ICFE Reading Part 1
Task Description
What do candidates have to do?
Read two short texts and answer six questions to complete six gaps in each text, by choosing a word or phrase from four options A-D. The first text includes an example.
What texts are used?
Mainly extracts from reference books and financial textbooks, financial newspapers and journals, financial websites, company annual reports, research reports, correspondence and other documents
What is being tested?
Vocabulary and linking words and phrases
What specific areas of language are relevant?
Collocations, fixed phrases, semantic precision, phrasal verbs and linkers
How many marks are awarded?
12
Understanding the Task
It may help you to work through a sample Part 1 task yourself. Use this first task from the sample paper. Time yourself as you choose your answers.
Sample Part 1 Task (PDF)
Answers
Things to consider
- Where is the text taken from?
- What does the text deal with?
- What part of speech is tested in Question 1?
- What is tested in Question 3?
- Which question tests both lexis and grammar?
- How long did it take you to complete the task?