Cambridge English - Tips for FCE Reading and Writing

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by  Obee Bob.

Tips for FCE Reading and Writing

Bob Obee Sibiu and Bucharest 2012
Reading
Format of Paper 1 (Reading)
Part 1 a text followed by 8 multiple choice
questions

Part 2 gapped text task with 7 sentences
removed from a base text

Part 3 one text or several short texts - multiple
matching questions
FCE Reading
Part 1 One text with multiple-choice questions
(gist, attitude, opinion, detail, main idea, text organisation features etc.)

Part 2 Gapped text with sentences removed
(text structure, cohesion and coherence)

Part 3 Multiple matching
(specific information,detail opinion and attitude)
Multiple-choice elimination

I shifted uncomfortably inside my best suit and eased a finger inside the tight

white collar. It was hot in the little bus and I had taken a seat on the wrong
side where the summer sun beat on the windows. It was a strange outfit for
the weather, but a few miles ahead my future employer might be waiting for
me and I had to make a good impression.

There was a lot depending on this interview. Many friends who had qualified
with me were unemployed or working in shops or as labourers in the
shipyards. So many that I had almost given up hope of any future for myself
as a veterinary surgeon.

1 As he travelled, the writer regretted his choice of
A
B clothes.
C career.
D means of transport.
Part 1: testing focus /question spread
1 detail 5 opinion
2 purpose 6 detail (inference)
3 main point 7 lexical meaning
4 main point 8 gist
Reading Part 2

How things fit together …
Question 9: option D
Mrs Hart was one of four theatre lovers
chosen to judge all new drama productions

l ast year. They were part of a panel that

also included five professional theatre

critics.
Question 11: option G
Being a judge was hard work, though. In
one week alone, her duties involved her

r eviewing as many as seven plays. ‘But I

never got sick of it. Even the plays I didn’t

like always had some redeeming qualities.’
Question 13: option B
In this situation, there is surely a danger
o f the professional critics dominating the

discussions. ‘That didn’t happen at all. It

was all very civilised and friendly.’