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Cambridge Proficiency Masterclass

Unit 1: 

Programme

• Exam in early June 2024
• Proficiency Masterclass
• Advanced Word Skills

People & Places  lesson 2 (page 11):

RECAP: What is a soap opera? 

How did the name "soap opera originate?

What do you think the attitude of each of these groups of viewers are likely to be?

• Fanatics
  
• Ironics
• Non-committed
  
• Dismissives

People & Places  lesson 3  

• Listen (p 11 ex 2). 

        Note any phrase you hear that helps you classify the speakers into the           appropriate category.

• Discuss answers

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People & Places  Unit  1 (page 11)

Exercise 3: Discuss and categorize meanings  

Look at the words in exercise 3. Discuss and categorize the adjectives in list A as follows:

a. Words that are approximate synonyms of 'boring'

b. Words that mean something is 'hard to believe' 

c. Words that mean that something is 'generally bad'

d. Other more positive or neutral words

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People & Places  unit 1 (page 11):

Exercise 3: Discuss and categorize meanings  

A. Words that are approximate synonyms of 'boring':

• hackneyed ~ used too often and therefore boring
• mundane   ~ not interesting or exciting
• corny          ~ not original; used too often to be interesting or to sound sincere 

B. Words that mean something is 'hard to believe' 

• unconvincing ~ not seeming true or real
• far-fetched ~very difficult to believe
• contrived ~planned in advance and not natural or genuine; written or arranged in a way that is not natural or realistic

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People & Places  Unit 1 (page 11)

Exercise 3: Discuss and categorize meanings  

c. words that mean that something is 'generally bad':

atrocious ~very bad or unpleasant

negative ~bad or harmful

d. other more positive or neutral words:

eccentric ~considered strange or unusual

compulsive~behaviour that is difficult to stop or control. Note here - it takes on a positive meaning

cliffhanger ~ situation in a story etc. that is very exciting because you don't find out what happens next 

glamorous ~ especially attractive and exciting, and different from ordinary things or people

topical ~ connected with something that is happening or of interest at the present time.

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People & Places  Unit 1 (Page 11) 

Exercise 3: Discuss and categorize meanings  

Exercise 3: Form collocations.

To help you, find three nouns that collocate with "hackneyed"

hackneyed storylines

hackneyed ____________________

hackneyed ____________________

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People & Places  Unit 1 (Page 11) 

Exercise 3: Form collocations- continued.  

• Find FIVE nouns that collocate with "mundane"  
• Find ONE noun that collocates with "eccentric"
• Find TWO nouns that collocate with "compulsive"
• Find SIX nouns that collocate with "corny"
• Find ONE noun that collocates with "cliffhanger"
• Find SEVEN nouns that collocate with "unconvincing"
• Find SIX nouns that collocate with "atrocious"
• Find TWO nouns that collocate with "negative"
• Find THREE nouns that collocate with "glamorous" 
• Find THREE nouns that collocate with "topical" and threes that go with "far-fetched"
• Find SIX nouns that collocate with "contrived"

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People & Places  Unit 1 (Page  11). Lesson 2 -contd.

Exercise 4: Discuss and categorize yourself as viewer

Exercise 5: Discuss statements 

• 2 minutes' speaking in pairs:  ex 4  (Note: use words from the lists in ex 3!!)
• Discuss as whole class

Preparation for speaking exam Part 3

Exercise 5: Discuss each statement in turn and give reasons why you agree or disagree with the ideas expressed.

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People & Places Lesson 3 (page 12-14):

READING & USE OF ENGLISH

• Exercise  1 individually (2 mins)
• Discuss as a class
• Exercise  2:  Skim read the text and answer the question
• Exercise  3: Read the text more carefully. (Read the TIP about implied meaning)
• Exercise  4: Text analysis

VOCABULARY - word knowledge 'get'

• Exercise  5-6 

HOMEWORK

• Finish classwork

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Wednesday 30 August (2nd period)

People & Places:  lesson 4 p 14 

READING & USE OF ENGLISH -  discussion & feedback p 12 ex 3 & 4 

• ex 3*: Read the text more carefully. (Read the TIP about implied meaning)
• ex 4*: Text analysis
• any vocabulary questions?

VOCABULARY - word knowledge 'get' - feedback

• discuss answers to ex 5-6* 

People & Places:  lesson 4 contd.

