Grammar and Vocabulary for Cambridge Advanced and Proficiency: Unit 1 Practice Flashcards

A set of vocabulary-style flashcards covering key grammar tenses, common idiomatic phrases, and lexical concepts like collocation from the first unit of the lecture notes.

Present Perfect

A tense used to talk about events in a period including past and present, or past events with present results.

Past Perfect

A tense used to describe actions that occurred before something else in the past, or to talk about unfulfilled plans.

Future Perfect

A tense used to discuss something that will be finished before a specific time in the future, often used with 'by' or 'by the time'.

Continuous Tenses

Tenses used for activities that are temporary, continuing over a period, incomplete, or in the process of changing.

Stative Verbs

Verbs describing unchanging states (e.g., 'own', 'believe', 'belong') rather than actions, typically not used in the Continuous.

Collocation

The frequent occurrence of specific words together, such as 'time flies' or 'academic year', which sound natural to native speakers.

Strong Collocations

Fixed idiomatic phrases with a very limited number of collocates, such as 'stark raving mad' or 'bone idle'.

Weak Collocations

Words that have a large number of possible collocates, such as the various verbs that can be used with 'wealth' (accumulate, amass, inherit).

'They've made it!'

A common Present Perfect phrase meaning they have succeeded.

'That's torn it!'

A common phrase used when someone has done something that another person will complain strongly about.

'You've got me there!'

A common phrase expressing that a speaker has made a good point and the listener does not know the solution.

'On the point of'

An expression used to describe an action that is about to happen in a very short time.

'In the nick of time'

A time-related collocation meaning arriving or happening just at the critical moment to prevent disaster.

Perfect Infinitives

Infinitives used after link verbs like 'seem' or 'appear' to refer to a previous time period.

Word Formation

The process of creating new words using prefixes and suffixes, which is explicitly tested in CAE and CPE exams.