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PROGRAMA DEL CURSO |
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READING |
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READING COMPREHENSION: Those dangerous waves. Questions 1-9.
READING COMPREHENSION: A space in the country. Open cloze.
EXERCISE: Rewriting. EXERCISE: Key word transformations.
WRITING ABILITY: Test.
ACTIVITIES: # 1 to 5. |
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USE
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GRAMMAR: Connectors 1/2. Discourse markers or linkers: Result,
Reason, Purpose and Contrast. Exercises. SO/SUCH. Rules # 1 to 4.
Exercises.
ACTIVITIES: # 6 to 9.
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LISTENING |
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PRONUNCIATION:
Vocabulary practice 1/12.
LISTENING COMPREHENSION: Obsessions 1 and 2. Exercises. Not enough
skilled workers. Exercises. American Stories: Bartleby, the scrivener by
Herman Melville. Exercise.
ACTIVITIES: # 10 to 13. |
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EXAM
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REVISION:
The structure of CAE - Part 1/2.
READING - PART 1/4: Working for a living.
USE OF ENGLISH - PART 1/5: Female technology.
USE OF ENGLISH - PART 3/5: Sigmund Freud: Dreaming.
ACTIVITIES: # 14 to 16. |
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READING |
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READING COMPREHENSION: The American economy. Questions 1-8.
READING COMPREHENSION: About British dams safety. Open cloze.
EXERCISE: Rewriting. EXERCISE: Key word transformations.
WRITING ABILITY: Test.
ACTIVITIES: # 16 to 20. |
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USE
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GRAMMAR: Connectors 2/2. Discourse markers or linkers: More
categories and examples. Exercises. The verb GET - Part 1/2. Uses # 1 to 6.
Exercises.
ACTIVITIES: # 21 to 24. |
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LISTENING |
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PRONUNCIATION:
Vocabulary practice 2/12.
LISTENING COMPREHENSION: The smart dog. Exercises. Retail
management. Exercises. The newspaper article. Exercises. American Stories:
The cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe. Exercise.
ACTIVITIES: # 25 to 28. |
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EXAM
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REVISION:
The structure of CAE - Part 2/2.
READING - PART 2/4: The Dubois sculpture. Exercises.
USE OF ENGLISH - PART 4/5: Gapped sentences.
USE OF ENGLISH - PART 5/5: Key word transformations.
ACTIVITIES: # 29 to 31. |
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READING |
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READING COMPREHENSION: A dinner party. Questions 1-7.
READING COMPREHENSION: A chemical threat. Open cloze.
EXERCISE: Rewriting. EXERCISE: Key word transformations.
WRITING ABILITY: Test.
ACTIVITIES: # 32 to 36. |
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USE
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GRAMMAR: Emphasizing 1: Inversion construction. Structures # 1 to
# 3. Exercises. Emphasizing 2: Cleft sentences. Emphasis # 1 to # 4.
Exercises.
ACTIVITIES: # 37 to 40. |
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LISTENING |
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PRONUNCIATION:
Vocabulary practice 3/12.
LISTENING COMPREHENSION: The swan story. Exercises. A successful
businessman. Exercises. A journalist speaks. Exercises. American Stories:
The gift of the magi by O'Henry. Exercise.
ACTIVITIES: # 41 to 44b. |
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EXAM
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CAE ADVICE 1/8.
READING - PART 4/4: The Human Mind. Multiple matching exercise.
USE OF ENGLISH - PART 2/5: Antarctic weather. Open cloze exercise.
READING - PART 2/4: Aphrodisiac oysters. Text with 5 paragraphs
missing.
ACTIVITIES: # 45 to 47. |
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READING |
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READING COMPREHENSION: A crime novelist. Questions 1-7.
READING COMPREHENSION: Cost and compassion. Open cloze.
EXERCISE: Rewriting. EXERCISE: Key word transformations.
WRITING ABILITY: Test.
ACTIVITIES: # 48 to 52. |
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USE
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GRAMMAR: Ellipsis and substitution. Ellipsis 1 and 2.
Substitution 1. Exercises. Gerunds and infinitives. Complex and other
uses.
Exercises.
ACTIVITIES: # 53 to 57. |
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LISTENING |
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PRONUNCIATION:
Vocabulary practice 4/12.
LISTENING COMPREHENSION: Historical films: Gandhi. Exercises.
Historical films: Elizabeth. Exercises. Listening Part 4/4. Multiple
matching exercise. American Stories:
Paul Bunyan - Traditional. Exercise.
ACTIVITIES: # 58 to 61. |
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EXAM
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CAE ADVICE 2/8.
READING - PART 2/4: History of banking. Text with multiple-choice
questions.
