a New Progress to First Certificate Workbook EGE Leo Jones CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESSContents Welcome! Introduction L communication ‘Talking about language Cutting noise pollution Word-building, smonyms and ‘opposites Present tenses Vowel sounds Free phone calls ~ with commercials Mobile phones 2 Atyour service! Shops and stores Questions and question tags Levis Abbreviations and numbers Questionsand statements Can help you? Agreeing and disagreeing Please send me a refund ... 3 Friends and relations Love, marviage and families Here comes the bride! Using prefixes = 1 ‘The past 1 Diphthongs Asad romance Telling and writing « story 12 off Sports and leisure activities A friendly, polite tone of voice Cheese Races, 1998 ‘The past=2 Using prefixes~2 Swimming with sharks Dangerous sports Dear Ms Green ... 5 The world around us Nature and the weather ‘The icestorm Using prefixes Articles and quantifiers~1 Consonants One-minute talks» Talking for a minute: Pets © Going places Travel and wansport Articles~2 Words with several syllables Young drivers in California People on the move Public transport What do you recommend? 7 There's no place like home Athome Paris bus drivers in London Spelling and pronunciation 1: Vowels Modial verbs 1 Suying long sentences Welcome to Heritage Paris! A safe place to live? 8 Looking after yourself Good health and illness Modal verbs-2 Hopi ear candles Spelling and pronunciation ~ 2 Diphthongs Intonation: Reading aloud Poetry can cure you Talking about pictures Free life membership! QD Having a great time! Travel and tourism Adventure holidays Spelling and pronunciation ~ 8:Consonants If... sentences~1 Paper 3: Use of English ~ Parts 1 and 2 Fill the gaps What went wrong? A great holiday 10 Food for thought Foods and drinks -ingand te...~1 Real cooking Compound words~ 1 ive different situations Prepositions (revision) Verbs and idioms (revision) ating out A birthday celebration 6 16 26 31 36 4 46 5111 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 You never stop learning Schools and colleges How to do well in exams if... sentences = 2 Compound words~2 Paper 3: Use of English ~ Part 4 Correcting errors Co-cducational or single-sex schools? What shall we do this evening? Entertainment -imgand fo...~2 Which film ....? Using suffixes ~ I; Adjectives What did you think of it? Paper 3: Use of English ~ Part 3 Rewriting sentences Which prize would you choose? I’m sorry you missed the end ... Read any good books? Books and magazi clauses Using suflixes ~2: Actions and people Cambridge Eny Paper 2: Writing ~ Part 2 When do you read? Joining sentences ~ I: Relative ish Readers Allin a day's worke Jobs and employment Joining sentences 2: Conjunctions At Last I Have Time! Using suffixes ~ 3: Abstract nouns Having fim at work Paper 5: Speaking A summer job Can you explain? “Technology and science The Swiss Army Knife Using the passive Opposites Paper 4: Listening ~ Parts 1 and 2 Prepositions (revision) What ean go wrong? Keeping up to date Inthe news The past: Reported speech Paper I: Reading — Part 4 Paper 4: Listening — Parts 3 and 4 Good news or bad news? A letter to the editor Its a small world Countries, cities and nationalities Paper 1: Reading - Part 3. Comparing and contrasting Paper 3: Use of English - Part 5 Word formation Local customs, Comparing and contrasting Paper 2: Writing - Part 2 Yes, but is it art? Arcand music The future Paper I: Reading — Part 1 The next day . Paper 2: Writing - Part 1 An exhibition Other people Personality and behaviour Paper 1: Reading Part 2 Adverbs and word order Verbs and idioms (revision) Paper 3: Use of English Paper 2: Writing ~ Part 2 Model compositions Irregular verb table Answers and Transcripts Thanks Acknowledgements 56 él a 81 a 96 101 108, 109 126 1276 a7 Welcome! This Workbook will help you to do well in the Cambridge First Certificate Exam. Each Workbook unit contains followup exercises for the equivalent Suudent’s Book unit in New Progress to First Certificate. (There is no Unit 20 because by then you should spend your ime revising all the units in the Student’s Book and the Workbook ~ and do FCE Exam Practice tests.) All the exercises in this Workbook are relevant to the exam, so even