ea cr aC UE ru erally Campripor he epee First Certificate Teacher’s BookContents Introduction 1 Afamily affair Photocopiable activity: The first day Word list: Unit 1 2 Leisure and pleasure Photocopiable activity: Find the person who Word list: Unit 2 3 Happy holidays! Photocopiable activity: Perfect holidays Word list: Unit 3 4 Food, glorious food Photocopiable activity: The college canteen Word list: Unit 4 Progress test: Units 1-4 5) Studying abroad Photocopiable activity: School problems Word list: Unit S 6 The planet in danger Photocopiable activity: In 30 years’ time Word list: Unit 6 7 My first job Photocopiable activity: Countable and uncountable quiz, Word list: Unit 7 8 High adventure Photocopiable activity: The brainstorming game Word Tist: Unit 8 Progress test: Units 5-6 9 Star performances Photocopiable activity: Were you really at the theatre? Word list: Unit 9 10 Secrets af the mind Photocopiable activity : Left brain ~ right brain Word list: Unit 10 11 Spend, spend, spent Photocopiable activity : Redsands 2 Word list: Unit 11 12 Staying healthy Photocopiable activity: Are you sure it's correct? Word list: Unit 12 Progress test: Units 9-12 13. Animal kingdom Photocopiable activity: Third conditional pelmanism Word list: Unit 13 14 House space Photocopiable activity: House rules Word list: Unit 14 15 Fiesta! Photocopiable activity: The college's 100th anniversary Word list: Unit 15 16 Machine age Photocopiable activity: Reported speech race Word list: Unit 16 Progress test: Units 13-16 Progress tests: Answers Writing reference: Answers Speaking reference: Answers FCE model paper from Cambridge ESOL: Answers ECE model paper from Cambridge ESOL: Recording script Acknowledgements 144 M45, 146 150 1s) 152 152 154 160 contens @)Introduction Who Complete First Certificate is for Complete First Certificate 1s an enjoyable and motivating topic-based course designed to give a thorough preparation for the revised Cambridge ESOL First Certificate Exarn (Common European Framework (CEF) level B2). It is particularly suitable for teenagers and young adults. 1 offers: © stimulating authentic reading texts providing training in the reading techniques and strategies needed to deal with exam reading tasks © listening tasks providing practice with strategies for handling exam listening tasks * a systematic approach to exam speaking tasks providing models for students to follow and clear outcomes for improved exam performance © many opportunities for personalisation with further speaking activities * a step-by-step approach to writing tasks with models to work fram and sample answers * comprehensive coverage of all major grammar areas tested in the First Certificate Exam. These are supporied by work on correcting comman, grammar mistakes made by First Certificate candidates in the exam as revealed by the Cambridge Learner Corpus (see below) * vocabulary input, particularly focusing on and correcting common vocabulary mistakes and confusions made by First Certificate candidates in the exam as revealed by the Cambridge Leasuer Corpus. What the Student’s Book contains + 16 topic-based units of 8 pages each covering topic areas frequently encountered in the First Certificate Exam * Each unit covers one task from each of the five papers which comprise the exam, so all units contain work on Reading, Listening, Speaking, © complete es centeate Use of English and Writing. They also contain systematic coverage of grammar and vocabulary. «Each exam-style task is integrated into a range Of classroom work designed to give students the strategies and techniques to deal with exam questions. * The tasks are all accompanied by detailed information about what the task involves and advice about how best to approach it * 8 unit reviews covering the grammar and vocabulary encountered in each unit © A Grammar reference section giving clear and detailed explanations of the grammar covered in each unit ‘+ Weiting and Speaking reference sections, containing detailed advice to students on how to approach writing and speaking tasks in the exam, and writing models as examples * A complete revised First Certificate Exam supplied by Cambridge ESOL + A CD-ROM Intended for self-study with further work afd exercises to prepare students for the First Certificate Exam is included in the Student's Book. The Cambridge Learner Corpus (CLC) O ‘The Cambridge Learner Corpus (CLC) is a large collection of exam scripis written Dy students taking Cambridge ESOL English exams around the world. It currently contains over 85,000 scripts and is growing all the time. ft forms part of the ‘Cambridge International Corpus (CIC) and it has been built np by Cambridge University Press and Cambridge ESOL, The CLC currently contains scripts {rom over: © 85,000 students © 100 different first Janguages * 180 different countries Exercises in the Student’s Book which are based on the CLC are indicated by this icon: @.