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Cae Use of English Part 4
Cae Use of English Part 4
Description In this activity students give three different meanings or three different uses of a word. The activity develops students vocabulary and helps them prepare for a gapped-sentence task. Students practise a gapped-sentence task. Time required: Additional materials required: Aims: 40 minutes EnglishEnglish dictionaries if possible or if required
to raise students awareness of the fact that words can have different or different but related meanings. to prepare students for CAE Paper 3, Part 4
Procedure 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Elicit from students what they have to do in a Part 4, gapped-sentence task see Additional information below. Divide students into small groups or pairs and give each student a copy of the worksheet. Go through the instructions and the example for exercise 1. Point out that a word can be a noun, as in flat meaning apartment or an adjective as in flat meaning not hilly. Refer students to Exercise 2. Ask students to complete the word forks for the words mean, bar and needle and as they are thinking, to write the words in sentences. Ask students in which situations they can use the words pass, bright, wear. Check the answers. Accept all correct answers. Hand out the sample task. Ask students to do the gapped sentence exercise. Check the answers.
Additional information Part 4 consists of five questions. Each question is made up of three discrete sentences. Each sentence contains one gap and the gapped word is common to all sentences. Candidates must write the one word which is appropriate in all three sentences. The focus of the task is lexical and aims to test candidates knowledge of lexical patterns such as collocation, phrasal verbs and other word combinations. It tests whether candidates know items of vocabulary in a range of contexts and with a range of meanings.
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Answers can be written on the question paper but they must be transferred onto the answer sheet. Answers on the answer sheet must be written in pencil and in capital letters. Each correct answer in Part 4 receives 2 marks.
Exercise 2 1. pass 2. bright to get a successful result in an exam; go past; a way between/over mountains; give someone something; an official document shiny; sunny; light; strong in colour; clever
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3. wear
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apartment flat level, not hilly not working, empty Example sentences: He lives in a flat in New York. Most of the countryside around here is very flat. The car battery must be flat.
Make word forks to show three different meanings of these words and write three sentences to illustrate the different meanings. ____________ 1. mean ____________ Example sentences a) b) c)
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Exercise 2 Sometimes words can have different but related meanings, e.g. party. It always means a group of people but it can be people having a social event together, people can belong to a political party, or each side in a legal disagreement is a party. What different but related meanings can these words have? 1. pass = a) b) c) 2. bright = a) b) c) 3. wear = a) b) c)
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5 Lisa is in while Im away from the office, OK? Theyve introduced a small for parking outside the station. The protestors moved back quickly in reaction to a sudden by the police.
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