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    Unit 1 - Performing Arts - CPE

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    The document provides strategies for multiple choice and word formation tasks that may appear on standardized tests. It advises to read questions before the text, check that chosen answers match the text and writer's view, and use knowledge of grammar, affixes, and context clues to determine the missing words. Key vocabulary terms are also defined.

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    Unit 1 - Performing Arts - CPE

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    Julieta Deserti
    The document provides strategies for multiple choice and word formation tasks that may appear on standardized tests. It advises to read questions before the text, check that chosen answers match the text and writer's view, and use knowledge of grammar, affixes, and context clues to determine the missing words. Key vocabulary terms are also defined.

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    Unit 1

    Performing Arts

    1) What do you think of when you hear the expression The Arts?

    Strategies
    Multiple Choice

    This is a text about 700-750 words followed by six four-option multiple-choice questions.
    The focus of this task includes an understanding of the writer’s opinion and purpose for
    writing through attitude, tone and implication, together with an ability to grasp the
    significance of detail and text organization features.

    Task Strategy
    ➢ Whenever you answer questions on a text, it is important to keep the overall
    context and the writer’s intention in mind.
    ➢ Read the multiple-choice questions before you read the text. This will give a focus
    to your reading and ultimately save you time.
    ➢ Read the question stern carefully, plus all the options. Then read the relevant
    section of the text to find the answer.
    ➢ All of the options will seem possible answers to the question but only one will
    match the information in the text or the view of the writer. Check that the option
    you choose does both.

    Strategies
    Word Formation

    This is a task with eight gaps, based on a text between 150-170 words. The focus is on
    vocabulary and the formation of words from a stern, making use of affixation (prefixes and
    suffixes), internal changes and compound words. There may also be a grammatical
    element (plurality, verb tenses, participles, etc.) to the changes that need to be made.
    Some of the words you have to form may be part of fixed expressions or collocations.
    Task Strategy
    ➢ In order to find the correct word, remember to read each sentence in the context
    of the paragraph and the text as a whole.
    ➢ Use your knowledge of grammar to understand what part of speech the missing
    word is (noun, verb, adjective, adverb) and think through the range of possible
    affixes, including particles and negative prefixes or suffixes.
    ➢ Look carefully at the way the sentence is constructed to decide whether the
    missing word should be positive or negative.Look for evidence of antithesis (two
    opposing ideas)
    ➢ When the stern presents several possible derivatives, look at the context carefully
    to check that you have the derivative with the correct meaning.
    ➢ Remember that more than one change to the stem word can often be required.

    Vocabulary
    ● Tatty gymnasiums: in a bad condition because it has been used a lot or has not been
    cared for well
    ● Hustled: hustle somebody + adv./prep. to make somebody move quickly by pushing
    them in a rough aggressive way
    ● Sartorial style: relating to clothes, especially men’s clothes, and the way they are
    made or worn
    ● Lousy: [only before noun] used to show that you feel annoyed or offended because
    you do not think that something is worth very much
    ● Jaded: tired and bored, usually because you have had too much of something

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