COLLOCATIONS

Here you have some collocations. It is important to remember them. There are some expressions that need compulsory only one verb.
Have a look to the verbs KEEP, HAVE, COME, TAKE and MAKE.

KEEP

Keep a promise
Keep in touch
Keep someone
Keep quiet
Keep calm
Keep score
Keep a diary
Keep a secret
Keep a journal
Keep records
Keep away
Keep safe
Keep tabs on
Keep in mind
Keep your job


TAKE

Take a shower
Take a chance
Take a seat
Take part
Take time
Take a bite
Take notes
Take it apart
Take a vacations
Take a picture
Take an exam
Take a taxi
Take care
Take a risk
Take a survey
Take medicine


COME

Come to power
Come prepared
Come on time
Come to life
Come last
Come direct
Come cheap
Come up with
Come first
Come to a stop
Come close
Come late
Come into something
Come to an end


MAKE

Make a decision
Make lunch
Make an effort
Make room
Make clear
Make a noise
Make a choice
Make trouble
Make a mistake
Make an offer
Make a wish
Make love
Make payment


HAVE

Have a shower
Have a party
Have rest
Have a baby
Have a break
Have a dream
Have a fight
Have lunch
Have a meeting
Have fun
Have a talk

Synonyms : VOCABULARY MIX

This is a list I will be updating. Don't worry I will post it the first one if there is any change in the number of words in the list. Pay attention!

ABILITY - SKILL
ABLE - CAPABLE
ACCURATE - CORRECT
AID - HELP, ASSIST
ALWAYS - CONSTANTLY
ARRIVE - REACH, COME
BAN - FORBID
BRIEF - SHORT
BEGINNING - START
BROAD - WIDE
BUY - PURCHASE
CALM - QUIET
CARE - CONCERN
CAREFUL - CAUTIOUS
COMPLEX - COMPLICATED
CONCRETE - REAL
CONSCIOUS - AWARE
COZY - COMFORTABLE
CRAZY - INSANE
CRUEL - MEAN
DAMAGE - HURT
DETERMINED - CONVINCED
DIE - EXPIRE
DISAGREE - DIFFER
DISPUTE - DEBATE
DIVIDE - SPLIT
DOUBT - MISTRUST
DRASTIC - EXTREME
DREADFUL - TERRIBLE
DRY - ARID
DUBIOUS - DOUBTFUL
DUMB - STUPID

WORD FORMATION: the most common ones

Here you have a list of the most common words used in the third part of the cambridge exams (level b2 and c1).

Word formation is an important part of the USE OF ENGLISH. 

Don't study a list. You just have to read it and try to get used to writing the word correctly as there are no rules for using SUFFIXES or PREFIXES.

