Fce Use of English Part 2

FCE Use of English Part 2 Activity teachers notes
Description This activity is presented in the format of Part 2 and aims to give your students an overview of Part 2 of Paper 3. Time required: Additional materials required: Aims: 3040 minutes (plus 1520 minutes for the optional task) any sample Part 2 task (optional)
to familiarise students with the FCE Use of English paper Part 2 and the strategies needed to tackle this type of task
Procedure 1. Tell your students that you are going to look at Part 2 of the Use of English paper. 2. Hand out the worksheet. Ask the students to read the instructions but not to start the task. Give them 12 minutes to do this. 3. Check that the students understand the task. For example, you could ask: a. How many questions do you need to answer? 12 b. How many words do you need to write for each answer? 1 4. Point out that this activity will give them an overview of the Part 2 task, and this overview will help them answer some of the questions (e.g. number 14) in the sample task. Mention that the title gives help in understanding the text. Refer to the example to show how the task works. 5. Students now attempt the task individually. Its a good idea to give them a time limit of 1015 minutes so that they get used to working under time limits. 6. After 1015 minutes, tell students to compare their answers in pairs/small groups. 7. Check answers in class. For each question, ask students to explain why they chose the answer they did. 8. Ask the class to look at the types of gap in the text. In pairs, they should discuss the types of word that are missing. For example, question 0 is a conjunction. See the key for further reference. Go through the text in class, discussing the different types of gap in the text.
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Suggested follow-up activity You could now give your class a sample Part 2 task for further practice. See pages 45 and 49 of the FCE handbook.
FCE Use of English Part 2 Activity answer keys

Key to Procedure Step 8: 13) 14) 15) 16) 17) 18) 19) 20) 21) 22) 23) 24) specific information (this would not be tested in the exam) phrasal verb negative structure collocation set phrase modal verb comparative structure linker negative modal/adverb (to highlight that in some cases, more than one answer is possible) dependent preposition reference set phrase
Key to Students worksheet 13. twelve 14. on 15. any 16. fill 17. such 18. will/ must 19. than 20. as 21. never/not 22. to 23. it 24. mind
FCE Use of English Part 2 Students Worksheet

How much do you know about Part 2 of the Use of English paper? For questions 1324, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0). Example: 0 and
Part two In Part 2, there is an emphasis on grammar (0) ......... vocabulary. This part consists of a text in which there are (13) ......... gaps (plus one gap as an example). Candidates are required to draw (14) ......... their knowledge of the structure of English and understanding of the text in order to fill the gaps. In this part, unlike Part 1, there arent (15) ......... sets of words from which to choose the answers. Therefore, candidates have to think of a word which will (16) ......... the gap correctly. The focus of the gapped words is either grammatical, (17) ......... as articles, auxiliaries, prepositions, pronouns, verb tenses and forms, or lexico-grammatical, such as phrasal verbs, linkers and words within fixed phrases. The answer (18) ......... always be a single word. In some cases, there may be more (19) ......... one possible answer and this is allowed for in the mark scheme. Each correct answer receives one mark. Spelling, (20) ......... in all parts of the Use of English paper, must be correct. Candidates must make sure that they only use one word to fill each of the gaps, and should (21) ......... use abbreviations (e.g. sthg for something) or contractions (e.g. didnt, hell). The only exception (22) ......... this rule is cant which may be used in place of cannot. Candidates need to read the words which follow the gap as well as those which come before (23) ......... . They should also keep in (24) ......... a sense of the whole text.

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