The Callan Method and the Cambridge Examinations

The Callan Method and the Cambridge Examinations.

The Callan Method is very good for getting students through the Cambridge examinations because they are very closely connected. If you look on the back f any Callan Method book you will see that they mention the Cambridge exams and the fact that they say that you can reach the level of the Cambridge First Certificate (FCE) in a quarter of the time that it takes with other methods.
Since the Callan Method was introduced the Callan Method Organisation has used the FCE as a way of measuring the effectiveness of the method by seeing how long it took students studying with the method to reach the standard required.
The Cambridge exam also influenced how the method was written, and which words were included in the method and which words were left out.
English has a huge vocabulary of nearly half a million words, but most native speakers only use a very small percentage of these words in their everyday conversations. We have many words which are used very rarely and some almost not at all.
The Callan Method teaches the most commonly used words in the English language, they were chosen from the Cambridge English Lexicon and Michael West’s ‘General Service List of English Words’. These books show which words are most commonly used in the language, and so which are the best words to study to get through the examinations.
With the vocabulary and grammar taught in The Callan Method the student should be able to pass the Cambridge examinations because they know and understand the vocabulary needed because of all the repetition in the classroom.
The student should be able to pass the Cambridge Preliminary English Test (PET) at about the end of stage five of the Callan Method. The First Certificate (FCE) is at about the level of the end of stage 10, and the Certificate in Advanced English is at the end of stage 12, which is when the Callan Method has been completed.
Many students around the world have used the Callan Method to help them to success in the Cambridge examinations.