The whole Reading and Writing paper under exam conditions. Nothing is checked as you go, the clock starts on your first answer, and when you have finished you hand the paper in — every part is marked at once. Only then does the support open, for the debrief: read what went wrong on a part, do it again with the help, then once more alone. Como na prova: nada é conferido no caminho, o relógio começa na primeira resposta, e no fim você entrega. Só então o apoio abre — para o balanço, o refazer com ajuda e o refazer sozinho.
This is the exam-conditions mock: nothing is checked until you hand in, and the clock starts on your first answer. Como na prova: nada é conferido até você entregar; o relógio começa na primeira resposta.
For each question, choose the correct answer. Para cada pergunta, escolha a resposta certa.
How to read this part. · Como ler esta parte. If this part went badly, here is what usually happened: you read the text, found the option that shared the most words with it, and stopped. Part 1 is not that game. Read the whole text, say its message in one sentence of your own, and only then read A, B and C — the right one matches your sentence. Se esta parte foi mal, quase sempre foi isto: você escolheu a opção com mais palavras do texto. Diga a mensagem em uma frase sua antes de olhar as opções.
Do it in this order. · Nesta ordem.
On this paper the wrong options did two things: they turned a rule for part of the time into a rule for all of it (dogs, the cinema), and they gave the reader a job that belongs to somebody else (the fridge, the tickets). If you fell for either, that is the shape to watch for in the redo. As erradas aqui esticam uma regra parcial para o tempo todo, ou dão ao leitor uma tarefa que é de outra pessoa.
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 British festival they went to. For each question, choose A, B or C. Três pessoas, sete perguntas. Uma pessoa pode ser a resposta mais de uma vez.
A · Marta, 27, London. I have lived in London for six years and I had never been to the Notting Hill Carnival, so this August I finally went. The music is the reason people go — there are sound systems on every corner — but for me it was the food. I ate jerk chicken from a stall and it was the best thing I have eaten all year. The streets were so full that I could hardly move, and after three hours I had had enough of that. I got home at midnight with my ears still ringing.
B · Dev, 44, Somerset. Our village fête is the same every year, and that is the point. I go because I run the cake stall — my wife bakes, I sell. It took me four hours to set up the tent on Saturday morning, and then it rained for most of the afternoon. It didn’t matter. The vicar judged the vegetable competition, the children did their dance, and we sold every cake by three. I have done it for eleven years and I will do it next year.
C · Callum, 19, Glasgow. Hogmanay is New Year in Scotland, and Edinburgh does it bigger than anywhere. My sister and I took the train through and it was so full we stood the whole way. At midnight there were fireworks over the castle and a hundred thousand people singing. I even saw a footballer from Celtic in the crowd — I didn’t say anything, but I know it was him. Next year I want to try the fire festival in Shetland, which is in January and even colder.
How to read this part. · Como ler esta parte. If this part went badly, the usual reason is that you read the three texts for each question from the top, ran out of time, and matched a word instead of a fact. Read one question, decide exactly what fact you are hunting for, then scan the three texts for that fact only. Se esta parte foi mal, quase sempre você releu os três textos para cada pergunta e acabou combinando uma palavra, não um fato. Leia a pergunta, decida o fato, e varra os textos só atrás dele.
Do it in this order. · Nesta ordem.
On this paper the trap was a fact that two people share, with one small word separating them: two crowds (one enjoyed, one endured), two plans for next year (one the same, one different), two mentions of weather (one this year, one next). Read the whole question, not just its topic. Aqui a armadilha era um fato que duas pessoas dividem, separado por uma palavrinha: “different”, “there”, “too much”. Leia a pergunta inteira.
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. Leia o texto e escolha a resposta certa para cada pergunta.
Every weekday morning at half past seven, Morag Sinclair walks down to the harbour in a small town on the west coast of Scotland, unties a boat that is not much bigger than a car, and crosses to the island of Rona. The crossing takes fifteen minutes when the sea is flat. Morag has been doing it for twenty-two years, and she is the only post on the island.
Rona has forty-one people, a church, a school with six children in it, and no shop. So the boat carries more than letters. Islanders phone Morag the night before and she brings bread, newspapers, a birthday cake, medicine from the chemist. “I’m not really a postwoman,” she says. “I’m the island’s legs.”
The hard part is not the work but the winter. From November it is dark at four, and the sea between the town and the island can change in an hour. There are days when Morag looks at the water and does not go. “The island understands,” she says. “Nobody has ever complained about a late letter. They complain if I go out when I shouldn’t.”
Two years ago the post company decided that the boat was too expensive and that Rona’s post could go by drone instead. The islanders wrote forty-one letters, one each, and sent them by the boat. The plan was dropped. “A drone can carry a parcel,” Morag says. “It can’t tell you who’s ill.”
The school on Rona now has seven children. The seventh is Morag’s grandson, and he wants the boat when she stops. She says he can have it — in about twenty years.
How to read this part. · Como ler esta parte. If this part went badly, the usual reason is that you read the options before you had found the paragraph, and a true detail from the wrong paragraph looked like the answer. The questions come in the order of the text: find question 14’s paragraph, answer it in your own words, and only then read A, B and C. Se esta parte foi mal, quase sempre você leu as opções antes de achar o parágrafo, e um detalhe verdadeiro de outro lugar pareceu a resposta. Ache o parágrafo, responda com suas palavras, depois leia A, B, C.
Do it in this order. · Nesta ordem.
