CELPIP Videos: Free Video Lessons in Course Order
Every lesson from the CELTESTPIP YouTube channel, grouped by course and in the order the course teaches it. Watch here, open the written lesson, then practise.
CELPIP Writing Guide: How to Get a 10+ Without Big Words
Lesson 1 of 10 · 4:42
Writing · 10 videos · 2h 12m
CELPIP Writing video lessons
CELPIP Writing coursePlaylist: CELPIP Writing Course: Every Lesson for Task 1 and Task 2
CELPIP Writing Guide: How to Get a 10+ Without Big Words
Why plain, precise English outscores impressive vocabulary, and what a 10+ answer does instead
Orientation and diagnosticCELPIP Writing Scoring: 8 Official Rules Almost Nobody Teaches
The four rating dimensions and the eight things in Prometric's own descriptors that decide your level
How Writing is scoredCELPIP Writing Task 1 Email: The 5 Part Map That Scores 10+
The five-paragraph job list for the email, one job per paragraph, and how to fill each one from the prompt
Task 1 essentialsCELPIP Writing Task 1 Email Format: What Examiners Actually Mark
Greeting, sign-off, paragraphing and tone: the format points raters check before they read a word
Task 1 essentialsCELPIP Writing Task 1 Email Template + Full Sample Answer (Level 10)
The email template written out live against a practice prompt, with the finished sample at the end
Task 1 templatesCELPIP Writing Task 1: Informal Email Template
What changes when the email goes to a friend or neighbour, and how to keep the structure while dropping the formality
Task 1 templatesCELPIP Writing Task 2: The 4 Part Survey Map That Scores 10+
Choose a side, give two reasons with a detail each, close: the four-part map for the survey response
Task 2 essentialsCELPIP Vocabulary: Stop Using Advanced Words (Score 10+)
Which words raters reward, which ones sound forced, and how to build range without a thesaurus
Writing vocabularyCELPIP Writing Errors: Complete Guide to All 17 Mistakes + How to Fix Them
The seventeen errors that cost points most often, each with the fix, in one long reference video
Common errors and how to fix themCELPIP Writing Time Management: How to Finish Both Tasks With Time to Edit
How to split 27 and 26 minutes so you always have an editing pass at the end
Timing drills and editing routines
Writing practice
Practise what you just watched
Write a Task 1 email or a Task 2 response and get it scored in minutes in CELPIP Writing practice.
Speaking · 11 videos · 2h 15m
CELPIP Speaking video lessons
CELPIP Speaking coursePlaylist: CELPIP Speaking Course: All 8 Tasks, Every Lesson in Order
CELPIP Speaking Score 9: Everything They Actually Score You On
The four Speaking dimensions and what a 9 sounds like on each, before you learn a single task
How Speaking is scoredCELPIP Speaking Task 1 Template (Giving Advice) + Full Answer
The advice structure for Task 1 and a full answer built from it, start to finish
Task 1: Giving AdviceCELPIP Speaking Task 2: The Part Almost Nobody Teaches You
How to tell a personal experience with a point, not just a sequence of events
Task 2: Personal ExperienceCELPIP Speaking Task 3: Describing a Scene + Full 60-Second Answer
Where to start in the picture, how to move through it, and a complete 60-second description
Task 3: Describing a SceneCELPIP Speaking Task 4: How to Predict the Same Picture from Task 3
Turning the Task 3 scene into predictions, with the language that signals probability
Task 4: Making PredictionsCELPIP Speaking Task 5 Template + Full Answer (Comparing and Persuading)
Choosing between two options in Part 1, then persuading someone in Part 2, with a full answer
Task 5: Comparing and PersuadingCELPIP Speaking Task 6 Dealing with a Difficult Situation: Sample
Picking a person to talk to, explaining the problem and asking for something, with a sample answer
Task 6: Difficult SituationCELPIP Speaking Task 7 Template: Full 90-Second Answer + Structure
Stating an opinion and defending it for 90 seconds without repeating yourself
Task 7: Expressing OpinionsCELPIP Speaking Task 8: The 3-Line Note That Fills 60 Seconds
A three-line planning note that carries a full description of an unusual object or situation
Task 8: Unusual SituationCELPIP Vocabulary: Stop Using Advanced Words (Score 10+)
The same vocabulary lesson as the Writing course, because the Speaking Vocabulary dimension rewards the same choices
Speaking vocabularyCELPIP Speaking: 18 Mistakes That Cost You Points on All 8 Tasks
Eighteen habits raters hear every day, task by task, and the fix for each
Common errors and how to fix them
Speaking practice
Practise what you just watched
Record a response to a real task prompt and get it scored in CELPIP Speaking practice.
Reading · 7 videos · 1h 27m
CELPIP Reading video lessons
New Reading lessons publish here part by part as they go live.
