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CAMBRIDGE ~ TN NA IER MORO WUUT AID eL TN uae Ty ESOL Examinations Cambridge English Olyective an oO Peer es ru Ree ee Ls also known as Preliminary English Test (PET) Map of Objective PET Student’s Book TOPIC 10-13 Sports and hobbies M5 Reading Part | Speaking Part Unit 2 V'ma friendly person 16-19 People 20-21 Listening Patt 3 22-25 Work 26-27 Speaking Part 3 Reading Part 5 go out 28-31 Entertainment 32-33 Listening Part 1 Unit 5 Wheels and wings 34-37 Transport 38-39 Reading Part 2 Unit 6 What did you do at school today? 40-43, eduction and history 4445 Listening Part 2 Units 1-6 Revision 46-47 48-51 Towns and buildings 52-53, Reading Part 3 Unit 8 Let's celebrate 54-57 Special days GRAMMAR Present simple tobe + frequency adverbs ees would ike + to; 10 be + af) ++ occupation Present simple vs present continuous (for present actions); state verbs: short Prepositions of time present continuous for future plans needs countable and ‘uncountable nouns expresions of quantity Past simple; short answers adjectives ending and-ed Prepositions of place and Present perfect simple; jas already yet FUNCTIONS AND VOCABULARY Definitions and explanations; a kind of + nglnouny sports hobbies expressing titade Describing people: appearance, personality, nerests inviting and responding to invitations Saying what people are doing jobs Entertainment; making appointments; dates Transport; sip Ianguage; compound School lf school subjects describing feelings and ‘opinions; dates (years and decades) Placesuildings in towns: dire ‘question: saying you dont sinderstand ions; polite experiences and recent aetvitiess Celebrations, festivals and parties; giving good wishes 4 MAP OF OBJECTIVE PET STUDENT’S BOOK PRONUNCIATION i ain step i ain big fot asin pop dla inf {ju in winery Saying ap and ont Unstressed a of, and Final sound of regular ‘verbs in past tense: eV and id Dates REVISION Alphabet ike + ~ing have got Present simple Unit 1) would you ike + 0? (Unit 2) present continuous present actions (Unit 3) Frequency adverbs and present simple (Unit 1s ‘compound nouns from Units It Expressing opinions Adjectives from earlier nit spelling rules Dates (Unit taking about pictures (Unit 3); Present tenses al TOPIC GRAMMAR FUNCTIONS AND — PRONUNCIATION REVISION. VOCABULARY Exam folder 8 58-59 Speaking Parts 3 and & Writing Part 2 Unit 9 Short answers in the Parts ofthe body illness: fet asin sy Present tents past simple; How do you feel? 60-63 presen pvc aivingadvce expressions Je asin ell present perfects short eal and fines. witha vers Exam folder 9 64-65 Reading Part 4 | Speaking Part 2 Unit 10 Present perfetand past Letters andemaisete. _—_Finalsound of plural Past simple: present perfect [look forward to hearing simple ag, for, sinc, in: nouns short answers ‘you 66-69 ‘beer and gone; have you Ish (21 and iz) Bowmen eva [Exam folder 10 70-71 | Listening Pact 1 | Writing Part 3 Exam folder 76-77 Reading Part 5 it Describing styles and as in elevision Present and past tenses: ‘Aplace of my own 86-9 pombliysircaidtmgh saying what oupreer; 18S sin oe ‘prepositions (Unit 7) advice Feria race Imusic’ be prepsions price rooms and fariture {oni9) ofplace xam folder 13 90-91 Reading Pat 2 Exam folder 14 96-97 | Listening are 4 | Writing Parts 2 and 3 Unit 15 Movals (permission nd Res phrasal verbs Pronunciation of ou Adjectives rom earlier Risk! 98-101 obligation can ca: hae with ey activites and ‘uns past simple (Uni 6) Rives? toydon't have to; had toand experiences adjectives and dns have to adverbs adverbs (Exam folder 1s 102-103, | Reading Part 1 Unit 16 sing future present Studyand leur; the Saying times Invitations (Unit 2}; present time 104-107 tense ater when afer and time ivitatons making continuous for aur plans ton fae tine arrangements Gries) MAP OF OBJECTIVE PET STUDENT'S BOOK 5 TOPIC GRAMMAR FUNCTIONS AND = PRONUNCIATION REVISION VOCABULARY Sxam folder 16 108-109 tisteningPart2| Writing Part 1 Exam foldert7 14115 Reading Pat aa Unit 19 Verbsand expressions Families agretingand_——_/ asin thir Advice (Unit) Happy families 124-127 followed by and ing: disagreeing: giving 1038 thirty Family ile ‘make and let opinions Listening Part Writing Part 3 Unit 21 Have something done: ‘Making phone cll ‘Telephone numbers Present simple (Unit 1); Keep in touch! 