Rubrics

  1. You will hear someone talking about something which is close to his heart.
  2. You will hear Frances Durbridge, a father of five, who works at the national telephone company, telling a TV interviewer called Peter Coke about his unusual hobby, which is called deltiology and consists of collecting different kinds of post cards from countries all around the world.
  3. You will hear a psychologist talking to a group of people about their future careers in psychology.
  4. You will hear part of a radio programme about the filming of Eastenders.

Item examples (NB there are two on the other side of this sheet!)

  1. In the story, the woman wanted
  1. wine
  2. a delicious ham and cheese sandwich on brown bread, with mayonnaise
  3. wine and a sandwich
  4. drink the water only
  1. According to passage the sun rises in the
  1. north
  2. south
  3. east
  4. west
  1. Why did Mrs Perkins go to the Post Offfice
  1. to enquire about a parcel
  2. to buy some stamps
  3. to send some money to her son
  4. to have breakfast
  1. Why did Mrs. Jones go to the Post Offfice
  1. to enquire about a parcel
  2. to buy some stamps
  3. to send some money to her son
  4. all of these reasons
  1. A volcano is described as dormant when
  1. it is erupting
  2. it is likely to erupt again
  3. people think it will not erupt again
  4. it has a large crater
  1. Most people don’t understand instructions unless they are
  1. written down
  2. familiar with the subject
  3. paying close aattention
  4. in a cognitively receptive environment
  1. The climbers couldn’t reach the summit that day
  1. because the weather was so bad
  2. because they ran out of food.
  3. because one of them was badly injured.
  4. because the border was closed.
  1. I decided to buy a large dog in
  1. order to deter intruders.
  2. case I feel lonely.
  3. the new shop in Felpersham.
  4. an attempt to make my brother jealous.mf..

mc..

  1. Mr Perkins
  1. did not fail to deny his involvement in the scheme.
  2. arrived late
  3. surviving spouse was granted the usufruct of the improvement third of the inheritance.
  1. Before coming to the city Mary had
  1. tried to commit suicide
  2. worked as a prostitute
  3. had a drinking problem
  4. sold drugs to schoolchildren

Websites referenced today (those marked *** especially useful for today’s activities)

Word lists

  • Vocab Profile at Lexical tutor ( ***
  • WebCorp (
  • Corpus of American English (
  • BNC corpus (
  • Publishers HeadWord information (e.g
  • Exam boards (

Collocations

  • COCA or BNC(see above) and match collocations to frequency levels
  • The Sketch Engine (
  • Ozdic.com (
  • List of corpus related sites at (

Originality (if adapting)

  • Turtnitin (

Readibility

  • Online-utility.org ( ***
  • Flesch (
  • Or use Microsoft Word’s built-in readability tools ***

The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment,

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