• Collocations : adjectives which collocate with 'memory' : close your Masterclass book. In your notebook make four  categories as follows:
• Write the words you hear into the correct category. 
• Some words might fit into more than one category. 

duration

clarity

positive

negative

People & Places  lesson 4 contd. 

-ex 9: using a dictionary, decide in pairs which of the verbs which collocate with 'memory' you think have a NEGATIVE meaning. Note the meaning of any verbs you have never used before. (10mins)

- update your word file; study unit 1 Grammar Notes on p 149
- WS 32 this week

• Speaking  ex 10 - in random pairs talk about a certain type of memory. If it's too

personal, 'invent' a memory if you wish.  The listener can decide whether 
it's real or made up by asking follow-up questions.

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People & Places  lesson 5 

GRAMMAR: Past verb forms (Past simple, past continuous, past perfect, used to & would)

Grammar notes p 149-150 (and the PP attached to Magister homework)

What's the difference in meaning between:

a. When I lived abroad, my mother always PHONED me at dinner time

b. When I lived abroad, my mother  WAS ALWAYS PHONING me at dinner time

• Now do ex 12
• Feedback

People & Places  lesson 5 contd.

A past tense verb form doesn't always refer to a past action. It is also used for theoretical situations, politeness, and after certain expressions such as 'It's time....' For example:

• If I had the money, I'd quit tomorrow.
• A: Can I have that cake?   B: I'd rather you ate some fruit.
• It's time you helped clean up around here.

- Now discuss ex 13 in pairs. Find situations that are hypothetical, or where the speaker is distancing (being more polite) , or when immediacy is suggested

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People & Places  lesson 5 contd.

Word knowledge: would

- ex 14-15 together

- ex 16. Then  listen and check

Homework for Thursday 31  August was:

• Find and start your novel (have it approved by TBO first - see reading suggestions list in our class ELO - the test is in week 43, straight after the Autumn holiday on Wednesday 25 Oct )
• p 17 ex 1-3
• learn WS 32 before  6 Sept and revise WS 31
• Update your word file and learn the new words (Masterclass pp 11-17)

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People & Places  lesson 6 

FEEDBACK:  

• p 17 ex 1-3*

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Friday 2 September

"The only way to give effective help tp people in need is to go and give it yourself"

Do you agree? Why or why not?

People & Places  lesson 6: recap

FEEDBACK: Your homework for today was:

• Find and start your novel (have it approved by TBO first - see reading suggestions list in our class ELO - the test is in week 43 on Wednesday 25 October)
  
• No optional 'set text' question in Part 2 of the C2 Proficiency Writing exam in 2024 

• Update your word file and learn the new words Masterclass p 17 
  

People & Places  lesson 7 

LISTENING - p 18

• ex 1 Discuss in pairs
• ex 2 Read the tip!
• Listen 

SPEAKING: 

• discuss your answers
• discuss question in ex 3 in pairs

VOCABULARY:

• ex 4 (Finish for hw) and look in Magister!

Wed 6 Sept. People & Places  lesson 7

WRITING - part 2, Set text p 19

• ex 1 think and make notes individually (2 mins)

• discuss questions 1a-1f  in groups of three or four

 

• ex 2-3 individually

• discuss as class

• Vocabulary ex 4 - work together and use an advanced learner's dictionary. Finish for homework . See Magister. 

Wed 6 Sept. People & Places  lesson 7

WRITING - part 2, Set text p 19

• ex 1 think and make notes individually (2 mins)

• discuss questions 1a-1f  in groups of three or four

 

• ex 2-3 individually

• discuss as class

• Vocabulary ex 4 - work together and use an advanced learner's dictionary. Finish for homework . See Magister. 

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Wednesday 6 September

WS 32: give each other a quick quiz in pairs before this lesson starts! 

Our Environment: lesson 1 

FEEDBACK: Your homework for today was: 

• Page 18: ex 4 
• Page 19: ex 1-4 (Unit 1 People and Places) 
• SPEAKING  Unit 2: Our Environment page 21 exercise 1 in pairs

LISTENING: Exercise 2

WRITING: Exercise 3

LISTENING: Exercise 4

SPEAKING: Exercise 5

 

Our Environment: lesson 1 

• ex 1 in pairs: What's your green knowledge?
  
• check your answers on p 163
  
• ex 2 Listen
  
• ex 3 discuss the meaning of the words, choose any two of the issues in ex 2 and write two statements using words from list A with words from list B.
  
