The whole Reading and Writing paper, in the shape and the order of the real one. Do a part, check it, and if it did not go well open the support and do that part again with help — then clear it and do it once more on your own. Faça uma parte, confira, abra o apoio se precisar, refaça com ajuda e depois refaça sozinho. É essa última tentativa que conta para você.
For each question, choose the correct answer. Read the whole text first, and only then look at A, B and C. Leia o texto inteiro antes de olhar as opções. A resposta é a mensagem principal, não a palavra que se repete.
How to read this part. · Como ler esta parte. Part 1 is not really reading — it is saying the message back in your own words. Read the whole text, look away for a second and say what it means, and only then read A, B and C. Leia, feche os olhos, diga a mensagem em uma frase sua — só depois olhe as opções.
Do it in this order. · Nesta ordem.
The wrong options here have two shapes. Either they are too strong (“all day”, “only”, “never”, “at least £5”), or they are about the wrong person — what the writer did, instead of what the reader must do. Procure esses dois formatos primeiro.
On each question. · Em cada pergunta. The help for the ones you missed is now attached to the question itself — the options that cannot be right are crossed out, and the place to look is marked. A ajuda das que faltaram está agora na própria pergunta: as opções impossíveis ficam riscadas e o lugar de procurar fica marcado.
Three people write about a Saturday out in Britain. For each question, choose A, B or C. One person may be the answer more than once. Cada pergunta tem uma resposta só, e uma pessoa pode aparecer mais de uma vez.
A · Hannah, 31, Sheffield. Most Saturdays I take the first train out to the Peak District and I am walking on the hills by nine. Last week it rained for a solid hour and I came down soaked through, but there is a café in the village that makes very good hot chocolate, and after two of those I had forgotten about the rain. I go by myself. People ask if that is lonely, but the quiet is the reason I go. With the train ticket and the drinks the whole day costs me about twelve pounds.
B · Bruno, 24, Nottingham. My club is a small one, so a ticket is only nine pounds — but I go with my dad, my brother and four people from work, and we drive, so it is never a cheap day and it is never a quiet one. Last Saturday the traffic on the ring road was terrible and we walked in ten minutes after kick-off. The food surprised me: I expected cold chips and I got a proper hot pie. I bought a scarf as well, because mine has gone missing.
C · Sofia, 19, London. My sister and I went down to Brighton on the train. We walked along the seafront all morning with the wind behind us, and in the afternoon we went round the little shops in the Lanes. I did not buy anything — I picked things up, looked at them and put them back, which drives my sister mad. We had a very good and very expensive lunch. I would like to go again in January, when the beach is empty and you can actually hear the sea.
How to read this part. · Como ler esta parte. In Part 2 the question is the key, not the text. Read one question, decide exactly what fact you are hunting for, and then look for that fact in three places. Never read the three texts again from the start for every question. Leia a pergunta primeiro, decida o que está caçando, e só então volte aos textos.
Do it in this order. · Nesta ordem.
The trap here is a word that appears in more than one text: cheap, quiet, train, food, go again. Bruno’s text contains the word “cheap” and says his day is not cheap. Match the fact, never the word. A mesma palavra aparece em dois textos — combine o sentido, não a palavra.
On each question. · Em cada pergunta. The help for the ones you missed is now attached to the question itself — the options that cannot be right are crossed out, and the place to look is marked. A ajuda das que faltaram está agora na própria pergunta: as opções impossíveis ficam riscadas e o lugar de procurar fica marcado.
Read the text and choose the correct answer for each question. The questions follow the order of the text; the last one is about the whole text. As perguntas seguem a ordem do texto. A última é sobre o texto inteiro.
Thirty years ago the village of Netherby had a butcher, a baker, a post office and two pubs. Today it has one shop. It belongs to Jean Whitaker, and it opens at seven in the morning and closes at eight at night, every day of the year except Christmas Day.
Jean did not plan any of this. She bought the shop in 1994 because her husband wanted it, and when he died in 2003 everybody told her to sell. A supermarket had opened in the town six miles away, and people said a village shop could not fight that. Jean did not try to fight it. “I can’t sell food cheaper than they can,” she says. “So I sell the things they don’t: one egg when you only need one egg, a stamp at half past seven, a chat.”
The shop is now much more than a shop. The bus timetable is in the window. Parcels are left there for people who are out at work. Jean keeps a spare key for eleven houses in the village, and she knows which of her older customers she has not seen for two days.
Last year Jean turned seventy, and the village asked her, politely, what happens next. She has no children. In the end forty families put money together, and the shop now belongs to all of them. Jean still stands behind the counter four days a week and trains the two young people who will take over from her.
“People think I saved the shop,” she says. “It’s the other way round.”
How to read this part. · Como ler esta parte. In Part 3 each question lives in one paragraph, in order: question 14 near the start, question 17 near the end. The last question is about the whole text, so leave it until last. Cada pergunta mora em um parágrafo, na ordem. A última é do texto inteiro — deixe-a por último.
Do it in this order. · Nesta ordem.
A wrong option in Part 3 is usually true, but not the answer — a real detail from the text put under the wrong question. Before you choose, check that the option answers this question. Muita opção errada é verdadeira: ela só não responde a pergunta.
On each question. · Em cada pergunta. The help for the ones you missed is now attached to the question itself — the options that cannot be right are crossed out, and the place to look is marked. A ajuda das que faltaram está agora na própria pergunta: as opções impossíveis ficam riscadas e o lugar de procurar fica marcado.
Choose the best word for each gap. There are three options and all three are real words — what decides it is the word that goes with it. As três opções existem. O que decide é a palavra que vem junto: look at, have a party, in the dark.
