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, For updated exam from December 2008 CAMBRIDGE Complete First Certificate Workbook without answers — a Thomas and Amanda Thomas — Secereeey Fie) CAMBRIDGE jp UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE UN VERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao Paulo, Delhi Cambridge Unive Tsity Press The Edinburgh B uilding, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK www.cambridge org Information on tk is title: www.cambridge.org/9780521698313 © Cambridge Uni ersity Press 2008 This publication s in copyright Subject to statutory exception and to the provis ons of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction f any part may take place without the written permission of Ca mbridge University Press First published 08 Printed in the Ur ited Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge A catalogue recor d for this publication ts available from the British Library ISBN ISBN ISBN ISBN ISBN ISBN ISBN 978-0-521-6 978-0-521-6 978-0-521-6 978-0-521978-0-521-6 978-0-521978-0-521-6 9825-2 Student’s Book with CD-ROM 9826-9 Student’s Book with answers and CD-ROM 9828-3 Teacher’s Book 9830-6 Class Audio CDs (3) 9827-6 Student’s Book Pack 9831-3 Workbook with Audio CD 9832-0 Workbook with answers and Audio CD Contents A family affair Leisure and pleasure Happy holidays! 12 Food, glorious food 16 Studying abroad 20 The planet in danger 24 My first job 28 High adventure 32 Star performances 36 10 Secrets of the mind 40 11 Spend, spend, spend! 44 12 Staying healthy 48 13 Animal kingdom 52 14 House space 56 15 Fiesta! 60 16 Machine age 64 Acknowledgements 68 Contents @) A family affair | Grammar Present simple and continuous, present perfect simple and continuous @O Read this email and put the verbs in brackets into the correct tense e@8O bey jae ae To: Í ee il et oe ile uy Hi Steph How are you? | (1) „ , IXAV 1t sHanee TH re (not write) to (have) a lovely time here in Spain Sorry Ï (2) .-56555202 tre you for ages bụt Ï (5} cu neceerree (work) hard here in Spain since | arrived six weeks ago TƯ (stay) with a lovely family (see photo1) who (5) ri (live) in a village near Ronda l (6) (think) you'd like it here The parents are called Diego (he’s a doctor) and Elena Diego's family (7) VQ) oon — (always live) here so everybody (know) them My job is to look after their three children who are 5, and 13 (get up) every morning at about 6.30 as school (10) cccecscc.rre (start) early here but then I'm free till they get home at 2.30 I'm supposed to work on Saturdays but if Diego and Elena are here they often (11) (give) me the day off They (12) this weekend so | (13) go) to Madrid (look after) the children They (14) in the garden since breakfast though and they re quite happy so | (I5) re all morning | (16) - (write) emails (send) six so far! The two younger children are very sweet but the teenager (VD) ee (always complatn) about something | (†8) cescecrrie (remember) being like that though when I was 13 won't see you until the end of September because| (19) (change) my flight 1(20) WEAR ccscssccssssesnssnssnsssttuseccecee (want) to travel round Spain before | come home Write back and tell me your news Love Emily Asking questio ns (present simple) Q@ A week later, Stephanie phones Emily and asks her some questions Use the prompts to write her questions in he speech balloons (Coss — you like / food? Diego and Elena/ often go away? you ever go / seaside? Cre ou ever.oo to the Seaside? ce —— sn) (Conn _ What / the family / usually / Sundays? 6G Where / Elena / work? ) Phrasal verbs with make Vocabulary Collocations with ®@ make and @ Choose words from the box to make expressions with make and Write them in the correct circle an aDpointment a decision a mess a promise you rbest a course homework afulltime job —_ a meal anoise aphone call — a photocopy the sho ping a sport the washing-up Replace the underlined words with one of the phrasal verbs below You can use one of them twice makefor makeout make up I'd arranged to meet my friend, Tom, in a café I’d been waiting for him there all evening and I (1) was_ moving towards "` the door when I thought I saw him on the other side of the road T could just (2) manage to see an appointnesat his black curly hair and the funny scarf he always wears He was hurrying in the other direction I ran over to him and he (3) jnvented - a story about an emergency We re always arguing In fact we'd only just (4) become friends again "" after our last big argument Writing Spelling and punctuation Read part of a student’s composition and correct the spelling and punctuation There are 15 mistakes The first one is corrected for you @ Choose one expre ssion to finish each of the sentences below Write it in the space Don’t worry about the exam You can only " a 0.8 BS oi whole bottle of olive oil and it I wanted to tea h art but I didn’t have the right qualifi cations so I decided to nt to send the original document The sink was full of dirty dishes so I ek’s holiday and there are I want to go, it’s difficult to definitel | detinatety think that teenage year’s should be the best in everyones life because you can have fun and you have fewer problems than adults teenagers know how to have