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UCLES. 2013. — 58 pages.Cambridge English: Financial is for students of finance and accountancy and practising accountants and finance professionals.This includes students who are: seeking employment in a finance and accounting context, e.g. accounting firms, company departments and government agencies intending to study finance or accountancy where the course includes significant English language content, either in their own country or abroad seeking certification to demonstrate their English language proficiency.It includes practising accountants and finance professionals who are: seeking new employment in an international context seeking promotion within their own organisations learning English as part of a training programme seeking certification to demonstrate their English language proficiency in a finance or accounting context.Cambridge English: Financial candidates are expected to be familiar with some finance and accountancy concepts and terminology.
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International Certificate in Financial English (ICFE) CEFR Levels B2 – C1 Handbook for Teachers Content and overview Paper/timing Content Test focus Part 1 Multiple-choice cloze, with an emphasis on lexis. Part 2 Open cloze, with an emphasis on structure. Part 3 Word formation, with an emphasis on lexis. Part 4 A text preceded by multiple-matching questions. Part 5 A text from which sentences have been removed and placed in jumbled order after the text. Part 6 A text followed by four-option multiple-choice questions. Part 1 One question requiring the production of a letter. Part 2 One question requiring the production of a short report. Part 1 Three short unrelated extracts from monologues or exchanges between interacting speakers, each followed by two three-option multiple-choice questions. LISTENING Part 2 Approximately 40 minutes A text involving interacting speakers, followed by three-option multiple-choice questions. Part 3 A sentence completion task based on a monologue. Part 4 Five short related extracts from monologues followed by two multiple-matching tasks. Part 1 The candidates are asked to talk about themselves by responding to the interlocutor’s questions. Part 2 Each candidate in turn is given a choice of two topics with accompanying written prompts. They select one of the topics and give a short presentation for about one minute. The second candidate responds as instructed. Part 3 The candidates talk together, working towards a negotiated completion of a task. Part 4 The interlocutor leads a discussion with the two candidates. 1 READING 1 hour 15 minutes 2 WRITING 1 hour 15 minutes 3 4 SPEAKING 16 minutes Candidates are expected to be able to apply their knowledge of the language system to complete tasks based on finance and accounting-related texts; read and understand finance and accounting-related texts and demonstrate a variety of reading skills including skimming, scanning, deduction of meaning from context, and selection of relevant information to complete tasks. Candidates are expected to be able to complete writing tasks covering a range of finance and accounting-related topics, in response to the stimuli provided and for a given purpose and target reader. Candidates are expected to be able to understand a variety of listening texts, showing understanding of gist, detail and the attitude of the speaker. They must also be able to identify and interpret the context. Texts take the form of recordings of discuss