On the fifth of November, people all over Britain stand in cold dark fields and 19 ______ at the sky. Bonfire Night is not a holiday — most people go to work that day — but almost every town 20 ______ a firework display in the evening.
The fireworks are the modern part. The older part is the fire itself: a huge pile of wood, three metres high, which somebody 21 ______ at exactly seven o’clock while everybody stands well back.
It is always cold, so people 22 ______ their warmest coats and eat outside: soup, baked potatoes, and a hard black toffee that 23 ______ your teeth together.
By half past nine it is finished. The field is empty, everyone is walking home 24 ______ the dark, and the smell of smoke stays in your coat for a week.
How to read this part. · Como ler esta parte. Part 4 tests which words live together, not which words you know. All three options mean roughly the right thing; only one of them keeps the company the sentence needs. Não é vocabulário novo — é saber qual palavra anda com qual.
Do it in this order. · Nesta ordem.
Two traps in this part are made for Portuguese speakers. Fazer is make and do in the dictionary, but events take have. Vestir is dress in the dictionary, but clothes take wear. Do this part quickly: if you do not know it in fifteen seconds, guess and bank the time for Part 3. É conhecimento, não raciocínio.
On each question. · Em cada pergunta. The help for the ones you missed is now attached to the question itself — the options that cannot be right are crossed out, and the place to look is marked. A ajuda das que faltaram está agora na própria pergunta: as opções impossíveis ficam riscadas e o lugar de procurar fica marcado.
Write one word in each gap. Every answer is a small grammar word — a preposition, an auxiliary, a linker. No gap needs vocabulary you have to learn. Uma palavra por lacuna, sempre uma palavrinha de gramática. Nunca duas palavras, nunca em branco.
Hi Rosa,
Thanks for your message. Yes, I am free on Saturday! Tom and I are going 25 ______ Brighton for the day. His car is bigger 26 ______ mine, so there is room for one more person.
We want to leave 27 ______ eight o’clock, because the road gets very busy later. It 28 ______ going to be cold on the beach — last time I wore a summer dress and I was freezing all afternoon, so bring a coat.
There is a good market near the sea, but I am not going to buy anything 29 ______ I have no money until Friday.
Let me know 30 ______ you can come.
Nila
How to read this part. · Como ler esta parte. Part 5 is the one part where you can often find the answer without understanding the topic at all. Every gap is a grammar word, and grammar words come in small closed sets — there are only so many prepositions. Decida o tipo de palavra antes de pensar na palavra.
Do it in this order. · Nesta ordem.
If you are stuck, ask which of these five it is: a / the · a preposition (in, on, at, to, for) · be / have / do · and, but, so, because, than · it, there, this. The answer is in that list far more often than not. Quase sempre a resposta está nessa lista de cinco grupos.
On each question. · Em cada pergunta. The help for the ones you missed is now attached to the question itself — the options that cannot be right are crossed out, and the place to look is marked. A ajuda das que faltaram está agora na própria pergunta: as opções impossíveis ficam riscadas e o lugar de procurar fica marcado.
Write your answer, then tick the criteria the examiner actually uses. The model answer appears only after you have written. Escreva primeiro. O modelo só aparece depois — olhar antes não ensina nada.
You want to go to the cinema on Saturday with your English friend Ellie.
Write an email to Ellie. Say:
Write 25 words or more. Escreva 25 palavras ou mais. Os três pontos precisam aparecer — se faltar um, a nota de conteúdo cai na hora.
Your answer · Sua resposta 0 words · palavras
Mark your own against the real criteria: · Confira com os critérios do examinador:
Hi Ellie,
Do you want to see the new football film on Saturday? It starts at seven o’clock. Let’s meet outside the cinema at half past six.
See you there!
Bruno
31 words. Three points, three short sentences, one greeting, one goodbye. Nothing clever, nothing missing — that is the whole band. Nada de sofisticado: os três pontos, curtinho e completo.
The plan. · O plano.
Every content point must appear. · Todos os pontos têm de aparecer.
An opening you can borrow. · Um começo emprestado. “Hi Ellie, Do you want to see … with me on Saturday?” — then the time, then the place.
Three pictures tell a story. In the real exam you see them; here they are described in words. Write the story in the past. Na prova você vê três desenhos. Aqui eles estão descritos. Escreva a história no passado.
Look at the three pictures and write the story.
Write 35 words or more. Escreva 35 palavras ou mais. Todos os três desenhos têm de aparecer, na ordem, e tudo no passado.
Your answer · Sua resposta 0 words · palavras
Mark your own against the real criteria: · Confira com os critérios do examinador:
Ana waited in the rain for the bus and she was worried about the time. On the bus she sat next to an old man with a little dog, and the dog made her laugh. When she got off at the beach the sun was shining and her friends were waiting for her.
53 words — the task says 35 or more, and a strong answer usually runs a little over. Three sentences for three pictures, joined with and and when, every verb in the past. Notice that nothing is invented: everything in the story is in one of the pictures. Uma frase por desenho, tudo no passado, nada inventado.
The plan. · O plano.
Every content point must appear. · Todos os pontos têm de aparecer.
An opening you can borrow. · Um começo emprestado. “Ana waited at the bus stop in the rain…” — then On the bus…, then When she arrived…. Three sentences is enough.
The marks below are your best unaided attempt on each part — the one you did after the support, not the one you did with it open. A nota abaixo é da tentativa sem ajuda.
A part where you opened the support is not a failure; it is the part to come back to on Sunday. Voltar duas vezes na mesma parte vale mais do que fazer outro simulado inteiro.