Try to describe this picture
1. Where is it?
2. What is the weather like?
3. What can you see in the photo?
4. Where are things in
relation in each other?
5. What are the people
wearing?
6. What are they doing?
7. What do you think of the
situation?
This photo is connected to an
article on breakingnewsenglish.com. It is a website that everyday publishes an
article about something in the news - current affairs, the environment,
culture. There are many exercises that can help you learn new words and
expressions and very useful to prepare for the PET and FCE exams.
You can find the article here
Scroll down and look for the
BEFORE READING / LISTENING SECTION.
Exercise 2 synonym match
can help you to learn the new words in the article.
It is important to know many
different ways of saying the same thing for the Cambride exams, because you
need to paraphrase questions to find the answers easier.
Some words just naturally go
together, like for example fast food, some verbs are followed
by prepositions and the next exercise Phrase match can help you with that.
One exercise on the site,
Language cloze, is typical in both the PET and the FCE exams.
There is a test with some gaps
and you have to chose the right word to complete the phrase.
It is a good idea to follow
this method.
1. First read the text and
think what word you would use to fill the gap.
2. Read the options and choose
the answer that correspons most to yours.
In the article there are many examples of words that we usually put
together - health and beauty, on behalf of, be in the planning stage.
These are known as collocations and identifying and using them can help you
to sound more natural in English.
You can read about them here
There is also information about collocation on the Flo Joe website, which
is very useful for exam practice, so explore!
As it says collocations are very common in PET Reading Part 5 and FCE
Reading and Use of English Parts 1 + 2.
There is an example of this type of exercise on Page 105 of PET Result.
This exercise practises forms for expressing purpose.
You can find an exercise here
You can also read about collocations on englishclub.
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