Unit 4
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This document provides information about office spaces and preparing for the Cambridge English Advanced exam. It includes descriptions of different types of office environments and instructions for matching questions to parts of texts in Reading Part 4. It also outlines the time given and types of questions in the Listening exam and provides sample questions, answers and photos to match. Finally, it discusses the Speaking exam and encourages students to give opinions, react to others, and speak in a formal style.
Unit 4
- 2. STARTING OFF • Match these work environments with the photos in your book. • Open – plan office with individual workstations. • Office overlooking warehouse or factory. • Office/studio outside the city. • Individual office in a high-rise office block. • Room converted into an office for working from home. 1 5 3 2 4
- 3. READING Part 4 • In Reading Part 4, you have to match 15 questions or statements with parts of a text or a number of shorts texts. • In the exam you will have about 18 minutes to do this. EXAM INFORMATION
- 4. Is there an architect in the house? 1 2 3 4 5 D F D B D 6 E 7 F 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 A B C E E F C A
- 5. Adjective/Noun collocation (1) The company has many/long working hours and a wide/long range of activities. Jim Devereux has it all and the deep/big dissatisfaction that goes with it. CAE candidates often make mistakes forming collocations!
- 6. LISTENING • Listen to an economist talking about a skills shortage. Match these things happening in modern workplaces with the photos. A Offices relocating to the countryside. B Perks such as career breaks and sabbaticals for key staff. C Telecommuting – working from home. D People from different parts of the world collaborating on the same projects E Working on past retirement age. F Longer working hours 2 5 1 4 3 6
- 7. LISTENING Part 2 • Before you listen, look at the gaps to check: – What type of information you need – What types of words will fit the gaps • Then, when you listen: – Write the words you actually hear – Make sure you spell them correctly ADVICE
- 8. Listen to an economist talking about a skills shortage. KEY 1 2 3 4 5 with talent technology and financial emerging (economies) software enginners university populations 6 wrong subjects 7 8 management raising salaries
- 9. may, might, could Possibility •The photocopier isn’t working, there may be some paper stuck inside. •She could arrive sometime this afternoon. •I might go to the party. •The weather may well improve by the weekend. •I’d better write it down otherwise I could easily forget what I have to do. •My boss could conceivably change her mind and decide to give me a pay increase.
- 10. Other phrases to express possibility •It’s just about possible that … •There’s some possibility that … •There’s a little possibility that… •There’s a slight possibility that… Other phrases to express stronger possibility •It’s quite possible that … •There’s a good possibility that … •There’s a strong possibility that… •There’s a serious possibility that…
- 11. PROBABILITY Words and phrases •He’s not likely to make the same mistake again. •There’s a strong likelihood of him getting the CAE at first attempt. •There’s little likelihood that we’ll manage to meet our deadline. •You have such a good level of English that you should have no difficulty in getting the job.
- 12. CERTAINTY Words and phrases •There are quiete some malls in town. They must be making a lot of money. •During the test, she didn’t know what to do. She can’t have studied for the test. •With such references and qualifications, she’s bound to get agead in her career. •The police who survived 17 days in the jungle must have been striving to keep himself alive.
- 13. DISCUSS How important to you are the people you study with?
- 14. DISCUSS Is it difficult to make real friends these days? Why?
- 15. USE OF ENGLISH Part 1 • Use of English Part 1 is a text with 12 gaps. • You have to choose the best option, A, B, C or D, for each gap. • In the exam you will have about 10 minutes for this. EXAM INFORMATION Use the clues to help you!
- 16. Friends benefit firms 1 2 3 4 5 A D C B D 6 A 7 B 8 9 10 11 12 C B D B D
- 17. SPEAKING PAPER Part 4 • In Speaking PART 4: –The interviewer will ask both candidates questions to find out their opinions on topics related to PART 3. –You have to give your opinons and also react to your partner’s ideas. EXAM INFORMATION
- 18. • Listen to Frances and Sally being asked their opinons about issues connected with work. • Write down the 03 questions you think they have been asked.
- 19. Sally and Frances: Suggest several different ideas to answer each question Answer some question by talking about their personal situation Help each other with ideas and encouraging comments Treat each question very seriously Speak in quite a fromal style T T F T F
- 20. Excercise 5 – page 43 Ask and answer the questions in pairs!
- 21. Pages 46, 47
- 22. UNIT 3 – VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR adept contemplate food generation neighbourhood rapid reside tolerate clever think about grub age group area quick live put up with
- 23. 2.I really enjoy expressing my ideas but it doesn’t matter much to me whether I win an agument or not. 3.One of the most difficult jobs an army officer has to do is exert control over his men when morale is low. 4.Researchers are running an experiment to find out how children learn and use new vocabulary. 2
- 24. 3 2. Most of my family love all kinds of sport, but not my sister – she thinks all sport is a waste of time. 3. The exam was so difficult that I didn’t get any of my answers right. 4. CORRECT 5. I thought we had plenty of coffee but I’ve just looked in the cupboard and there’s none left. 6. CORRECT 7. Our rate of pay is not the point – it’s the actual working conditions that are so awful. 8. The group left for the North Pole three weeks ago and, so far, we’ve had no news of their progress.
- 25. 4 1. Amnesia can be caused by specific medical conditions. 2. It is very well known that our memory is formed by our real experiences. But could a false memory be put into our heads? Could we be persuaded to believe that we had experienced something that never actually took place? 3. Our semantic memory is used to store our knowledge of the world … normally it can be accessed quickly and easily. The meaning of words and the names of people and places are included in our semantic memory.
- 26. 4 4. It can be thought of as the ability to remember and use a limited amount of information for a short amount of time … If you are distracted, the information can be lost and the task has to be started again. 5. Forgetting is now being studied (by researchers) and is thought of, not as a failure of memory, but as a more active process. It is even believed that it may be driven by a specific biological mechanism.
- 27. HOMEWORK Thursday 10th, May • CD – ROM, UNITS 3 and 4 • Grammar, Vocabulary • One Reading task • One Listenig task PRINT THE REPORT