Listening and Speaking Skills for the Revised CPE.pdf

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Virginio Evons- SollyScoll

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Contents

Introduction

A. Listening

listening Test 1

......................................................................................................... 11

Ustenlng Test 2

listening Test 3

Listening Test 4

listening Test 5

......................................................................................................... 16

......................................................................................................... 21

......................................................................................................... 26

B. Speaking

Speaking Practice 1 ..... ... ....... ... ... .. ................................................................................. 34

Speaking Test

1 .................. ... ... .... .. ... .. ... .... .. .... .............. ... ....................................... 38

Speaking Practice 2 ...... .................................................................................................. 40

Speaking Test

2 .... ... ... ... ... ...... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .. ... .... ... .... ... ... ..... ......... ... ... .... .... ... ... .... . 44

Speaking Practice 3 ........................................................................................................ 46

Speak ing Test

3 .. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ............................................................. ... ... ... .. 50

Speaking Practice 4 ........................................................................................................ 52

Speaking Test

4 ........................................................................................................ 56

Speaking Practice 5 ........................................................................................................ 58

Speaking Test

5 ........................................................................................................ 62

Introduction

Listening and Speaking Skills for the Revised Cambridge Proficiency Exam Book 1 consists of two sections

and is designed to help students to prepare for the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate

(UCLES) Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE) examination.

Listening

Th is section consists of five complete listening tests. Each test consists of four parts, with 28 questions

in total , and lasts approximately 40 minutes.

Each question gets 1 mark.

Part 1 consists of four short extracts from monologues or texts involving interacting speakers with two

three-option multiple-choice questions per extract .

Test focus : understanding gist, topic, attitude, opinion, feeling, purpose, etc.

Part 2 consists of a monologue or prompted monologue, with nine sentence-completion questions.

Test focus : understanding specific information, stated opinion.

Part 3 consists of a text involving interacting speakers followed by five multiple-choice questions.

Test focus: understanding opinion, gist, detail and inference.

Part 4 consists of matching six statements on a text to either of two speakers or to both when they

express agreement.

Test focus: recognising stated and non-stated opinion, agreement and d isagreement.

Speaking

The speaking section consists of two parts: Speaking Practice and Speaking Test.

Each Speaking Practice consists of material to prepare candidates for the Speaking Test which follows.

Each Speaking Test consists of three parts and lasts approximately 19 minutes.

Part 1 Conversation between the interlocutor and each candidate. The interlocutor encourages

candidates to give information about themselves and express personal opinions.

Test focus : using general interactional and socia/language.

Part 2 Two-way conversation between the candidates based on visual and spoken prompts.

Test focus : speculating, evaluating, comparing, giving opinions, decision making, etc.

Part 3 Individual long turn by each candidate. Each candidate is given a written question to respond

to, after which the other candidate is asked to comment. Then cand idates engage in a

discussion to further explore the long turn topics.

Test focus: expressing and justifying opinions, developing topics.

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