This week’s collocations for the FCE exam will to continue looking at make and do as many students still have problems with these verbs and confuse the use of them. When doing the exercise, you should keep in mind that: make = produce something do = performing an action
In this week’s collocations for the FCE exam we are going to look at make and do. Many students still have problems with these verbs and confuse the use of them. When doing the exercise, you should keep in mind that: make = produce something do = performing an action
Part 4: The Last One! In the fourth and last part of the FCE Use of English paper you have use your knowledge of grammar and vocabulary to rewrite sentences. Here are some tips on how you could approach this type of exercise:
Learning to use more advanced collocations is a great way to improve your written style for the FCE exam. Advanced collocations can also be used to great effect on the Speaking paper. They are also something you will come across a lot on the Use of English paper. A word of advice though – make sure [...]
First of all, we would like to thank everybody who took part in our survey. Based on the feedback we received, we have decided to start a series of posts on word partnerships or collocations as they are usually called. It seems that many of you are struggling with the FCE Use of English paper [...]
Part 3: The Creative One! On the third part of the FCE Use of English paper you have use your knowledge of grammar and vocabulary to create new words. Here are some tips on how you could approach this type of exercise:
This is the final knowledge check for the FCE exam in the current series. The main topic for this week is prepositions: prepositions of time, place and movement prepositions after verbs and nouns prepositional phrases
In this week’s knowledge check for the FCE exam we are going to take a closer look at: relative clauses participles linking words and phrases phrasal verbs with get
Part 2: The Tricky One! The second part of the FCE Use of English paper can be really difficult to complete as you can be tested on a number of different grammar and vocabulary points, for example:
The knowledge check for the FCE exam for this week is going back to basics. It is surprising how many students are struggling with the following grammar points: articles determiners countable and uncountable nouns uncountable nouns ending in –s and collective nouns
