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Her current work includes preparation materials especially designed to meet the requirements of the revised Cambridge FCE syllabus. Exam materials are compiled following extensive research and are based ‘on a solid reputation for meeting students’ educational needs while ensuring that the highest educational standards are met Dr dames Milton is Director of the Centre for Applied Language Studies at the University of Wales Swansea which is now one of the largest such centres in Britain. in addition to undergraduate and postgraduate tution, the Centre administers a wide range of external examinations for students in the university and from the surrounding area, Staff in the Gentre examine for Cambridge and other major examining bodies, The Centre's research unit conducts commercial research for client, including Cambridge, into various aspects of lexical loading and language testing. 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Speaking Test 4 Speaking Test 5 Pollution b. Disasters Speaking Test 6 Young and Old. b. Means of Transport ‘Speaking Test 7 Sports and Games. b. Advertising. ‘Speaking Test 8 Computers _b, Winning money. ‘Speaking Test 9 a. Heath b. Wile Speaking Test 10 a. Films. b. Newspapers and Magazines Speaking Test 11 Speaking Test 12 » Clothing and Fashion b. Planning and Decorating the Interior of Houses... " 15 19 23 27 at 38 39 43 49 59 62 69 79 ot 98 104 AAA 118 120Part 4 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 1: (4) Part 2: (4) Part 3: (3) Part 4: (4) Introduction The book consists of 10 Listening tests and 10 Speaking sets preparing students for FCE Cambridge Paper 4 (Listening) and Paper 5 (Speaking). There are also two extra speaking tests to enable students to practise their speaking skills under test conditions. A. Listening Tests Each test consists of four parts. (30 questions in total) is a mutiple choice exercise consisting of 8 questions based on short unrelated extracts is a note taking or blank filing exercise consisting of 10 questions based on a monologue or text involving interacting speakers, is a multiple matching exercise consisting of 5 questions based on five short related extracts is a selection from 2 or 3 possible answers, such as three-option multiple choice, which speaker said what; true/false; -yesino etc, consisting of 7 questions based on a monologue or text involving interacting speakers. ‘A sample answer sheet for the Listening Tests can be found at the end of the book, Asset of 5 cassettes/audio CDs accompanies these tests. B, Speaking Sets Each speaking set consists of two parts: a. preparing for the speaking test consisting of two topics and b. the speaking test itself. Students become familiar with the relevant vocabulary for the Speaking Test through carefully graded exercises and topics specifically selected to meet the needs of students preparing for the FCE examination. The actual speaking test consists of four parts: short exchanges where the examiner asks each candidate to give personal information. each candidate talks to the examiner about pictures shown to them. Then the ‘candidates in pairs discuss points related to the pictures. candidates in pairs discuss a certain task such as problem solving, decision ‘making, planning, prioritising, speculation on given picture prompts etc. candidates in pairs discuss topics related to the theme of Part 3,