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Contents
Introduction 5
Map of the book 7
Exam summary 10
GRAMMAR SECTION VOCABULARY SECTION
Unit 1(cid:9) Present tenses 12 Learning and revising vocabulary 172
Unit 2(cid:9) Past tenses 18 Unit 25 Earth, sea and sky 174
Unit 3(cid:9) Present perfect and past simple 24 Unit 26 Living a healthy life 178
Unit 4(cid:9) Past perfect 32 Unit 27 Sound waves 181
Unit 5(cid:9) Future (1) 40 Unit 28 Highs and lows 184
Unit 6(cid:9) Future (2) 46 Unit 29 Looking back 187
Unit 7(cid:9) Adjectives 54 Unit 30 Everyone's different 190
Unit 8(cid:9) Adverbs 60 Unit 31 Get active 194
Unit 9(cid:9) Questions 66 Unit 32 My world 197
Unit 10 Countable and uncountable Unit 33 Moving around 200
nouns; articles 72
Unit 34 flute off 203
Unit 11 Modals (1) 79
Unit 35 Where you live 206
Unit 12 Pronouns and determiners 86
Unit 36 Shared tastes 209
Unit 13 Modals (2) 93
Unit 37 Entertain me 212
Unit 14 Modals (3) 99
Unit 38 Home territory 216
Unit 15 Reported speech 107
Unit 39 Green planet 219
Unit 16 The passive 115
Unit 40 Read all about it 222
Unit 17 Conditionals (1) 121
Unit 41 Teenage style 226
Unit 18 The to infinitive and -ing 128
Unit 42 School days 230
Unit 19 Conditionals (2) 135
Unit 43 The world of work 233
Unit 20 Prepositions (1) 141
Unit 44 University life 236
Unit 21 Prepositions (2) 147
Answer key 240
Unit 22 Relative clauses 153
Unit 23 Linking words (1) 159
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Unit 24 Linking words (2) 166 .
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Introduction
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This book is for students who want to study and practise Word-building exercises: These give extra practice of
English grammar and vocabulary, especially if they are related nouns, verbs and adjectives, which is especially
preparing for the Cambridge English: First or Cambridge useful for Cambridge First Reading and Use of English
English: First for Schools examination. It offers practice for Part 3 tasks.
all the tasks in the Reading and Use of English. Listening Spelling This page helps you to avoid spelling errors
and Writing papers. commonly made by Cambridge First candidates.
It can be used by students working alone or with a Grammar glossary: This explains the words we use to
teacher. describe grammar.
How do I use the book?
What is in this book?
You can work through the units in any order, but we
This book is updated for the new Cambridge English: First
advise you to study every unit if you want to prepare
examinations introduced in 2015 and contains two main
thoroughly for the exam.
sections: Grammar (Units 1-24) and Vocabulary (Units
25-44). If you are studying alone, you may like to do alternate
Grammar and Vocabulary units - this will give you more
The book also contains the following
variety and give you time to absorb each topic.
Map of the book: This shows the topics that are
covered and the exam tasks that are practised in each How are the Grammar units or:anised?
unit. Each of the 24 Grammar units has four sections. You
Exam summary: This explains the aims and should work through Sections A, B and C in order. You
organisation of Cambridge English: First and Cambridge can do the Exam practice section immediately after these,
English: First for Schools. or you can come back to-it later for revision.
Learning and revising vocabulary: These pages give
A Context listening This section introduces the
useful ideas to make your study more effective.
grammar of the unit in a short recording. You can
Answer key: This gives the answers for all exercises
listen to the recording, answer the questions and check
and for all exam tasks except the Writing ones (for
your answers in the Answer key. This will help you to
Writing answers, see Model answers below).
understand the grammar more easily when you study
What material can I find online? Section B. It also gives you useful listening practice.
The following resources for use with this book can be B Grammar: This section explains the grammar points
found online at [address?] and gives examples. You should read it before doing
Audio recordings for all listening exercises and for the exercises in Section C and you can also refer to it
exam practice Listening tasks. while you are doing the exercises.
Audio scripts: These are the full recording scripts for C Grammar exercises: The exercises cover the grammar
all listening tasks. in Section B. Check your answers in the Answer key.
