CPE :: Certificate of Proficiency in English

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PROGRAMA DEL CURSO

UNIT # 1

 READING AND WRITING

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.

 USE OF ENGLISH

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.
 

 LISTENING AND SPEAKING

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.

 EXAM SIMULATOR

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.

 

UNIT # 2

 READING AND WRITING

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.

 USE OF ENGLISH

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.

 LISTENING AND SPEAKING

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.

 EXAM SIMULATOR

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.

UNIT # 3

 READING AND WRITING

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.

 USE OF ENGLISH

GRAMMAR: Emphasizing 1: Inversion construction. Structures # 1 to # 3. Exercises. Emphasizing 2: Cleft sentences. Emphasis # 1 to # 4. Exercises. ACTIVITIES: # 37 to 40.

 LISTENING AND SPEAKING

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.

 EXAM SIMULATOR

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.

UNIT # 4

 READING AND WRITING

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.

 USE OF ENGLISH

GRAMMAR: Ellipsis and substitution. Ellipsis 1 and 2. Substitution 1. Exercises. Gerunds and infinitives. Complex and other uses. Exercises. ACTIVITIES: # 53 to 57.

 LISTENING AND SPEAKING

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.

 EXAM SIMULATOR

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.

UNIT # 5

 READING AND WRITING

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.

 USE OF ENGLISH

GRAMMAR: Sense verbs. Verbs # 1 to # 4. Exercises. Comparison. Modifiers # 1 to # 4. Exercises. ACTIVITIES: # 70 to 73.

 LISTENING AND SPEAKING

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.

 EXAM SIMULATOR

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.

 

 TEST LESSONS #1 TO #20

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 CPE - Certificate of Proficiency in English course.

UNIT # 6

 READING AND WRITING

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.

 USE OF ENGLISH

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.

 LISTENING AND SPEAKING

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.

 EXAM SIMULATOR

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.

UNIT # 7

 READING AND WRITING

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.

 USE OF ENGLISH

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.

 LISTENING AND SPEAKING

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.

 EXAM SIMULATOR

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.

UNIT # 8

 READING AND WRITING

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.

 USE OF ENGLISH

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.

 LISTENING AND SPEAKING

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.

 EXAM SIMULATOR

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.

UNIT # 9

 READING AND WRITING

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.

 USE OF ENGLISH

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.

 LISTENING AND SPEAKING

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.

 EXAM SIMULATOR

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.

UNIT # 10

 READING AND WRITING

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.

 USE OF ENGLISH

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.

  LISTENING AND SPEAKING

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.

 EXAM SIMULATOR

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.

 

 END OF COURSE: FINAL EXAM LESSONS #1 TO #40

This final examination consists of 100 questions split up in activities covering the grammar, expressions, glossaries and listenings studied along the 10 units (40 lessons) of this CPE - Certificate of Proficiency in English course.