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BEC Preliminary Teaching Resource

If you are preparing students for Cambridge ESOL’s Business English Certificate Preliminary (BEC Preliminary), you’ll find useful guidance, resources and classroom activities on this section of the Teaching Resources website.

For each of the papers in the BEC Preliminary exam, you’ll find the following information by clicking the links on the left:

About the Paper

• Sample tasks from past papers
• Activities to understand the tasks
• Tips for teachers and students
• DOs and DON'Ts

Classroom Activities

• Ready-made activities to use with your class
• Skills development
• Exam practice with tasks from real past papers

Other Information

• Links to other Cambridge ESOL resources
• Handbooks, past papers, videos and CDs

Further Resources

For an overview of BEC, exam dates and information about recognition by higher education institutions and corporations, see the Cambridge ESOL website.

To access a guide to the vocabulary which appears in the BEC Preliminary  examination papers, see the BEC Preliminary word list (pdf).

For books and materials to help you prepare candidates, see the list of publishers.

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