USE OF ENGLISH - PART 4/5: Gapped sentences exercise.
USE OF ENGLISH - PART 5/5: Key words transformations.
ACTIVITIES: # 62 to 64. |
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READING |
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READING COMPREHENSION: An interview with an astronaut. Questions 1-6.
READING COMPREHENSION: Decline of the western? Open cloze.
EXERCISE: Key word transformations. A trip in the rainforest. Open cloze.
WRITING ABILITY: Test.
ACTIVITIES: # 63 to 69. |
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USE
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GRAMMAR: Sense verbs. Verbs # 1 to # 4. Exercises. Comparison.
Modifiers # 1 to # 4.
Exercises.
ACTIVITIES: # 70 to 73. |
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LISTENING |
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PRONUNCIATION:
Vocabulary practice 5/12.
LISTENING COMPREHENSION: Part 1 - Extract 1/3:
Holiday plans. Part 1 - Extract 1/3:
Holiday plans. Part 1 - Extract 2/3:
A new film. Exercises. Part 1 - Extract 3/3:
A new office building. Exercises. American Stories:
To build a fire by Jack London.
ACTIVITIES: # 74 to 77. |
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EXAM
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CAE ADVICE 3/8.
USE OF ENGLISH - PART 1/5: Our earth changes. Multiple-choice cloze.
USE OF ENGLISH - PART 3/5: The media commentator. Word formation and
vocabulary.
USE OF ENGLISH - PART 2/5: Early photography. Open cloze.
ACTIVITIES: # 78 to 80. |
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TEST LESSONS #1 TO #20 |
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This is a self-evaluation test and consists of
five activities covering the grammar, expressions, glossaries and
listenings studied in the first part (lessons #1 to #20) of this CAE -
Certificate in Advanced English course. |
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READING |
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READING COMPREHENSION: Canoe honeymooners. Reading Part 2/4.
READING COMPREHENSION: Equality and liberty. Open cloze.
EXERCISES: Rewriting. Key word transformations.
WRITING ABILITY: Test.
ACTIVITIES: # 81 to 85. |
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USE
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GRAMMAR: HAVE and HAVE GOT. Exercises. Conditional sentences: real
and unreal conditional. Mixed conditionals. Alternatives to IF in
conditional sentences. Past tenses: unreal uses. I WISH. IF ONLY. I'D
RATHER. IT'S (HIGH) TIME.
Exercises.
ACTIVITIES: # 86 to 91. |
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LISTENING |
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PRONUNCIATION:
Vocabulary practice 6/12.
LISTENING COMPREHENSION: About school books. Moving abroad. Visiting
the City Museum. Exercises. American Stories:
The celebrated jumping frog by Mark Twain.
ACTIVITIES: # 92 to 95. |
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EXAM
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CAE ADVICE 4/8.
USE OF ENGLISH - PART 1/3: Wordless communication. Multiple-choice
questions.
USE OF ENGLISH - PART 4/5: Gapped sentences.
USE OF ENGLISH - PART 3: How fake art can become good business. Long
text with multiple-choice questions.
ACTIVITIES: # 96 to 98. |
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READING |
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READING COMPREHENSION: Leisure clothes. Reading Part 4/4.
Multiple matching exercise.
READING COMPREHENSION: Walking along. Open cloze.
EXERCISES: Rewriting. Key word transformations.
WRITING ABILITY: Test.
ACTIVITIES: # 99 to 103. |
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USE
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GRAMMAR: Pronouns: Generic, reflexive and reciprocal pronouns, IT
and THERE. Exercises. Nouns: Possessive and compound forms. Apostrophe
's. OF instead of Apostrophe 's. Compound nouns. Exercises. Article THE:
Riles # 1 to # 7.
Exercises.
ACTIVITIES: # 104 to 109. |
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LISTENING |
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PRONUNCIATION:
Vocabulary practice 7/12.
LISTENING COMPREHENSION: A TV interview. Part 3/4: Conversation with
multiple-choice questions. Part 4/4: Multiple matching. Exercises. American Stories:
Rappaccini's daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
ACTIVITIES: # 110 to 113. |
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EXAM
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CAE ADVICE 5/8.
READING - PART 2/3: Public speaking. Text with multiple-choice
questions.
READING - PART 3/3: Iowa University. Text with multiple-choice
questions.
USE OF ENGLISH - PART 5/5: Key word transformations.
READING - PART 2/4: Famous Sacher torte.
ACTIVITIES: # 114 to 117. |
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READING |
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READING COMPREHENSION: About children's ballet. Reading Part 1/3.
Multiple-choice questions.
READING COMPREHENSION: Urbanising the high Alps. Open cloze.