136-139 reported commands ‘commands (Unit 7; plans and requests; possessive (ait 16) ren MAP OF OBJECTIVE PET STUDENT'S BOOK Thee iis t TOPIC GRAMMAR FUNCTIONS AND PRONUNCIATION REVISION VOCABULARY [Exam folder 24 158-159 _Aseing Pa Writing Part 3 Unit 25 Reported questions: ‘Shops and shopping: Stress correcting what Reported speech (Unit 2); Shop till you drop 162-165! much, to many, nor asking fr things trying on people say clothes (Unit 14) Rte enough verbs with two cothes E: folder a5 166-167 ym folder 26 172-173 ‘Speaking Parts 1 and 2 ‘Writing Part 3 Unit 27 {eat asin chair Guessing unknown words; Travellers’ tales 174-177 Ina asin here ree t Bivng advice (Units 9 and i ro) sm folder 27. 178-179 = Part? sis Ausiares Me cdi : musta’ be (Onis 13 t would you do? 180-183 : goers 2 Alisagresing, opinions (Unit, E a zB . 19); ifand whem and first E : + det Nite «conditional (Unit 26) folder 28 184-185 Lwrting ar art wn folder 29 190-191 a Pasa eats hase | Writing Parts 1,2 and 3 ee a eS ‘Visual materials 200-205 Grammar folder 206-214 Key to phonetic symbols 215 Irregular verb list 216 Answers and recording scripts 217 MAP OF OBJECTIVE PET STUDENT'S BOOK 1 Content of the Preliminary English Test Examination ‘The PET examination consists of three papers ~ Paper 1 Reading and Writing, Paper 2 Listening and Paper 3 Speaking, There are four grades: Pass with Merit (about 85% of the total marks); Pass (about 70% of the total marks); row Fail (about 5% below the pass mark); Fail. For a Pass with Merit and Pass, the results slip shows the papers in which you did particularly well for a Narrow Fail and Fail, the results slip shows the papers in which you were weak Paper1 Reading and Writing hour 30 minutes (50% of the total marks: 259% for Reading and 25% for Writing) ‘There are eight parts in this paper and they are always in the same order. You write your answers on the answer sheet. Pa Pere Reading Part 1 Multiple choice 5 (Bord) Reading Part 2 | Matching 5 Reading Part 3 True/false 10 ing Part 4 | Multiple choice | 5 = (A,B,C ord) ing Part 5 | Multiple choice | 10 (A,8,C ord) Rewriting 5 x | sentences WritingPart2 |Ashort == 3 | message [ ting Part 3. Either aletteror 1 reso Writing Part 1 Paper2 Liste! (25% of the total marks) Presa Cee You answer multiple-choice questions about five short texts (notices, postcards, labels, messages, emails, etc). You match five descriptions of people to eight short ear ce best ons shor sont text. You answer five multiple-choice questions testing opinion, detail and general meaning in a text. You choose the correct words to fill en spaces in a short text. You write one to three words in a gapped sentence so it means the same as the sentence given above it. You write a short message (35-45 words) which includes three pieces of information. You write either a letter or a story (about 100 words) >) resporse ys OMEN oH MSE. roy peor 4495,23 5,13,27 22,25 997729 3.019 2,16,22, 28, 30 24,814, 18,30 2,6,10, 12, 13,2023, 26,30 {8 about 30 minutes (plus 6 minutes to copy answers onto the answer sheet) There are four parts in this paper and they are always in the same order. You listen to some recordings. You hear each recording twice. You write your answers on the answer sheet. Ps rs reer seer Questions Listening Part 1 Multiple choice 7 You answer seven mul (Bore) about seven short recordings. Listening Part 2| Multiple choice | 6 You answer six multiple-choice questions about a (Bore) recording with one speaker or one main speaker and an interviewer. Gap fill 6 ‘You complete six gaps in a text by listening toa i | recording with one main speaker. Listening Part 4 True/false 6 You answer six true/false questions about a conversation between two speakers, 8 CONTENT OF THE PET EXAMINATION e picture questions om are 