Exercises for CAE or C1 - Introduction and Menus

Here are some more free interactive Hot Potatoes exercises to help you develop your knowledge base towards CAE (C1). More will be added from time to time.

LATEST! Click here to see latest 'Golden Oldie Exercises'. Most recent are: COLLOCATIONS TESTS, SPECIAL USES OF WILL AND WOULD, Determiners & Pronouns, Conjunctions, Big Connectors, Advanced Linkers and Cohesive Markers and Classic or classical?, Collective Nouns CAE Aback, CPE Afoot, Horsey Bits, Colloquial Socialising, Concessive Trifle, Other Types of Passive, Traffic Noise, Intelligence clozes, Register 1 - 4 plus formal & informal, Register Crosswords, Gerund or Infinitive?, Reporting Verbs, Personality Adjectives, Relative Pronouns, Decision cause and effect, Concessive Recognition, Regrets, Conditional Recognition, Ways of Hand Movement, Ways of Walking, Ways of Looking, Dead good, To be over at last, To be at it again and To be in for, Ageing Expressions, Stress Lexis, Ways of Sound, Twosomes 4 & 5, Compound Nouns 1 - 4, Any, Passive Register, Way of Human Sound words, Ways of Light words, Mind/Brain Expressions and Phrasal (or Compound) Nouns. There is some more practice on gerund and infinitive, hypothetical past, preference, cleft sentences inversion and more.

Click here to see latest 'allsorts' exercises. These are for students who are happy with all the key word transformation types.

Practice for 2015 Paper 1, Part 3, Use of English – Word formation (to practise finding the correct word from the stems of the missing words).

Here are some examples of word formation exercises in single sentence form:

BELIEVE CONSCIENCE CONSIDER DOUBT ENTHUSIASM EXPERT FLAW HAND HEART MEASURE PURSUE REGARD STAND SURE

Practice for 2015 Paper 1, Part 4, Use of English – Keyword transformations (one of the "difficult" exercises).

In the first four sets of exercises you see the four transformation types mentioned on the excellent flo-joe webpage.

– comparative structures / adverbs     – expressions / lexical patterns – phrasal verbs – formal structures,    including conditionals

comparative structures / adverbs 1 comparative structures / adverbs 1 summary keyword transformations 1 expressions / lexical patterns 1 expressions / lexical patterns 1 summary        keyword transformations 2 phrasal verbs phrasal verbs 1 summary                                     keyword transformations 3 formal structures, including conditionals          inversions - normal - summary jumbled inversions practice 1 jumbled inversions practice 2 jumbled inversions practice 3 jumbled inversions practice 4 jumbled inversions practice 5 inversions 2 conditional 1 inversions 2 conditional 2 keyword transformations 4

These exercises deal with other aspects of interest:

– CAE collocations                      and TESTS – cause and effect – language of chance – concessives extra – cleft sentences

cae collocations 1 cae collocations 1 summary cae collocations 2 cae collocations 2 summary cae collocations 3 cae collocations 3 summary cae collocations 4 cae collocations 4 summary cae collocations 5 cae collocations 5 summary cae collocations 6 cae collocations 6 summary             cae collocations easy test 1 cae collocations test 1 cae collocations easy test 2 cae collocations test 2 cae collocations easy test 3 cae collocations test 3 cause & effect cause & effect expressions effect & cause effect & cause expressions cause & effect transformations         language of chance language of chance 2                         collocation test transformations chance were a fine thing simple chance were a fine thing different mights more transformations concessives extra concessives extra summary concessives extra transformations cleft sentences cleft sentences summary cleft sentences transformations

Here are some 'allsorts' key word transformation exercises:

allsorts 1 allsorts 2 allsorts 3 allsorts 4 allsorts 5 allsorts 6

Idioms are unlikely to come up in the CAE,        but may well be of interest.

idioms idioms 1 rough definitions idioms in sentences 2 idioms 2 rough definitions idioms in sentences 3 idioms 3 rough definitions idioms in sentences 4 idioms 4 rough definitions

Why not try some of these twosomes -officially, known as binominals

twosomes 1 twosomes 1 summary twosomes 2 twosomes 2 summary twosomes 3 twosomes 3 summary twosomes 4 twosomes 4 summary twosomes 5 twosomes 5 summary

'Golden Oldie Exercises': Gerund or Infinitive?, gerund and infinitive 1, 2 & 3 Reporting Verbs matching, transformation, structures and summary and ING:

