Hello guys, I'm Cambridge English teacher Rory from student languages.com. And in today's video, I want to show you a couple of different methods that you can use to successfully pass key word transformation exercises. The key word transformations are from part four of the use of English paper. Now, if you've seen my video before, then you'll have already seen me talk through my strategy for passing this part of the exam. And you will have practiced some exercises on that for homework. If you haven't watched that video, I recommend checking it out and I'll put a link up above me to that here.

So what I'm going to do in this lesson is I'm going to compare my method with another method. I'm going to show you how to use both of these methods with a couple of practice questions. So hopefully this video will be really useful for you, you can see which method works better for you. And then practice, practice practice for you getting the exam to get quicker. And to make sure you get two marks correct for each question. I will also add this video into my use of English video course and I will put a link to that course below this video.

Okay, so let's get started. method one, the Cambridge worry method. So the first thing I advise you to do is to read the example sentence. So let's look at this question first. The example sentence or the sentence they give you money Rather is too young to drive a car. Look at the word they give you.

Not Do you know the missing words from the next sentence? Okay, so we need to use the word not my brother. Not drive a car. Maybe my brother is not is not too young. to drive a car. You need to be old to drive a car you need to be 18 years old.

Let's look at point number four is the word given used in any common English expressions or phrasal verbs? Not this point doesn't help us here. Not as used in so many different sentences in English, ask yourself a question. Okay, so let's ask ourselves a question using the information we have. Is is my brother too young to drive a car? And the answer is yes.

My brother is too young to drive a car but in this one we've got not so we need to make this negative. And if we said My brother is not too young to drive a car What does this mean? My brother is not too young. to drive a car doesn't really make sense. We need to think you don't need to be young to drive a car you need to be old to drive a car. But what about if we said is not too old to drive a car?

Is that better? Well, not exactly. Because what this means is, if you are over a certain age, you cannot drive a car. If you are too old to drive a car, it means you are so old. You are not allowed to drive a car, which isn't the correct meaning either. But perhaps we can use these two words, because we're changing this sentence to make it negative, so we're changing is too young.

To is not so we could use the word old and keep the meanings Same but it's not too It's not my brother is not too old to drive a car. The real thing is that he hasn't reached the required age to drive the car. So he is too young or he is not old enough to drive a car so we can say my brother is not old enough to try the car and let's check the overall meaning My brother is too young to drive a car so let's say you can drive a car but only when you are 16 years old. My brother is not old enough to drive the car. Okay. So he cannot drive a car because he is not 16 years old from Example.

So these two sentences, the example sentence and my sentence now have the same meaning. We would get two marks because we have used the word not well enough in this sentence. And the whole sentence is correct. So we would get one mark for using the word not correctly, and another mark for the whole thing being correct. Okay, let's do this again with another example. Would you prefer to have a table by the window?

The waiter asked. That's the example sentence. The word they give us. is we do you know the missing words? Would you prefer to have a table by the window? The waiter asked us I think it's if we If we now we need to use the word prefer.

If we prefer to have a table by the window. It's not quite correct. We need another word before prefer. Let's ask ourselves a question. Perhaps the question could be would we prefer to have a table by the window? How do we answer this question?

Yes, we would prefer to have a table by the window. The waiter asked us if we What's the missing word? For a table window? Well, there's a word in the sentence above and in the sentence above that which we are missing from here. Can you see what it is? This word would if we would prefer to have a table by the window.

So, the waiter asked us if we would prefer to have a table by the window. That is the correct answer. We would get two marks because we are using the word weak correctly and the whole sentence is correct. Okay, now, let's have a look at method two, which I call the crisscross method. So, step one, read both sentences. So let's try this with the first example.

I'm getting bored here. Let's go to a different place. I'm getting bored here. Why? else? Question mark?

So it's a question, which is interesting. This one isn't a question. This one is a question. Step two, cross out duplicate information. Okay, let's do this from both. That's important.

I'm getting bored here is in this part, and it's also in this part. So that's this duplicate information. That's cross them both out. So now we have let's go to a different place and why else and the word we Why have you ever seen a question similar to place using the word else I have and that word is somewhere somewhere else. So, why? Normally in questions that begin with W, W questions, we would say why and then the verb.

So typical verb could be do or maybe it's negative. And then, in these questions, the next word tends to be the subject. Why don't we? Why do we then we now have the auxiliary verb and the subject and in the question, we need to have a proper After it, or a main verb after it, which in this circumstance would be the verb go. So, why do we go somewhere else? Or why don't we go somewhere else?

Normally, when we are suggesting something to do in English, we say, why don't we? Why don't we go somewhere else? And that is the correct answer. We have done the word go. Different place is the same as saying somewhere else. If we use the word somewhere, we don't tend to put a small preposition for it, we say go somewhere without a preposition.

So this is the question, why don't we go somewhere else is the same as saying, Let's go to a different place. So you would get two marks for this because we have used the word weak correctly, and the overall sentence is correct as well. Let's try the method again. With another example. Read both sentences. I really didn't want to queue for tickets.

So I bought them by phone. I was so anxious for tickets. So I bought them by phone. Okay, so let's cross out duplicate information. So I bought them by phone. So I bought them by phone.

For tickets, For tickets, we have the subject I hear and we have the subject I hear and we need to use the word avoid. So we need to say don't want to queue using the word avoid. Now, with the word avoid, the next word we need to use is a verb IMG. This is why when you do key word transformations in the exam, you need to have had plenty of practice beforehand. And you need to have studied phrases collocations expressions before the exam, because this is an example of a collocation which you will only know If you have studied these beforehand, if you want a good book with lots of vocabulary that might come up in the exam, then I will put a link here for you and in the description where you can find a good course book. I will even put a link in the description above me.

Now you can see me reviewing this course book in a video. Anyway, avoid this with a verb IMG. So what is the main verb in this sentence? Once for Q Well, we want to avoid queuing. Not wanting. Chewing is a tricky word spelled in English and this is how he spelled it.

Avoid queuing. I was anxious avoid queuing for tickets. We need one more word because with anxious we say anxious To do something after anxious we used to before a verb. And here avoid is a verb so we say anxious to avoid. Okay, so these are two different methods. And you need to use these in combination with studying collocations and phrases as I said a minute ago.

Perhaps we could come up to the third method. Perhaps we could combine the two and use this criss cross out method with asking ourselves a question and thinking about the expressions and the phrasal verbs and the collocations. We should also try to identify the type of word in the question. So here is my The three the perfect method one, revise collocations expressions and phrasal verbs before the exam to read both sentences, three, cross out duplicate information for I identify what type of word they give you. Is it a noun? It's a verb, is it an adjective?

Is this word used in any common collocations expressions phrasal verbs Six, can you use the remaining information to complete the gap? Seven if you are struggling ask yourself the question using the information date Can you cross out the remaining information is the overall meaning correct. Now, there are many steps to this method and, and so it can take a long time to get this in your head which is why practice thing is so important that I will be making a lot more of these key word transformation videos to help you along the way. What I would do is I will make another video my next video using the perfect method. And you can do it with me to see if it's correct. And I will use this method to complete these questions which I will set you as a homework task.

So try to complete these questions. And in my next video, we will have a look at how I use this method to complete these questions. Okay, guys, so I really hope you enjoyed this video and found it useful. I hope one of these two methods worked for you. And if not, then I hope that my new perhaps the perfect method will work for you. And let's try it together in my next video.

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