4,10,20 6,16, 28 2,18, 24 14,22, 30 Paper 3 Speaking 10-12 minutes for a pair of students (25% of the total marks) There are four parts in the speaking test and they are always in the same order. There are two students taking the examination and two examiners Perey rer as Coy Cr Eos Speaking Part1 The examinerasks | 2-3 You are asked to give information about yourself. |1, 12,26 both students some | minutes questions. Speaking Part2 The students havea 2-3 You are given some pictures about a situation 9,23, 26 discussion together. minutes _and you discuss it with the otherstudent, Speaking Part 3 Each student talks in 3 minutes You are each given a different colour photograph 3,8,29,30 turn to the examiner. ‘which you talk about for up to a minute. Speaking Part 4 The students havea 3 minutes You have a discussion with the other student 829,30 discussion together. about a topic connected with the photographs in Part 3. New for the second edition of Objective PET As well as adding new exercises, pictures and a Grammar Folder, the authors have used the Cambridge Learner Corpus for the second edition. A CD-ROM and website give extra support. © Cambridge Learner Corpus ‘When you see this icon in the book, it means that this language area has been identified in the Cambridge Learner Corpus (CLC) as an area in which learners often need extra practice. The CLC is a collection of over 30 million words taken from student exam papers from Cambridge ESOL. It shows real mistakes students have made in their exams. The mistakes the authors focus on are typical of learners at this level and that is why this book provides further practice in using these features of the language accurately. ©) CD-ROM On the CD-ROM there are 90 exercises, six for each pair of units, giving extra practice in vocabulary, grammar, reading, listening, writing and pronunciation. There is also an interactive word game and a PET Practice Test, as well as additional resources for both teachers and students, such as wordlists and teaching tips for using these and photocopiable recording scripts for some of the Listening tasks. Website www.cambridge.orglelt/objectivepet On this website you will find a number of useful resources for both students and teachers: an additional free photocopiable PI Trainer), photocopiable wordlists and teaching tips as well as photocopiable recording scripts for classroom use. I Practice Test with audio, a further interactive word game to test your vocabulary (Vocabulary CONTENT OF THE PET EXAMINATION 9 A question of sport Introduction 1 Put the letters in order to make the names of sports. You can write the name of the sport by its picture above. 1 Teen TF NA k ED u Noe MeEEE Rt, oetiog 6 os gE & eee G LB, 5 RARE ARR: bagi et hata Aafia Sa: Y ARB BL YARNS 6 SG MP BHTY IN wae Th Ui Naas aA 08 bap Sin APRN By ie 2 Read the statements about sport. Tick (/) the statements that are true for you. Iplay football. | go swimming {never do any sport. watch lots of sport on television. [never watch sport. | sometimes watch sport. ‘Compare answers round the class. Does anyone in the class not like sport? What does he/she like doing instead? to \ uNITI 3 Work with a partner. Look below at the names of equipment used in sport. Match the equipment to the sports in Exercise 1 and write the name of the sport(s) next to the equipment. Some equipment matches more than one sport. Use your English-English dictionary if necessary. basket basketball bat bike board boat helmet net racket sail skis stick Listening 1 Look at the photographs. They show some unusual sports ~ bossabal, curling, snowering and karting Can you guess which sporti in each photograph? ‘VHB Listen to four people talking about these sports. Which sport is each person talking about? Write, 2,3 oF 4 next to each photo. 