Model answers: A sample answer is provided for each This gives the answers and also tells you which parts of
of the Writing tasks in the Exam practice sections of Section B each exercise refers to.
the Vocabulary units. You will see this symbols in some of the exercises
Wordlists for Vocabulary units: These contain in Section C. It indicates that the sentences are ones
key words that you need to lean and also their in which candidates made errors as identified in the
pronunciation in IPA (International Phonetic Cambridge Learner Corpus, a database made up of many
Alphabet). thousands of exam scripts written by students taking
Irregular verbs list: This gives the forms of important Cambridge English exams in countries around the world.
irregular verbs for Cambridge First.
Exam practice There is one exam task, either Listening or
Phrasal verbs list: This gives the most important
Reading and Use of English, for each Grammar unit. These
phrasal verbs that you need to know for Cambridge
will prepare you for the types of tasks you will face in the
First.
exam.
Phrasal verb exercises: These give extra practice of
Note Some of the Use of English tasks test mainly the
many of the important phrasal verbs for Cambridge
grammar taught in the unit, to give extra practice.
First.
However, in the real exam each question tests a different
grammar point.
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How are the Vocabula units
Recordings for the Listening casks follow the format of the
or•anised? exam, with the examiner's instructions included. For Part
1 tasks, the eight short recordings are repeated as in the
Each of the 20 Vocabulary units has three pages based on
exam, but for Parts 2-4 you will need to replay the whole
a general topic.
recording yourself after you have listened to it the first
On the first two pages, key vocabulary is introduced
time.
and practised in a range of different exercises. Some
of these are listening exercises. To get the most out Note on contractions
of the Vocabulary exercises, you will need access to a
This book generally uses contractions, for example I'm for
good dictionary. Use the Cambridge Advanced Learner's
lam, wasn't for was not, because these are always used in
Dictionary (either online or as a book) or another suitable
speech and are common in written English. The hill forms
monolingual dictionary. You should try to do each
are used in formal written English.
vocabulary exercise without any assistance first, and then
use your dictionary to help you with any answers you Note to teachers
didn't know. Use the Answer key as a final check. This book can be used alongside a coursebook, in class
The third page is an Exam practice section with two exam or for private study. The flexible organisation of the book
tasks. The first is either a Listening or a Reading and Use of makes it particularly suitable for revision for students who
English task, and this is always followed by a Writing task. are taking Cambridge First or for those who are re-taking
These tasks give you an opportunity to use the vocabulary the exam and also for classes where not all students are
from the unit. preparing for the exam. The Vocabulary units can be
There is a Wordlist for each Vocabulary unit on the chosen to supplement topics in the order in which they
website. When you finish the first two pages of each arise in your coursebook. The Context listening (Section
unit, go through the wordlist and check that you know A) in the Grammar units can be used in class as an
the meaning of all the words and expressions. Note any introduction, with students working in pairs or groups as
words you don't remember and go back through the unit preferred. Sections 13 and C and the Exam practice can be
to revise them. You may want to note translations for used in class or for private study as conditions allow.
some words or write them on a mind map, table or word The Exam practice tasks in this book have been informed
tree (see learning and revising vocabulary on pages by the English Vocabulary Profile, which is an online
172-173). resource with detailed and up-to-date information about
the words, phrases, phrasal verbs and idioms that learners
How should I use the Exam practice
of English should know at each of the six levels of the
tasks?
Common European Framework.
You may want to do the exam tasks immediately after
finishing the exercises in each unit, or you may choose
to come back to them later for revision. In the Grammar
section, if you do the exam task immediately, you can use
the Grammar focus exercise(s) for revision later on if
you wish.
To check how much you have learnt, it is a good idea to
do the exam tasks without referring back to the unit, and
then check the answers. Always answer all the questions
in an exam task, even if you are not sure, before you check
your answers. This is good exam practice, as you may get
a mark for a good guess, but you can't get a mark for an
empty answer space! Answers for the Reading and Use
of English and the Listening tasks are in the Answer key.
For the Writing tasks you will find model answers on the
website — these show you the kind of answer you could
produce, although the content of yours will of course be
different.