a good time Most teenagers have a lot of freinds and they discuss things that they are interested in Teenagers have to be in fashion wearing up-to-date cloths and listening to modern music They also like to sports and compete in matchs But teenager's parents sometimes have a difficult time and they dont understand why? Wouldnt you feel angry if someone went into your room without permission do teenagers As teenagers grow up they stop thinking like _ children and their Delieves and their interests change My opinion is that teenage years are magical and {d like to stay a teenager forever gry so Andrea offered to A family affair @) Listening Part Reading Part You are going to read a newspaper article about people who have no brothers or sisters For questions 1-15, choose from the people The people may be chosen more than once matches the question, underline It speaker says about the day Use the letters only once There is one extra letter which you not need to use Which person realises that the positive relationship they had with their parents is something that not all only children have? thinks people make a judgement about only children which is mistaken? A I was disappointed about B lI enjoyed the day more than J had expected C [had a better time than some members of my family says they accept their situation because they don’t know D I was annoyed about a change of plan realises that the company of other children is important for only children? E There wasn’t everythingI finds their present circumstances a challenge? F | was relieved that the day was something time to wanted a success characteristic of their personality? anything different? says that only children have needs which can be difficult for others to deal with? realised at a particular point that they were happy being a an only child? a Speaker 1[ _[J was unaware that their reactions to being an only child Speaker LB has the opinion that there are more disadvantages than 2) Speaker 4| — T were not unique? had problems as a child because they lacked a necessary skill? Speaker 3L—RE Speaker thinks being an only child has determined a particular 15 advantages? enjoys having space that is their own? thinks they developed a better understanding of adults because of being an only child? mentions a positive benefit of spending a lot of time alone? is aware that other people feel sorry for them? (A-E) n only child “What's it like to spend a lifetime without brothers and sisters?” asks Joanna Moorhead C Leah Mitchell, aged 29 | went away to school when | was seven, and the hardest thing | found was making friends Because [ was an only child, | just didn't know how ta A Sam Thompson, aged 10 When my mum's friend had a baby it made me think about being an only child for the first time [ thought, would | like to have brothers and sisters? But to be it The thing is that when you're an only child you're often the only child in a gathering of adults | found being an only child interesting, in that it gave me a place at the grown-ups’ table and gave mea view into their world that children in a big family might not get And | know it has, at least partly, made me into the person | am: | never like the idea of being one of honest, my friend's sister looked quite annoying— he was always having to watch her and | decided a group, for example I'm not comfortable with being one of a | was better off on my own There D Laura Arnold, aged 36 are lots of good things about being an only child | have privacy, and [like that; some of my friends have to share a bedroom and | know that will never happen to me Plus | get time on my own with Mum and Dad, and that’s special One thing that is good is that my friend Thomas lives really close by, So it’s easy for me to go and see him I'd be happy to have just one child, but ’'d always make sure we lived close to other kids B Bethany Shaw, aged 15 One of the bad things about being an only child when you're young is the reaction you get from other people They think you're spoilt — you see that look in their eyes And then you have te prave you're not spoilt, although you know you're not and nor are most only children When | was little my friends thought | was lucky being an only ane, but now when | tell friends | can tell theure thinking, that must be hard she’s not got a sister to go shopping with, or a brother to help with her homewark All my friends have brothers and sisters i it can be a bit lonely In general, | think the negatives outweigh the positives, but on the other hand it’s all ’'ve known and I'm OK with it gang | was a happy child; | had love and attention of two made me very confident know some only children the undivided people, and it and secure | feel stifled by their parents’ constant demands and worries, but that wasn't my experience | found being an only child enriching, which | think is mainly because we get on so well I've got two children now and | find that scary The problem is I've absolutely no experience of this kind of situation; nothingin my past has prepared me for having to divide myself between the needs of these two little people, and the guilt is hard when | feel l've not been, there enough for one of them And ona practical level, things like sibling rivalry are