Description: Get Ahead in FCE is essential preparation material for the revised Cambridge FCE examination. The course provides in-depth coverage of the four essential exam skills - reading, writing, listening and speaking - as well as grammar and vocabulary exercises to help students develop the required level of English.

Each thematically based unit contains:
• a lead-in section with speaking activities
• the three parts of Paper 1: Reading
• additional classroom activities for each reading text
• a variety of vocabulary exercises, including practice on easily confused words
• FCE-specific speaking activities to help students increase their fluency and accuracy
• FCE-specific writing tasks with additional exercises and writing tips
• FCE-specific listening, plus listening support
• a mini Use of English test at the end of each unit
Get Ahead in FCE will enable you to use English with confidence in real-life situations, focusing your language learning on the skills you will actually need to communicate - and to pass the FCE exam.

Key Features
• Ideal exam preparation for the Cambridge FCE (2008 format)
• Learner training component for development of study techniques
• Extensive coverage of vocabulary, set phrases, idioms and phrasal verbs
• Reading and listening texts in a variety of genres, topics and styles
• Pronunciation development
• Mapped to the Common European Framework
• Full teaching notes
• Audio CDs

Contents: Units:
• Getting Away From It All
• The Power of the Mind
• The Animal Kingdom
• Education for Everyone
• The Artistic Temperament
• Our Fragile Earth
• Ordinary People - Remarkable Lives
• Have You Heard the News?
• A Place to Call Home
• Into the Future