Cambridge B1 Preliminary for Schools. Practice Tests.

2017. — 148 p.

Cambridge PET Practice Tests have been designed to familiarise students with the exact format of the Cambridge English: Key for Schools and Cambridge English: Preliminary for Schools examinations as well as to expand their vocabulary and to improve the skills required to pass these examinations.

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CONTENTS
Introduction 2
Cambridge English: Preliminary for Schools Overview 2
Helpful tips for each part of the PET for Schools 3
Test One 6
Consolidation One 24
Test Two 26
Consolidation Two 44
Test Three 46
Consolidation Three 64
Test Four 66
Consolidation Four 84
Test Five 86
Consolidation Five 104
Test Six 106
Consolidation Six 124
Speaking Overview 127
Speaking Tests 128
Sample answer sheets 140

Helpful Tips
Students should first read the questions, which are single sentence statements. Next, they need to scan the text to find the answer to the first statement. The answers in the text are in the same order as the questions. They should repeat this for the remaining statements. They should not worry about unfamiliar words, which are likely to appear in this part. These words are not required to answer the questions. Instead they should focus on finding the specific information to decide if the statements are true or false.
Reading Part 4 Multiple choice General
In this part, students have a text which expresses an opinion or attitude. There are five multiple-choice questions with four options. А, В, С and D. Students need to demonstrate they have understood the writer's purpose, the writer's attitude or opinion or an opinion quoted by the writer, and both the detailed and global meaning of the text. Helpful Tips
Students should begin by skimming the text to find out the topic and general meaning. They need to decide on the writer's purpose and the meaning of the text as a whole. They should then read the text again, much more carefully. It's important to deal with the questions one by one, comparing each option with the text before choosing one. They should carefully re-check their choice of answer with the text. Questions 1 and 5 can be dealt with together: Question 1 focuses on writer purpose and Question 5 focuses on global meaning. Questions 2, 3 and 4 follow the order of information in the text.
Reading Part 5 Multiple-choice cloze General
In this part, students read a short text with 10 numbered spaces and an example. The spaces are designed to test mainly vocabulary but also grammatical points such as pronouns, modal verbs, connectives and prepositions.
Helpful Tips
First students should skim the text to find out the topic and general"meaning. They should consider the example at the beginning of the text and identify why it is correct. They should work through the 10 questions, reading the whole sentence to choose the correct word to complete the gap. After choosing an answer, they need to check the other three options and decide why they are wrong. Once all the gaps are completed, they should read the whole text again to make sure it makes sense.
Writing Part 1 Sentence transformations General
The five sentences have a common theme or topic. For each question, there is one complete sentence, followed by a gapped sentence below. Students must complete the gapped sentence so it has the same meaning as the complete sentence. They must use between one and three words to complete the gap. The focus is on grammatical precision. Helpful Tips
Students should begin by reading the first sentence and thinking about its meaning. Then they can read the second sentence, looking at which words are repeated from the first sentence and which words are different. Next they should look at the second sentence again and think about which phrases and structures could be used to complete it. They need to complete the second sentence using one, two or three words and write them on the answer sheet. Students must spell all the words correctly, or they will lose the mark. It is important that they read both sentences again, checking their meaning is the same. The language structures tested in this part are all taken from the language specifications and the vocabulary list. This may include, among others, prepositions, collocations, passive and active voices, direct and indirect speech, verb patterns and opposites.

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