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CEPT Practice C1 Level short listening about a trainee teacher

 

You hear a trainee teacher called Susanna talking to her tutor.

1 What point does the tutor make about a teacher's attitude?

A A good teacher can put any subject across effectively.

B Students will pick up on a teacher's commitment.

C There's little point in a teacher trying to fake passion for a subject.

2 What is Susanna doing?

A complaining about her students' lack of enthusiasm

B proposing ways of making her subject more appealing

C asking for ideas about exercises her students could do 

Transcript

Man: How are you finding the teaching course, Anna? You seem to have been making good progress so far.

Woman: Yeah, I'm feeling more confident in front of my students. But I worry about whether they're inspired by the activities I do with them sometimes. I guess this is a wake-up call for me - that it's just too much to expect them to be as excited about Maths as I am.

Man: I think when a teacher's motivated, that can't fail to make an impression. You can't expect your students to love a subject unless they can see you love it yourself. Sure, your students will think you're crazy if you talk about Maths as if it were a spectator sport, but in the end your attitude will rub off on them.

Woman: I was reading about some techniques I could try in the classroom to keep their interest levels up. I've been trying to get some more hands-on stuff into my classes - you know trying things out in a practical sense rather than sticking to boring theory.

Man: Sounds like an excellent idea. Students always appreciate a teacher who goes the extra mile for them.

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CEPT Practice B2 Level Multiple-choice cloze test

PAPER

'Just (0) ..... a day without paper,' reads one advertisement for a Finnish paper company. It adds, 'You almost (1) ..... see our products every day.' And they're right. But in most industrial countries, people are so (2) ..... to paper - whether it's for holding their groceries, for drying their hands or for (3) ..... them with the daily news -that its (4) ..... in their daily lives passes largely unnoticed.

At one (5) ... .. paper was in short supply and was used mainly for important documents, but more recently, growing economies and new technologies have (6) ..... a dramatic increase in the (7) ..... of paper used. Today, there are more than 450 different grades of paper, all designed for a different (8) ..... .

Decades ago, some people predicted a 'paperless office'. (9) .... .,the widespread use of new technologies has gone hand-in-hand with an increased use of paper. Research into the relationship between paper use and the use of computers has shown that the general (10) ..... is likely to be one of growth and interdependence.

However, the costs (11) ..... in paper production, in terms of the world's land, water and air resources, are high. This (12) ..... some important questions. How much paper do we really need and how much is wasted? 

1 A positively    B obviously    c certainly   D absolutely

2 A conscious   B acquainted   c familiar     D accustomed

3 A providing    B delivering     c contributing   D giving

4 A task             B operation      c service        D role

5 A time             B instance        c date         D occasion

6 A called on     B come around   c brought about   D drawn up

7 A total        B portion                  c number      D amount

8 A point        B goal                    c purpose    D result

9 A Instead    B Besides            c Otherwise    D Alternatively

10 A method    B order             c trend         D system

11 A involved    B contained     c held        D connected

12 A puts         B raises             c gets          D places

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