Helping students get organised for FCE

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Helping students get organised for FCE

• Roy Norris

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Real world CHAOS

• Classroom
• ORDER ?

• Real world
• CHAOS ?

Language
Test (FCE)
Teach Organise Record Help to learn
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Phrasal verbs

• Match the phrasal verbs in A with the correct
  meanings in B.
• A B
• put out accommodate
• put off connect by phone
• put away extinguish
• put through tolerate
• put on put something in its proper place
• put up start something working
• put aside postpone
• put up with save for a later use

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Phrasal verbs

• Complete each gap with a word from the box.
• 1 My auntie said shed put me ____ for the night
  when I go to Oxford,
• but I think Id rather stay in a hotel.
• 2 Im afraid youll have to put ____ your
  cigarette. This is a non-
• smoking area.
• 3 Could you put the radio ____? I want to listen
  to the news.
• 4 Never put ____ until tomorrow what you can do
  today.
• 5 One moment please. Ill put you ____ to our
  personnel department.
• 6 Once Ive made some space in the garage, I can
  put the car ____.
• 7 Please stop singing! Im trying to work and
  its putting me ____.
• 8 Its a bit chilly in here. Shall I put the
  heating ____?
• etc

through away off out up on
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Phrasal verbs with put

• Its cold outside. You should put on
• These trousers are too tight for me now. I must
  have put on
• Theres nothing on the telly. Lets put on
• Im going to have to move. My landlords put up
  
• The best way to advertise the concert is to put
  up
• Dont shout out the answer. Put up
• Robs coming to London tomorrow and Ive offered
  to put him up

place on your body increase (weight) start
something working increase (price) fix to a wall
or board raise into the air accommodate

• a) something warmer.
• b) weight.
• c) the radio instead.
• d) my rent again.
• e) posters.
• f) your hand first.
• g) for the night.

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Phrasal verbs with put

• The groom had an accident on his way to
  the church so they had to put off
• It rained every day and the tent got flooded. It
  put us off
• She found it hard to study, as several things
  were putting her off
• It was a non-smoking compartment so I told him to
  put out
• Teachers have to put up with

postpone discourage distract extinguish tolerate

• a) the wedding.
• b) camping for life.
• c) the noise of the traffic, the neighbours
  arguing
• d) his cigarette.
• e) a lot of silly behaviour.

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Phrasal verbs with put revision

• Complete each gap with a word from the box.
• 1 My auntie said shed put me ____ for the night
  when I go to Oxford,
• but I think Id rather stay in a hotel.
• 2 Im afraid youll have to put ____ your
  cigarette. This is a non-
• smoking area.
• 3 Could you put the radio ____? I want to listen
  to the news.
• 4 Never put ____ until tomorrow what you can do
  today.
• 5 One moment please. Ill put you ____ to our
  personnel department.
• 6 Once Ive made some space in the garage, I can
  put the car ____.
• 7 Please stop singing! Im trying to work and
  its putting me ____.
• 8 Its a bit chilly in here. Shall I put the
  heating ____?
• etc

through away off out up on
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• Match a verb with a particle and match the
  phrasal verb definitions a-i.
• come pick take go turn set
  give get
• out through off out up
  away across up
• 1 find by accident ____ ____
• 2 escape ____ ____
• 3 distribute to people ____ ____
• 4 select ____ ____
• 5 start a business ____ ____
• 6 study or examine ____ ____
• 7 increase volume ____ ____
• 8 remove ____ ____
• 3 Answer questions a and b about the phrasal
  verbs in 2.
• a Are the phrasal verbs transitive or
  intransitive? (Write T or I)
• 1___ 2___ 3___ 4___ 5___ 6___ 7___ 8___
• b Are the phrasal verbs separable or inseparable?
  (Write S or IS)
• 1___ 2___ 3___ 4___ 5___ 6___ 7___ 8___

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Real world CHAOS

• Classroom
• ORDER ?

• Real world
• CHAOS ?

Language
Test (FCE)
Teach Organise Record Help to learn
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Phrasal verbs with take

• 1 I am very similar to my father, whereas my
  brother takes
• 2 The new boss is rather formal and I havent
  really taken
• 3 We must keep in touch. Ill get a pen and
  paper and take
• 4 My feet are very swollen now. Would you mind
  if I took
• 5 This library books four days overdue.Youd
  better take

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Phrasal verbs with putCollocates

• 0 accept take on too much work a new
  job more responsibility
• 1 _______ _______ photography yoga
  modelling
• 2 _______ _______ your new boss Madrid
  his plan
• 3 _______ _______ temporary staff another
  secretary
• 300 more employees
• 4 _______ _______ to the library to the
  shop
• to the department store
• 5 _______ _______ the homework my
  details
• his name and address