if you aren’t using the New Progress to First Certificate Student’s Book, you'll find them useful as you prepare for the exam. Do the exercises at your own speed - spend longer on the ones you find difficult and less time on the ones that are easy for you, Each Workbook unit contains 6-8 separate exercises related to the topic and language points introduced in the Student's Book. Vocasutary Revise the topie vocabulary for each unit by doing these enjoyable crosswords and word search puzzles. READING Develop your reading skills by reading these interesting passage tasks and questions help you become familiar with the tasks and questions you'll have to answer in Paper 1: Reading GRAMMAR REVIEW Give yourself extra practice in the grammar points introduced in the Student’s Book. The exercises help you to become familiar with the kind of questions you'll be asked in Paper 3: Use of English, You should also study the GRAMMAR REFERENCE section in the Student’s Book. word ruDy Do these exercises to improve you exam, including Part 5 of Paper 3. vocabulary for all five papers of the sent HIB Liscen 0 the recordings and fzaprove your linening comprehension, These exercises prepare you for the different tasks you'll have todo in Paper dr Listening. rroxunciarion Bi Use the recording o improve your pronunciation, and learn to speak more fluently s0 that you can do well in Paper 5: Speaking. soesxinc Practise talking English and doing the same kind of tasks you'l have to do with a partner in Paper 5: Speaking If posible, do these exercises with another student — but tat isn't possible, you can do them on your own, WRITING Do these writing tasks so that you ean do well in Paper 2: Writing: The tasks are similar to the tasks you'll have to do in Part 1 and Part 2 of the Writing paper: When you've done each Writing task, compare your work with the Model composition. MODEL COMPOSITIONS Read these and see what kind of written work the examiners are hoping to see in Paper 2: Writing. But don’t worry if'your work isn’t as good ~ you can still get a good grade if you make mistakes! EXAM TECHNIQU Starting in Unit 9, as the exam gets nearer, there are special exercises to help you with the techniques you need for each paper in the exam, EXAM TIPS All through the Workbook, in the lefi-hand margin, there are tips on how to prepare and how to do well in the exam, I'm sure this Workbook will help you to do your best in the exam. Thope you enjoy using it! CoosaAllthe words in| thls pure come fa Unit | in tie Stidane' Book, you haven already done 1.1 inthe Seasere’s Book, do ths rz lace. Communication KEG Talking about language vocasutary Solve the clues on the left and write the words in the spaces in the puzzle on the ri Truth isan... noun, When speaking English, good ... is important. Badly and well ave « Communication has five . Words in a dictionary are listed .. The text on page 12 in the Student's Book is about good ... 7 Australians and New Zealanders speak English with similar 8 Ifyou come across a new word you want to remember, ... itin yellow. 9 -ness at the end of higppiness is a... 10 Words like French and Greek begin with a... leter. 11 People in Mediterranean and Latin countries use more ... than people in Britain. 12 Re-in rewrite is 13 (down) A person's .. you lot about how th can tell feel KER cutting noise pollution READING i dis exercise, the ends of some imising~ cok for uae nthe ftroctire anc the content of te rile. Is Pare3 ‘of the Reading paper (Paper I) in the FCE exam youll hae © Fenda exe from ‘whieh 7 or ul ben removed Wee his kind of averciee ke bese to fl the fensy ge firs and then come Sack tothe more ficile ones borer Six sentence endings have been removed from the article opposite. Choose from the endings (A-G) the ones which fit in each gap (1-6). There is one extra ending which you don’t need to use. The first gap is already filled for you, as an example. A (after the United Siates, B _ itis dificult to enforce such rules. C_ itis ideal for putting an end to mobilephone conversations on trains. D__ jamming devices are very expensive. E__ mobile jamming devices. ‘provided it did not block signals for legitimate ‘mobile-phone users nearby, G" the devices have proved extremely