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This document provides a summary of Part 5 of the Reading Paper section of an English B1 exam preparation. It discusses the following: - Part 5 is a multiple choice test where students read a text and choose missing words to fill in gaps. It must be completed in about 6 minutes. - It focuses on prepositions of time such as "on, at, in" and prepositions used with adjectives. - Examples and exercises are provided to practice identifying the correct prepositions to use in contexts involving times, dates, and descriptions. - A short passage with gaps is included as a sample test for students to choose the missing words.

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Reading Part 5

This document provides a summary of Part 5 of the Reading Paper section of an English B1 exam preparation. It discusses the following: - Part 5 is a multiple choice test where students read a text and choose missing words to fill in gaps. It must be completed in about 6 minutes. - It focuses on prepositions of time such as "on, at, in" and prepositions used with adjectives. - Examples and exercises are provided to practice identifying the correct prepositions to use in contexts involving times, dates, and descriptions. - A short passage with gaps is included as a sample test for students to choose the missing words.

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INGLESE B1

Preparazione all’esame PET


della dott.ssa Chiara Cordola
Modulo 1
Reading Paper
Lezione 5
Part 5
Reading Paper – Part 5
• It is a four-option multiple choice test.
• Read a text and choose missing words (A, B, C and D) to fill in the gaps (21 - 26).
• You have to be able to do this exercise in the exam in about 6 minutes.
• There are 6 questions and for each question you get one mark.

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Focus on time prepositions
• Dates (on 25th May)
• Special days (on Christmas Day)
On • Days of the week (on Sunday)

• At breakfast, at lunch, at dinner


• Times (at 4:30, at midday, at midnight)
At • Festivity (at Christmas)
• At night, at the weekend

• Months (in July)


• Seasons (in winter)
• Years (in 1975)
In
• Parts of the day (in the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening)
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Focus on time prepositions
EXERCISE 1
Complete the text with the correct time preposition.
My wife’s name is Claire. She is a Maths teacher in a Primary
School. … the mornings she usually gets up … 6:30. But this is
only … weekdays, because … the weekend she gets up later. ….
Tuesdays and Thursdays she has lunch in the school …. 12:30
because she has lesson both … the morning and … the afternoon.
The other days she finishes work … midday, so she
comes home for lunch. She sometimes corrects
exercices … the evenings after dinner. My wife has
her summer holiday … August but she also has a
two-week holiday …. Christmas, and one-week
holiday … Easter.
She has a difficult job, but she loves it! 6
Focus on adjective + prepositions
EXERCISE 2
Complete the gaps with a preposition from the box.

to (x2) with by of (x2) in at for

1. She is married …. an engineer.


2. I’m not good ….. draught.
3. Thank you, it was very nice …. you to help me.
4. Edinburgh is famous … its castle.
5. I am interested ….. learning how to play chess.
6. I have to stop talking to you. I’m a bit short …. time.
7. Your handwriting is similar …… mine.
8. Everyone was surprised … the news.
9. They were furious …. me for not inviting them to the party. 7
Practice Test
Read the text and choose the correct word A, B, C, D
How to be happier
Our happiness does not depend only (0) ….. what we have, say scientists.
What we (21) …. we have is just as important. This is why the rich seem
miserable but people with very little can be much happier with their lives.
It is (22) … how rarely we think about how lucky we are. Most of us have
good health, homes and friends. We don’t notice how good life normally is
until we’re feeling sad (23) … something. But we don’t (24) … to wait for
something negative to happen.
Instead, we should be grateful all the time for the good things in our lives. We can do this
by writing down five of them every night. For example, something that we own or people
we are fond (25) …
People who do this are healthier, more successful and more satisfied (26) … their
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own lives.
Practice Test
For each gap (21 - 26) choose the correct word.
Example:
0. A on B in C at D by
21. A remind B realise C wonder D doubt
22. A amusing B annoying C surprising D embarassing
23. A about B around C along D among
24. A must B have C would D could
25. A for B of C from D to
26. A into B over C under D with

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That’s all
Thank you

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