3 UB Listen to some more information about these sports. Write the answers to these questions. Bossaball 4 Listen again. The speakers say how they fee! a What do they always wear? They always wear shorts about these sports. b When do they usually play this? Which words do they use? Curling 1 © What do they use? 2 d_ What do people sometimes say? 3 4 Karting retire eariven ea eetterer Can you suggest any more words lke these? f What isa kart? Snowfering g Where do they do this? hh What do they use? A QUESTION OF SPORT 0 Language focus akind of ‘Answer these questions. Use it's a kind of and the words in the box. a What’sa helmet? 1's @ kind. of hat. Whatsa racket? What's windsurfing What's table tennis? What's rugby? What's a kart? What's snowfering? enn nos tennis, hat team game car windsurfing on the snow bat surfing on water Present simple + frequency adverbs 1 ate sometimes We don't ~ She doesnt ual Do you Doesn't she ta To be + frequency adverbs She is oe a usually He Isn't 7 They arent wey ls he ats Jouve 1. Look at the table above. Rewrite each sentence below, adding one ‘of the adverbs in the box in the correct place. Do other people agree with your answers? play football, plays football play football, play football? happy. happy. happy? never sometimes often usually always, Basketball players are tall. Basketball players are often tall. b Cyclists go very fast. € Footballers are very rich. Surfers get wet. € Gymnasts wear helmets. f There are two people in a tennis match, 8 Good athletes smoke. 2 UNITI 2 Work with a partner. Use the adverbs in the box in Exercise 1. Ask and answer questions like these: Do you often finish your homework? Yes, always! Does your dad sometimes play tennis? Yes, often. Are you always tidy? ‘No, never! Use these words, or your own ideas: make breakfast play computer games be polite wear expensive clothes remember your friend's birthday — © Corpus spot word order Correct the word order mistakes in these sentences by ET students. a She comes often to my house. | meet ther sometimes in my fee time. € At weddings people usually are happy and hhave fun together. 4 don't go often tothe countryside. €© He usually doesnt make jokes. ¥ Wehavea basketball tam and we play often against othe teams. 3. Complete these sentences about ‘yourself and your family and friends. Use the frequency adverbs in the box in Exercise 1. Use not in some sentences. aL don't often eat. cheese for breakfast. b My brother usually pays. football after class. é = very tired in the morning. a a Sao oo a sleep in the afternoon, epeareniee in the spring. f pa quiet in English lessons. 8 sport on television. 4 Now write three true sentences using the frequency adverbs with your own ideas. = Pronunciation 1. Think about the words like and big. Do they have the same vowel sound as wheel and please? 2. Say these words aloud and put ‘them into the correct column. steep quite hill field like knee kind people ice little stick line big street ride rich wheel bike _team mm 0 quite | steep 3 EB Listen to the recording and ‘check your answers. 4 Write four ways we can spell the sound /iz/ in English: Meet our students ies F Name Name Age is Age at Bled oeaooe: Department Business ia ‘ me ees Name a Age is Department Science Department Medicine Department Art 4 Write a short description of someone famous on a piece of paper but don’t write their name on it. Write the names on the board, Put all the descriptions together. 2. BB When a new student arrives, another student goes to meet them, They talk on their mobiles before they meet. Listen to two conversations and write each speaker’s name in the space below their photo. The students’ names are in the box below. Which ‘two don't you hear? ‘Take them out in turn and read Anastasia Julia Kurt Mandana__ Mike _ Stefan them aloud. Sears Match each description to one of ae the names on the board, ve got brown eyes. = ‘She hasn't got long hai. © corpus spot oO Have you got fir hai? 5 ‘She's short and slim with short hai. a aa ceo dTaieiad sentences by PET students. 3. Work with a partner. 