popular.Jamming devices cut noise | pollution among Japan’s chattering classes i Jonathan Watts in Tokyo FOR those who don't like sharing their sushi concerts or train journeys with people having heated discussions on their mobile phones, Japanese manufacturers have come up with the latest defence - IE) With cellular chit-chat becoming more of a public nuisance every day, the government tas proposed using jamming equipment to ensure that theaire and concert audiences are not interrupted by bleeps, electronic melodies and noisily hushed hellos, Demand for the devices has come hard on dhe heels of a rapid growth in the market for mobile phones in Japan, which now has ighest number of users in the Among ie companies cashing in on the desire for a little peace and quiet is Nikkodo, which supplies jamming equipment to hospitals and coftee shops. According to the company, J] On a smaller scale, SIC, 2 Tokyo-based manufacturer, has produced a jamming device aimed at individual customers, which sells for (5276. With a tange of just ametres, S| But regulators are concerned that such equipment could be misused. Last month they proposed a licensing system for the devices / fe and said that usage should be restricted to | " areas where mobile phones couk significant public disturbance, Mobile phone subscriptions in Japan | have soared fram 300,000 in 1904 to almost | 90 million today, or one in three of the population. This is largely thanks 10 deregulation, which has pushed prices down almost to the level of ordinary phones, and technical innovation, which has created the lighoweight, powerful handsets now given free to new subscribers. But noise pollution has become a | major nuisance, prompting bans in many restaurants, cinemas, and offices. Without technical intervention, however, ST] { ‘Tokyo's largest railway company, JR East, ) has introduced a campaign to dissuade commuters from using mobile phones on trains. But few people switch their handsets off before boarding, anda single rings usually enough to send at least three people fumbling | inside thetr pockets or bags. HpEER Word-building, synonyms and opposites WoRD sTUDY ‘Sometimes it's easy to build new words from shorter words, sometimes it’s harder. Write down Smacdeue Your answers (o these questions. If you don’t know the answer, look the word up in an Gewchresee, ——_English-English dictionary. Ce Patan eit esse What is the opposite of comfortable? cunsarefartable, eitces- What is the opposite of possitle ca ons . a: Suffixes Gaeh. forming What is the noun of possible? P. ees What is the adjective from the noun power? —— Pom = core: sng Compound words iene see Bede We talk about snonyjlakes, hailstones and... fans preparing you tor FaeSoe ven Lake aspirin if have a... Gesuianss Spelling changes Book vl so help yuo Whats the noun from the adjective ide? Wows BCT" — Whatistheadjectve ofthe noun rif? pe rl Peay Synonyms Another word for martllowsis Fun Another word for very intersting is Opposites ‘The opposite of easyis nnn The opposite of seis . a a Present tenses GRAMMAR REVIEW Fill the gaps in these sentences with suitable forms of the verbs from the list below. jee =i! drink go have looklike speak study talk = try want looks: pass hey ing, when they should be studying hey 1 They art always. talking. when they should be studying. Students Book 2 Although they are sisters, Mary and Sue eens €ach other, former : : eG 3 Sometimes f colfee for breakfast but usually I just tea files or vg 4 Water - at 100° Celsius, ies en 5 Americans and British people sown with different accents 6 Tean't go out now hecause 1 7 She anne © dance Classes because She o-noennnnst0 become a dancer, 8 Please don't interrupt me, T to concentrate © _ ithe gaps in these sentences with a suitable form of the verb in bold, Where 0) ne nnn ftom? come 2 Why -nv-neniennnnnsennmnnsenn 80 Sad lately? look 3: They . _ engaged since last October. be 4. Anew €aF seinen ~~ thousands of pounds. cost, 5 You're late! We for halfan hour wait 6 Which one of you all the milk? drink Next weekend I. ona tip to the seaside, 0 8 8 coffee or tea? preferxray Vowel sounds PRONUNCIATION QB say the highlighted words and then read the full sentence aloud. ‘Then listen to the model version and say