On this paper the wrong options took a real number or a real word — half past seven, “expensive”, the school — and attached it to the wrong thing. If you chose C for question 14 or B for 17, that is what happened. Before you choose, ask: is this option about this question? As erradas aqui pegaram um número ou uma palavra verdadeira e ligaram à coisa errada. Antes de marcar, pergunte: esta opção responde esta 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. Escolha a melhor palavra para cada lacuna.
The London Underground is the oldest underground railway in the world. The first line 19 ______ in 1863, and Londoners soon gave it a shorter name: the Tube. Today about five million people 20 ______ a journey on it every day.
Using it is simple. You touch your card on the yellow reader at the gate, and you touch it again when you 21 ______ off at the other end. If you forget the second touch, you 22 ______ the highest price for the whole line.
Some rules are not written anywhere. On the escalator you 23 ______ on the right, so that people in a hurry can walk past on the left. And when the doors open, you wait for everyone to get off 24 ______ you get on.
How to read this part. · Como ler esta parte. If this part went badly, the usual reason is not vocabulary — it is that you translated each option into Portuguese and chose the one that meant right. Part 4 does not test meaning; it tests which words go together. Look at the word just after the gap — a journey, off, the price, on the right — and let it choose. Se esta parte foi mal, quase sempre você traduziu as opções e escolheu a que “significava” certo. A parte 4 testa companhia, não significado: a palavra depois da lacuna decide.
Do it in this order. · Nesta ordem.
Three of the six wrong answers on this paper were fazer, ficar and foi construída in disguise: do for make, stay for stand, built without its was. If those were yours, the fix is a list of ten English pairs learned by heart, not more reading. And do this part fast — five minutes, not ten. Três das erradas eram “fazer”, “ficar” e “foi construída” disfarçados. O conserto é decorar dez pares, não ler mais.
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. Escreva uma palavra em cada lacuna.
Dear Tom,
We arrived 25 ______ Cornwall on Tuesday evening after eight hours on the train. It is 26 ______ hot as Brazil here — I know you don’t believe me! Our hotel is very small, but the woman 27 ______ runs it makes the best breakfast I have ever eaten.
Yesterday we walked to a little beach. We walked for nearly an hour, and we were 28 ______ only people on it.
I am going to buy you some fudge. It is 29 ______ expensive than the sweets from the corner shop, but you will like it.
Say hello 30 ______ everyone at the garage.
Nila
How to read this part. · Como ler esta parte. If this part went badly, the usual reason is one of two: you left gaps empty, or you wrote a word that means something instead of a grammar word. Every answer here is a small word from a small set — an article, a preposition, as, who, more. Decide the kind of word first, then the word. And never leave a gap empty: a guess costs nothing. Se esta parte foi mal: ou ficou lacuna em branco, ou você escreveu uma palavra com significado em vez de uma palavra de gramática. Decida o tipo primeiro. Nunca deixe em branco.
Do it in this order. · Nesta ordem.
Two gaps on this paper were comparisons — as… as and more… than — and both gave you the second half for free: the as after hot, the than after expensive. If you missed them, the habit to build is reading past the gap to the end of the sentence before you write. Duas lacunas eram comparações, e a segunda metade já estava na frase. Leia até o fim da frase antes de escrever.
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 in the box. Under exam conditions the criteria and the model stay closed until you hand in. Escreva na caixa. Como na prova, os critérios e o modelo só abrem depois de entregar.
You cannot go to your English class tomorrow.
Write an email to your teacher, Mrs Bell. 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:
Dear Mrs Bell,
I’m sorry, but I can’t come to class tomorrow because I have to go to the dentist. Could you tell me what homework I should do? I will be back on Thursday.
Best wishes,
Ana
36 words. Three points, three sentences, one greeting, one goodbye — and the middle sentence is a real question, which is what the second point asks for. Notice the register: Dear, Could you, Best wishes — this is a teacher, not a friend. Três pontos, três frases; a do meio é uma pergunta de verdade. É para a professora: “Dear”, “Could you”, “Best wishes”.
The plan. · O plano.
Every content point must appear. · Todos os pontos têm de aparecer.
An opening you can borrow. · Um começo emprestado. “Dear Mrs Bell, I’m sorry, but I can’t come to class tomorrow because …” — then the homework question, then the day you are back.
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 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:
It was his mum’s birthday, so Jack made a cake for her. But he forgot the time, and when he opened the oven the cake was black and the kitchen was full of smoke. In the end he and his sister bought a cake from the shop, and their mum laughed and said it was the best birthday ever.
59 words — the task says 35 or more, and a strong answer usually runs a little over. One or two sentences per picture, joined with but, so and in the end, every verb in the past. The third sentence explains where the shop cake came from — that is the ending the second picture asks for. Uma ou duas frases por desenho, tudo no passado. A terceira frase explica de onde veio o bolo da loja: é o final que o segundo desenho pede.
The plan. · O plano.
Every content point must appear. · Todos os pontos têm de aparecer.
An opening you can borrow. · Um começo emprestado. “It was his mum’s birthday, so Jack made a cake…” — then But…, then In the end…. Three sentences is enough.
The marks below are from the hand-in, or from your best unaided redo of a part after the debrief. The time you took is next to the button. A nota abaixo é da entrega, ou do melhor refazer sem ajuda depois do balanço. O tempo que você levou está ao lado do botão.
Read the time first. Sixty minutes for seven parts is nine minutes a part with a few spare — if you went over, the fix is Part 4 and Part 5, which should take five minutes each, not the reading parts. Then open the support on the two parts that fell furthest and redo them tonight. Olhe o tempo primeiro. Se passou de sessenta minutos, o conserto está nas partes 4 e 5, que devem levar cinco minutos cada. Depois refaça hoje as duas partes que mais caíram.