This e-book is Volume 3 of the 101 C2-Proficiency Key Word Transformation quizzes series written to help you improve paraphrasing skills. It contains 101 sentence transformations in total, many of which are based closely on some of the most common test items in past exam papers. For those preparing for the C2 Cambridge English Proficiency examination (previously known as the CPE), the book provides you with further practice for Part 4 of the Reading & Use of English paper. Prior to using this book, you should acquaint yourself with basic knowledge of some sophisticated grammar forms in English, which appear to be commonly tested in this part of the paper. These include inversion or inverted sentences, subjunctives, cleft sentences, emphatic structures, conditionals, comparatives and superlatives, relative clauses, nominal clauses, phrasal verbs and phrasal nouns, prepositional combinations, etc. A firm grasp of collocations and idiomatic expressions is also essential in helping you make full use of this book. Before checking out the other volumes of the series, it would be advisable for you to attempt Volume 1 and Volume 2 as they are aimed at helping you revise the key language features mentioned above as well as lay the foundation for more complex quizzes in the later volumes.

This e-book is Volume 2 of the 101 C2-Proficiency Key Word Transformation quizzes series written to help you improve paraphrasing skills. It contains 101 sentence transformations in total, many of which are based closely on some of the most common test items in past exam papers. For those preparing for the C2 Cambridge English Proficiency examination (previously known as the CPE), the book provides you with further practice for Part 4 of the Reading & Use of English paper. Prior to using this book, you should acquaint yourself with basic knowledge of some sophisticated grammar forms in English, which appear to be commonly tested in this part of the paper. These include inversion or inverted sentences, subjunctives, cleft sentences, emphatic structures, conditionals, comparatives and superlatives, relative clauses, nominal clauses, phrasal verbs and phrasal nouns, prepositional combinations, etc. A firm grasp of collocations and idiomatic expressions is also essential in helping you make full use of this book. Before checking out the other volumes of the series, it would be advisable for you to attempt Volume 1 and Volume 2 as they are aimed at helping you revise the key language features mentioned above as well as lay the foundation for more complex quizzes in the later volumes.

This e-book is Volume 4 of the 101 C2-Proficiency Key Word Transformation quizzes series written to help you improve paraphrasing skills. It contains 101 sentence transformations in total, many of which are based closely on some of the most common test items in past exam papers. For those preparing for the C2 Cambridge English Proficiency examination (previously known as the CPE), the book provides you with further practice for Part 4 of the Reading & Use of English paper. Prior to using this book, you should acquaint yourself with basic knowledge of some sophisticated grammar forms in English, which appear to be commonly tested in this part of the paper. These include inversion or inverted sentences, subjunctives, cleft sentences, emphatic structures, conditionals, comparatives and superlatives, relative clauses, nominal clauses, phrasal verbs and phrasal nouns, prepositional combinations, etc. A firm grasp of collocations and idiomatic expressions is also essential in helping you make full use of this book. Before checking out the other volumes of the series, it would be advisable for you to attempt Volume 1 and Volume 2 as they are aimed at helping you revise the key language features mentioned above as well as lay the foundation for more complex quizzes in the later volumes.

Objective Proficiency Second edition provides Official Exam Preparation for Cambridge C2 Proficiency. Everything you need to be confident for exam day. The Teacher's Book contains teaching notes, extra teaching ideas to extend or shorten the length of the activities, listening transcripts and clear, comprehensive answer keys. An exclusive bank of further resources is available online including a complete practice test with audio, answer keys and sample answers and C2-level wordlists, informed by English Profile.

This book has been written to help students prepare for the Key Word Transformation part of the Use of English paper (grammar) of the Cambridge English: C2 Proficiency. It will give you a good understanding of the different grammatical structures commonly used in this part of the Use of English test, e.g. passive - active voice , impersonal passive, conditional sentences , inverted conditionals, inversions, set phrases, comparative-superlative, causative verbs, phrasal verbs, linking words, etc. If you want to learn how to do Key word transformation exercises effectively, this book is for you. D.Méndez

Cambridge English for Schools Practice Tests have been designed to familiarise students with the level and format of the Cambridge English Key, Preliminary and First (previously known as KET, PET and FCE) for Schools examinations. Students can be assured that they will receive the relevant, up-to-date, appropriate training to successfully undertake these tests. The guidance and tips sections advise students on how to approach each part of the examination and allow them to improve the skills required.

Bestselling author Alain de Botton considers how our private homes and public edifices influence how we feel, and how we could build dwellings in which we would stand a better chance of happiness. In this witty, erudite look at how we shape, and are shaped by, our surroundings, Alain de Botton applies Stendhal’s motto that “Beauty is the promise of happiness” to the spaces we inhabit daily. Why should we pay attention to what architecture has to say to us? de Botton asks provocatively. With his trademark lucidity and humour, de Botton traces how human needs and desires have been served by styles of architecture, from stately Classical to minimalist Modern, arguing that the stylistic choices of a society can represent both its cherished ideals and the qualities it desperately lacks. On an individual level, de Botton has deep sympathy for our need to see our selves reflected in our surroundings; he demonstrates with great wisdom how buildings — just like friends — can serve as guardians of our identity. Worrying about the shape of our sofa or the colour of our walls might seem self-indulgent, but de Botton considers the hopes and fears we have for our homes at a new level of depth and insight. When shopping for furniture or remodelling the kitchen, we don’t just consider functionality but also the major questions of aesthetics and the philosophy of art: What is beauty? Can beautiful surroundings make us good? Can beauty bring happiness? The buildings we find beautiful, de Botton concludes, are those that represent our ideas of a meaningful life. The Architecture of Happiness marks a return to what Alain does best — taking on a subject whose allure is at once tantalizing and a little forbidding and offering to readers a completely beguiling and original exploration of the subject. As he did with Proust, philosophy, and travel, now he does with architecture.

This volume documents the revision of the Certificate in Proficiency in English (CPE) 1991 to 2002.

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Collocations are combinations of words which frequently appear together. Using them makes your English sound more natural.