• Intelligent Business (Pearson Longman)
• Pass Cambridge BEC Preliminary (Summertown Publishing)
• BEC Preliminary Testbuilder (Macmillan)

Business English Certificate Vantage (BEC Vantage)

• Business Benchmark 2 (CUP)
• Cambridge BEC Vantage 1-3 (Past Papers) (CUP)
• New International Business English (CUP)
• Company to Company (CUP)
• Business Objectives / BEC 2 (OUP)
• Business Opportunities / BEC 2 (OUP)
• BEC Vantage Masterclass (OUP)
• BEC Vantage Testbuilder (Macmillan)

Business English Certificate Higher (BEC Higher)

• Business Benchmark 3 (CUP)
• Cambridge BEC Higher 1-3 (Past Papers) (CUP)
• English for Business Studies (CUP)
• Handbook of Commercial Correspondence (OUP)
• Writing for Business (OUP)
• Pass Cambridge BEC Higher (Summertown Publishing)
• Intelligent Business Upper Intermediate (Pearson Longman)
• Advanced Business Contacts (Pearson Education)

Young Learners Tests (YLE)

• Cambridge Young Learners English Tests 1-5 (Past Papers) (CUP)
• Fun for Starters, Movers and Flyers (CUP)

Set texts (FCE, CAE, CPE)

You can use these titles for preparation for FCE, CAE and CPE exams: Paper 2 – Writing, part 2

First Certificate in English (FCE)

December 2008–December 2009
From December 2008, when the updated FCE exam is introduced, there will be two set texts with one text specific question on each.

• Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (Macmillan or any edition)
• Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera (Penguin or any edition)

Certificate in Advanced English (CAE)

December 2008–December 2009
From December 2008, when the updated CAE exam is introduced, questions on two set texts will be included on the writing paper with one text specific question on each.

• Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim
• John Grisham, The Pelican Brief

Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE)

2008

• Tracy Chevalier, Girl with a Pearl Earring
• Rose Tremain, The Way I Found Her

Set also in 2007

Other materials recommended for all types of exams

• Longman Exams dictionary with CD ROM (Pearson Longman, 2006)