• Check and view possible answers
  
• ex 4: Listen again and make notes
  
• ex 5 discuss both questions in pairs

Our Environment: lesson 1 

READING & USE OF ENGLISH -  p 22-23 

• ex 1 Discuss in pairs
• ex 2 Skim read (1 min) - 
• Discuss whether your prediction (ex 1) was correct
• ex 3 Read the tip, then do the exercise individually 
• Check your answers
• Grammar Instruction: + Study Grammar notes Unit 2 p 150-151 and make your own notes.
• p 22-23 ex 1-8 Finish at home before tomorrow, Thursday

 

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Thursday 7 September

Do Masterclass p 23 exercise 9 quickly before this lesson starts

Our Environment: lesson 1 

FEEDBACK:

• Grammar Instruction PP + Study Grammar notes Unit 2 p 150-151 and make your own notes.
• p 22-23 ex 1-8* ; ex 9

READING & USE OF ENGLISH - Unit 2: Our Environment p 24-25

• p 24 ex 1 quietly

• discuss ex 1

HOMEWORK:

p 24-5 ex 2-4. Finish before Friday 8 September (tomorrow)

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Friday 8 September

Take an Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary  from the shelf to share in this lesson (one between two)

Our Environment: lesson 1 

FEEDBACK & DISCUSSION:

• p 24-5 ex 1-4 

VOCABULARY: Take a dictionary and work together on p 26

• ex 5 - 8; 
• ex 10-11
  

HOMEWORK for next Wednesday: p 26 ex 9 (for a competition!!) and finish ex 5 - 8; ex 10-11  (and look in Magister!)

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Wednesday 13 September

Please take out WS and test each other on units 32-33 before the lesson starts!

Our Environment lesson 5  

FEEDBACK*: Your homework for  today  was:

• p 26 ex 5-11* 
• compare your answers to ex 9 !

LISTENING p 27

• do ex 1 quietly
• check 
• ex 2: decide parts of speech/type of information needed
• check 
• ex 3: Read the Tip . Now, Listen
• in pairs,  compare answers and then do ex 4
• feedback.

Thursday 14 September

Our Environment lesson 6  

FEEDBACK

• ex 4 (show answers again and discuss)
• p 27 Vocabulary ex 5-6 (see key)

WRITING: part 1 (compulsory essay)

• p 29 ex 1-6. Finish before tomorrow (Friday)

Friday 15 September

Writing the compulsory essay

Unit 2 Lesson 8:

• FEEDBACK & DISCUSSION p 29 ex 1-6
  
• Exam Practice p 30 ex 8 - identify the two main points of each extract.
  
• Discuss in pairs
  
• Check
  
• Read tip. Think, plan, write and then check. In pairs. Hand in on Wednesday 20 Sept.

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Wednesday 20 September

Please take out WS and test each other on units 32-34 before the lesson starts!

Writing the compulsory essay

• Take out your draft essay (Exam Practice p 30 ex 8) and analyse each with a partner.
• Have you summarised and evaluated the two main points of each extract?
  
• Have you paraphrased these (make sure you have not "lifted" chunks of language from either of the two texts) and have you added your own ideas?
• Have you used a RANGE of vocabulary and structures to avoid repetition of words and grammar? Can you improve on this?
• Have you organised it into four paragraphs and are there appropriate linking words to make the essay a cohesive whole? 
•  Have you checked your spelling? 
• Hand in your best, edited work (one essay per pair) on Thursday 21 Sept. in a writing file, as indicated in Magister.
  

Our Environment lesson 10  

SPEAKING, part 2 p 28

• do ex 1 quietly in your notebook (2 mins)
  
• in pairs, discuss answers (2-3 mins.)
  
• ex 2 read the task. Listen:
• ex 3 read task, listen again and note expressions
• check
  
• ex 4: in pairs (Read TIP first!)
  
• ex 5 read task, listen and note task.
  
• ex 6 in pairs (3 mins)
  
• ex 7 in pairs
  
• feedback. 

Unit 1 Speaking: People & Places  

SPEAKING Exam : Part 1  (p 16)

• Exercise 1 Listen - note the 6 questions
• Exercise 2
• Exercise 3 Read the task. Then listen:  
• Exercise 4 quietly
• Exercise 5 Read the task. 
• Exercise 6 

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