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First Certificate Exam

First Certificate of English

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Do you want to do the First Certificate Exam? Practice exam style questions and learn some useful strategies by downloading and printing out these lessons. They are aimed at learners with an intermediate - upper intermediate level of English.

The FCE examination was revised for December 2008 and one part was removed but we have left the practice exercises here - they are all good for your English!

FCE Paper 1: Reading Answer key
Lesson 1:  matching paragraph headings to paragraphs.  This has disappeared from the current FC exam but used to be Part 1 Lesson 1
Lesson 2:  learning how to answer questions in Part 1, multiple choice
Please note -  this used to be Part 2
Lesson 2
Lesson 3:  learning how to answer questions in Part 2, gapped text
Please note -  this used to be Part 3
Lesson 3
Lesson 4:  learning how to answer questions in Part 3, multiple matching
Please note - this used to be Part 4
Lesson 4
Lesson 5:  more practice in  multiple choice and gapped text Lesson 5

FCE Paper 3: Use of English Answer key
Lesson 1: developing a strategy to deal with Part 1: the multiple choice cloze. Lesson 1
Lesson 2: developing a strategy to deal with Part 2: the open cloze task. Lesson 2
Lesson 3: developing a strategy to deal with Part 4: key-word transformations.
Please note - this used to be Part 3
Lesson 3
Lesson 4: developing a strategy to deal with finding and correcting errors.
Please note - this part has disappeared from the exam but it's a necessary skill to have
Lesson 4
Lesson 5: developing a strategy to deal with Part 3: the word-building task
Please note - this used to be Part 5
Lesson 5

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