The Cambridge First Certificate Examination in English has five papers:- Reading; Speaking; Writing; Listening and Use of English. GRAMMAR - everybody’s favourite! There are four different parts in this paper, and 42 questions altogether. You have 45 minutes to answer all the questions. Here are the four different parts: Part 1 Multiple choice cloze. A text with 12 gaps. You have to choose which is the best word for the gap from a selection of four words. The focus here is mainly on vocabulary (words with meaning like nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs). Part 2 Open cloze text. Similar to multiple choice cloze, but without the choice. 10 gaps in a text, and you have to think of a word to fill the gap. This mainly tests grammar but there could be some missing vocabulary too (think about auxiliary verbs, articles ‘the’, ‘a’, ‘an’, prepositions, pronouns, phrasal verb particles, conjunctions etc). Part 3 Word formation. Here you have a text with ten gaps. You are given a root word and you have to change it to a verb, adjective, adverb, noun etc. in order to complete the text. This tests vocabulary, prefixes, suffixes and compounds. Part 4 - ‘Key’ word transformations. There are eight of these questions and you have to make a sentence which has a similar meaning as the one before, using the ‘key’ word which is given in the question. You have to complete the sentence with between 2 and 5 words. This part tests grammar and vocabulary. mansioningles/First_cert.htm
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