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Grammar Asking questions; Vocabulary Phrasal verbs; Speaking Getting to know you

Lesson 2 E n g l i s h in the w o r l d

Reading Use your dictionary wisely; Dictionary skills;

Listening Learning Chinese

Lesson 3 U n s p o k e n m e s s a g e s

Reading The kiss is not a simple matter; Grammar Pronouns; Vocabulary The right word; Writing Confessions of an English student

Grammar Nouns; Vocabulary Containers and groups;

Reading Ice cream: What's in a lick; Speaking The secrets of the fridge

Lesson 2 S o m e like it hot

Grammar Personal preference; Writing My taste in food;

Grammar Adverbs

Lesson 3 Food for t h o u g h t

Vocabulary Phrasal verbs; Listening Food and drink; Vocabulary The right word

Reading A question of honour; Grammar Conditional sentences; Pronunciation Emphasising words; Vocabulary Phrasal verbs

Lesson 2 Q u i t e a c h a r a c t e r

Grammar Relative clauses; Vocabulary Character questionnaire; Writing Punctuation practice; Speaking

Personal description

Lesson 3 H e r o e s and H e r o i n e s

Listening The London Dungeon; Grammar Making deductions; Vocabulary The right word; Writing Linkers of addition; Writing My hero

U N I T 4 Town and country

Lesson 1 On the map

Grammar Comparatives and superlatives; Grammar

Passive; Speaking A nice place to live

C o n t e n t s

6Grammar Conditional sentences; Writing What would it be like?; Listening City life

7Vocabulary The right word; Reading A hellishly noisy place: Pronunciation Numbers and symbols: Vocabulary

Phrasal verbs

15Reading A feeling of pure joy; Pronunciation Vowel sounds; Grammar Adjectives ending in -ing and -ed: Vocabulary The right word

20Grammar Present perfect; Writing Asking for information; Vocabulary Phrasal verbs

31Grammar Modal verbs; Listening Early package tours and women travellers; Vocabulary The right word

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Reading Haunted waters; Grammar Time relationships;

Vocabulary Prepositional phrases; Vocabulary The right word

Grammar Reported questions; Writing The job interview;

Word formation Practice exercise; Speaking Asking politely

Speaking Shopping; Vocabulary Phrasal verbs;

Grammar Getting people to do things; Vocabulary

Prepositional phrases

Listening Down and out in Harlem: Reading A hopeless case?: Grammar Reason, result and purpose: Vocabulary The right word

Grammar Contrast: Writing Between childhood and adult life; Vocabulary Phrasal verbs; Vocabulary The right word

Grammar The -ing form or the infinitive; Vocabulary

Phrasal verbs (revision); Speaking Family animals; Word formation Revision exercise

Grammar Impersonal 'it': Vocabulary The right word: Listening An unusual story

You probably already realise that, if you want to make progress in English, you have to study by yourself as well as do work in class. This Workbook is to help you make the best use of your home study time.

HOW TO USE THE WORKBOOK

Your teacher may ask you to do certain Workbook exercises for homework, or you may use the Workbook entirely on your own. If you arc using the Workbook without a teacher, you probably need to have the edition which has answers (and the texts of the recorded material) at the back. Then, when you have completed an exercise, you can check your answers for yourself. Of course, you should never look at the answers, or the tapescript, until you have done the exercise. Before you do any Workbook exercise, study the instructions and the example carefully so that you know what to do.

HOW THE WORKBOOK IS ORGANISED

The Workbook exercises give you further practice in the work you have done on grammar, vocabulary and reading, writing, listening and speaking skills in the

First Certificate Avenues Coursebook. There are Workbook exercises for Lessons 1, 2 and 3 of every Coursebook unit. You should do the Workbook exercises after you have done the corresponding Coursebook lesson in class.

The reading, writing, listening and speaking tasks give you practice in the kinds of exercises you will have to do in the Eirst Certificate exam.

There is a Workbook cassette which contains all the recorded material for the listening, speaking and pronunciation exercises.

GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY

You will find the Workbook grammar exercises give you more practice in grammar work done in the Coursebook.

The Workbook vocabulary exercises practise vocabulary that has been taught in the Coursebook. They also extend your vocabulary with other words and phrases around the topic of the unit which are useful at First Certificate level.

READING AND LISTENING

Doing the Workbook reading and listening tasks will help you improve your reading and listening skills. You

should do the tasks in different ways. Sometimes you can take as much time as you need, reading or listening to the text as often as you like, and. if you can't guess the meaning of an important word, using a dictionary to help you. At other times you should do the tasks as timed exam practice: only listening to each listening text twice, and taking 1 5-20 minutes to do each reading task, and not referring to a dictionary.