ABLE

- Ability

- Enable

- Disable

- Disabled

-Disability

ACCEPT

- Acceptable

- Acceptably

- Unacceptable

- Unacceptability

- Acceptability

- Acceptance

ACCESS

- Accessible

- Inaccessible

- Accessibility

- Accession

ACCURATE

- Inaccurate

- Accuracy

- Inaccuracy

ACTIVE

- Inactive

- Actively

- Activate

- Activist

- Activity

- Activism

- Activator

- Activation

ADD

- Addition

- Additional

- Additionally

- Additive

- Addable

- Add-on

ADMIT

- Admission

- Admittance

- Admissible

- Inadmissible

- Admiteddly

- Readmit

APPROVE

- Approval

- Disapproval

- Approving

- Disapproving

- Disapprovingly

ASSESS

- Assessment

- Assessor

ASSIST

- Assistant

- Assistance

ATTEND

- Attendance

- Attendant

- Inattention

- Attentive

- Inattentive

BELIEF

- Disbelief

- Believe

- Disbelieve

- Believer

- Believable

- Unbelievable

- Unbelievably

BREAK

- Breakable

- Unbreakable

- Outbreak

- Breakaway

- Breakdown

- Breakthrough

BROAD

- Broaden

- Breadth

- Broadminded

- Broadside

- Broadcast

- Broadcaster

CARE

- Careless

- Carelessly

- Careful

- Carefully

- Carefree

- Caring

- Caringly

CHARACTER

- Characterless

- Characterize

- Characterization

- Characteristic

- Characteristically

CHILD

- Childhood

- Childish

- Childishly

- Childless

- Childlike

CLEAR

- Unclear

- Clearly

- Clearance

- Clarity

- Clarify

- Clarification

CLOSE

- Closely

- Closeness

- Closure

- Disclose

- Disclosure

- Enclose

COMFORT

- Discomfort

- Comfortable

- Uncomfortable

- Comforting

- Comfortably

COMPARE

- Comparison

- Comparable

- Comparably

- Comparative

- Comparability

- Incomparable

- Incomparably

COMPETE

- Competition

- Competitor

- Competitive

- Uncompetitive

CREATE

- Creation

- Creator

- Creature

- Creativity

- Creative

- Creatively

- Uncreative

- Uncreatively

- Recreate

- Recreation

- Creacionist

- Creationism

DIE

- Dead

- Death

- Deathly

DELIVER

- Delivery

- Deliverer

- Deliverable

- Undeliverable

- Deliverance

- Undelivered

DEPEND

- Dependence

- Independence

- Dependent

- Independent

- Dependant

- Independently

- Dependability

DEVELOP

- Development

- Developmental

- Developmentally

- Developer

- Developing

- Underdeveloped

DIFFER

- Difference

- Indifference

- Different

- Differently

- Differential

- Differentiation

- Indifferent

- Differentiate

DIRECT

- Direction

- Directive

- Directly

- Director

- Directory

- Indirect

- Indirectly

- Redirect

DIVIDE

- Division

- Divisible

- Dividable

DOUBT

- Doubtless

- Doubtful

- Doubtlessly

EASY
- Ease
- Easily

EFFECT

- Effective

- Effectively

- Effectiveness

- Ineffective

- Ineffectively

- Ineffectiveness

EDUCATE

- Educator

- Educated

- Educational

- Educationally

EMPLOY

- Employer

- Employee

- Employment

- Unemployment

- Employed

- Unemployed

- Employable

EQUAL

- Equality

- Inequality

- Equalizer

- Unequal

- Unequally

EXCEPT

- Exception

- Exceptional

- Exceptionally

EXIST

- Existing

- Existence

- Existent

- Coexist

- Coexistence

- Non-existence

- Non-existent

- Existential

EXPAND

- Expansive

- Expandable

EXPECT

- Expectation

- Expentancy

- Expectant

- Unexpected

- Unexpectedly

EXTEND

- Extent

- Extension

- Extensive

- Extensively

- Extendable

FAIL

- Failure

- Failed

FAMILIAR

- Familiarity

- Familiarize

- Familiarly

- Unfamiliar

- Unfamiliarity

- Familiarization

FASHION

- Fashionable

- Unfashionable

- Unfashionably

FAT

- Fatty

- Fatten

- Fatness

FREE

- Freedom

GROW

- Growth

GUIDE

- Guidance

- Guideline

- Misguide

HARM

- Harmful

- Harmless

- Harmfully

HAZARD

- Hazardous

- Hazardously

HOME

- Homecoming

- Homeland

- Homeless

- Homelessness

- Homesick

- Homework

IMPRESS

- Impression

- Impressive

- Impressively

- Unimpressive

- Unimpressively

- Impressionist

- Impressionistic

INDUSTRY

- Industrial

- Industrially

- Industrialize

- Industrialization

- Industrious

- Industriously

INFORM

- Informative

- Information

- Misinform

- Misinformed

- Informer

INHABIT

- Inhabitants

- Inhabited

- Uninhabited

INJURE

- Injury

- Injurious

- Injured

INTEND

- Intention

- Intentional

- Intentionally

- Unintentional

INVENT

- Invention

- Inventor

- Inventive

INVEST

- Investor

- Investment

INVOLVE

- Involvement

- Involving

JOY

- Joyful

- Enjoy

- Enjoyable

- Enjoyment

JUDGE

- Judgement

- Judicious

- Misjudge

JUST

- Justify

- Justice

- Justifiable

- Justification

- Unjustified

KNOW

- Knowledge

- Knowledgeable

- Acknowledge

- Acknowledgement

- Unknown

- Well-known

LABOUR

- Labourers

- Labourious

LIKE

- Alike

- Dislike

- Unlike

- Likeable

- Likely

- Unlikely

LONG

- Length

- Longitude

LOSE

- Loss

- Lost

- Loser

MARRY

- Married

- Marriage

MASS

- Massive

- Massively

MEAN

- Meaning

- Meaningful

- Meaningless

MEMORY

- Memorize

- Memorable

- Memorization

- Memorably

MOVE

- Movement

- Moving

NATION
- National
- Nationalism
- Nationalist
- Nationality
- International
- Multinational


PREFER
- Preference
- Preferable
- Preferential
- Preferably


PRODUCE
- Product
- Productive
- Productively
- Production
- Producer
- Reproduce
- Reproduction
- Reproductive
- Unproductive


PROPOSE
- Proposal
- Proposition


REAL
- Really
- Unreal
- Realistic
- Reality
- Realism
- Realize
- Realization


RECEIVE
- Receiver
- Reception
- Receiving


RECOGNIZE
- Recognition
- Recognizable
- Recognizably
- Unrecognizable


REFER
- Reference
- Referee
- Referential


REFUSE
- Refusal


RELY
- Reliable
- Unreliable
- Reliance


SAFE
- Safety
- Safely


SATISFY
- Satisfaction
- Dissatisfaction
- Satisfying


SENSE
- Nonsence
- Senseless
- Sensible
- Sensitive


SHORT
- Shorten
- Shortage


SUBSTANCE
- Substantial
- Substantially
- Unsubstantial


SUIT
- Suitable
- Suitability
- Unsuitable


TEMPT
- Tempter
- Temptation
- Tempting


THINK
- Thoughtful
- Thoughtfully
- Thoughtfulness


TOLERATE
- Tolerance
- Intolerance
- Tolerant
- Intolerant
- Tolerable
- Intolerable


