BBC Learning English Exam Skills Listening – Focussed listening _________________________________________________ Comprehension Choose the correct answers to the questions below.

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BBC Learning English Keep Your English Up To Date 23rd November 2010 Bottle and Bottler ‘Brown the Bottler’ the placards said. Gordon Brown had recently taken over as prime minister of Britain in 2007, and he’d bee

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• British slang
• English language
• Slang
• Bottling company
• Dictionary
• The Bottler
• Bottle
• Rhyming slang
• Linguistics
• Technology
• British English

BBC Learning English Exam Skills Ideas for using Exam Skills in class _________________________________________________ 1. Jumbled text: download and cut up the programme transcript. Ask the students to reorganise them i

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• Jigsaw
• Pedagogy
• Education
• Educational psychology
• Learning

BBC Learning English Exam Skills Reading _________________________________________________ Skimming and scanning Complete the crossword by skimming and scanning the audio transcript for words that match the

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• Constrained writing
• Word square
• Classical cipher
• Computer programming
• Computing
• Software engineering

BBC Learning English Weekender SS Great Britain Hi, I’m Anna and you’re listening to Weekender. In today’s programme, we go back in time and far out to sea on a huge, iron, passenger ship … well, almost! We go to

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• Replica ships
• Bristol
• SS Great Britain
• Matthew
• Drydock
• Maritime history
• Watercraft
• Steamships
• National Register of Historic Vessels

BBC Learning English Exam Skills Revision strategies _________________________________________________ Topic focus Organise the suggestions below according to whether they are good or bad strategies for revision.

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• The Exam
• Behavior
• Cognition
• Human behavior
• Writing
• Study skills
• Revision

BBC Learning English Exam Skills Listening – Focussed listening _________________________________________________ Gapped Dictation Work in pairs. Make sure each person has one text each (A and B). Don’t let your part

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• Question
• Yes and no
• Linguistics
• Data collection
• Grammar
• Human communication

BBC Learning English Exam Skills Building vocabulary – Use it or lose it _________________________________________________ Listening Listen to the programme. You will hear four different people talking. Their names are

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• Language
• Vocabulary
• Linguistics
• Learning to read
• Lexicography

BBC Learning English Exam Skills Writing – Sharpen your exam technique _________________________________________________ Reading & writing Your friend Alicia is hoping to go and study overseas and has recently taken an

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BBC Learning English Exam Skills Preparing – The day before and on the day _________________________________________________ Verbs Fill in the gaps in the text with the verbs given in the box below. You may need to cha

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• Films
• The Exam