C1 ADVANCED: READING AND USE OF ENGLISH PART 2

1.  TASK INFORMATION:

a)    In part 2 there is a text with eight gaps (plus one example) where words have been removed. You write one word in each gap and your spelling must be correct.

b)   The open cloze tests your knowledge of language structures and your understanding of the text.  The missing words are grammar words rather than vocabulary items. The words you will need are usually one of these types: prepositions, connectors, auxiliary, modal or other basic verbs, determiners or articles, pronouns, basic adverbs such as too, enough, more or not.

c)    The answer will always be a single word. Remember that contractions count as two words.

d)   Sometimes there may be more than one possible answer and, if this is the case, the mark scheme allows for it but only write one of them.

2.  ACTION PLAN

a)    Look at the title and the example.

b)   Read through the text and think about what it means before answering the questions.

c)    Look at the words either side of the gap for more clues.

d)   For each gap, look at the context and decide what kind of word is needed ( an article, pronoun, preposition, etc )

e)   Do the questions you can answer easily first. Then, go back the more difficult gaps.

f)    Check you have spelt all the words correctly.

g)   When you have filled in the gaps, read through the whole text to check it makes sense before transferring your answers to the answer sheet.

 
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