TRUE
- Truly
- Truth
- Untrue


UNDERSTAND
- Understanding
- Understandable
- Understandably
- Misunderstand
- Misunderstanding


VALUE
- Valuable
- Invaluable
- Devalue
- Overvalue
- Revalue


VARY
- Varied
- Invariable
- Invariably
- Variability
- Variable
- Variety
- Variably


WEIGH
- Weight
- Weightless
- Weighty
- Overweight
- Underweight
- Outweight


WISE
- Unwise
- Wisdom

SOLUTIONS CAE Reading PART 6

Here you have the answers for the 6th part of the CAE exam. Remember to pay attention to the whole text. You will find here the correct choice and a little explanation. Try to find these sentences in the text which will help you understand why it is the correct option. Take your time. Sometimes the key concept for choosing the correct answer is beyond the words of the expert.
If you still have any doubt please, write a comment and I will help you.


1   C
"In our society ther ehas been a stigma attached to such problems and so many people have attached negative connotations to seeing a psychologist and may misundertand the nature of seeing a sports psychologist"

Khan says: "There is a popular view, ......., that sports psychology is something for treating athletes with mental disorders."

2   D
The essence of the whole texts explains their point of view about whether using psychological training in team sports is useful or not to the players.

3   A
"Is the ever growing discipline of sports psychology contributing effectively to sporting performance or is it, as many people think, simply the art of 'stating the blindingly obvious'? I have certainly seen evidence that those in journalistic circles are yet to be fully convinced"

Rossweller says: "Psychology as a field has become much more acceptable in social life. It seems that every time a person flicks through the television channels they are likely to see a psychologist talking about something.

4   A
"And it is certainly true that sport psychologists shoudl strive to increase the sophistication of their approaches to research, making use of more reliable scientific methods."

CAE Reading PART 6

Hi! Today I brought this new exercise for the C1 level. This reading is totally new compared with the FCE exam. In this part you have a text and 4 questions. You need to pay all your attention to the meaning of the whole text because you will be asked about the agreements and disagreements of the opinions you read in the text.
Here it is an example for practising first. Good luck! Tomorrow I will post the answers.



You are going to read four extracts from online articles about sports psychology. For questions 1 - 4 choose from the extracts A - D. The extracts may be chosen more than once.

Question 1
Which expert shares Khan's opinion on why public misconceptions about sports psychology have ocurred?

Question 2
Which expert has a different view from Khan on whether some psychological training used in team sports is helpful to the players?

Question 3
Which expert has a different view from Rossweller on how the media regard sports psychologists?

Question 4
Which expert has a different opinion from the other three experts on the current state of research in sports pyschology?

SOLUTIONS CAE Use of English PART 3

In this part of the exam you have to be very careful about the words. Remember to pay attention to the sentence and identify the category needed. It is possible that may need both, suffix and prefix so be careful!
Have a look to the posts "WORD FORMATION" if you need help with it. Sorry, there is no rule in using one suffix or other. There are even some irregular formation.

Here you have the answers. If you still need help, write a comment and I will help.

17      favourable / favorable   (the UK spelling / the US spelling)
18      unexpected
19      beginners
20      desperation
21      endanger
22      solution
23      alternatively
24      mountaineer(s)

SOLUTIONS CAE Use of English PART 2

Remember in this kind of exercises it is used relatives pronouns, auxiliary verbs...
Here you have now the answers. If you still have doubts write a comment and I will help you.

9      anybody / anyone
10    like
11    make
12    for
13    by
14    have / stand
15    up
16    out / on

CAE Use of English PART 3

More about USE OF ENGLISH. Here it is the third exercise.
It consists in one text with gaps and some words on the right side ready for the word formation.
Pay attention to the sentence and try to identify which category of word you need. For example if it is a verb, a noun, an adjective.... Tomorrow you will have the answers.

CAE Use of English PART 2

Continuing with the USE OF ENGLISH here it is the second exercise.
It consists in one text with gaps. You will have to fill in the text with ONE WORD but this time, there are no choices. Remember to pay attention to the whole sentence.
Phrasal verbs, collocations, verb patterns or auxiliary verbs are needed. Tomorrow you will have the answers.

SOLUTIONS CAE Use of English PART 1

As I said before, you have to pay attention to collocations, verb patterns etc... In this level you have to increase your vocabulary. Now questions are trickier and you maye need to analyse the context and sense of the sentence.

Here you have the answers. If you still have doutbs please write a comment and I will help you.


1     B
2     D
3     C
4     A
5     D
6     B
7     C
8     D

CAE Use of English PART 1

Now it it the turn of the CAE level (Advanced).
Here you have the first part of the exam. Starting with the USE OF ENGLISH here it is the first exercise.
It consists in one text with gaps and multiple choice again. Same as FCE level. Remember to pay attention to the whole sentence.
Tomorrow you will have the answers.