Objective CAE Workbook.pdf

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OBJECTIVE

CAE

Felicity O’Dell Annie Broadhead

Workbook

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Contents

Unit 1

Getting to know you

Unit 16

Raving and panning

Unit 2

Keeping in touch

Unit 17

Do it for my sake

Unit 3

The real you

Unit 18

May I introduce …?

Unit 4

Acting on instructions

Unit 19

Feeding the mind

Unit 5

Dear Sir or Madam

Unit 2o

Answers on a postcard

Unit 6

Speak after the tone

Unit 21

Travel broadens the mind

Unit 7

Running a successful business

Unit 22

Under the weather

Unit 8

Best thing since sliced bread

Unit 23

I’m afraid I really must insist

Unit 9

You live and learn

Unit 24

News and views

Unit 1o

I have a dream

Unit 25

Powers of observation

Unit 11

Read all about it

Unit 26

Natural wonders

Unit 12

In a nutshell

Unit 27

A friend in need

Unit 13

Leaf through a leaflet

Unit 28

Weighing up the pros and cons

Unit 14

Views from the platform

Unit 29

A testing question

Unit 15

If you want to know what I think …

Unit 3o

Why should we employ you?

unit 1

Getting to know you

Reading

1 You are going to read an article

about a very unusual woman.

Some of the paragraphs have been

taken out of the article.You must

choose which paragraphs A–E fit

into the numbered gaps.

A great Little place to go batty

Ginni Little loves bats so much that she happily

keeps them in her home. Gill Todd met her.

Judging by their loud purring, Natalie and Rupert are enjoying their evening ritual.While

Ginni Little sits propped up in her four-poster bed watching television, Natalie,

a natterer’s bat, and Rupert, a one-winged pipistrelle, are happily snuggled in her

cleavage, occasionally peeping out to receive a gentle stroke and a few loving words from

their mistress.

and tree stumps in Mrs Little’s

spare bedrooms.

In Cornwall Mrs Little is known

as the ‘Batwoman of Penzance’.

As a nature-loving five-year-old

she became fascinated by bats

and their built-in radar systems

‘which I now know to be

echo-location.’

They come from several sources –

the RSPCA, the Cornwall

Wildlife Trust (with whom Mrs

Little shares charitable status),

local bat groups and members of

the public.

Caring for these sickest bats

is an exhausting, full-time

commitment. Because they are

nocturnal creatures, Mrs Little

can often be found in the early

hours of the morning hand-

feeding her sickest charges with

vitamins – scrapings of raw liver

and water on the tip of a

paintbrush. Others are fed live

mealworms or the occasional

cricket.

The survival rate is impressive.

Around half recover to be

released back into the wild.

Others like Rupert and Natalie,

whose wings are irreparably

damaged, spend their days as

treasured pets, ‘hopping and

gliding’ among tropical plants

‘That was Batty, our foundress,’

she says. ‘She was bald and

covered in scabs. It took several

months to get her well and I

taught her to fly by putting a

duvet on the floor for the initial

crash landings.’

getting to know you

The majority of patients – there are 35 in the house at

the moment – have been mauled by cats. Others have

been injured by cars or poisoned by pesticides or anti-

woodworm treatments. Abandoned babies are also

common.

Vocabulary

Collocation

1 Read the

continuation of

the article about

Mrs Little. Use the

words in the box

to complete

the article.

Since Batty’s arrival Mrs Little has been foster-mother

to hundreds of sick, injured, and abandoned bats.

Most of the tiny creatures which arrive at the Cornwall

Bat Hospital, set up in two spare bedrooms of her

terraced home, are pipistrelles, Britain’s smallest and

commonest type of bat. Others include noctules,

natterers, greater horseshoes and long-eared.

‘Bats are such social creatures, they thrive on the

warmth and companionship of humans,’ says Mrs

Little. ‘The natural movement of the chest and the

comfort of the heartbeat makes an ideal nesting place.

I’ve also had bats which loved to nestle in my hair and

others that would hang on to my hoop earrings while

I went about my work.’

accorded amount at a time closed

cut down declined deep-rooted endangered

gentle gently huge local

mixture primal scary sociable

swooping tiny tragedy wipe out

The sickest patients live in small glass cages which line

the room. The more robust hang from bamboo

screens or behind pictures, an occasional scuffling

sound being the only hint of their presence during

daylight hours. At night the flyers emerge to circle and

swoop around the room, building up their strength

prior to release.

Despite the fact that fifteen British bat species were

(1) ................................ protection status in 1981, they

are still among the most (2) ................................ of all

creatures. The population has (3) ................................ by

66 per cent in the past ten years because of the use of

chemicals and the destruction of roosts as barns are

converted, forests (4) ................................ and mines

(5) .................................

Eleven years ago her love affair with bats began in

earnest when she found a large cluster in a church

while on a camping holiday in Wales. On her return

home, she contacted the local bat group and was

given an abandoned baby bat to nurse back to health.

These (6) ................................ , (7) ................................ ,

(8) ................................ creatures are often regarded

with a (9) ................................ of fear, hatred and

(10) ................................ suspicion. ‘I can understand

people’s prejudices,’ says Mrs Little,

(11) ................................ stroking Apple Blossom,

a badly-injured baby pipistrelle found hanging

on a milk bottle holder at a (12) ................................

farm. ‘It’s probably due to (13) ................................ fear.

Bats are mysterious, suddenly (14) ................................

out of the dark and disappearing just as quickly. That

can be (15) ................................ . But it is a

(16) ................................ that they are so

misunderstood and are being killed in such

(17) ................................ numbers. They are like us in

many ways. They’re warm-blooded, make wonderful

mothers, have one baby (18) ................................

and suckle their young. They also do an enormous

(19) ................................ of good – one pipistrelle can

eat 3,000 midges in a night. In one area of Mexico

they used bats to (20) ................................ malaria.’

2 Find descriptive words and phrases from the

article to write under the headings below. When

you find examples of collocation, write the whole

collocation rather than just the individual word.

Bats

Mrs Little

Care and

attention

loud purring

nature-loving

a gentle stroke

getting to know you

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