FCE Reading and Use of English exam -part three.
Hi, in today's lesson we are going to learn how to do part 3 of the Cambridge First Certificate
Reading and Use of English exam.
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Part 3 of the RUE is a word formation task. So very similar to RUE 1 and 2 in that you
are given a short text of 150-160 words, in which there are 8 gaps (plus one gap as an
example). At the end of some of the lines, and separated from the text, there is a stem
word in capital letters. Students need to form an appropriate word from the given stem
words to fill each gap. In the test, the words will be a mix of nouns, adjectives, adverbs
and verbs. Each correct answer receives 1 point.
The main focus of this part of the exam is on vocabulary. It tests the student's knowledge
of how prefixes, suffixes, internal changes and compounds are used in forming words. Students
need to show that they understand the text beyond the sentence level. Spelling must be
correct.
So How do you do RUE part 3?
Read the title and text quickly first to get a general idea of what it's about.
Read carefully the words and before and after each gap to decide what meaning the word has
and what type of word you need (noun, verb, adjective or adverb)
Think about how you need to change the word in capitals to form the word you need.
When you have finished, read the completed text to make sure it makes sense.
Let's look at some examples.
The text is called Can plants talk?
(Put screen shot of complete text.)
Talk through the screen shot.
0 is the example and shows how you fill out the separate answer sheet with a letter in
each box. Here it’s the verb suggest with the added suffix –ions to make a noun. Remember
to check if you need a singular of plural. If you put no "s" you will get it wrong.
So read the whole text first to get the meaning. For question 17 we are given a verb "to grow"
and we need a noun. The answer is growth.
Let's move on to question 18. Here we are given the word science and we need to give
the name of the person who practises science. It is still a noun. Scientists. Remember again
it is plural, as there are more than one scientists in the group and it must also conjugate with
the following verb "have". So needs to be plural.
Question 19, from the context we can see that we need to change the given verb "behave"
to the noun "behaviour."
Question 20. Here we are given the "equip" and need to find the corresponding noun. We
need to add the suffix "-ment." Equipment.
Question 21, the given word is the verb record, and from the meaning of the sentence and the
presence of the definite article " the" we can see that we need a noun in the gap. The
noun formed from record is recording – here we can either use the singular or plural as
both work within the meaning and grammar of the text.
Question 22 again we are given the verb "discover" and we can see that we need a noun as there
is the indefinite article "an". The noun is discovery. and as "an" refers to a singular
noun there should be no "s".
For question 23, we need to understand the meaning of the sentence to know that we need
a negative adjective. as we are comparing what the scientists have discovered with the
past when scientists didn't know that plants could communicate. So we change aware with
the prefix "un" to give the opposite meaning. Unaware.
Finally question 24. Here we are given the noun value and need an adjective as it is
describing the information. The adjective from value is either valuable, valued or invaluable.
Here there are 3 possible answers.
So now you have completed it reread the complete text to check the words you have added make
sense.
So here we have completed a RUE part 3 question together and you can see the sort of answers
that are required and we have seen a mixture of verbs, nouns and adjectives. requiring
different suffixes and prefixes.
So, to
summarize here are my tips for FCE RUE part 3
Read the title and the complete text quickly to get an idea of what the text is about.
Read carefully before and after each gap.
Pay careful attention to the meaning of the text to help you think of what kind of word
goes in the gap. is it a noun, verb, adjective or adverb?
If using a noun, check whether it needs to be singular or plural.
If using a verb, check it is in the correct form.
If using a prefix, check whether it should be positive or negative.
Be careful to spell words correctly.
When you have finished, check your answers by reading the sentence then completed text
again.
So, you now know how to do rue part 3. click here for how to do part 4.
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FCE Reading and Use of English exam -part three.