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Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) Reading and Use of

English Part 2

Teachers notes

Aims of the lesson to make sure students know what type of words

are commonly tested in Part 2

to encourage students to read the whole text

before filling in the gaps

Time needed 15-20 minutes

Materials required no additional materials are required

Procedure 1. Elicit from the class what they have to do in Part 2 an open cloze task.

Part 2 consists of a text in which there are eight gaps (plus one gap as an example). Candidates use their knowledge of the structure of the language and understanding of the text in order to fill the gaps. As there are no sets of words from which to choose the answers in this part, candidates have to think of a word which will fill the gap correctly. The focus of the gapped words is either grammatical, such as articles, auxiliaries, prepositions, pronouns, verb tenses and forms; or lexico-grammatical, such as phrasal verbs, linkers and words within fixed phrases. The answer will always be a single word. In some cases, there may be more than one possible answer and this is allowed for in the mark scheme. The absence or misuse of punctuation is ignored, although spelling, as in all parts of the Reading and Use of English paper, must be correct.

Remind students that answers can be written on the question paper but that they have to be transferred to the answer sheet. Answers have to be written in capital letters, and in pencil, on the answer sheet. Each correct answer receives one mark.

2. Give out the worksheet and ask students to do Exercise 1. They can work in pairs.

3. Check through the answers.

4. Exercise 2 draws students attention to the types of words commonly tested in Part 2. Make

sure that students know what is being tested here see the answer to 1 above. If your

students are not familiar with these grammatical terms, you may prefer to omit this exercise

or to do it with the students. Candidates will not be expected to know grammatical

terminology in the exam.

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5. Look at Exercise 3. Students could work in small groups and discuss the questions. The aim

here is to make sure students think about the topic so that when they come to do the task,

they will be able to consider the text as a whole more easily. Elicit the main points

discussed.

6. Exercise 4 is a suggested procedure for doing an open-cloze task. Suggest that students

keep trying to build up the text as a whole rather than focus on individual gaps and

sentences.

7. Give out the sample task so students can work through it on their own, using the knowledge

they have learned so far. Check the answers with the whole class.

Suggested follow-up activity You could give groups of students a text and ask them to find eight verbs, prepositions, conjunctions and determiners, etc., and to blank these words out. The students could then give their text to another group who should complete the text with suitable words.

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Cambridge English: Advanced Reading and Use of English Part 2 answer keys

Key to Students worksheet

Exercise 1 a) by b) for c) to d) Although e) According f) being

Exercise 2 articles, auxiliaries, words within fixed phrases, prepositions, pronouns, linkers

Key to sample task

1 little

2 Though/Although/While/Whilst

3 why

4 may/might/will

5 not/never

6 out

7 off

8 so

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Cambridge English: Advanced Reading and Use of English Part 2 Students worksheet Exercise 1 Think of one word to complete each sentence.

a) The disease malaria is spread mosquitoes.

b) We know that the most effective chemical protecting people against mosquitoes is diethyltoluamide.

c) The word diethyltoluamide is commonly shortened deet.

d) deet works well, it has some serious drawbacks.

e) to the World Health Organisation, malaria affects millions of people every year.

f) For the time , however, we have to continue spraying ourselves with unpleasant liquids.

Exercise 2 What types of words have you used to complete the gaps? Underline the types of words you have used in the list.

articles, auxiliaries, words within fixed phrases, prepositions, pronouns, linkers

Exercise 3 Before you read the sample task below, discuss these questions with a partner:

a) Have you, or has anyone you know, ever been bitten by an insect like a mosquito?

b) Do you have an allergic reaction to insect bites? What happens?

c) What do you think people can do to protect themselves against being bitten by insects?

d) Do you think that insects are more attracted to some people than to others?

Exercise 4 1 Read the whole text to get a general understanding of it. Do not fill in any gaps yet.

2 Go through the text and fill in any gaps where you are sure you know which word fills the gap.

3 Read the whole text again.

4 Fill in some more gaps.

5 Keep reading the whole text and try to fill in all the gaps.

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Cambridge English: Advanced Reading and Use of English Part 2 sample task

Mosquitoes According to the World Health Organisation, malaria, a disease spread (0) ...by......

mosquitoes, affects millions of people every year. Everyone knows how irritating the

noise made by a mosquito, followed by a painful reaction to its bite, can be. It is

astonishing that so (1) .. is known about why mosquitoes are drawn to or driven

away from people, given the level of distress and disease caused by these insects. We

know that the most effective chemical for protecting people against mosquitoes is

diethyltoluamide, commonly shortened to deet. (2) .. deet works well, it has some

serious drawbacks: it can damage clothes and some people are allergic to it.

Scientists know that mosquitoes find some people more attractive than others, but they

do not know (3) this should be. They also know that people vary in their

reactions to mosquito bites. One person has a painful swelling while another who is

bitten by the same mosquito (4) hardly notice. Scientists have (5)

discovered the reason for this, but they have carried (6) experiments to show

that mosquitoes are attracted to, or put (7) .. by, certain smells. In the future,

scientists hope to develop a smell that mosquitoes cannot resist. This could be used in

a trap (8) that, instead of attacking people, mosquitoes would fly into the trap

and be destroyed. For the time being, however, we have to continue spraying ourselves

with unpleasant liquids if we want to avoid getting bitten.