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Paper 3: English in Use - Time allowed: 1 hour 30 minutes

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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