PET Listening

There are four parts to the listening paper in PET.

For each part, it’s vital you READ THE QUESTIONS BEFORE the recording begins. There are somtimes a few seconds to do this (part 2 gives you 45 seconds, part 3 gives you 20 seconds). 

Remember, as you listen, to FOCUS on the question and choose the answer you think is right to THAT question.

When you’ve listened twice, MOVE ON and read the next question. 

Remember too that in each question, there are distractors. That means you’ll probably hear lots of other relevant information, but it won’t be the information you need to give the ANSWER to the QUESTION. IT’s there to distract you! Watch out! 

Never leave any questions unanswered. You gain nothing for a blank answer.

Make Up Your Mind*

PET READING PRACTICE

PAPER 1 PART 2

Remember Giorgos?  He couldn’t make up his mind because he read details about several hotels and found a few which ‘fitted the bill’** Can you remember the name of the hotel which fitted the bill perfectly ?

* to make up my mind = to decide/to make a decision

**to fit the bill = to match exactly to what you want or need

VOCABULARY for PET

 

This is a list of PET vocabulary you must know for the exam. Print a copy or save it to your computer for reference and revision before the exam.

These are some ways you can use it right away:

- tick off the word(s) in the alphabetical list when you first encounter it/them
- write an example sentence next to the word or in a notebook (note the part of speech)
- find the word in the lexical sets and write an example sentence with three other words in the same set.
- look (yes, just look) at the words you have ticked off once a week – for example every Tuesday before the lesson

How do you use vocabulary lists ? Please write what you do via the comments function below

PET 23/2/10

Homework
Writing either a letter or a story from workbook page 58
Grammar from workbook page 28 ex3 and ex4

COLLOQUIAL VOCABULARY

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Monday 15 February 2010. Topic: Happy Occasions            
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1) We went to that new club in town last Saturday and had a
…….. of a time.

2) After a busy week at work the women in the office decided to go
out and …….. the town red.

3) You’ve been working so hard on your revision. Why don’t you go
out and …….. your hair down?

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Tuesday 16 February 2010. Topic: Food and Drink                 
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4) There’s no need to go mad with healthy eating. You just need to
make sure you eat a …….. diet.

5) The last time I saw Tom he was in the pub drowning his ……..
after his girlfriend had left him.

6) We all expected the boss would …….. the bill but we ended up
having to pay for our own meal.

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Wednesday 17 February 2010. Topic: Relationships          
   
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7) Could you ask the children to stop arguing. They’re driving me
up the ……….

8) Some of his friends think he’s under the …….. and needs to
be more assertive with his wife.

9) I’ve always had a …….. spot for Clara. She’s always been so
kind to me.

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Thursday 18 February 2010. Topic: Learning      
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10) It took me a while to get to grips ……… the new DVD player
but I can operate it reasonably well now.

11) Amelia is so rude. She needs a …….. course in how to treat
people.

12) Could you …….. me up to speed on the situation before I go
to the meeting?

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Friday 19 February 2010. Topic: Business
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13) His business is struggling and he’s finding it difficult to
keep his ……… above water.

14) Several speculators made a …….. through buying and then
selling shares in the company.

15) When I went into business I had no support whatsoever and I was
left to …….. or swim.

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Music genres

WOW! Just look at all these genres of music below!

Which ones are your “cup of tea“?

Jazz Symphonic Grunge Folk Jungle-Drum-n-Bass Rockabilly Pop Trip-Hop Blues-rock Funk Metal Contemporary Punk Easy-Listening Instrumental Experimental Experimental-Electronica Country-Rock Disco Childrens-Music Shoegazer Hip-Hop-Rap-RnB Jazz-Blues Pop-Rock Comedy House Industrial Hard-House Electronic-Classical Guitar Alternative-Country Acid-Jazz Hardcore-Techno Electro-pop Mod Dance-Electronic Power-Pop Breakbeat Vocal Opera Alternative Big-Band Chamber-Music Electric-Blues Hip-Hop Choral Latin Acoustic-Blues brit-Pop Reggae Trance Adult-Alternative Christian Gospel Books-Spoken Rap Psychedelic Acid Classical Rave Acoustic Solo-Instruments Ambient Heavy-Rock World Blues Bluegrass Country Indie Rock Progressive-House Instrumental-Rock Piano RnB Period-Music Country-Western Country-Pop Techno New-Age Ska Jazz-Fusion

FCE 10/2/10

It was an absolutely amazing lesson full of extreme adjectives and collocated modifiers, ranging from extremely and absolutely to utterly and completely.

We checked your use of past tense forms: past simple and continuous forms, past perfect simple and continuous forms, and present perfect simple and continuous forms.

More of that in future!

We also looked at some phrasal verbs… Based on “PUT” used with either UP or DOWN.

Remember phrasal verbs are most often used in spoken and informal (written) English.

Some fun idioms came out. Can you recall what they mean and when you’d use them? Here they are:

Pull your socks up!
He talks behind your back.
He paid for it through the nose.
He’s lying through his teeth!

WRITING:
We not only looked at some useful language but also the structure of a REVIEW.

You are going to write your own review of a film of your choice for homework!

Follow the HOW TO.. Tips for the structure.

Happy writing!

PET 9/2/10

FCE 3/2/10

LISTENING practice revising adjectives to describe character (unit 1).

SPEAKING (part 3 and 4) page 39

Remember the expressions : “it’s not my cup of tea”, “it’s not my scene”, It’s not my thing”

SPEAKING vocab pg 48

Language : extreme adjectives pg 36    It was absolutely fantastic!!!

we also started LISTENING pg 50 but we were EXHAUSTED! so we’ll do that next week

HOMEWORK: workbook page 18, 21 and 5 exercises from pages 22-23

PET 02/02/10

LISTENING practice today.

Page 58, ex 4

Page 17 ex 4,5,6 – all about the body: ankle, shoulder, hip, wrist, waist

page 24, ex 7 – the answerphone message

READING focus – part 5 – all about Balmoral Castle

Homework. pg 64, 65 (review) + pg 56, 57 (reading)