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BEC Higher Reading Part 1
Task Description
In this task, candidates match a statement with either a single
text or one of five short related texts.
What texts are used?
Product descriptions, a set of advertisements e.g. for different
business courses, notices or messages, book or video reviews, or
short newspaper items on related topics.
What text types are used?
Authentic business-related texts.
What skill is being tested?
Understanding the language of the statement and relating it to the
meaning of the text, which is expressed in different language.
Understanding the Task
This first task is a matching task. Candidates are given 8 sentences.
Each of these is a statement which can be matched with just one
of the five short texts. Candidates have to read the sentences and
then find the text each sentence applies to. Candidates are being
tested on their ability to understand the sentence and then to scan
a text to find a second sentence that has the same meaning.
One way to understand the task is to do it yourself, thinking carefully
about what you are doing and how you work out the answers. Look
at the sample Part 1 task from a past BEC Higher paper. Complete
the task, thinking about how you are doing it.
Sample Task (PDF)
Answers
Things to consider
Look at these questions about how you approached this task and consider
your answers.
- Did you read the whole text or the statements first?
- Did you change your mind about an earlier answer as you went
on?
- Did the sentences repeat words as they are found in the text?
- Did you find the paraphrased phrases which helped you identify
the answer?
- Was the style of the questions similar to the text?
- How long did it take you to do this task?
- Could more than one of the texts mention something related
to one particular statement?
- What is the main reading skill required by this task?
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