A2 Key reading practice: signs, matching and gap-fill
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A2 Key reading is short. Almost nothing you read is longer than a few paragraphs, and the hard part is speed and care rather than difficult words. These five pages take the reading tasks one at a time, with the strategy that saves time in each and forty practice questions per task.
What this paper asks of you
- Getting the main message out of a sign, label or text message in a few seconds.
- Matching what a person wants to the one text that actually gives it.
- Finding the detail in a longer text that answers a question, instead of choosing the option that looks familiar.
- Choosing the right word for a gap when the grammar around it decides the answer.
- Reading a whole short text before filling any gap, so the story stays consistent.
- Recognising paraphrase: the correct answer almost never repeats the words of the text.
- Separating what someone did from what they planned to do or would like to do.
- Spelling common words correctly when you copy an answer onto the answer sheet.
- Managing about an hour of reading and writing so that no single question eats the time you need for the rest.
Task types, one page each
- Signs and short messagesPractise the A2 Key signs and short messages task: read a notice, note or text message and choose what it really means, with 40 original questions.40 questions
- Matching texts to peopleA2 Key matching practice: read what people want, then pick the text that gives it. 40 original questions on scanning, paraphrase and the trap answers.40 questions
- Multiple choice: longer textPractise A2 Key multiple choice on a longer reading text: find the detail, spot the paraphrase and avoid the familiar-words trap, with 40 original questions.40 questions
- Gap-fill with a word bankA2 Key gap-fill practice with a word bank: use grammar and collocation to choose the one word that fits each gap. 40 original questions with clear answers.40 questions
- Open cloze: short textA2 Key open cloze practice: fill each gap with one grammar word — an article, preposition, auxiliary or pronoun — with 40 original questions and answers.40 questions
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