CAE Use of English Gapped Sentences For questions 1-5, think of one word only which can be used appropriately in all three sentences. Here is an example: Could you do me a ……..and hold the door open while I bring in the shopping? All those in …….. of the proposal please raise your hand. After being out of fashion for years the painter is now in …….. with the critics. Example: FAVOUR Q1 John has just taken up the …….. of Marketing Manager at a local college. He put me in a really difficult …….. asking for money when he…

CAE Use of English ‘Key’ Word Transformations For questions 1-8, complete the second sentence so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence, using the word given. Do not change the word given. You must use between three and six words, including the word given. 1. Apparently, the restaurant in town has been bought out by someone else. UNDER I hear the restaurant in town ………………………………….. 2. Sarah cried her eyes out immediately she was told she’d failed her driving test. BROKE Sarah …………………………………. soon as she heard she’d failed her driving test. 3. The Government recently said…

Американский английский: особенности возникновения и употребления Англия и Америка – две нации, разделённые общим языком. (Оскар Уайльд) ИСТОРИЯ АМЕРИКАНСКОГО АНГЛИЙСКОГО В XVII –XVIII веках английский язык переплыл океан на кораблях с британскими крестьянами и представителями мелкой и средней буржуазии. Если бы мы сейчас могли вернуться в Америку того времени, то встретили бы множество переселенцев, говорящих на испанском, французском, немецком, голландском, норвежском, шведском и даже на русском. Все эти люди оказались в непростой ситуации – им нужно было осваивать земли, строить дома, налаживать производство и привыкать к новым природным и социально-экономическим условиям. Им был просто необходим общий язык – обустроить новые…

Read the sentences, and try to guess what the slang word or phrase (in bold) might mean. 1. ¨Nobody knew what the word meant, so we googled it¨ When you ´´google´´ something, you…. a. look at it for a long time b. look it up on the internet c. post something in your blog online. 2.”I was just kidding when I said my teacher was a monster. She’s strict, but she’s actually a very nice person.” Kidding means…a you have childrenb. you´re talking about childrenc. what you said is not actually true, it is a joke 3. If someone tells…

While English is not the most widely spoken language in the world when you look at it in terms of the number of native speakers, it is the world’s most prominent language. While a larger number of people speak Chinese, that language is largely confined to China. English on the other hand, is spoken around the world. It has been estimated that out of the roughly 6 billion people that are alive today about 350 million speak English. When you look at the importance of English for International Business, you must look at more than just the number of people…