Paper 3Ad viceona n swe ri n gPa rt..
1 Headth rou ghth e whole text first, for meaning.
2 Try marking each gap' noun','adjective', ' verb ', 'adve rb',e tc.Thiswillhelpyou
focuso n the grammarofthewo rdyo uarclooking for.
3 Mak esureyour answerfitsthe meaningofthe text, as well as thegrammar. For
example ,)' 011 mightneeda ne gative prefix(!illbelievahle)orsuffix(hopeless) .If
you w ritebelievableorhopef ill,your answerwillfitthe gramm ar,butitwill he
completelywrong in te rmsofthe meaning of the text.
4 \ Vhendoing practice exercises,usean English- Englishdictionary to correctthe m.
5 F orfurtherpractice, make anefforttonotice word formationwhen)'011ar c
reading English, and noted O\ \ 11an~thinginteresting yuu find. Yo uwillalso find
word formatio n exercises in publishe dvocabularvmate rials.
Part 5
Registertransfer(e.g. page 17)This questiontestsyour command ofregister- in other words, yourabilityto
choose the appro priatestyle andvocabularyfor aspecific situation. This is a key
areaof advanced writingskillsand is testedthroughoutPapers 2 and 3, butit is
relativelyunf amilia r andproblematicto many candidates. For this reason a unit on
style andregister is includedin thisbook(pages12-18), while everyunit explores
a variety of r egistersthrough contrasting text types.
In Part 5 there aretwo texts,containing the same informationbutwritten in
different registers(one oft hem may be an informalletter, theother a formal
not ice).The firsttext appears infull, whi le t he second contains gaps. Youhave to
fill the gaps in the secondtextwithinformation borrow ed from thefirst,but
because of thechange of registeryoucannotusethe samewords.The
instructions tell you how many wordsyou can use for each gap.Part 6
Phrasegap(e.g. page 46)
This questionagain consistsof agappedtext.This time,the gapscorrespond to
phrasesor wholesentenceswhichhave been removedand whichare printed
belowthe text,together with a few other phrases or sentences which donot fit.
This quest ionfocusesparticularly on discourse - the wayideas areorganizedinto
phrases, sentencesandparagraphs. It is t hereforea very usefu l exercise in the
developmentof w ritingskills.
Ad vi ceo n answe rin g Part 6
1 He adthro ughthe whole text to get an ideaofthe subjectmatter , theoverall
meaningand the re giste r.Whe redoes the textcomefrom?Whowro teit? \Vhy?
2 He adth rou ghallth e sugges tedphrases.
3 Don't make yourcho icestooquickly.Evenwhe na phrase looks good for a gap, it
may be wro ng.
4 \ Vo rk through the textslow ly, makingsurethat the phrase you choosefor each
gap matchesfo r:- meaning - doesyour choicefitwit h the phrasebe foreit{/mlthe
phraseafterit? D oes it fitwiththe me aningofthe wholeparagraph? - g rammar - lIlanyo f the suggested phrase smay not fit grammatically.
5 Do n't get stuck on a difficult gap.Leaveit and come hack toit late r,
f Startbycrossingoutthephraseyou are gh'enas anexample, then gradually cross
outthe otherphrasesassoon as you arecerta inyouhavefoundtheirplace .This
processo f eliminatio nsimplifiesthe task.
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