EXERCISES: Rewriting. Key word transformations.
WRITING ABILITY: Test.
ACTIVITIES: # 118 to 122. |
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USE
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GRAMMAR: The past: narrative tenses, USED TO, WOULD. Exercises.
Future plans: present and future; future arrangements. Exercises. The
verb GET - Part 2/2. Expressions, idioms and phrasal verbs with GET.
ACTIVITIES: # 123 to 126. |
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LISTENING |
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PRONUNCIATION:
Vocabulary practice 8/12.
LISTENING COMPREHENSION: A doctor speaks: interview with questions.
An unusual musician: gapped text. Small buildings: interview. Part 3 -
Extract 3/3. Conversation with
multiple-choice questions. Part 4/4: Multiple matching. Exercises. American Stories:
The purloined letter by Edgar Allan Poe.
ACTIVITIES: # 127 to 130. |
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EXAM
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CAE ADVICE 6/8.
READING - PART 4/4: Mazes. Multiple matching.
READING - PART 2/3: The Premiere. Text with multiple-choice
questions.
USE OF ENGLISH - PART 1/5: Discovering dinosaurs. Multiple choice
cloze.
USE OF ENGLISH - PART 4/5. Gapped sentences.
ACTIVITIES: # 131 to 134. |
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READING |
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READING COMPREHENSION: A dancing system. Reading Part 3/3.
Multiple-choice questions.
READING COMPREHENSION: Justice and recompense. Open cloze.
EXERCISES: Rewriting. Key word transformations.
WRITING ABILITY: Test.
ACTIVITIES: # 135 to 139. |
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USE
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GRAMMAR: Structure verb + object + infinitive. TO infinitive and
BARE infinitive. Structure verb + object + gerund. Exercises.
Speculation and deduction. Modal verbs: must, may, might, must, can't,
should. Adjectives and adverbs. Exercises. The
verb GET - Part 2/2. Expressions, idioms and phrasal verbs with GET.
ACTIVITIES: # 140 to 143. |
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LISTENING |
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PRONUNCIATION:
Vocabulary practice 9/12 and 10/12.
LISTENING COMPREHENSION: The two jobs: conversation with questions.
Diana remembers yesterday: alternative answers. Techno-archaelogists:
radio report: gapped sentences. American Stories:
The tell-tale heart by Edgar Allan Poe.
ACTIVITIES: # 144 to 147. |
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EXAM
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CAE ADVICE 7/8.
READING - PART 2/4: Mazes. Multiple matching.
READING - PART 2/3: Around coral reefs. Text with 6 paragraphs
missing.
USE OF ENGLISH - PART 2/5: Your best library. Open cloze.
USE OF ENGLISH - PART 3/5. Word formation and vocabulary.
ACTIVITIES: # 148 to 150. |
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READING |
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READING COMPREHENSION: A game of squash
READING - PART 1/3: Text with multiple-choice questions.
READING COMPREHENSION: Selling the flag. Open cloze.
EXERCISES: Rewriting. Key word transformations.
WRITING ABILITY: Test.
ACTIVITIES: # 151 to 155. |
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USE
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GRAMMAR: Distance language techniques: SEEM, APPEAR. Passive with
reporting verbs. More distancing: apparently, according to, may, might.
Exercises. Permission, obligation and necessity: can, must, should,
ought to, had better. Have to and have got to. Need. Be able to, be
allowed to, be permitted to, be supposed to.
ACTIVITIES: # 156 to 159. |
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LISTENING |
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PRONUNCIATION:
Vocabulary practice 11/12 and 12/12.
LISTENING COMPREHENSION: Learning a foreign language: two
monologues. Exercises.
LISTENING: Paper 4 - Part 1.
Three audio extracts with multiple-choice
questions.
LISTENING: Part 4/4.
Multiple matching activity. American Stories: Keesh by Jack London.
ACTIVITIES: # 160 to 163. |
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EXAM
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CAE ADVICE 8/8.
SPEAKING - Parts 1, 2a, 2b, 3a, 3b y 4: Audio comments from real CAE
candidates.
USE OF ENGLISH - PART 3: My first trip with a camera crew.
USE OF ENGLISH - PART 5/5: Key word transformations.
USE OF ENGLISH - PART 2/5: Those smart birds. Open cloze. Message from
the Director.
ACTIVITIES: # 164 to 166. |
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END OF COURSE:
FINAL EXAM LESSONS #1 TO #40
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This final examination consists of 100
questions split up in 11 activities covering the grammar, expressions, glossaries and
listenings studied along the 10 units (40 lessons) of this CAE -
Certificate in Advanced English course. |
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