First Certificate Skills Use of English

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Unit 1 The present

1.1 The present

Stop & check

1✓

2 Are you staying in a hotel?

3 Do you like the food here?

4✓

5✓

6 Are you having an interesting holiday?

7✓

8 Do you understand much of our language?

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

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 got any children?

1.2 Habits and normality

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.

9 As a child, he would play some kind of sport every day.

10 Zoe has a habit of making jokes about her problems.

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1 regular

2 ordinary

3 normal

4 everyday

5 typical

6 usual

7 common

8 average

9 frequent

10 normal

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

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

1 normally

2 As a rule

3 periodically

4 frequently

5 generally

6 constantly

7 regularly

8 occasionally

9 continually

10 rarely

1 all

2 hardly

3 often

4 then

5 most

6 every

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