CELPIP Reading Practice Test with Answers: All 4 Parts (2026)
A full Reading practice test, all 4 parts and 38 questions, with every answer checked against the line that proves it
Pacing and time controlCELPIP Reading Tips: 7 Traps Hidden in the Wrong Answers
The 7 traps hidden in CELPIP Reading wrong answers, and one quick check for each
Answer engineeringCELPIP Reading Part 4 Tips: Who Said It, and How Strongly
How to track who said what, and how strongly, then use those notes for the 5 blanks in the reader's comment
Part 4: Reading for ViewpointsCELPIP Reading Part 3 Tips: When the Answer Is E (Not Given)
How to match 9 sentences to 4 paragraphs, and how to know when the answer is E, Not Given
Part 3: Reading for InformationCELPIP Reading Part 2 Tips: 5 Traps in Reading to Apply a Diagram
One move for every blank, a clue in the email and a fact in the picture, and the five traps that pull you to the wrong answer
Part 2: Reading to Apply a DiagramCELPIP Reading Part 1 Tips: 8 Techniques for Reading Correspondence
Four techniques for the email and four checks for the reply, each shown on a Part 1 practice question
Part 1: Reading CorrespondenceCELPIP Reading Score Chart: How Many Correct Answers You Need
How many of the 38 questions you need right for each level, and why one score can sit in two levels at once
Orientation and success targets
Reading practice
Practise what you just watched
Answer real Reading questions, scored the moment you answer, in CELPIP Reading practice.
CELPIP Listening Score Chart: How Many Correct Answers You Need
How many correct answers out of 38 you need for each CELPIP level, and why one score can sit in two levels
Orientation and success targetsCELPIP Listening Part 1: 3 Note Boxes That Answer All 8 Questions
How to take notes in 3 boxes, problem, options and decision, and answer all 8 Listening Part 1 questions from them
Part 1 Mastery: Listening to Problem SolvingCELPIP Listening Part 2: 2 Note Columns That Answer All 5 Questions
How to take notes in 2 columns, HIM and HER, and answer all 5 Listening Part 2 questions after hearing the conversation once
Part 2 Mastery: Listening to a Daily Life ConversationCELPIP Listening Part 3 Tips: Listening for Information With Answers
How to take notes on Listening Part 3 in 3 lines, WHY, WHAT and NEXT, so you catch what the 6 questions really ask instead of writing every number you hear
Part 3 Mastery: Listening for InformationCELPIP Listening Part 4 Tips: News Item Practice With Answers
How to guess the 5 Listening Part 4 questions before you see them and take notes in 5 lines, WHO, WHY, WHAT HAPPENED, WHO SAID and FEELS, so every answer is already on your paper
Part 4 Mastery: Listening to a News ItemCELPIP Listening Part 5 Tips: Discussion Practice With Answers
How to label 3 speakers you cannot see in Listening Part 5 and take notes as a list of ideas, who said each one, and whether the group kept it or dropped it, so every answer is already on your paper
Part 5 Mastery: Listening to a DiscussionCELPIP Listening Part 6 Tips: Viewpoints Practice With Answers
How to take Listening Part 6 notes as a map of for, middle and against, with a last name and a reason for each person, and answer all 6 questions from it
Part 6 Mastery: Listening to ViewpointsCELPIP Listening Tips and Tricks: 6 Wrong Answers That Sound Right
6 wrong answers that sound right in CELPIP Listening, one trap per part, and the quick check that catches each
Answer Engineering: Eliminate Like a ProCELPIP Listening Practice Test with Answers: All 6 Parts (2026)
A full Listening practice test, all 6 parts and 38 questions, with every answer checked against the words that prove it
Test-Day Playbook: Listening Exam Success
Listening · 9 videos · 1h 53m
CELPIP Listening Practice Podcast
These are podcast episodes, not lessons. Each one is a story or a piece of general knowledge about Canada, on topics that often come up in CELPIP. Listen on the go, or play it again with full attention and write down the phrases you would like to use yourself.
CELPIP Listening coursePlaylist: CELPIP Listening Podcast: Practice Real Canadian English
CELPIP Listening Podcast: How One Ship Flattened Halifax in 1917
A listening practice episode about the 1917 Halifax Explosion, how two ships collided in the Narrows and one blast flattened part of the city, with 4 CELPIP-style questions
Core listening skillsCELPIP Listening Podcast: Why Canadians Wear a Red Poppy in November
A listening practice episode about why Canadians wear a red poppy in November, the true story of John McCrae, the Canadian doctor who wrote In Flanders Fields in 1915
Core listening skillsCELPIP Listening Podcast: Who Discovered Insulin? (Canada's $1 Gift)
A listening practice episode about who discovered insulin, the true Canadian story of Banting, Best, Macleod and Collip in Toronto in 1921
Core listening skillsCELPIP Listening Podcast: Traditional Ecological Knowledge Explained
A short listening practice episode about Traditional Ecological Knowledge, the Indigenous way of living with the land
Core listening skillsCELPIP Listening Podcast: Who Are the Métis People of Canada?
A short listening practice episode about who the Métis people of Canada are
Core listening skillsCELPIP Listening Podcast: The Inuksuk, Arctic Stone Messages
A short listening practice episode about the inuksuk and the messages these Arctic stones carry
Core listening skillsCELPIP Listening Practice: The Black Loyalists of Nova Scotia
Five minutes on the Black Loyalists and what they found in Nova Scotia.
Core listening skillsCELPIP Listening Practice: The Klondike Gold Rush in 5 Minutes
The story of the Klondike Gold Rush in five minutes.
Core listening skillsCELPIP Listening Practice: 3 Strategies for Single Play Audio
Preview, note by keyword, and keep moving: the three habits for audio you hear once
Orientation and success targets
Listening practice
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CELPIP Listening practice plays every clip once, the way the test does.
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