Cambridge Proficiency Use of English Part One and Part Two
Instructions for teachers
Choose which pack of dominoes you want to use, perhaps due to which part of the test you have just practised or want to practise next. If you want to do both, you could do a Use of English Part One paper, then the Use of English Part One dominoes, then the Use of English Part Two dominoes, and finally a Use of English Part Two paper.
Copy, cut up and shuffle one pack per group of two to four students.
Each student takes seven cards each, then they lay one more card face up in the middle of the table. Students take turns trying to match half of one of their cards to one of the halves on the table to make collocations from (real) CPE exams. If they can’t make any match that their partners accept, they should pick one more card and play passes to the next person. Students continue in the same way until someone finishes all their dominoes or all the dominoes have been taken but no one can match any of their dominoes to the two ends of the string of dominoes on the table. The person with fewest dominoes left in their hand at the end wins the game.
When they finish the game, ask them to compare the matches between the dominoes on their table to the matches on an un-cut-up copy of the worksheet below, asking you if any different matches they made are possible.
After the game, they could test each other on the collocations by:
- Saying a sentence with one of the collocations but with one word missing for their partner to complete
- Saying a sentence with one of the collocations but with one word missing and two or more options for words to put in the gap (from the worksheet or their own ideas) for their partner to repeat back with the right word in
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CPE Use of English Part One collocations dominoes to cut up/ Suggested answers
| serious concerns
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stimulating | challenges | still |
| applicable
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innate | talents | intrinsic |
| value
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see the light | of day | lay to |
| rest (the myth…)
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a shining | example of… | a rebranding |
| exercise
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a dusty | old law firm | a new lease of |
| life
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the deadly | perils (of…) | reckless |
| actions | draft
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a report | advertising |
| campaign | a change of
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fortune | of central |
| importance | put someone to | sleep
|
render something |
| useless | gather | pace
|
hasten |
| his demise | achievable | goals | become
|
| the norm | a common | trait | works
|
| perfectly | does his job | competently | confirm
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| that it is true | support | someone’s opinion | sustain
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| life | a plausible | excuse | a predictable
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| failure | a prospective | candidate | the final
|
| destination | the exact | location | museum
|
| pieces | a mistaken | notion | sparks
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| a revolution | have a serious | flaw | hit a
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| snag | family | heirloom | personal
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| legacy | capture | the imagination | command your
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| attention | hold | great appeal (for…) | address
|
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Collocations in CPE Use of English Part Two dominoes
| forward
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nothing | new under the sun | for all |
| we know
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in close | formation | on the other |
| hand
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brings | recognition to | to what |
| degree
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for good | reason | come to |
| fruition
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a tall | order | might just make |
| it
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would no | longer be needed | sounds |
| like science fiction
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almost | all | each and |
| every time
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it goes without | saying | needs little |
| more than…
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strictly | speaking | can’t help |
| but wonder
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think | big | given |
| enough support,…
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very | little research | in danger |
| of disappearing
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briefly if at | all | there is nothing |
| new in…
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as far | back as 1767 | the phenomenon in |
| question
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call to | mind | willing to put |
| up with discomfort
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the first thing to pop | into my head | more often than |
| not
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however odd it might | seem | change is on the |
| horizon
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begin to make | up a bigger part | looking further |
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PDF for easy saving and printing: Collocations in CPE Use of English dominoes
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