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Adjective noun collocations

• Match each of the adjectives with a suitable
  noun
• Adjectives
• Nouns

heavy strong hard thick
loud light
snow wind rain
fog clouds shower thunder
winter downpour storm
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• sunshine showers sky sea
• storm clouds rain wind
• overcast violent
• clear sky severe _______
• stormy electric
• fine strong
• heavy ________ gale-force _______
• torrential light
• warm rough
• brilliant ________ calm _______
• glorious choppy
• thick light
• storm ________ scattered _______
• angry-looking snow

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• play (v) rock lead (adj) on instrument
• in live (adj) a song musician
• band vocalist a track
• rock singer ____ singer ____ a
  tune
• star guitarist a record
• the charts tour album
• ____ concert ____ stage ____
  performance tune the radio music
• talented sing musical
• rock ____ perform ____ wind ____
• session mime stringed

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The Present perfect

• The Present Perfect links past events and
  situations with the present.
• The Present perfect is used
• 1 to give news of recent past events which have
  some relevance to the
• present Be careful! Ive just dropped a glass on
  the floor.
• 2 to describe something that started in the past
  and continues to the
• present My wife and I have lived in the same
  house since we married.
• 3 to describe events which occurred at some time
  between the past
• and present. Exactly when they happened is not
  known or important.
• Ive been to Russia three times before.
• 4 to talk about something which occurred in the
  past, but in a time
• period which includes the present Shes phoned
  twice this evening.

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Transformations Present perfect

• I last saw Mark a year ago.
• since
• I have _____________________ year.
• George hasnt played in a match for many years.
• ages
• Its _______________________ in a match.
• The last time I went to Canada was in January
  1994.
• been
• I ______________________ Canada since January
  1994.
• Its over three years since I last ate meat.
• eaten
• I ______________________ over three years.

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Adjectives verbs Prepositions

• Complete each of the gaps with a preposition from
  the box.
• 1 Im just phoning to congratulate you ____
  passing your exams.
• 2 Our new house is very different ____ our old
  one.
• 3 My fathers very keen ____ gardening.
• 4 Dont worry ____ it. You can depend ____ me.
• 5 The other driver blamed me ____ causing the
  accident, but it really
• wasnt my fault.
• 6 Im fed up ____ playing football every
  weekend.
• 7 My mum was very angry ____ me ____ breaking the
  plate.
• 8 Shell never forgive him ____ leaving her to
  bring the children on her
• own.
• 9 I objected ____ being kept waiting.
• 10 I really must apologize ____ being late. It
  wont happen again.

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• FCE Reading Procedures

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Reading Part 2 Gapped text

• FCE (7 sentences 1 distractor)
• In this part, there is an emphasis on text
  structure, cohesion and coherence, and
  candidates ability to follow the development of
  a long text.
• Rather than concentrating on individual
  sentences, candidates need to be able to follow
  the development of ideas, opinions and events
  through the text as a whole, using their
  understanding of text coherence and cohesion
  devices.
• This task is particularly effective in helping
  to distinguish between stronger and weaker
  candidates at FCE level.
• FCE Handbook

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• June 2001 0101 Exam report
• This gapped-sentence task, focusing on text
  structure, once again turned out to be the most
  difficult part of the paper.
• June 2003 0101 Exam report
• This gapped-sentence task proved to be the
  hardest part on the paper.
• December 2005 0100 Exam report
• This gapped-sentence task, focusing on text
  structure, proved to be
• the most challenging task on the paper.
• June 2006 0101 Exam report
• This gapped-paragraph task, focusing on text
  structure, proved to be the most demanding task
  on the paper.
• June 2007 0101 Exam report
• It was pleasing to note that this
  gapped-sentence task, focusing on text structure,
  was the one that candidates performed best on.

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Reading Part 2 Gapped text

• The main, or base, text is printed before the
  missing sentences.
• 1 Read the title and introduction, and predict
  the possible content of the text.
• 2 Read through the base text (the main text with
  the gaps) and check your predictions.
• 3 Try to predict the content of the missing
  sentences by looking carefully at the text before
  and after each gap.
• 4 Read the missing sentences and try to decide
  where each one should go. Remember, there is one
  extra sentence. Underline words or phrases which
  show links between base text and missing
  sentences.
• 5 Check your answers by reading the whole text
  again to ensure that it makes sense. Check that
  the extra sentence does not fit into any of the
  gaps.

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• FCE Writing
• Marking, Planning Checking

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Planning written answers

• December 2007 Exam report
• Students should be encouraged to make a plan
  before they start writing, and to think carefully
  how to organise their ideas and what they can say
  on each point.