Gerund or Infinitive? CAE Gerund and Infinitive 1 CAE Gerund and Infinitive 2 CAE Gerund and Infinitive 3 CAE Reporting Verbs Matching CAE Reporting Verbs Transformations CAE Reporting Verb Structures 1 CAE Reporting Verbs Summary 1 CAE Reporting Verb Structures 2 CAE Reporting Verbs Summary 2 CAE Reporting Verb Structures 3 CAE Reporting Verbs Summary 3 CAE Reporting Verb Structures 4 CAE Reporting Verbs Summary 4 CAE ING

Concessive Recognition, Concessive Trifle, regrets, past modals, conditional recognition, preference, inversions and cleft sentences:

CAE Concessive Recognition CAE Concessive Trifle Transformations CAE Regrets Transformations CAE Hypothetical past situations CAE Preference Recognition CAE Conditional Recognition CAE Inversion Recognition CAE Inversion Transformations CAE Cleft Sentences Transformations

Dead good and collocations:

Dead good CAE Collocation Recognition 1 CAE Collocation Recognition 2 CAE Collocation Recognition 3

phrasal prepositional verbs, phrasal verbs:         and To be over at last, To be at it again and To be in for

CAE Phrasal Prepositionals Recognition CAE Phrasal Verbs To be over at last To be at it again To be in for

compound 'phrasal' nouns and more of these compound nouns:

CAE Phrasal Nouns Compound Nouns 1 Compound Nouns 1 summary Compound Nouns 2 Compound Nouns 2 summary Compound Nouns 3 Compound Nouns 3 summary Compound Nouns 4 Compound Nouns 4 summary

Mind/Brain and Stress Lexis,                             Ageing Expressions and Intelligence clozes:

CAE Mind/Brain Expressions CAE Stress Lexis CAE Ageing Expressions CAE Types of Intelligence CAE What is Intelligence?

Ways of Light and Ways of Sound:

Ways of Light Picture Matching Ways of Light Picture Matching Test Ways of Light Picture Matching 2 Ways of Light Picture Matching 2 Test Ways of Light 1 normal Ways of Light 2 metaphorical Ways of Sound Picture Matching Ways of Sound Picture Matching Test Ways of Sound Picture Matching 2 Ways of Sound Picture Matching 2 Test Ways of Sound

Ways of Human Sound,                                    Ways of Looking, Ways of Hand Movement and Ways of Walking:

Ways of Human Sound Picture Matching Ways of Human Sound Picture Matching Test Ways of Human Sound Picture Matching 2.htm Ways of Human Sound Picture Matching 2 Test Ways of Human Sound Ways of Looking Picture Matching Ways of Looking Picture Matching Test Ways of Looking Picture Matching 2 Ways of Looking Picture Matching 2 Test Ways of Looking Ways of Hand Movement Picture Matching Ways of Hand Movement Picture Matching Test Ways of Hand Movement Picture Matching 2 Ways of Hand Movement Picture Matching 2 Test Ways of Hand Movement Ways of Walking Picture Matching Ways of Walking Picture Matching Test Ways of Walking Picture Matching 2 Ways of Walking Picture Matching 2 Test Ways of Walking

Decision cause and effect and Passive Register exercises, Register 1 - 4 plus formal & informal, Register Crosswords and Other Types of Passive

Decision cause and effect CAE Passive Register Matching CAE Passive Register Test CAE More Passive Register Transformations Register 1 matching Register 2 matching Register 2 informal gapfill Register 2 formal gapfill Register 3 matching Register 3 informal gapfill Register 3 formal gapfill Register 4 matching Register 4 informal gapfill Register 4 formal gapfill Register Crossword 1 Register Crossword 2 Other Types of Passive

Here are SPECIAL USES OF WILL AND WOULD, Determiners & Pronouns, Conjunctions, Big Connectors, Advanced Linkers and Cohesive Markers and Classic or classical?, Collective Nouns, CAE Aback, CPE Afoot, Horsey Bits, Colloquial Socialising Traffic Noise, an ANY exercise, work on Relative Pronouns and work on Personality Adjectives:

Special uses of will Special uses of would Test special will/would Determiners & Pronouns Conjunctions Big Connectors Big Connectors 2 Advanced Linkers Cohesive Markers Sort-out Classic or classical? Collective Nouns CAE Aback CPE Afoot Horsey bits cloze Horsey bits CAE Colloquial Socialising CAE Traffic Noise CAE Any Recognition CAE Relative Pronouns Formal CAE Relative Pronouns Formal flash CAE Relatives CAE Personalities 2 definitions CAE Personalities 2 opposites CAE Personalities 3 definitions CAE Personalities 3 synonyms CAE Personalities 4 negatives

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