Premium-C1 Level Exam Reviser
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Unit 1
Friend o r foe?
1.1 Talking abour Families and friends
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1.2 Multi-word verbs - relarionships
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1.3 Describing people
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Sensacional ea ti ng
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2.1 Describing rescauranrs
2.2 i'v\ulci-word verbs wich up
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2.3 Senses of eacing
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Game on
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3.1 Compete, w1n and lose
3.2 Achievemenc
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Tell it like it is
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4.1 M emories and looking back
4.2 Powerful adjeccives
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Man's bese friend
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5.2 Mulci-word verbs wich out
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Unit 6
Making movies
6.1 Films
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6.2 Prefixes
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Unit 7
Gec smar ter
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7.1 .\i\ulci-word verbs with cwo parcicles
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7.2 Expressions wich brain and think
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Wonders of che worl d
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8. 1 Tourisc sighcs
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8.2 The effeccs of che weacher
8.3 Fixed phrases wich che weacher
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Eye witness
9.1 M ulci-wo rd verbs - crime
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9.2 Crime and punish mem (1)
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9.3 Crime and punishmem (2)
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Unit 10 Recycle, restyle
10.1 Environmencal issues
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10.2 Dependenc prepositions wich
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verbs and nouns
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Unit 11 Whac's in a nam e?
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11.1 Suffixes
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11.2 Words wich mulciple meanings
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Unir 12 Be you r own boss
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12.1 Work
12.2 Us1ng precise vocabulary
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Un ir 13 New science, old beliefs
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13.1 Modern branches of science
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13.2 Verb + noun collocacions
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1 Relacio nshi ps
2 Crime
3 Science and research
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5 wich out
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The grammar of multi-word verbs
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take to someone =sean: co like someone (or someching)
cheer someone up = make someone scarc to feel happier
get on with someone = have a good relacionship wich someone
fit in = co be accepced by ocher people in a group
turn to someone = co cry co gec help, advice or sympechy from someone
wind someone up = to deliberacely say or do someching rhac will annoy or worry someone
go ouc with sorneone = have a romancic relacionship wich someone
break up ith someone = end a romancic relacionship wich someone
fa// out with someone = have an argumenc wich someone chac damages che relacionship
make up wirh someone = forgive someone afcer an argumem and become friendly again
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be good company
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be brucally honesc
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cosy
decor
interior
:rendy location
build up
eat up
use up
hang up
add up
chink up
conjure up
make up
dream up
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enormous/outstanding achievemenr
a greac/resounding success
to achieve
to obtain
to reach
a goal
to achieve
a goal
an aim
a personal best
success
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laughable
ludicrous
ridiculous
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swnning
scupendous
sraggering
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Iasmnishing
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get your brain in gear = ro make yourself scarr chi nking clearly and effecrively
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a 'get-away = an escape from a place or unpleasam sirua(ion, especially after commining a
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He had real ly bad Au las( week, bue he's as right as rain now.
2 She's having abad (ime ar (he momem, bu( 1(hink she'll weather the storm.
3 The freezing cold made himfee/ very under the weather.
4 She never concemra(es in class; she always seems ro have her head in the clouds. 1
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play rruam
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go on proba[ion
paya (heavy) fine
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A breathing probiems
B rise in Earth's temperarnre
4 unrreared sewage
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5 oil spills
D destrucrion of coral reefs
6 agriculrural chemicals
7 deforestarion
8 using aerosol sprays
9 deplerion of che
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brand
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a treelancer
to work pare-time
a temp
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a commuter
an office worker
a manual worker
a skilled/semiskilled/ unskil led
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to be freelance
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to work from home
co work shifcs/co do
shifc work
to be on duty
to be on cal!
work full-cime
to work Aexi-time
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job sharing
good promotion
prospeccs
perks
a bonus
holiday pay
sick pay
macernity pay
highly-paid
work-related stress
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overcrowded
unsocial hours
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4 stutter: co speak wieh a lor of pauses and repeated sounds, because you are nervous or
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1 to take to (someone): When
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2 to cheer (someone) up: 1wasn'c
feeling very well so 1 wacched a funny
film co cheer myself up.
3 to fit in: We need someone who will
fic in quickly wich che exiscing ceam.
4 to turn to (someone): Whenever
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brocher for help.
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6 t o get on with (someone): l'm
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8 to break up with (someone):
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week after having a huge argu menc
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crime
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