TKT Young Learners 2026: Format, Bands and the 33-Question Teaching Section
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In Coyle's framework, what do the 4 Cs of CLIL stand for?
Knowledge Of Clil
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The Cambridge TKT: Young Learners module has 80 questions in 80 minutes. See how the four syllabus areas are weighted, how Bands 1–4 work, and what to check when booking paper or digital testing.
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TKT: CLIL module identity
Knowledge of CLIL
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What does the abbreviation CLIL stand for?
Approach in which a school subject shares a joint role with a foreign medium.
Approach and rationale
Guess the Term
Introduction & TKT: CLIL Exam Overview
1.1 What Is TKT: CLIL and Who Should Take It?
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In Cummins' distinction, what does BICS refer to?
Read the clue and guess the term in 6 tries.
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Editorial card allocation
In Cummins' framework, CALP (Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency) is best described as the language that is:
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The talk used for greetings, stating likes and dislikes, and describing the weather; in Cummins' research, most immigrant pupils reached it within two or three years of schooling.
A teacher asks learners to find out about attitudes to keeping fit in different societies. Which main aim of CLIL does this activity most clearly support?
CLIL
Learners label a diagram of the digestive system. Which main learning objective does this activity primarily serve?
School English needed to follow lectures on abstract topics and write essays in a non-native medium; researchers say it takes five to seven years to reach.
1.2 How to Prepare for TKT: CLIL
Learners discuss in groups how they set up their science experiments. Which main aim of CLIL does this best develop?
Swap tiles to line up three of the same term.
Term Match
The 4 Cs framework
In CLIL, the term 'language across the curriculum' chiefly refers to:
Processes such as analysing, evaluating and producing new ideas, which develop reasoning and critical judgement.
A teacher wants learners to describe how a fridge works. Which feature of language is most needed for this task?
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Content in CLIL
Learners interview a classmate about the sports they like and dislike. Which feature of language is most needed?
Processes such as remembering, understanding and applying new subject knowledge, which learners use when they recognise vocabulary, classify or compare objects.
Knowledge of CLIL and Principles of CLIL
1.1 CLIL Aims and Rationale: The 4 Cs and BICS/CALP
Which feature of language would learners most need to compare the heights of three mountains shown on a chart?
Flip two cards at a time to find matching terms.
Term Pairs
Communication in CLIL
Which communicative function is a learner performing when they say, 'What I mean is that the economy is likely to improve next year'?
Kind of CLIL in which almost half or more of the curriculum is taught in a non-native language.
Which utterance best performs the communicative function of disagreeing politely?
Cognition in CLIL
A teacher asks, 'How do you know this animal is a rodent?' Which cognitive (thinking) skill is this question mainly designed to develop?
A type of text with its own purpose, structure and language features, such as a report or recount.
Lesson preparation
1.2 Language Across the Curriculum
In Bloom's revised taxonomy as used in CLIL, which of these is a higher-order thinking skill?
Find five hidden terms in a grid of letters.
Term Search
Culture in CLIL
A teacher asks learners to read a partner's description of a rainforest and suggest four improvements. Which cognitive skill is mainly being developed?
The spoken or written material that learners meet in a subject lesson taught through a non-native language.
Which classroom verb is most closely associated with the cognitive process of 'creating'?
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