Cambridge Reading 7-6-23

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

CAE reading practice

Reading is combined with Use of English. 2 weeks ago we practised with parts 1-4 UoE. Today we will talk about parts 5-8.

Press for an overview of the exam format.

This lesson:

1. Information on each individual part (5-8)

A slide with written information followed by a video with some tips for this particular part of the exam. 

If you feel ready to take the exam, skip the videos and start the exam(slide 11)

2. Practise exam

Some texts to practise with. The texts in the actual exam will be of similar length and level. 

Part 5

A longer text with 6 multiple choice questions at the end. You will be given 4 (a,b,c,d) options to choose from. 

This comes pretty close the how the final exam texts are structured. 

Questions often focus on finding specific information in the text. The questions are always in order and you need to be able to find the answers quickly.

Please watch the video on the next slide.

Part 6

This one is called 'cross text mutiple matching'. This is a more academic reading task where you must match one text (A-D) to a question. There are 4 texts (often reviews/opinions) and 4 questions you need to match them to.

A handy thing to teach yourself for this task is to highlight parts of the text that return in the questions or to make a grid and mark which text (A-D) matches with which question. 

Have a look at the following video on how to approach this reading task.

Part 7

This is text with 6 gaps in it. Each gap needs to be filled by a paragraph or long sentence that is missing. This can pretty difficult, but what we are testing here is textual structure, so make sure you know how different types of texts fit together.

So look at the words and context. There needs to be logical continuation (flow) to the text. Look for words that refer to other parts of the text (small words like this/that/those/these/so/it/were etc).

Have a look at the following video on how to approach this reading task.

Part 8

This is once again a multiple matching exercise, but it works a bit differently from part 6. There will be 10 questions and only 4/5 different texts (on the same topic) or one text split into 4/5 parts labeled from A-D or A-E that you need to match to the questions. That means you can use the letters more than once.

Read each part separately and see if you can match a question to it. Do this for each A-E part and make sure a question matches the part perfectly.

Have a look at the following video on how to approach this reading task.

Practise by yourselves

Use the following links to get the online practice site. Practise each part and make a screenshot/photo when you are finished for proof. Set a timer and check how long it took you to complete all parts. (You have 90 minutes for parts 1-8 incl Use of English).

Part 5: https://www.examenglish.com/CAE/cae_reading_use_of_english5.htm

Part 6: https://www.examenglish.com/CAE/cae_reading_use_of_english6.htm

Part 7: https://www.examenglish.com/CAE/cae_reading_use_of_english7.htm

Part 8: https://www.examenglish.com/CAE/cae_reading_use_of_english8.htm