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| Paper 3 Use of English | ||||||
| Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes | Paper | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| Part | Task type | Tests knowledge of | Questions |
| 1. Open cloze | Read a text with 15 gaps and choose one word for each gap. | grammatical and lexico-grammatical items. | 15 |
| 2. Word Formation | Read a text with 10 gaps, and form the missing word from a given 'stem' word. | how words are formed through prefixes, suffixes and compounding | 10 |
| 3. Gapped Sentences | For each question there are 3 separate sentences, each with a gap. Find one word which can fit in all 3 sentences. | lexis, especially collocation, phrasal verbs and word combinations | 6 |
| 4. Key word transformations | Read a sentence and complete another gapped sentence using a key word. | lexical and lexico-grammatical items. | 8 |
| 5.
Comprehension questions Summary writing task Read two texts and answer two questions on each one. |
Read
two texts and answer two questions on each one. Write a summary using relevant information from each text. |
awareness
of how language is used by a writer selecting information, sentence construction, paraphrasing and linking |
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1 (summary) |