goingto be a whole new ball game £ Jasmine Weller, aged 49 { always felta little odd, and assumed it was something about me It was only in my 30s, when | was training to be a psychotherapist, that! found myself with a group of only children, describing our experiences it was a revelation because it made me realise that other people felt many of the same things Growing up in a small unit means we need time to ourselves, which can cause problems with partners and friends, who might misinterpret it as rejection There are pluses too, Being on your own helps you ta become resourceful, and develop your imagination and creativity A family affair @ Leisure and pleasure Grammar © Some of these sentences contain mistakes Correct the mistakes you find and put a tick (/) next to the Comparison of adjectives and adverbs © Complete the š NI PT GÌ NITUINNINE° table with adjectives, adverbs and comparative forms Adjective Comparative form Adverb see careful easi sit healthy fast well terrible bas† Practising every day is the better way to learn an successfully Golf is the least enjoyable sport to watchon TV " Tennis is the more hardest sport to learn ¥ Riding a motorbike is more fun than taking the bus! It’s less easier to learn a new sport as you get older For me, playing computer games is the more Joining a sports club can help people to become more healthier [am the fittest now than I have ever been in my life relaxing way to spend my free time Writing Organising ideas into paragraphs Look at the task and a student’s plan on page Match the selected sentences (1-9) from a student’s @ Fill in the gaps with one of the words from the table answer to the correct paragraph 1 Ithink eatltg c k1 hiÊy is really important if you want to keep fit sTHE MOSt sof oni set nil people I know work incredibly hard Iíyou had 4_ ridden your bike more you wouldn’t have had an accident Learning to play the piano is much than I thought He doesn’t brother } play chess as „ a8 hỈs ; Hedances so I couldn’t wait for the music to stop If you keep practising, you]] get i You need to your chess Unit be more when you make moves (A~D) My sister and | often talk about playing ‘Pom Pom Home’ and we laugh about all the places we used to hide [would like fo teach this game to my children l1 was really exciting when you were able fo rescue all your friends Any number of people can play but it’s more fun with between six and eight players From the ages of about nine fo twelve, my favourite game was called ‘Pom Pom Home’ On long summer evenings we'd play for hours and come home completely exhausted To rescue someone you had to run and touch ‘home’ before the person who was ‘IT’ tts basically a mi ore complicated form of “Hide and Seek, which involves tal King people prisoner | was always real y thrilled when my older brother played with us because % was a fast runner and he would always rescue m if | got caught @® Can you think of any other adjectives that would fit in these sentences? Example a brave person, an incredible person Phrasal verbs with off lên This month's © Match the phrasal verbs with their definitions Children’s gz mes — vourite were a child? What was your game when you Tell us: * Howto play Student’s plan F interrupt a power supply postpone go somewhere We cycled to the swimming pool but it was closed As soon as they heard the police siren, the so we seaded.off to the park instead in their waiting car They had a long walk ahead of them so they morning Paragraph 3: Why ¥ The lights are not working I think the electricity has been Ididn’t have to the test again because the teacher : Paragraph 4: Conel The match was until the next day because of the rain Sentences @ Which of these things can you take up, start up Vocabulary and make up? Put the words under the correct Adjectives with -ed and -ing phrasal verb O © Unjumble the adjectives and write them in the correct sentence itreowd cut off start a journey leave in a hurry excuse someone from doing something down the mountain early in the Sentences in 6sipdtep rsbsraganeim He’s an -dihrtlle zamigna — = ‡ person; he’s not afraid to anything D E Sentences shoot off set off Paragraph 2: How † D burglars A Paragraph |: Introd when you played it C A B C © Write one of the phrasal verbs in the correct form in each sentence The winning artici B head off put off let someone off + Why you enj Sentences I’m really what I’ve alwa lệ cu Thank you so much It’s 'S wanted He should have been here an hour ago I’m getting It was really : a hobby a 65 sat vỡ 6l TICHIPTCơ al dea astory _ a business â — a sport anexcuse _ Start Up Iburnt all the sausages when my friends came over for a barbecue Iwas quite not to win the tennis match, after I’d trained so hard Leisure and pleasure @) ... 9828-3 Teacher’s Book 9830-6 Class Audio CDs (3) 9827-6 Student’s Book Pack 9831-3 Workbook with Audio CD 9832-0 Workbook with answers and Audio CD Contents A family affair Leisure and pleasure... questions joined his chess club because 1-7, 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... tourists peered out of the windows for their first view through the London clouds of the suburbs round Heathrow Airport with the same enthusiasm I''d had for my first view of Kyoto or Ulan Baataar After