Development of Unit and key to homework for the course FCE for Teachers organized by Customized Training Services, 2014

1. Preparing for the FCE Exam
Unit 1

2. Lifestyle
• Vocabulary 1: Clothes
• Reading: Handle with Care
• Language Focus: Habitual behaviour,
Used to and Would
• Vocabulary 2: Get

3. LIFESTYLES

4. Clothes
jumper
tracksuit
dungarees

5. Describing clothes
Tight-fitting
shabby
baggy

6. Verbs
• Fit= be of the right shape and size
• Suit= Go well with or enhance the
features, figure, or character of
(someone)
• Match = go with= to correspond
The jumper doesn´t fit
him.
He doesn´t look good in
it.
It doesn´t suit him.

7. Reading Part 2: Handle with
Care (Gapped Text)
• Check that the whole sentence fits in with the
meaning of the text before and after the gap.
• Connections between the language in the text and
the missing sentences are in bold.
• Connections between pronouns and other words
are in italics.
• Gap number 1: What pronouns can be used in the
missing sentence to refer to “our girls”?
• Which sentence (A-H) contains one of these
pronouns and mentions “talking” and “getting a
job”?
• Read the whole paragraph again to check that it fits.

8. Language focus: habitual behaviours
• General tendencies: tend, usually
• Frequency adverbs: Meaning and position in the sentence.
• Used to and would: past habits
• Frequency adverbs
• Frequently= often
• Seldom= rarely
• Usually = normally = generally
• Occasionally = sometimes

9. Frequency Adverbs
100 % always He always gives flowers to Mary.
85% usually I usually take two buses per day.
75% frequently She frequently goes to the park.
60% often We often play together.
50% Sometimes They sometimes play soccer until the
night.
40% occasionally I occasionally travel by boat.
30% rarely We rarely eat downtown.
20% seldom He seldom wears suits.
10% hardly ever We hardly ever play videogames.
0% never I never go out without money.

10. Meanings of GET
Get rid of =take action to be free of
Get into trouble
Get by = manage Get in
the
car
Get on/along with= have a good
relationship
Get out
of the car

11. Lifestyle
• Listening: Multiple matching
• Language Focus 2: Be used to, get used
to, used to
• Speaking
• Writing: Informal letters

12. Listening

13. Answers
• Predictions
• A: witness, priest, best man (church, registry office)
• B: guest, host (home, disco)
• C: candidate, interviewer, panel (office or other place of
work)
• D: spectator, competitor, star, opponent (stadium, sports
centre)
• E: star, audience, director, producer (cinema)
• F: candidate, invigilator (examination hall
• Task: 1A 2F 3D 4C 5B

14. Speaking

15. Key to Activities: Language Focus 1
• Section C: Used to and Would, page 5
• Practice:
• 1a 2a 3b 4c 5a 6b 7b 8c 9c
• Vocabulary GET, page 6
• A: 1C 2D 3A 4A 5B 6B 7A 8C
• B: 1c 2e 3f 4d 5b 6a 7h 8g

16. Key to Activities: Language Focus 2
1. 1a 2b 3a
2. Be used to + ing/ noun in the affirmative describes
the state in which one no longer finds situations
new or strange . Get used to + ing/noun in the
affirmative describes theprocess of reaching
normality with a new or strange situation
3. The gerund

17. Key to Activities: Language Focus 2
• Practice (page 8, section b)
• 1. get used to having 2. used to cook 3. is/has got
used to eating 4.used to write 5. get used to
6. be/have got used to driving 7. get used to driving

18. Key to Writing: Informal letters
• 2. Purpose of each paragraph
• Par2: describe how he spends a typical day
• Par 3: give news and invite you to visit
• Par 4: finish and ask for a reply
• 3. Matching: 1e 2a 3(No)* 4c 5g 6(No)* 7(No)*
• 8d 9b 10f * Too formal
• 4. 1.while 2.as 3.and/as well 4.but 5.so 6.but
/while

19. Key to informal writing
• 5. Reasons for writing
• 1. giving news 2. asking for help 3. inviting
• 4. refusing an invitation 5.accepting an invitation
6. apologising