10 CAE English in use practice

In every line of the following text there is one mistake: either a word has been spelt incorrectly or an
inappropriate or incorrect word has been chosen. Work in pairs or small groups and use the Longman
Dictionary of Contemporary English or the CD-ROM to help you to do the tasks below.

Keeping It Simple
0 Technology only reelly starts to change our lives when it becomes simple.
00 The American interpreter, Thomas Edison produced the first phonograph in
31 1877 but it used rotating cylinders that were too dificult for people to use. It
32 was only when Emile Berliner inducted discs a generation later that the
33 phonograph (or gramofone, as it was now called) started to bring recorded
34 music into people's domiciles. The development of the early motor car followed
35 a similar path. When the first motor cars started to apear in the 1900s, they were
36 so hard to operate that most car owners had to hire proffessional chauffeurs to
37 drive them around. They also broke up so frequently that a knowledge of
38 mekanic and a willingness to be covered in oil and grease was essential. The
39 car didn't reach a mass market until Henry Ford simpled the system of
40 steering, braking, accelerating, and cog shifting in his famous Model T Ford in
41 the 1930s. Today's technology dessigners are studying these lessons from the
42 past careful as they design the next generation of personal computers, music
43 players and mobiles phones. The result should be a range of simple, elegant
44 products that look good, are easy to use and never go broken. But achieving that
45 result is certtainly not as simple as it sounds.

A Underline words that have been incorrectly spelt in the following lines and write the cor-
rect spelling. The first one has been done for you.

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 B Underline words that are inappropriate or incorrect in the following lines and write the
correct spelling. The first one has been done for you.
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10 Teacher’s notes

Level: CAE
Aim: This lesson is designed to help learners prepare for CAE English In Use Paper 3.
Timing: 30 minutes

Procedure:
A Ask the students to read the
passage out loud to you. When they
come across a word that they don’t know or that they
think is misspelt, show them how to check in the
CD-ROM.
Type the word into the type-in area below the row of buttons and press OK. If the word is spelled correctly,
the entry will appear. If the word is spelt incorrectly, a spellchecker will open and suggest closest matching
words.
answers: 31 dificult - difficult 33 gramofone - gramophones 35 apear - appear
36 proffessional - professional 38 mekanic - mechanics 41 dessigners - designers
43 mobiles - mobile 45 certtainly - certainly

B Ask the students to underline the words in the reading passage that they think are used
incorrectly or inappropriately. Once they have guessed which word they think is wrong, check
in the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English or on the CD-ROM to see if the word is OK to use in
the sentence.
answers: 32 inducted - introduced 34 domiciles - homes/flats/house/apartment 37 broke up - broke
down 39 simpled - simplified 40 cog - gear 42 careful - carefully 44 broken - wrong

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