4 She Is ong / tall high and slim. Imagine you are Kurt (a boy) and Anastasia (agi). Panta he har fo Describe yourselves to each other. Use the language in the box above to help you. 16 UNIT 2 Reading 1 The college website has pages where students can put notices about things lke accommodation, travel, etc. Read these notices and write Travel, Contacts or Accommodation above each one to show which page it is from. Hil 'm a medical student and I work in London ‘on Sundays. Ineed a lift | start work at 7.30 and Imustn't be late, but I haven't got transport, 'm happy to share the cost of petrol. | like rock ‘music and computer games. Text or phone 07777531245 anytime. Elena es) self-confident? Do you like meeting new poopie? I want to go to Australia in the summer ‘and work there, then visit some other countries. Tlike doing gymnastics and playing basketball ‘and | enjoy dancing. Do you want to come with ‘me? email AdrianAB23@nunet.com mr ma first-year art student and want to share a flat or house in the city centre. can pay upto £300 a month. | like shopping and going out. | don't enjoy living in the student hostel. If you share my lifestyle and have a space in your place, phone Carola: 07879345621. 2. Complete this table by ticking the boxes. Does anyone have friends in Portugal or Brazil? ''m a modern languages student and | want to have an email pentriend who speaks Portuguese. like swimming and pop music. I'm not a serious. person. | like going clubbing with my friends, com Write to Henry. Ca name's Sandra. I'm hard-working and | want aosrerpdventures in my le. ike jazz and pop | music. I'd like to run my own business when | eave college. | drive to London and back every ‘Sunday to see my boyfriend. Would you like a lit? Share cost of petrol. 07536661259) alicia Ga) 've got a small house near the campus and | ‘want to share it with one other person.You must be a non-smoker and tidy. I like playing chess and listening to classical music. I'm a final-year physics student. Come and see the roomon ‘Saturday morning. Maggie, 142 Bennett Road (behind the Science Faculty building). } apie co knows what job he/she wants in the future? / hhas a part-time job now? offers to pay for something? a wants to go to another part of the world? wants to find somewhere to live? £ enjoys sport? 3. Doyou think any of the students will meet? MA FRIENDLY PERSON / Language focus Personality Work with a partner. Read Hess the quiz together. Mark your dassical partner’ answers. Look at the bottom of page 19 he to find the result, then complete C yes this sentence about yourself: Pim een Person. B yer-alone no, twouldert ‘a+ adjective + person ma(o) independent friendly/serious person. = 'm independent/friendly/serious. like, enjoy, want, would like and have got 1. Complete the conversations with the correct form of would like, lke or have got. ‘a Waiter: Good morning. What mould. you. vomon 10 Order? Tiddles, Do youlike studying? 8B Some subjects Woman: Salad for me please, and a steak for (EL what kind of music do you ike? Would you keto travel round the word? 1k yes with my friends You're free this evening. What do yo * wantto do? [A go clubbing 8 gotothe cinema C stay athome and read 2 By Youwantto find new hobby. 2 watwould yout to leaen? A torideahorse B topaint € tomake bread E You ike ocelabrate your birth What would you tke t do? 1 havea big party on the beach B tryaneweestaurant C invite some frends to dinner 1B Wo would youtike to meet? 1 afamous singer 8 famous politician famous writer Ey How many phone calls do you make every day? 1 atleast twenty 2 between twoand ten perhaps one or two BOY! nnn Soph a book for her birthday? Gisk [think a CD is a better present for her because she pop music Boy: How many brothers and sisters SM Se gp aaa Girk Three sisters, but T any brothers. Girk ______.. our dad jazz music? Boy: Ohyyes,he =... 200 CDs. Boy: What you doing on holiday? Gir Ob,1 swimming in the sea Boy: you to come tothe 200 with me this weekend? Girk No, thank you. _seeing animals in cages. Mum: I... to meet your boyfriend, Girk: Oh, he’ very busy. He going sailing at weekends so he studies hard all week. Girk 1 to buy some running shoes. What you Shop assistant: Sorry, we any. We only sell football boots.

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