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First Certificate Skills  Use of English

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Unit 1 The present

1.1 The present

Stop & check
1
2 A re  you  staying in a hotel?
3 Do  you  like the food here?
4
5
6 A re  you  having an interesting holiday?
7
8 Do  you  understand much of  our language?

A
1 leave
2 am/’m trying
3 eat
4 Do you understand
5 goes
6 Do you like
7 cost
8 don’t know
9 am/’m doing
10 is/are playing
11 wears
12 are you being
13 don’t want
14 am/’m waiting
15 Is anyone using

B
1
2 They don’t  have/aren’t  having a lot of  fun at work.
3
4
5
6
7 We have lunch at about 1 pm every day.
8 Have they go t any children?

1.2 Habits and normality

A
1 I tend to have more energy in the morning.
2 You’re always criticizing other people.
3 My mother has a tendency to worry too much.
4 She would feel exhausted at the end of  every day.
5 Ken wasn’t use to being so poor.
6 I’m not accustomed to driving this kind of  car.
7 Frank tends not/doesn’t tend to tell lies.
8 Ian is used to sorting out other people’s problems for them.



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9 As a child, he would play some kind of  sport every day.
10 Zoe has a habit of  making jokes about her problems.

B
1 regular
2 ordinary
3 normal
4 everyday
5 typical
6 usual
7 common
8 average
9 frequent
10 normal

C
1 (quite) common for people to
2 has a habit of  saying
3 have/’ve got used/accustomed to travelling
4 is it usual for people
5 (ever) get used to working
6 not normal for me
7 it is rare for Noel
8 is not/isn’t used to working
9 has a tendency to panic
10 get used to giving

1.3 Frequency

A
always (too) many times sometimes almost never
invariably over and over again now and again seldom
time and again from time to time
time after time once in a while

B
1 normally
2 As a rule
3 periodically
4 frequently
5 generally
6 constantly
7 regularly
8 occasionally
9 continually
10 rarely

C
1 all
2 hardly
3 often
4 then
5 most
6 every







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1.4 Word focus

Phrasal verbs: be & do
A
1 out of
2 up to
3 over
4 away
5 on
6 up

B
1 need
2 redecorated
3 manage without
4 get rid of

Word formation: adjective suffixes
C
1 memorable
2 personal
3 useful
4 historic
5 additional
6 cultural
7 missing
8 marvellous
9 peaceful
10 energetic

Collocations

D
1 do
2 make
3 have
4 take
5 have
6 have
7 causing/(having)/(making)
8 make
9 making/(taking)
10 make
11 make
12 makes
13 make
14 take
15 make
16 make
17 cause/have
18 make
19 take
20 make








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Word sets

E
1 includes
2 involves