Teacher: Valeria Nava

READING
Exam Asses 1 multiple choice
Read a modified cloze text containing eight gaps. There
are 4-option multiple-choice items for each gap.
8 questions

2 Open Cloze Read and complete a modified cloze text containing eight
8 questions gaps.

Word Read a text containing eight gaps. Each gap corresponds to a

3 Informarion word. The stem of the missing word is given beside the text
8 questions and must be changed to form the missing word.

There are six separate items, each with a lead-in sentence

4 key word and a gapped second sentence to be completed in two to
6 questions five words, one of which is a given ‘key’ word.
Exam Asses 5 Multiple choice Read a text followed by six 4-option multiple choice
6 questions questions.

Read a text from which sentences have been removed and

6 Gapped text
placed in jumbled order after the text. Candidates must decide
6 questions from which part of the text the sentences have been removed.

Multiple Read a text or several short texts, preceded by multiple-

7 Matching matching questions. Candidates must match a prompt to
10 questions elements in the text.

6 questions
READING PART 1
THE TASK

Part 1 consists of a text in which there are eight gaps. Candidates have to
choose which one of the four words or phrases in the set fills the gap
correctly.
To raise awareness of the precise meanings of words and the
importance of collocations; to practise skimming and scanning a
text.
 Strategies R1
1. Recognising the differences in meaning between similar words, e.g. cut and tear.

2. You should not choose your answer simply after reading the words which come
before the gap; they need to read the words which follow as well. It is sometimes
the case that a preposition or adverb which follows a gap determines which of the
options is correct.
3. Reading all the options for any question before deciding which one fills the gap
correctly, and remind them that they should never choose more than one option as
the answer.