PAPER 3 - USE OF ENGLISH
El tercer módulo del FCE (Uso del Inglés) cuenta con cuatro partes, cada una de las cuales presenta diferentes tipos de ejercicios para medir tanto la gramática como el vocabulario del examinado.
Resumen
- Time allowed: 45 minutes
- Number of parts: 4
- Number of questions: 42
- Marks: 20% of total
-
Part 1 (Multiple-choice cloze)
- What's in Part 1?
- A text in which there are some missing words or phrases (gaps). After the text there are four possible answers for each gap and you have to choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).
-
- What do I have to practise?
- Vocabulary - words with similar meanings, collocations, linking phrases, phrasal verbs, etc.
-
- How many questions are there?
- 12
-
- How many marks do I get?
- One mark for each correct answer.
Part 2 (Open cloze)
- What's in Part 2?
- A text in which there are some missing words (gaps). You have to find the correct word for each gap.
-
- What do I have to practise?
- Grammar and vocabulary.
-
- How many questions are there?
- 12
-
- How many marks do I get?
- One mark for each correct answer.
Part 3 (Word formation)
- What's in Part 3?
- A text containing ten gaps. Each gap represents a word. At the end of the line is a ‘prompt’ word which you have to change in some way to make the correct missing word and complete the sentence correctly.
-
- What do I have to practise?
- Vocabulary – word building: the different words which you can make from a ‘base’ word, e.g. ‘compete’ becomes ‘competition’, ‘competitor’, ‘competitive’, competitively’ or ‘uncompetitive’.
-
- How many questions are there?
- 10
-
- How many marks do I get?
- One mark for each correct answer.
Part 4 (Key word transformations)
- What's in Part 4?
- A sentence followed by a key word and a second sentence which has a gap in it. You have to use the key word to complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the first sentence.
-
- What do I have to practise?
- Grammar and vocabulary - rewriting sentences with different words so that they mean the same thing.
-
- How many questions are there?
- 8
-
- How many marks do I get?
- Two marks for each correct answer.
-
- Fuente: http://www.candidates.cambridgeesol.org/cs/Help_with_exams/General_English/FCE/Papers?paper=Use%20of%20English&panel=parts#selectedtab
Entradas