WRITING

Doing the Workbook writing tasks will develop your writing skills. Remember to follow the instructions, to make a paragraph plan before you write, and to check what you have written carefully afterwards. It's useful if a teacher can correct your written work for you, but it's not essential. Just doing the writing is good practice. If possible, ask a classmate to read what you have written to see if you have communicated your ideas clearly. There are model answers to some writing tasks at the back of the edition with answers. Sometimes you should try to do a writing task as timed exam practice. If you want to do that, think about the task, plan, write and check your work, all in 45 minutes.

SPEAKING

The Workbook speaking tasks are perhaps the most difficult exercises to do on your own. But it is very important that you practise your speaking as much as the other skills. This is because Eirst Certificate Paper 5, like the other papers, earns 20 % of the total marks in the exam - and you can only improve by practising.

For most speaking tasks there is an example or model on the cassette. Listen to this carefully. Practise what you want to say, then record yourself speaking on a blank cassette. Listen to what you have said, think how you could improve your performance and record yourself again. This will help you express your ideas more fluently and make fewer mistakes. If possible, do the speaking tasks with a classmate. Then you can help each other, enjoy the task more, and get useful exam practice. Remember, in the First Certificate exam you will do Paper 5 with another candidate.

Doing the Workbook exercises in addition to the work in First Certificate Avenues Coursebook will mean you face the exam with added confidence in your ability to do all five papers well.

U N S T O N E

Language

1 Learning English

Grammar Asking questions

Claudia is in England and wants to do a summer school in English. Complete her conversation with the director of the Central Language College.

DIRECTOR: Good morning. Can I help you?

CLAUDIA: Yes, please. I'd like some information. Could you (1) ..tell..me..about your college ?

DIRECTOR: Certainly. Do you want to study English

here?

CLAUDIA: Yes, but I can't stay in England very long. When (2) ?

DIRECTOR: Would Monday suit you? We have a few free places then.

CLAIDIA: That would be fine. How long (3)

?

DIRECTOR: Exactly four weeks. It ends on the second of

September.

CLAEDIA: Could you tell me how many (4)

?

DIRECTOR: Three in the morning and two in the

afternoon. You'll have to work hard!

DIRECTOR: We'll do our best. But most of our regular families are fully booked at the moment.

CLAUDIA: Well, I think I'll do the course. Shall I write you a cheque now?

Use your dictionary to check the meanings of any of these verbs that you are not sure of. Learn the ones that are new for you.

Listen to ten 'getting to know you' questions on the recording and answer them with

information about yourself. These questions are typical of the sort of questions the examiner will ask you in Part 1 of Paper J.

There is a pause on the recording between each question: try to keep talking for the whole length of the pause.

When you have answered all the questions, stop the recording and think about your answers. In

what ways could you improve them? Did you make any grammar mistakes which you can correct now?

C o u l d y o u hav e used mor e precise or mor e interesting vocabulary? Can you think of a better way of joining your ideas together?

Rewind the recording and answer the questions again. Were your answers better this time?

For further practice, if possible, ask and answer the questions with a classmate.

P R O N U N C I A T I O N

Which word is the odd one out? Check your answers in the dictionary.

EXAMPLE: 1 ship: The vowel sound in ship is /I/, not /i:/ like the other words.

7 Underline the silent letters. Check your answers in the dictionary.

EXAMPLE: knife

M E A N I N G A N D USE

All the verbs in the box are to do with speaking in some way. In the dictionary, check the particular meaning of each verb and how it is used. For example, what preposition comes after 'refer'?

argued boasted chatted complained discussed expressed insisted mentioned objected

referred

Complete each sentence with an appropriate verb from the box. Think about meaning and grammar.

idiom, you can look up a key word in the dictionary. Match each sentence (1-6) with an appropriate response (a-f). Then check your answers by looking at all the entries for the key word 'world' in the dictionary.

aYes, she wants the best of both worlds.

bNo, he's come down in the world.

cYes, it's out of this world.

dNo, he's in a world of his own.

eYes, she's on top of the world.

fNo, he thinks the world of her.

What other useful phrases or idioms does your dictionary give for the word 'world'?

Learning Chinese

Listen to Sue, an English teacher, talking about her experience of learning Chinese. What aspect

of this is she describing?

Ausing her coursebook

Bremembering new vocabulary

Ctaking part in conversations

Listen again and complete this summary of the methods Sue used. It is written as seven points

of advice on remembering new vocabulary in any foreign language. The first letter of each missing word is given. One example (5) has been done for you.