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Cambridge English and Trinity exams practice.
External Exams Practice CD-ROM and Booklet
Practice tests on the
Ace!
External Exams CD-ROM
are provided for the following
external exams:
Cambridge English: Young Learners
,
Trinity
, up to and including
Cambridge English: Preliminary.
Remember: you can also find your external exam practice on
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Sample pages from the Cambridge English: Key and Preliminary tests.
The
Ace!
External Exam Booklet for
Cambridge English: Preliminary (PET)
includes grammar
presentations and practice material to prepare students for all aspects of this exam.
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6 Cambridge English: Preliminary
(PET) External Exam Booklet
Syl labus
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Cambridge English:
Preliminary (PET)
External Exam
Booklet
Syllabus
Vocabulary
Structures
Phonics
Cross-
curricular
themes
Cultural
themes
School and learning
words
Pronunciation:
can and can’t
Phonics review:
homophones
Pronunciation:
numbers
ending in
-teen and -ty
Phonics
review: /
aI
/
Pronunciation:
intonation in
questions and
answers
Phonics
review: /
u;
/
Drama:
Shakespeare’s
Globe Theatre
Geography:
The Channel
Tunnel
Literature:
Harry Potter
film locations
Special
transport
Famous
authors
Street
performance
Dramatic verbs
Performers and skills
Travel and transport
Air travel
Characters in different
story types
Story words
Question tags: That’s an easy question, isn’t it? /
William likes puzzles, doesn’t he?
Present simple (repeated actions, facts, imperatives) and present
continuous: They come to the beach once a week. /
There are pirates in the cave. / Catch them! / They’re hiding.
so and such with adjectives and that: It was so smelly in
the summer. / It was such an uncomfortable experience. /
Shakespeare is so famous that people come from all over
the world to see plays here.
Verb patterns (verb + infinitive with to; verb + gerund): He pretended
to do his homework. / Mum suggested going out for an ice cream.
Present perfect and past simple: It has/hasn’t made travelling easier.
/ The tunnel opened in 1994.
Past perfect simple (narrative): He found out that somebody had
taken his passport.
Past simple and past continuous (parallel actions with and;
interrupted action with when/while): He stole the jewel. /
Watson was eating dinner and Holmes was reading a book. /
Holmes was looking at an old hat when Watson arrived. /
While they were walking away, a tall man arrived.
Present perfect with for and since: They’ve eaten in the Great Hall for
hundreds of years. / They’ve travelled on steam trains since 1984.
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2
3
4
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Pronunciation:
linking words
Phonics
review: /
i;
/
History:
Archaeological
finds in the UK
Homes in
the past
Life events
Family and community
Modal verbs (must, can’t, might, may, could): It must/can’t/
might/may/could be old.
Modal verbs (shall for suggestions and offers; would for polite
requests): Shall I hang up some flags? / I would like to try on
a tracksuit, please.
Present perfect with just, already and yet: They’ve already/
just found all the pieces. / They haven’t found all the pieces yet.
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Pronunciation:
intonation with
question tags
Phonics
review: /
@U
/
Citizenship:
Recycling
Environmental
projects
Conservation
Environment
will for instant decisions and going to for plans and decisions made
earlier: I’ll ring them now. / We aren’t going to keep Coco.
Future time expressions
less and fewer with countable and uncountable nouns: We should
use less energy. / We should use fewer plastic bottles.
Modal verbs (ought to for obligation; needn’t for lack of necessity):
If you go mountain walking you ought to tell someone where
you’re going. / You needn’t get there before ten o’clock.
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Pronunciation:
word stress in
prepositions
Phonics review:
silent letters
Sport:
Safety in the
mountains
Scout groups
Expedition
Extreme adjectives
will and going to for predictions about the future: Jamie will
remember his birthday! / There’s going to be a storm.
Indefinite pronouns: somewhere/something/someone/
everywhere/everything/everyone/nowhere/nothing/
no one/ anywhere/anything/anyone.
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Pronunciation:
schwa sound in
a and the /
@
/
Phonics review:
/
S
/
Pronunciation:
saying website
addresses Phonics
review: /
eI
/
Design:
Modern
fabrics and
technology
ICT: The
history of
computers
Traditional
crafts and
designs
Using the
Internet
Clothes and accessories
Textile adjectives
ICT nouns and verbs
Gadgets and inventions
Reported speech with said and told: He said the suit was great. /
She told him there was a famous designer.
Past perfect simple (reported speech): She said he had won tickets
for the Young Designer Fashion Show!
Present simple passive statements and questions:
These fabrics are called smart fabrics. /
Are synthetic fabrics made from natural materials?
First conditional: If I log on, she will send a download.
Past simple passive statements: Lots of mistakes were made. /
His ‘difference engine’ wasn’t built.
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Pronunciation:
sentence stress
Phonics review:
Magic E
Science: The
Voyager mission
Strange stories
Planets and space
Science and space
Second conditional: If I had a spaceship, I would explore the planets.
Past simple passive Wh– and Yes/No questions:
When were the spacecraft sent into space? /
Were the photos chosen by aliens?
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