Notetaking Tips March 6, 2009

Have 5 sections in your vocab notebook for the following:

1. Prepositional verbs

• want to
• listen to
• love to
• have to

2. Phrasal Verbs

• get up
• get off
• get on
• get out

3. Set Phrases & Idioms
An English idiom is a phrase that doesn’t “add up to” the sum of its parts. As in She can’t work amicably with family members, “much less” strangers. [Both "add up to" and "much less" are idioms. Would you like to learn more about idioms?]

4. New Vocabulary. You should note:

• the translation into your own language
• the part of speech, ie: noun, verb
• the word-family, or different formations as you find them, for example: to excite (v), excitement (n), exciting (adj), excitedly (adv)
• a sample sentence in English

5. Miscellaneous
Use this section for things that don’t belong elsewhere.

Listening Strategies FCE & CAE March 2, 2009

Read through the Questions and underline the KEYWORDS. Try to think of the SYNONYMS for these words, or some phrases & expressions with a similar meaning. Listen for these.

Most Questions will be about people’s ideas, feeling, attitudes and opinions.

Note down the Speakers MAIN IDEA, then mark the option closest to that idea.

On the second listening, check your answers (you my need to change some of them).