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Do you agree? Writing opening paragraphs Map of the units Using linking words and phrases 6 My first job Part 5: ‘Lucy’s first job’ Part 2 A letter or email: Describe the jobs students Part 3: Five people talking about Part 2: ‘A new summer programme’ do in your country their first job Commonly misspelled words Vocabulary and grammar reviews Units 5 and 6 7 High adventure Part 6: ‘Are you ready for an adventure Part 2 An article: A great way to keep fit Part 2: A talk about adventure race?’ racing Part 4: Key word transformation Part 4: A radio interview with a paraglider 8 Dream of the stars Part 7: ‘Five young actors’ Part 1 An essay: There are both advantages and Part 2: A talk about a television Part 1: ‘YouTube millionaire celebrities’ disadvantages to a career as a musician or an actor. quiz show Writing a balanced essay Vocabulary and grammar reviews Units 7 and 8 9 Secrets of the mind Part 5: ‘The secrets of happiness’ Part 2 A report: The benefits of improving Part 1: People talking about Part 4: Key word transformation classrooms and students’ social activities different aspects of psychology Making suggestions and recommendations 10 Spend, spend, spend? Part 2: ‘Shopping online versus Part 2 A review: A place where people have a good Part 4: A student interview about shopping locally’ time a new shopping centre Part 5: ‘My greatest influence’ Words/Phrases to build up more complex sentences Vocabulary and grammar reviews Units 9 and 10 11 Medical matters Part 6: ‘What’s it like to study medicine?’ Part 1 An essay: Modern lifestyles can seriously Part 3: Five people talking about Part 3: ‘Is there a doctor on board?’ endanger our health. Do you agree? visits to the doctor Writing concluding paragraphs An essay: Young people generally don’t pay enough attention to their health and fitness. Do you agree? 12 Animal kingdom Part 1: ‘My sister’s circus’ Part 2 A letter or email: Advice to a visitor to your Part 1: People talking about Part 7: ‘Surviving an animal attack’ country animals in different situations Giving advice Vocabulary and grammar reviews Units 11 and 12 13 House space Part 5: ‘My new home in Venice, 1733’ Part 2 An article: My ideal home Part 2: A talk about a haunted Part 2: ‘Living on a houseboat’ house 14 Fiesta! Part 6: ‘The world’s highest festival?’ Part 1 An essay: Is it better to watch films at the Part 4: A radio interview with a Part 3: ‘My local festival’ cinema or at home? street performer it, this, that and they for reference Vocabulary and grammar reviews Units 13 and 14 4 Speaking Pronunciation Vocabulary Grammar Part 1: Talking about yourself, your home and your family Word stress (1): Stress in Phrasal verbs: get on with, do up, etc.
Present perfect simple and Giving extended answers words with two or more Collocations with make and do continuous syllables Part 2: Comparing photos of free-time activities Sentence stress (1): Stress Phrasal verbs and expressions: take up, Making comparisons Using discourse markers to structure the answer on words carrying the most sum up, etc. Adjectives with -ed and -ing meaning Part 3: Discussing the benefits of different kinds of trip Intonation (1): Indicating travel, journey, trip and way Past simple, past continuous Phrases to involve partners in discussion when you have/haven’t Adjective suffixes and used to finished speaking at, in or on in time phrases Strategies for dealing with the second section of Part 3 Past perfect simple and continuous Part 4: Discussing diet, food and health Grouping words and food, dish and meal so and such Supporting opinions with reasons and examples pausing (1) Adjectives to describe restaurants too and enough Part 1: Talking about your studies Word stress (2): Shifting Phrasal verbs: get over, live up to, etc. Zero, first and second Giving reasons, offering several possible ideas word stress find out, get to know, know, learn, teach conditionals and study; attend, join, take part and assist Forming nouns from verbs Part 2: Comparing photos of different kinds of work Sentence stress (2): work/job; possibility/occasion/ Countable and uncountable Describing similarities and differences when comparing Contrastive sentence opportunity; fun/funny nouns stress Collocations with work and job Articles Part 3: Discussing ways of encouraging people to do more Intonation (2): Showing Verb collocations with sporting activities Infinitive and verb + -ing sport attitude look, see, watch, listen and hear Suggesting ideas, asking opinion, agreeing and disagreeing Part 4: Discussing different aspects of media and celebrity Grouping words and Verb collocations with ambition, career, at, in and on in phrases Giving balanced, general answers pausing (2) experience and job expressing location play, performance and acting; audience, Reported speech Expressing agreement/disagreement (the) public and spectators; scene and stage Part 2: Comparing photos of different kinds of feeling and Sentence stress (3): achieve, carry out and devote Modal verbs to express emotion Using sentence stress for stay, spend and pass; make, cause and certainty and possibility Speculating about photos using look, seem and appear emphasis have Part 1: Talking about how you spend your money Linking (1): Linking to arrive, get and reach as and like Strategies for answering Part 1 questions increase fluency Phrasal verbs: come up with, pull in, etc. Modals expressing ability Part 2: Comparing photos of situations related to health Intonation (3): Showing Idiomatic expressions: taken aback, etc.
Relative pronouns and Strategies for dealing with difficulties: finding the right certainty/uncertainty Health vocabulary: illness, infection, etc. relative clauses word Parts 3 and 4: Discussing topics related to animals Word stress (3): Strong and avoid, prevent and protect; check, control, Third conditional and mixed Commenting on the question weak forms keep an eye on and supervise conditionals Expressing other people’s opinions Negative prefixes wish, if only and hope Expressing agreement/disagreement Part 2: Comparing photos of people in different locations Linking (2): Linking with space, place, room, area, location and Causative have and get consonant sounds square Expressing obligation and permission Parts 3 and 4: Discussing different topics related to Improving fluency Vocabulary for festivals: celebrate, The passive festivals and celebrations commemorate, etc. Suffixes to form personal nouns 5 Introduction Who this book is for – vocabulary input needed for success at Cambridge English: First based on the English Vocabulary Profile (EVP) at B2 level. When you see this symbol: EP , the Complete First Second Edition is a stimulating and thorough exercise is based on EVP research.
When you see this preparation course for students wishing to take the revised symbol next to a vocabulary exercise, the exercise Cambridge English: First exam from 2015. It teaches you is based on research from the Cambridge English the reading, writing, listening and speaking skills which are Corpus and focuses on words which candidates often necessary for the exam, how to approach each exam task, confuse or use wrongly in the exam. as well as essential grammar and vocabulary. The book also teaches you the language knowledge and develops the skills t 14 Vocabulary and Grammar reviews.
These contain exercises which revise the grammar and vocabulary that you need to reach an upper-intermediate B2 level in the you have studied during the unit. Common European Framework of Reference. Complete First Second Edition is official Cambridge English preparation t A Language reference section which clearly explains all material for the exam. the main areas of language, including grammar, word formation, spelling and punctuation, which you need to know for the Cambridge English: First exam.
What the book contains t Writing and Speaking reference sections. These explain In the Student’s Book there are: the possible tasks you may have to do in the Speaking t 14 units for classroom study. Each unit contains: and Writing papers, and they give you examples, – at least one part of each of the Writing, Speaking and language and advice on how best to approach them.