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Map of the book
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GRAMMAR SECTION
Unit Title Topics Exam practice
Present simple; present continuous; state verbs; the verb
1 Present tenses Listening Part 4
to be
Past simple; past continuous; used to + verb and would +
2 Past tenses Reading and Use of English Part 1
verb; be/get used to + -ing or noun
Present perfect Present perfect and past simple; present perfect simple
3 Reading and Use of English Part?
and past simple and continuous
4 Past perfect Past perfect simple and continuous Reading and Use of English Part 5
5 Future (1) Present tenses for future will; future continuous Listening Part 2
going to; future in the past; present tenses after time
6 Future (2) Reading and Use of English Part 7
conjunctions; future perfect; to be about to
Comparative and superlative adjectives; position; orden
7 Adjectives Reading and Use of English Part 1
adjectives ending in -ing and -ed
Adverb forms; adverbs and adjectives easily confused;
8 Adverbs comparative and superlative adverbs; modifiers; adverb Reading and Use of English Part 3
position
Yes/no questions; short answers; question words; question
9 Questions Li(cid:9) ing Part 1(cid:9) II
tags; agreeing
Countable and
Countable and uncountable nouns; (a)n, the and no article;
10 uncountable Reading and Use of English Part 4
special uses of articles
nouns; articles
11 Modals (1) Use of modals; rules and obligation; necessity Reading and Use of English Part 6
Possessives; reflexive pronouns and own; each other and one
Pronouns and
12 another; there and it; someone, etc.; all, most, some, no and Reading and Use of English Part 2
determiners
none; each and every, both, neither and either
13 Modals (2) Permission requests; offers; suggestions; orders; advice Listening Part 3
14 Modals (3) Ability; deduction: certainty and possibility; expectations Reading and Use of English Part 3
Tense changes in reported speech; reporting in the same
15 Reported speech tense; verbs for reporting verbs for reporting with to Reading and Use of English Part 4
infinitive; reporting questions; references to time, place, etc
16 The passive The passive; to have/get something done; it is said that.- Reading and Use of English Part 4
17 Conditionals (1) Zero, first, second and third conditionals; mixed conditionals Reading and Use of English Part 6
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18 aTnhde -ttori gin finitive Vveerrbb ++ tthoa itn cflianuitisvee;, avdejerbc t+iv ein +fin toiti vinef inwititivheo ut to; verb + -ing Reading and Use of English Part 1
unless; in case provided/providing that and as/so long as; I
19 Conditionals (2) wish and f only; it's time; would rather (not); otherwise and Reading and Use of English Part 4
or else
20 Prepositions (1) Prepositions of place and time Reading and Use of English Part 2
Prepositions which follow verbs and adjectives; prepositions
21 Prepositions (2) to express who, how and why; expressions with prepositions Reading and Use of English Part 3
22 Relative clauses Defining and non-defining relative clauses; relattiiv e pronouns Reading and Use of English Part 4
and prepositions
because, as and since; so and therefore in order to. to +
23 Linking words (1) infinitive and so (that); so and such; enough and too Reading and Use of English Part 1
in spite of and despite; but, although and though; even though
24 Linking words (2) and even t participle clauses; before and after + .ing when, Reading and Use of English Part 2
while and since + -ing
VOCABULARY SECTION WOkra.se et
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Unit Title Topics Exam practice
Reading and Use of English Part 6
25 Earth, sea and sky Geography, climate and weather
Writing Part 2 (email)
Living a healthy Reading and Use of English Part 2
26 Health and fitness
life Writing Part 1 (essay)
Reading and Use of English Part 2
27 Sound waves Music, sounds
• Writing Part 1 (essay)
Listening Part 1
28 Highs and lows Feeling
Writing Part 2 (article)
Reading and Use of English Part 1
29 Looking back The past, time
Writing Part 2 (review)
30 Everyone's Personality Reading and Use of English Parts
different Writing Part 2 (article)
Reading and Use of English Part 4
31 Get active Sport
Writing Part 2 (email)
Listening Part 3
32 My world Friends, family and relationships
Writing Part 1 (essay)
Reading and Use of English Part 4
33 Moving around Travel
Writing Part 2 (article)
34 Time off Leisure time, hobbies and games Reading and Use of English Part 3
Writing Part 2 (email)
35 Where you live Cities and towns Reading and Use of English Part 1
Writing Part 2 (article)
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