FCE (First Certificate in English) Use of English Part Two- Brainstorming Games

Cambridge First Certificate (FCE) Use of English Part Two brainstorming games

 

Part One – Prepositions in Use of English Part One open cloze

Your teacher will read out one of the prepositions from gaps in real FCE Use of English Part Two papers below. Work together to brainstorm as many (full) example sentences with that word as you can, avoiding words that you have already used in previous example sentences. You get three points per sentence, but lose one of those points per repeated word. Your teacher may restrict what parts of speech are allowed, e.g. not allowing “like” as a verb.

When your teacher stops you, your example sentences will be passed to another group to check. They can challenge your sentences if they think an example sentence is wrong, but they will lose three points if their challenge is wrong.

 

Across

Against

Ago

As

At

Before

Beyond

By

For

From

In

Into

Like

Of

Off

On

Over

To

Until

Up

Without

 

Do the same again, but this time with one team choosing which preposition above they want everyone to brainstorm example sentences for.

Do the same again, but this time with different teams choosing different prepositions to do the brainstorming with (at the same time).

Do the same again, but with use of dictionaries allowed.

Do all the same games for the more expanded lists of words which can go in gaps in Use of English Part Two on the pages below.

 

Part Two – Different kinds of words in Use of English Part Two open cloze

Linking words

if, though, although, as, but, so, and, despite, or, since, while, whilst, because, due, during, instead, nevertheless, nor, thus, unless, unlike, whether, owing

 

Determiners

all, any, little, no, an, a, enough, every, his, its, our, their, another, few, much, such, the

 

Auxiliary verbs

had, would, be, did, has, have, is, must, will, been, being, can, could, does, may, might, should, was, becoming, getting

 

Reference words

this, it, one, them, themselves, there, these, others, us, everything, anything

 

Relative pronouns

that, which, when, where, whose, who

 

Question words

which, when, how, what

 

Time expressions other than prepositions

yet, last, past, previous, just