ICFE Reading – Part 2
Task Description
What do candidates have to do?
Read a short text and complete twelve gaps in it by writing ONE word in each gap
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?
Mainly grammatical structure, with some lexico-grammatical areas
What specific areas of language are relevant?
Conjunctions, prepositions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs, modal verbs, quantifiers, etc.
How many marks are awarded?
12
Understanding the Task
It may help you to work through a sample Part 2 task yourself. Use this task from the sample paper. As you complete it, think about what words or phrases in the text help you to decide on each answer.
Sample Part 2 task (PDF)
Answers
Things to consider
- Where does the text come from?
- Which area of finance is covered?
- Why is the example in capital letters?
- Which questions in the first paragraph test a preposition?
- Which questions in the second and third paragraphs test linkers?
- Do all the questions test at word or phrase level?