Hello guys, welcome to this Cambridge English advanced exam video course, we're going to be focusing on part two of the use of English paper in this video lesson. So let's have a look at the different question types that are involved in the use of English paper. Yep, part one multiple choice close part two, open close, Part Three word formation, and part four key word transformations. And as I said, we're going to be focusing on part two, open close in this lesson. So you're going to learn the best tips technique and strategy to use for part two in the exam. And we're also going to look at some practice examples which will help us to understand and use this technique so when you get into the exam, it's like second nature so pumped To open close.

How many questions are there in part two? There are eight questions. How many texts Do you need to read or passages? Do you need to read? Just one? How many options can you choose from?

No options. So time for my first tip, I suggest that you very quickly read the whole of the text for doing anything else. To get an understanding of what it's about. It's a lot easier to think of the answers to the questions if you understand the overall topic. So let's do a practice example. What I'd like you to do is to open the Cambridge English advanced 2015 reading and use of English sample paper, pot for some paper for sorry, and I want us to look at Part Two which is on page four.

So you can find this example paper by typing this web address into your internet browser. So pause the video now and type this address into an internet browser. For example, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, Safari. Once you've done that, press play. Okay, so hopefully you've done that. If you've typed in correctly, you should see a document which looks like this.

What we're going to do is to scroll down, there's some useful information here from from an old exam paper so you can see the instructions that you'll be given when she gets into the exam. We're going to scroll down until we find part two, which is on page four. Okay. What I've done is I've actually posted it over here into my presentation, but it might The easiest for you to read on this web pages will ask you to open it. Now I have two questions for you to practice reading very quickly for the overall understanding, and maybe a specific detail. So there's two questions and I want you to just take 30 seconds for each question.

So have a read of these questions number one, and number two at the top here. Then pause the video and time yourself and try to find the first question to answer the first question in 30 seconds. And then try to find the answer for the second question in 30 seconds as well. When you're ready, press play. Okay, so hopefully you've done that. That's it have a look at the answers.

So the answer to number one is no After it was invented the post it note become popular immediately. No, it didn't. And number two who invented the post it note scientist working for a US company. And we can find the answer to number one here in the text. We can find the answer to number two here in the text. Okay, it's time for my next tip.

Tip number two, you should locate the first gap and then read the whole sentence. So read the sentence with the words before they get and after the gap. Reading the whole sentence, and you should use the meaning what you understand from the sentence the meaning of the sentence to guess what word might go in the gap. Tip number three is to look at the world. Immediately surrounding the gap. Because if you understand sentence structures in English, you should have an idea of what type of word you need.

Do you need an adjective Do you need a noun? So it's really important for this exam. Understand sentence structures, and word formations. It's it's an adjective as it's a noun, is it a relative pronoun, etc. And this article here from my website will be really useful as a good starting point to read about word families and sentence structures if you don't know a lot about them already. So I advise you type this into your web browser and read this page.

It's really useful. I say that the ending of a word often dictates and indicates what type of word it is frequent Sample words which end in meant or E on and on and on normally nouns. This is the type of information they'll be really useful for you. Because if you know that the word you need in the gap is a noun, because the words before and after, like okay, what what type of noun ending Do I need to I need to work now in the entertainment or an MC ends, such as recognizing word endings and sentence and understanding sentence structures who helped you get higher marks in the exam? repeating this because it's really important for the exam to understand word endings and sentence structures. recognizing what type of word it is.

Tip number four. You normally need to use short connecting words in this part of the exam. For example, prepositions verbs and relative pronouns. These all come up very often. So if you don't know what these types of words are and what they mean, then you should definitely look them up. What is a relative pronoun.

And again, this website, my website, which you can access from this web page here, we really useful for understanding the different types of words. Now, I want us to do another practice example. So what I'd like you to do is, again, look at this document here, page four, up to focus particularly on number nine. Okay, and what I've done is I've actually copied it here, it might be easier for you to read here, but might also be easier for you to read it in this webpage here. We're focusing on number nine. So what I'd like you to do is to read the whole sentence.

First and think about the meaning, then look at the type of words that surrounding the gap and to decide what type of word you need. So once you've done that, and you've decided what type of word you need, I want you to press play. Right now press pause, and think, what type of work do you think goes into gap number nine. Okay, so hopefully you've done that. Let's have a look what I've written down here. So, I think the determiner is needed in number nine to say how clever This is.

How clever is it? And what word can go before Ah, and then adjective because we have And then clever, which is an adjective and then a noun way, then at that clause, because there is a certain type of word which goes for this type of phrase. For example, this could give you a clue. He was a poor boy, but he couldn't go to school. So what word do you think could go in the gap here. And this is why understanding sentence structures and what type of words you need to use and sentence structures, it's really useful.

And we can see that the word such can go in this gap. And it can also go in the gap and I'm a night he was such a poor boy, that he couldn't go to school. So that's exactly what you need to do again, just to remind ourselves the technique in the exam. Firstly, read the whole passage to have a quick understanding. what it's about. Secondly, read the whole sentence think about the meaning of the sentence what what type of word fits with the meaning.

And then once you understand the meaning and you think you know what type of word you need, then you need to focus really on the type and the type of word is it an adjective? Is it a noun? That depends on the words before and after the gap, as we've seen in this example. Okay, now for homework, you should follow the tips and technique that I've taught you in this lesson. simple tips and technique, take those and use them in the same order to complete part two of the sample paper, this webpage here. So you should try to complete this part two, for homework, and also to you should also practice this even more by buying a course book and completing the part two exercises in a course book, using this formula taught to you again And this is a course that I recommend to all my students take this web address into your browser.

It's really, really good course but because it has a lot of exam exercises, so use the tips and techniques I've taught you in this course as the formula and the strategy to complete the part two exercises from this course book. Okay, and if you would like to book live lessons with me to practice this part of the exam with me, or any other part of the exam, or to practice English in general, you can write me an email at admin at student languages calm and I will be in contact about our lessons. Okay, I hope you enjoyed this video lesson. And I'll see you in the next lesson which is part three of the use of English paper.