the sentence again. sound example sentence 1 grin TIS sentence #8 jointed in Hales . ‘The eamples are it green We don’t 4gf88 that the ineanings of prefixes are Sy co learn. spoken n RP CC —_— © gesture ENGrY dictionary contains defisiliOns and EXampleS and Correct Spellings. snedieres router Englsh © happily Hani and Aini@ have been Happily AEE since Jantaiy) aczen In other oc a: heart ‘The iH is surrounded by a fBIWEIGW ARK full of Ball wees sounds are pronounces > spot Will you PROMISE Ht to EBUBH during the GREER? rey Thi oon ot sport. There's no GEE GRIER on che BE-REGGRY HEBE. fone! sounes stow do ¥ foot She {BAR a quick IBGE at the BBBK and ile it back on the shelf us shoe ['mnotina suitable mood for hot food, can I just choose some fruit? ‘A hungry [ll be fan to have luneh in the sun when our work's done! 3: first “The ga#ly bird catches the WEF" means ‘It’s Worth doing things eaily'. © _ say these groups of words aloud ~ first slowiy, then more quickly grins green did deed - dead “Dad _pit- Pete « pet «pat - pot port fend «land shot short shut shire mean men “ man“ moon shut shire Sid seed said» sad pill: peel» Paul» pull « poet» pearl collar “colour fil fel fell full foo! —knit~ neat = net not“ nought * mut Which sounds do you find most dificult to say? Practise these some more before you do the next exercise. ra Free phone calls — with commercials LISTENING BBE Listen to a broadcast about three schemes to offer free telephone calls in Sweden, the ‘USA and in Britain. Answer the questions by writing S for Sweden, U for USA, or B for Britain in the boxes. (One or more boxes may need two letters in them.) | Wlavasd mcr ‘1 The scheme is called FreeWay. "Beis: ome you “ian, play the 2 You listen to a commercial before you are connected. 3 Each commercial lasts 5 to 15 seconds. 4 For each commercial you listen to, you get credit for a two-minute long-distance call 5 Calls are interrupted by a commercial every three minutes. 6 Calls are interrupted by a commercial every tvo minutes. 7 Callers have to dial two numbers to make a call neato eo 8 Callers have to remember their PIN number to access the service,During tre Speake parer (Paper 5) shore suestons are Saiest ofcourse, But lenger Impressive ~and will ge you Dewar marks in he wam, Ty to pinto the habe oFexphining your reasons, rater than use seating yourpinion. ° c) ln Pare 2 of the ‘Writing paper (Paper 2) n he ‘exam youl have towntes composition of 120-180 words. Ty zecinco thease of swrtng about 150, words each ome you do 2 writing ‘ask ie ch. xan Mobile phones SPEAKING AND WRITING If possible, arrange to do @ and @ with another student. If this isn’t possible, record your answers to the questions using a cassette recorder anda microphone. Then listen to the recording and (ry to improve your answers. Look at the two photos and make notes on your answers to these questions, using the phrases in the speech balloon below. Explain your reasons as well as giving your opinions. 1 Which person is more like you? Why? 2 When is x mobile phone most useful? Why? 3 When is a normal phone most useful? Why? 4. What do you like about using mobile phone? Why? 5. What do you dislike about mobile phones? Why 6 Where should mobile phones be switched off? Why? 7 Where is it OK for them to be switched on? Why? 8 Is it OK for motorists to use @ mobile phone while driving? Why not? — Se — OPINIONS REASONS lt seems to me thet { feel this way becavse | don’t really think: that. . | believe $0 because | think i¥5 true to say that... The reason why | think so is because \ The point is that : Working with another student, look at the photos and ask each other the questions. Make sure ‘you say more than just a few words in answer to each question. or Working alone, record your answers fo the questions using a cassette recorder and a microphone. Then listen to the recording and try to improve your answers. or Speaking quietly to yourself, give your answers to each of the questions. ‘Write a composition (120-180 words) giving your opinions on mobile phones beginning with these words: | lot mobile phones: busaust. ... or U hate. mabile phones beast... Count the number of words you've written. Then compare your composition with the Model composition on page 101