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BULATS Reading and Language Knowledge – Task Type 6 – Multiple Choice Cloze
(Found in Part 2 Section 2)
Task Description
What sort of material do candidates read?
- The general and business press, company literature, letters, advertisements, books on topics such as management, etc.
- This task covers Levels 2-4.
What sort of text do candidates read?
- a single, fairly short, 'multiple-choice cloze' text. This means a text with 5 one-word gaps where your students are given 4 words to choose from for each gap. Some gaps target specifically 'business vocabulary'; others target vocabulary in more general use but tested within a business context.
What do candidates have to do?
- In this task, candidates complete a gapped text by choosing a word from four options. There are 5 gaps to complete.
What skill is being assessed?
- Lexical, lexico-grammatical and collocational knowledge. Students will need a wide knowledge of both general and business vocabulary, including word-partnerships and phrasal verbs.
Understanding the Task
To understand better how candidates need to approach this task, it may help you to do the activity yourself and analyse what you had to do to find the right answer.
Look at this sample Task Type 6 task from a past BULATS Reading and Language Knowledge paper. Complete the task, thinking about how you are doing it.
Sample Task Type 6 Task
Answers
Things to consider
Now look at these questions about how you approached the task and consider your answers.
- Did you read through the whole text before you tried to choose the right word?
- Did you look closely at the words around each gap?
- Did you try to predict the missing word before looking at the options?
- Did you read the text again after you had completed the missing words?
- What kinds of words are tested in this task?
- Is there only one grammatically correct answer?
- Could one of the 'wrong' options be very similar to the correct option?
- Is it a good idea to pencil in the word in the gap on the Question Paper, in the Standard Test?
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