TEACHERS NOTES CAE English in Use: Part 1 By Russell Whitehead

Overview: A lesson designed to improve awareness of and performance in lexical testing, with dictation activities and concrete examples. General relevance: Lexical knowledge Topic of travel Materials: Worksheets 1 and 2 Dictionaries (optional) Time: 60 80 minutes
They should check what they have written in pairs, and you should let them ask questions. Finally, you should check what each pair has written yourself. Alternatively, you could copy the text on the board for students to check their own against.
3 Now they should talk together, trying to think of

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words which might go in the gaps. You might want to make dictionaries available.
4 Now dictate the question options to them. Take

care not to give the answers away by saying them differently.

Preparation
Copy the Worksheets; (you may want to cut them into their separate sections).

Question options for Exercise 1 (to be given as class dictation): 1 2 A course C motion A unions C links A largely C highly A precisely C comparably A impression C accent B progress D current B connections D intersections B deeply D greatly B identically D equally B quality D element

Procedure
it (this could be simply asking students to talk about places they have been to/would like to go to, etc.).
1 Establish the topic with a warmer that is based on

Also check what they know about Paper 3 Part 1. Outline its requirements, and explain that you are going to do some in-depth practice for this part of the test including dictation.
2 Give out Worksheet 1, and get the students ready for the dictation in Exercise 1. Do this in whatever way you think is most appropriate for your students. One way would be to read the extract through, saying gap and the corresponding number where there is a gap, at natural speed, to give them an overview. Then go through it a number of times at slower speeds. They write the complete text as below (with gaps) on the Worksheet.

Now the pairs should discuss the answers. When they have finished, check the key with them. Key to Exercise 1: 1C 2B 3A 4D 5B
5 Now do Exercise 2. Pairs work together to

Text for Exercise 1 (to be given as class dictation): They say to travel is better than to arrive. But what do you do with all that time you have when you are travelling? It often takes a long time to get from one place to another, but you are in (1) _____ for relatively little of that total time. A lot of your time goes on waiting for (2) _____, for visas, for banks to open, and so on. Learning to travel is (3) _____ about learning to wait. And the more remote the place you want to get to, the more waiting there will be to do. However, (4) _____, the more remote this place is, the more your waiting takes on the (5) _____ of meditation.

identify the four wrong words. When they have finished, or if they get stuck, check the answers.

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Key to exercise 2 (part 1): When you sit around doing nothing you are often accessing into the genuine experience of somewhere, particularly if it is vacant of any interest. So you chance yourself in an airport or bus station or some such place a place whose duration is entirely based on the fact that people who come there are unable to get away immediately as they would like to.
6 They may be able to think of the correct words at this stage, but its a tall order. 8 Now they should refer to these sets to complete Exercise 4.

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Key to Exercise 4: 10 count 11 spent 12 exchange 13 removes 14 urge 15 away aloud to each other, to get the whole sense of it.
9 Pairs should now read the complete text through

Dictate the options to them: Question options for Exercise 2 (to be given as class dictation): 6 7 8 9 A arriving A lacking A find A fact B starting B devoid B happen B existence C entering C wanting C come C manner

at the sorts of words that are tested in this part of the exam. Students should come to understand that they need to read whole sentences in order to decide which word is correct for each gap. Optional: have students discuss their reactions to and opinions of the text.

10 Conclusion: you have looked together in depth

Allow sufficient time for them to discuss their answers and then go through the key with them. Key to Exercise 2 (Part 2): 6C 7B 8A 9B
7 Give out Worksheet 2 either with Exercise 3 separate from Exercise 4, or with the Worksheet folded over.

Pairs should decide how to group these words. Check their answers. Key to Exercise 3: Note: Do not confirm these sets in this order, as this would make Exercise 4 too easy. Set 1: count indicate calculate point Set 2: passed spent given used Set 3: exchange return substitute alternate Set 4: deducts cancels removes deletes Set 5: push motive force urge Set 6: away up off out

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Now can you think of words to go in the gaps? Choose from these words: 1 A ____________ B _____________ 2 A ____________ B _____________ 3 A ____________ B _____________ 4 A ____________ B _____________ 5 A ____________ B _____________ C _____________ C _____________ C _____________ C _____________ C _____________ D _____________ D _____________ D _____________ D _____________ D _____________

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Exercise 2
Which words are wrongly used here? When you sit around doing nothing you are often accessing into the genuine experience of somewhere, particularly if it is vacant of any interest. So you chance yourself in an airport or bus station or some such a place whose duration is entirely based on the fact that people who come there are unable to get away immediately as they would like to. Choose from these words for the correct replacements: 6 A ____________ B _____________ 7 A ____________ B _____________ 8 A ____________ B _____________ 9 A ____________ B _____________ C _____________ C _____________ C _____________ C _____________

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Exercise 3
Group these words into sets of 4: alternate count up urge indicate push off calculate spent deducts used exchange given return cancels point removes substitute out passed deletes motive away force _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________

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Set 1: count Set 2: passed Set 3: exchange Set 4: ________ Set 5: ________ Set 6: ________

Exercise 4
Match the sets from Exercise 3 to the gaps below 10 15, and then choose the correct word for each gap.

You cant (10) _____ yourself as a real traveller until youve (11) _____ far longer in one of these places than you would have believed possible when you first got there. Travellers read a lot. They pack books, they (12) _____ these books with travellers they meet, they even buy books in airport shops. Reading (unless its a guidebook) (13) _____ their minds from where they are. Then they get the (14) _____ to communicate, and there in the internet caf they all are, typing (15) _____ like fury, looking like office workers who miss the office. Oh well, lets hope the arriving is better, after all.

Answers: 10 . 11 . 12 . 13 . 14 . 15 .