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Compact Advanced provides C1-level students with thorough preparation and practice of the grammar, vocabulary, language skills, topics and exam skills needed for success in the revised Cambridge English: Advanced exam. Ten units cover all four exam papers, focusing on one part of each paper in each unit. Reading and Listening texts cover all core topics. Writing tasks include both sample and model answers, and Speaking activities are designed to improve fluency and accuracy, and to help students express themselves with confidence. Grammar sections provide additional focus on developing the necessary grammar for the Reading and Use of English paper. Vocabulary input is at C1 level and is informed by English Vocabulary Profile research. Grammar and vocabulary work is integrated with exam practice, and include exercises informed by the Cambridge Learner Corpus of real exam candidates' answers.Key featuresOfficial preparation from Cambridge English Language Assessment and Cambridge University Press for the revised Cambridge English: Advanced exam from 2015Informed by research into real learner English from the Cambridge Learner Corpus and English Vocabulary ProfileTen units covering all papers: each unit focuses on one part of each paperEach unit contains exam tips and 'Quick steps', building up strategies for tackling the exam tasks which followFull Writing, Listening and Speaking guides are provided at the back of the Student's BookA unit-based wordlist brings together target vocabulary and definitionsTwo complete practice tests are available online for teachers to accessThe CD-ROM provides additional interactive grammar, vocabulary and exam skills practice.The Teacher's Book includes five Progress TestsA Revision page with every unit checks and measures student progress
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MAP OF THE UNITS
TOPICS GRAMMAR VOCABULARY
1 Events, issues & the media Review of the past, present
& futures tenses
Collocations
Frequently confused words
2 Travel, customs &
traditions
Participle clauses Prefixes
Academic expressions
3 Human behaviour &
relationships
Review of reported speech Collocations
Idioms with keep
4 Money & business Review of passive forms
Causatives
Fixed phrases
Phrasal verbs with out
Money vocabulary
5 Health & sport Conditionals including
mixed forms & forms
without if
Word building
Suffixes
Compound adjectives
6 The arts & entertainment Review of verbs + -ing or
infinitive
Collocations
Frequently confused words
7 Nature & the environment Inversion after negative
adverbials
Collocations
Phrasal verbs with on
Idioms: nature
8 Education, learning & work Relative clauses
Introductory it/what
Affixes
Spelling changes
9 Science & technology Modals, including
continuous & passive forms
Dependent prepositions
10 Psychology & personality Wishes & regrets Three-part phrasal verbs
Adjectives of personality
MAP OF THE UNITS4
READING AND
USE OF ENGLISH
WRITING LISTENING SPEAKING
Part 1: multiple-
choice cloze
Part 7: gapped text
Part 1 essay: get
ideas, contrast links,
checking
Part 4: multiple
matching
Part 1: talking about
past, present & future
Part 3: word
formation
Part 6: cross-text
multiple matching
Part 2 report:
planning,
recommending
Part 2: sentence
completion
Part 2: making
comparisons
Part 4: key word
transformations
Part 5: multiple-
choice questions
Part 2 letter: formal /
informal / neutral
style; layout
Part 1: short texts,
multiple-choice
questions
Part 3: suggesting,
(dis)agreeing, asking
for opinions
Part 2: open cloze
Part 7: gapped text
Part 1 essay: addition
links, achieving
balance
Part 3: long text,
multiple-choice
questions
Part 4: expressing &
justifying opinions
Part 3: word
formation
Part 8: multiple
matching
Part 2 proposal:
purpose links, text
organisation
Part 2: sentence
completion
Part 2: commenting
on partner’s pictures
Part 1: multiple-
choice cloze
Part 5: multiple-
choice questions
Pert 2 review:
praising & criticising
Part 4: multiple
matching
Part 1: expressing
preferences, likes &
dislikes
Part 4: key word
transformations
Part 7: gapped text
Part 1 essay:
sentence adverbs
paraphrasing notes
Part 1: short texts,
multiple-choice
questions
Part 3: giving
examples, helping
your partner
Part 3: word
formation
Part 8: multiple
matching
Part 2 letter: formal
language, text
organisation
Part 2: sentence
completion
Part 4: adding
emphasis, hedging
Part 2: open cloze
Part 5: multiple-
choice questions
Part 2 report: result
links, text
organisation
Part 3: long text,
multiple-choice
questions
Part 2: speculating
about present & past
Part 4: key word
transformations
Part 6: cross-text
multiple matching
Part 1: concession,
opening paragraphs
Part 4: multiple
matching
Parts 3 & 4:
negotiating, reaching
a decision
MAP OF THE UNITS 5